If I had a network with 50 users that had an average hourly bandwidth usage of 11.05GB, what bandwidth would it require to the internet? asked 24 Jan '16, 16:59  Balter Wenjamin closed 25 Jan '16, 07:49  Jaap ♦ |
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do you use GB as GigaBytes (which is the usual meaning of the abbreviation when talking about data volumes) or as Gigabits?
do these 11.05 GB represent traffic to/from the internet or total traffic of the machines, i.e. including traffic flows inside the network?
is it 11.05 GB per hour per user or 11.05 GB per hour for the whole network? 11.05 GBytes per hour = 88.4 Gbits/hr = 24,5 kbits/s, so unless the questions below impose additional requirements, any connection rate above 64 kbit/s would do if those 11.5 Gbytes/hour represent a traffic of the whole network, or any connection rate above 1.5 Mbit/s would do if it represents a traffic of a single user machine.
do the individual users access internet totally randomly or are there some identifiable traffic peaks?
if peaks exist, how time critical is the application, i.e. how much harm a delayed answer from the internet would cause to the user?
if your internet connection is going to be non-symmetrical (like xDSL, mobile connections), what is the expected amount of traffic in upload and download directions separately?
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