Eli5: How do large properties/campuses have such large bandwidths for internet

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How are they able to support thousands of users at one time? I do a speed test and they aren’t like fiber optics level of speeds so how can they have so many users at one time? Is it because there are so many routers placed around the area? But even when I’m on campus I don’t see any wireless routers outside.

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Your speed test does not reflect the bandwidth available at the campus, it reflects whatever the network decided to allow you to have at that moment through the various proxies and network infrastructure, both physical and virtual that your traffic passes through.

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