viper3431
join:2003-04-21
STL, MO
| reply to RadioDoc
Re: Wow, this sounds great!
My company currently has 900 users on a 10Mb sym. connection. We had those same 900 users on 3 T1s and access was completely acceptable. Typical usage was only around 3mbps down and about 1mbps up. The thing to remember is that most users just want to surf the web and get important things done. Unless you have a few bandwidth hogs on that system, 3mbps sym. for even 200 users would be acceptable by MOST people's standards. This is especially true when dial-up is the only other option. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I'll guess that your company isn't keen on people running P2P or pulling video streams while at work, so of course that degree of overselling would not be a particular burden.
You can't assume that in a consumer market.
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Toolmaster of La Grange. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| I had 75 users + corporate email and web hosting on 6Mbps/608 for a while, and it was more than enough. I'm sure they could 'filter' down connections to give everyone 150kbps (3Mbps/200) if it came down to it. This isn't much different than Cable dishing out 8Mbps connections to multiple neighborhoods.
This is broadband in the forest, not in an urban market. |
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viper3431
join:2003-04-21
STL, MO
| reply to RadioDoc
Just because you, me, and most of the posters here use P2P a lot to share data and run video streams doesn't mean that everyone does. I will state again that for MOST users, this kind of bandwidth would be ample. I can name ten households I personally know that don't do either of these two things. All these people are intersted in is surfing the internet without the wait of dial-up, which this would be great for. |
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simlesa
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Astoria, NY
| reply to en102
said by en102  :I'm sure they could 'filter' down connections to give everyone 150kbps (3Mbps/200) if it came down to it. Don't you mean 15 kbps?
(3Mbps=3000kbps, 3000/200=15kbps) |
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