users bandwidth calculate

[johnyb98]

Good morning.

 

Suppose we have an audience of 20-25 people. Each one of these people want to have a wireless connection with their tablet or cellular phone or laptop wireless adapter to the internet. The question is how may I calculate the bandwidth each one of them needs, in order to order/place the appropriate DSL line(s) from an ISP provider and the respective equipment to make all of this wireless networking work fine? Fine means in satisfactory speeds for all of them at the same time and no disable-enable interrupts?

 

Thank you!

[Blade of Grass]

It would depend on what type of web services they are using. Are they streaming HD video? Browsing the web? Playing video games? Downloading files? Uploading files?

[johnyb98]

Thank you for the reply.

Let's say that we are talking about just web browsing.

[Scheer]

Thank you for the reply.

Let's say that we are talking about just web browsing.

 

Just my $.02, but this sounds impossible to do without actually monitoring their web usage beforehand.

 

Some people will browse all day and use 10Mb, and others could do that in a few minutes.

 

It doesn't help in your situation, but something like Ubiquiti's Unifi Controller with their APs will record all the data. I believe DD-WRT will do it as well, but you would need to be running it for a few weeks to get an average usage.

 

[johnyb98]

Yes, indeed. The truth is that you should know beforehand how much each one of them make what use.

The thing that I have thought is via router settings, or via a software, allow a maximum size of Bytes (or MB etc.) for each user to have available. But I guess we are talking about the same mistake in another way. e.g. if each user has 5MB available, and each one of them is my guest in my office for an hour, some of them that do not use so much web will be all right. On the other hand, the others that use it a lot, will need much more space/data. So, I have problem for once again.

I guess it's kind of complicated problem.

[Scheer]

Yes, indeed. The truth is that you should know beforehand how much each one of them make what use.

The thing that I have thought is via router settings, or via a software, allow a maximum size of Bytes (or MB etc.) for each user to have available. But I guess we are talking about the same mistake in another way. e.g. if each user has 5MB available, and each one of them is my guest in my office for an hour, some of them that do not use so much web will be all right. On the other hand, the others that use it a lot, will need much more space/data. So, I have problem for once again.

I guess it's kind of complicated problem.

 

For that you could just setup a guest only wifi network that was limited.

 

In most cases it ends up balancing out, where I work we had 200 people on a 10/10 connection without any QOS and it wasn't all that bad, just around lunchtime it became an issue. Recently they bumped up to 100/10 and I haven't noticed slow browsing since, it only becomes an issue when downloading large files.

[johnyb98]

In this little period of days that has been passed since last answer from Scheer, I Googled a little more the problem and have found these...

 

There are enough (or many) devices on the market doing this bandwidth balance. Such as some models of Draytek, TP-Link or Unifi. For the moment I do not know specific models.

 

But, here there is a tiny detail. A very small number of these models manages to make it dynamically. Dynamically meaning that if only one user is on the network-internet uses the whole line bandwidth, and after him, users log in the network (so use the internet), they equally use the line bandwidth.