The other important factor for OS East (and just as applicable to OS Summit and LCA) is that most attendees will have MULTIPLE devices. I'd expect 2 per person to be on and working (and a 3rd low bandwidth device for their e-book reader.) This doubling and tripling is what confuses most organizers. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Mark Collier <mark at openstack.org> wrote: > We can also ask our summit event management partner (fntech) to share > their best practices. I know that bandwidth is just one of many factors. > > On July 14, 2016 12:20:50 PM Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org> wrote: > >> Here's a helpful Bandwidth calculator: >> http://www.psav.com/bandwidth_estimator/ There are a few others out >> there >> <https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=bandwidth%20per%20person%20for%20wifi> >> if you'd like to compare/contrast. >> >> I'd say all of our attendees have high bandwidth requirements. >> >> Hugh Blemings wrote: >> >> Hiya, >> >> On 14/07/2016 12:43, Frank Days wrote: >> >> This was my question for the OpenStack Days - East event. >> >> I just want to make sure we have enough bandwidth behind the Wifi since >> the OpenStack Summits do an excellent job of making sure we have plenty >> of bandwidth and there are few things in life worse than slow wifi. >> >> My vendors is recommending 50/50 Mbps pipe for the event which we are >> expecting 600 people. >> >> Does anyone know if there is a rule of thumb of how much badnwidth per >> user/attendee makes sense? >> >> >> Intuitively that sounds a bit light on to me - I can find out what we >> usually provision for linux.conf.au which is of similar size if slightly >> different audience if you like ? >> >> Cheers, >> Hugh >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community mailing list >> Community at lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community mailing list >> Community at lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > Community at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/attachments/20160714/8bfbeaaa/attachment.html>