Dear All,
I want to start my own wifi isp network, I have 20 Mbps Internet connection how can I divide it to costumers.
I mean How many customers can use 1 Mbps
How many customers can use 2 Mbps
How many customers can use 4 Mbps
I need Formula or idea ASAP.
Thanks
Regard
It is easy to estimate how many client you could have:
20Mb = 5 x 4Mb → max 5 clients could have 4MB link
20Mb = 10 x 2Mb → max 10 clients could have 2Mb link
20Mb = 20 x 1Mb → max 20 clients could have 1Mb link
You should reserve some bandwidth for management, e.g. 1Mb, so numbers should be lower than above ones.
Basic school counting… Most probably qamer wanted to see some oversubscription formula, because he was expecting to sell more than he bought…
The oversubscription ratio highly depends on the type of customer you’re facing and the max. bandwidth you’re going to sell.
Do you intend to create a residential internet connection or a walk-by hotspot?
What’s the typical age of your customers?
Private or business customer?
In big ISP networks you’ll typically see 250kbps to 1000kbps of average throughput per customer during peak times. But that only counts for 1000+ customers.
This means you could serve 2000 customers with 1000Mbps shared Bandwith whilst even selling a datarate of 150Mbps to each customer.
This is an oversubscription ratio of 1:30.
In your scenario the oversubscription ratio will be worse. 20Mbps of uplink capacity is far too low in order to accept a broad user-base at accepable speeds.
The lower the userbase the bigger the average peak datarate per user will be.
With an estimated peak average rate per user of about 500kbps you might be able to serve 40 users. Try to set the initial datarate per user to 2mbps. You might enhance the user experience by allowing short bursts up to 5 Mbps. So your’re going to an oversubscription ratio of 1:8.
Noone can give you conrete numbers here you need to start with ‘something’ and see how it goes.