Max users sharing a wifi network before degrading it?

Nerfherder said:
What speed is your line speed ?

If you have a 4 meg ADSL line and 300 meg WIFI you can have quite a few devices on WIFI before you start seeing each device getting bellow 4 meg.


Its more of an issue when you have 100 meg line speed.
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I have a 20mbs line . But I think I misunderstood. I think when you talked about 300mbs wifi and 10 users getting 3mbs I got confused. Shouldnt it be 30mps each
 
ICASA be like:

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Foxhound5366 said:
Is that so, though? A router's job is to switch between multiple simultaneous requests and satisfy them all without affecting quality of service. Maybe the bottleneck isn't the speed, but the router? Or do two people streaming content on a 10Mbps line automatically only get a 5Mbps effective streaming speed? I just have no clue how this works in reality x.x
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With an ok router you can limit the amount of bandwidth that is available to each of you.

Im coping with a 4mb line, so 5 each could be fine.

The bigger issue is (as you said) the security aspect. Internet is on your account, and also how will you separate the networks, etc.

Edit: Also if you dont do anything fancy most consumer routers can handle several hundred Mb/s lines. So on your line I doubt the router is the bottleneck, more the provider limiting you, or wireless interference.
 
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Rickster said:
ICASA be like:

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Huh? Is this a thing? Is there ICASA regulation that says that neighbours may not share internet connections?

Here's the thing that's confusing me, I just don't know how to visualise this. In my mind, the internet connection is like a pipe: and my 'pipe' to my ISP is only 10Mbps. However that's my mistake, isn't it? The '10Mbps' is how fast the data flows down the pipe, but not the width of the pipe. So the factor that will determine the quality of service is actually going to be how much bandwidth my ISP has available for me, right?

Now part of this awesome deal is that it's completely unshaped, uncapped data, with no FUP. So that should mean ... what exactly? My pipe is as big as the full ISP's pipe, so even if my neighbour and I go bos on my connection, we won't max out the ISP's 'pipe' (unless they throttle us - which they won't, not on a 10Mbps line only lol), and therefore to the two of us we won't see any actual impact of having two or five simultaneous users on my connection so long as my router doesn't bottleneck (and I have a 300Mbps capable router so that should be fine)?

That's a lot of questions I know, just trying to put the pieces together :D

Or is that just rubbish, and even on an 'unshaped' connection there's still a bandwidth limit applied to individual connections, and is there any way to measure that from the end-user side?
 
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