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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A. Campuses/large properties will usually have a 10G connection (or a couple 10G connections for failover and backup). You’d be surprised at how little traffic is really used on a campus of 10,000 students or so.
B. Each building usually has a network room with multiple switches with a fiber backbone back to the main network room where all the routers/firewalls/servers are located.
C. Wifi access points are usually high capacity for 200-500 people and powered down lower so they don’t send a signal out as far, thus you have to have more Access Points spaced out around buildings to provide a decent connection.
D. They meter the connection, meaning for each person online, that person can only use up to 100mbps (on a hardwire connection) and 25mbps (on wifi). That way a bad actor will be sufficiently stopped to not take up much bandwidth.
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