What speed will suffice?

[phlaym]

Hi all

I've never used fibre before, but I've heard people praise it like it's gold.

Currently our office with about 8-10 people are maxing out a 4mbps telkom adsl line.

We're upgrading to 10mbps Neobroadband fibre, but we will be expanding next year. If we had, say, 100 people using light internet, such as checking email or facebook, would the 10mbps line be sufficient?

How would you select a speed for peak usage vs average usage? There will also be times when large groups (30-50) of people will be downloading large-ish files, e.g., streaming videos. downloading 10MB files, etc. Is the 10mbps still sufficient?

Based purely on the bandwidth #s, I'd guess that we need 40mbps but then again, maybe I'm missing something.

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

We are about 15 people in the office and we max out a 20meg fibre connection all the time. For a 100 people...eish. Move the office to a 1st world country.

 

[Chevron]

Hi all

I've never used fibre before, but I've heard people praise it like it's gold.

Currently our office with about 8-10 people are maxing out a 4mbps telkom adsl line.

We're upgrading to 10mbps Neobroadband fibre, but we will be expanding next year. If we had, say, 100 people using light internet, such as checking email or facebook, would the 10mbps line be sufficient?

How would you select a speed for peak usage vs average usage? There will also be times when large groups (30-50) of people will be downloading large-ish files, e.g., streaming videos. downloading 10MB files, etc. Is the 10mbps still sufficient?

Based purely on the bandwidth #s, I'd guess that we need 40mbps but then again, maybe I'm missing something.

Cheapest would be to do a combination of both.

10Meg ADSL for non business critical stuff, and run everything else on Fibre.

 

[JohnJuniorV3]

Hi all

I've never used fibre before, but I've heard people praise it like it's gold.

Currently our office with about 8-10 people are maxing out a 4mbps telkom adsl line.

We're upgrading to 10mbps Neobroadband fibre, but we will be expanding next year. If we had, say, 100 people using light internet, such as checking email or facebook, would the 10mbps line be sufficient?

How would you select a speed for peak usage vs average usage? There will also be times when large groups (30-50) of people will be downloading large-ish files, e.g., streaming videos. downloading 10MB files, etc. Is the 10mbps still sufficient?

Based purely on the bandwidth #s, I'd guess that we need 40mbps but then again, maybe I'm missing something.

Maybe consider Vodacom business fibre? Much cheaper..
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/110018-vodacom-business-fibre-prices-unveiled.html

 

[Arthur]

What's maxing out more, uploads or downloads?

 

[fostera]

Vodacom Business Fibre isnt cheaper than Neotel... besides they get their Fibre anyway from neotel so why not go with Neotel directly?

 

[JohnJuniorV3]

Vodacom Business Fibre isnt cheaper than Neotel... besides they get their Fibre anyway from neotel so why not go with Neotel directly?

Vodacom 100mbps is R16,999 vs Neotel R37,575

http://www.neotel.co.za/wps/portal/...XydTQwNXE_2CbEdFALjRhWY!/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=

And that's just the highest package.

 

[irBosOtter]

500 people, 15mb fibre, no issues. Then came a open wireless network to update all phones and tablets. Line was permanently maxed out once that network went live. Got another 100Mb fibre line, but international is no more than 10Mb... ever.
Then moved the phone and tablet wireless to a 10Mb ADSL line
What are the people doing on your network that they max it out? Probably downloading the world lol

 

[mrvanv]

10mbps Fiber is sufficient for 20 users for now. Neotel prices were decreased by HALF on 6th October 2014 (check with your Neotel account representative). Bandwidth Management is what you need with products such as the Dell SonicWall TZ205 or TZ215 offering you everything you would need. When particular bandwidth requirements (such as iOS / Windows OS updates etc.) have your system choked, you can purchase a 24 hour speed upgrade upto 100mbps. 3 years on Neotel Fiber and never looked back.

 

[web_dude]

Neotel decreased the fibre/microwave prices.

I have more than 80 concurrent users in a 10mbps from Neotel. No issues. I'm upgrading anyway as the prices are down.



Look at the image attached. That is the traffic for the last 2 hours. Nothing is going over the maximum speed. (I have youtube, p2p and streaming blocked anyway). However, Windows updates always try to reach the maximum speed (which is not a bad thing anyway).

I have tested Netflix, Hulu and other Streaming services and nothing is taking more than 200kb/s of bandwidth. (unless you stream two at a time, where start taking around 350-400kb/s ... Local downloads from SA sites run at full download speed.

 

[Johnatan56]

Neotel decreased the fibre/microwave prices.

I have more than 80 concurrent users in a 10mbps from Neotel. No issues. I'm upgrading anyway as the prices are down.

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Look at the image attached. That is the traffic for the last 2 hours. Nothing is going over the maximum speed. (I have youtube, p2p and streaming blocked anyway). However, Windows updates always try to reach the maximum speed (which is not a bad thing anyway).

I have tested Netflix, Hulu and other Streaming services and nothing is taking more than 200kb/s of bandwidth. (unless you stream two at a time, where start taking around 350-400kb/s ... Local downloads from SA sites run at full download speed.

If windows updates are maxing the line, download it to a server and distribute it from there, google it. You might need a windows server though, not sure, just know it can be done.