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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There’s a big point that I don’t see in the other answers.
Most users aren’t using any bandwidth at a given time. You share one or more uplinks to the internet. That’s most probably 10Gigabit or much more.
When you do bulk business for thousands of end users you get very good prices. Especially if your organization can handle the local network and support themselves.
Fibers (actually digging them into the ground) is expensive, paying employees in the support is expensive. Bandwidth is cheap.
Just like water is cheap, but not in the desert.
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