Business Class Cable Internet

[ok1ha]

I'm looking into business class internet, 50mbs/5mbs cable.

Would this hold up to 30 people using it for email / web?

Is Airport a good router for this situation?

 

[jav6454]

Assuming all 30 people are just doing email, web, Facebook style browsing 50Mb/s down is pretty plenty. Even if you do light online video viewing it would still be enough. All in all 50Mb/s is already a lot for basic web stuff.

Gaming? Hell no! It's be suicidal. High pings and distributed bandwidth of ~1.66 Mb/s down and ~166Kb/s up. No ideal gaming conditions.

Heavy users? Even worse.

Airport or any other 802.11g/n will do fine.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

The AEBS can have up to 50 wireless users.
And do you talk about 50MB/s or 50 Mb/s?
Anyway, 50Mb/s is 6.25MB/s, which should be enough for 30 users, unless they all have to access heavy webpages all the time and have to down- or upload lots and lots of attachments at the same time.
One company with 15 employees I worked at had a 800KB/s (6.4Mb/s) connection. It worked okay. The other company with 50+ employees had a 2MB/s connection.

 

[ok1ha]

We are looking at Time Warner Business class:
http://www.twcbc.com/NationalSales/Products/Internet/default.ashx

So it seems we should be ok except for the Airport Base Station.

Can you simply run two Airport Base Stations to double the limit of users? Or is it not that simple?

 

[spacepower7]

Many of the offices that I have freelanced at, have wireless but also Ethernet at every desk. Most of the time if people plan on being at their desk for a few hours, they plug into Ethernet, especially if they are doing file transfers on the network.