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We are planning to have a tournament this saturday in which we will have 18 participants. We have CLEAR wireless modem which supposedly has a max download rate of 6Mbps and a max upload rate of 1 Mbps. I am not asking about channel capacity, as I have the channel capacity problem solved. I AM ASKING if the overall data rate is sufficient for 18 users. My simple math says that upload 1Mbps/18 users = about 55Kbps. Is my math right? does a BBO user need more than 55Kbps? Does someone know the answer?
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Data Rates multiple users Wireless modem capacity
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Posted 2013-October-22, 12:28
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Posted 2013-October-23, 08:59
That's the speed of a dialup modem, and BBO works with them, so it should be fine. BBO's upstream requirements are not very high.
If you want to test, use a tool like Wireshark to capture port 3336. Then login to BBO and play in a tournament, and see how much traffic is sent on that port.
If you want to test, use a tool like Wireshark to capture port 3336. Then login to BBO and play in a tournament, and see how much traffic is sent on that port.
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Posted 2013-October-23, 12:06
It might be best to stagger the initial log ins so that the initial spikes do not fight each other for bandwidth.
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Posted 2013-October-24, 12:52
paulg, on 2013-October-23, 12:06, said:
It might be best to stagger the initial log ins so that the initial spikes do not fight each other for bandwidth.
If they're using the web version, there's not a huge initial spike like there is in the download version.
In general, the web version uses far less bandwidth than the download version. I wouldn't recommend trying to run this tourney with the old version.
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