03-20-2013, 02:42 AM
My two sons want to run a minecraft server on their own computer. We have two choices:
1) Allow my sons to get their own IP at 25 mbps costing them each $34 a month.
2) Increase our bandwidth to 50 mbps for the household and they each pay me $20 a month for the upgrade.
How much bandwidth does the household use? The maximum I can think up is Netflix on the living room TV and from the Wii in the girls room (Netflix uses a max of 6-mbps for a high-def program per), 5-smart phones downloading apps (1-mbps total at most), three computers running internet intensive apps (3-mbps each), Wii-U, DVD-player, and Xbox all downloading updates (1-mbps each is my guess). So, at absolute most we're talking 25-mbps if my math is correct. Add onto that the minecraft server and fluctuations in bandwidth from the server to our house and my current 25-mbps seems a little lite for my son's minecraft server to also be sharing the load. So which option do you think is best, #1 or #2?
1) Allow my sons to get their own IP at 25 mbps costing them each $34 a month.
2) Increase our bandwidth to 50 mbps for the household and they each pay me $20 a month for the upgrade.
How much bandwidth does the household use? The maximum I can think up is Netflix on the living room TV and from the Wii in the girls room (Netflix uses a max of 6-mbps for a high-def program per), 5-smart phones downloading apps (1-mbps total at most), three computers running internet intensive apps (3-mbps each), Wii-U, DVD-player, and Xbox all downloading updates (1-mbps each is my guess). So, at absolute most we're talking 25-mbps if my math is correct. Add onto that the minecraft server and fluctuations in bandwidth from the server to our house and my current 25-mbps seems a little lite for my son's minecraft server to also be sharing the load. So which option do you think is best, #1 or #2?
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