[Velicos]

This question is in reference to a free or bundled internet connection provided by some type of student housing (UCF or off campus).

How much bandwidth do you need any time of the day to accomplish your tasks while staying happy?

6 Mbps (Symmetrical / 750KB/s) has been a number that so far has been working out well across the board. Netflix, Hulu, etc can all stream at full HD goodness while supporting concurrent browsing. This is 6 Mbps per user, not shared among multiple users. The goal is to dedicate 6 Mbps no matter what time of day - even during peak hours.

Now do you see yourself requiring more than 6 Mbps? If so, why?

Latency isn't really an ask, because it should be low if the campus network is designed properly. If contention is never reached, then latency doesn't become an issue.

Lets clarify the difference between Mbps (Megabits per second) and MB/s (Megabytes per second) [math says 8 bits to 1 byte]

I don't care about the top 10 bandwidth sucking whores on the network. They will always exist and rules will always be in place to prevent them from abusing the internet being provided to them. Those who abuse Bittorrent, P2P, or usenet on a daily basis by downloading whatever they want just because they can don't realize how much pain they inflict upon the network.

[Oen386]

More bandwidth is better. You might not need it daily, but when I have to wait longer for a Steam game to download.. I am not pleased. :/

[Daman]

a 700mb movie I have bought legally @ 720p takes something like 5 to 10 minutes to download on my 3MB/s connection

this is unacceptable tbh I am moving to europe because then I can download blurays I have bought legally @ 4gb in 5-10 minutes.

so basically what I'm saying is 6Mbps is fine with 600Mbps available at 10 minute bursts

This post has been edited by Daman: 24 December 2011 - 09:50 AM

[AZNguyen]

6 Mbps is fine. I used to have 5 Mbps with Earthlink, but now with 10 Mbps RoadRunner. As long as you aren't bandwidth capped you'll be fine (meaning you can only use 100 GB a month or something).

[Daman]

companies that bandwidth cap are literally Hitler

thank you brighthouse for being great

[Zenebatos]

Daman, on 24 December 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

basically what I'm saying is 6Mbps is fine with 600Mbps available at 10 minute bursts

This. Although realistically this is not feasible, it would be awesome.

[Velicos]

Daman, on 26 December 2011 - 01:00 PM, said:

thank you brighthouse for being great

This brought a tear to my eye.

Thanks for the feedback!