Re: gamer clubs

[Dan Oachs <doachs () GAC EDU>]

50Mbit/s is more than a small group of gamers need to play online games 
in general.  They typically don't use much bandwidth.  However any time 
you try to get a group of people together to play a game some of them 
invariably need to download the game, get an update, etc. before they 
can play.  Having a couple people download a 20Gig game or update over a 
"slow" internet connection can be very frustrating as the group waits 
for them. So from that perspective 50Mbit/s seems reasonable.   I'm not 
sure what home internet connections are like in your area, but where I 
am at, 100Mbit/s home connections are common so it would sound slow to 
me as a student to share a 50 Mbit/s connection with other people when I 
can get twice that speed at home.  My guess is that if you gave them a 
lot of bandwidth, they may use it in spikes while downloading a game and 
then the traffic would drop off to something much much lower.

Another possible reason to need more bandwidth would be for streaming 
gameplay.  This is probably not something the group is asking for but is 
popular.  Lots of people will set up a system for them to capture their 
screen and mic and then stream that to twitch.tv for others to watch.  
Or the reverse of that is something I have done which is to tune into 
someone else's live game stream and have that playing on a TV while my 
friends and I also play the game.

Anyway, the short answer is that the request for 50Mbit/s does not sound 
unreasonable and I'm sure they are happy that you are doing what you can 
to accommodate their request :)

    Thanks,
        Dan Oachs


On 04/06/2016 07:39 AM, Sprague, Randy wrote:
> Definitely an isolated network, they desire and we would agree this 
> would be a BYOD computer, on the fence with allowing third party 
> switch/hub/routers, they are asking for 50mb rate limit, at first 
> blush is seems high.

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