Re: DSL for classrooms...

According to Sameer Verma,
> Folks,
> I need your opinion on something we are looking at for a remote campus 
> location.
> Will a DSL (6.0Mbps down/384kbps up) be sufficient to support, say two 
> classrooms (about 80 students on two 11g APs) and 1/2 dozen office desktops?
> 
> If you have setup similar to this, I'd appreciate any input.

I would think so, particularly if you set up a cache box
(running e.g. squid).  Classes tend to go to a site in
groups, so after the first person hits a page hits everyone else 
gets it from the cache.  

Or look at it this way.  Worst case, if 100 people were all
hitting the web (and doing a large download each) at the exact 
same moment, each one would get 6000 Kbps / 100 = 60Kbps.  
Still better than the best phone modem.  And web is async, so 
you get to use the bandwidth the others arent't.  So if 10%
are likely to be hitting sites at any given moment, that's
still 600Kbps each, which is the bandwidth of a fairly
typical home DSL connection.

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