BW calculation question.

[wirelessguy]

How do i calculate the port speed, If I wanted to get 1000 BW per month.

Any help would be appreciated.

[phobosd]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

The port speed? What port speed?

and 1000 what per month?

Please try and explain yourself more clearly next time.

[ProWebUK]

Port speed = how much the line is pushing out?

10mbps would easily pull out 1000gb but it would be slow, i would suggest getting 100mbps if its being used for a production server with fairly heave usage.

If you maxxed out a 10mbps fully optimized connection for 1 month constantly i believe you would be pulling out close 26,000GB (based on a 30 day month)... wouldnt be very healthy mind you, dont personally like the sound of maxing a connection for 1 month constantly

Chris

[neilrbowen]

A good way to do this is as follows.

If you used 1 Mbps continuously for a whole month you would use ~324 GBytes. Using the averages of peak time to average then you find its easy to get 180 GBytes per Mbps;

So for 1000 GBytes you would need about 5.5 Mbps.

[ProWebUK]

If you maxxed out a 10mbps fully optimized connection for 1 month constantly i believe you would be pulling out close 26,000GB (based on a 30 day month)...

Meaning a 5.5 would be pushing out around 13,700GB. i would recommend getting at least 10MBPS if you dont want to be maxing out every now and then.... 10mbps should be 'stable' with 1000GB usage over 1 month.

[HiyaCorp]

Even then though you can burst up to 100 MBPS for a few seconds and come back down. Just because it say 10 MBPS doesn't means thats the Transfer limit.

[ProWebUK]

Even then though you can burst up to 100 MBPS for a few seconds and come back down. Just because it say 10 MBPS doesn't means thats the Transfer limit.

With 10mbps servers, you often get an exclusive pipe meaning you get a 10mbps connection going directly to your server - not 100mbps bustable.

[HiyaCorp]

Sorry, Didn't realize what I typed. Still 3 AM.