How Many People Can Share A Broadband Signal? According to oftel?

[roony]

I was wondering how many people according to oftel can a single broadband access be used by?

 

Im looking to share broadband access via wifi, from what I remember it used to be 20 people, has it changed?

 

thnx

[nohope]

Sharing it for what purpose?

[roony]

Basic broadband, access internet

[nohope]

To be honest, as many as you like really. Just checked a few t&c's for Bb suppliers and i can't see anything on them for how many people can use it under 1 roof.

 

I pay for mine and expect to have as many people as i like to use it at any one time. At the end of the day i can use my full 20 meg on my own by downloading updates for programs or a program i buy of the net or i can have 50 people all using it and just surfing the net.

[CrappoMan]

As many as you want, as long as they have your permission and they are on your property. Outside these rules, you'd likely be classed as a 're-seller'.

 

It doesn't matter if you have 10 personal pc's/laptops, or have 10 friends who visit, who each bring their own. Just don't try sharing it with the whole street, remember that you would be held liable for anything dodgy uploaded/downloaded using the connection that you pay for.

[roony]

Yea, I know its unlimited on your own property

 

From what I remember oftel had a limit of 20 off your property, can anyone clarify this?

[nohope]

Yea, I know its unlimited on your own property

 

From what I remember oftel had a limit of 20 off your property, can anyone clarify this?

As you said at the start, its unlimited, as many as you like.

[andydd]

I would of thought its unlimited, dont know if wifi routers have a limit of the number of devices, of course 20 people might make it pretty slow.

[nohope]

Most routers let you set a max amount of connections in the settings, mine goes up to 999 if i need it to.

[MaxxPower]

I think you're referring to Contention Ratio, as in how many houses on a street can use the same broadband line. Most commercial ADSL lines have a contention ratio of up to 50:1, whilst business connections usually have a contention ratio of up to 20:1.

[speedfreek]

It's hardware and the firmware it's running dependant but your bog standard ADSL device will be configured/limited as bellow;

 

A single simple subnet mask of 256 IP addresses.

 

So for example the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 has an addresses range from XXX.XXX.XXX.000 - XXX.XXX.XXX.255.

 

.000 & .255 are special reserved addresses and you usually lose one to the device on most adsl stuff that would be .001

 

So the max would be 253 simultaneous connections.

 

If you want to ruin your day look up Subnetting & Subnet Masks