How many clients

Vegaanders

Hi from a newcomer on the forum

I have the following question.
We will setup a OpenVpn server on a Dedictaed Linux Server is a Datacenter. All internet connections from our staff will go through this Server. My question is simple perhaps but not for me. How many clients will get a reasonable speed on their internet connection if the data center guarrantee us 500 Mbit/s

Regards

Anders, Frankfurt

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Vegaanders wroteHi from a newcomer on the forum

I have the following question.
We will setup a OpenVpn server on a Dedictaed Linux Server is a Datacenter. All internet connections from our staff will go through this Server. My question is simple perhaps but not for me. How many clients will get a reasonable speed on their internet connection if the data center guarrantee us 500 Mbit/s

Regards

Anders, Frankfurt

You can use as many clients as the 500 Mbit/s will allow; however, that doesn't mean all of your clients will saturate their local connection. Some will get poor speeds some will get better.

mwandelaar

Douglas wrote You can use as many clients as the 500 Mbit/s will allow; however, that doesn't mean all of your clients will saturate their local connection. Some will get poor speeds some will get better.

Besides that, i.e. custom ADSL-providers share their bandwith with 20 ~ 50 more customers then their bare bandwith (overbooking). Accounting this on your server, you could 10 ~ 25 times "overbook" your server. (Take care: data has to travel twice through your server, once as upload and once as download!)

Having said that, pushing 10k users (that is, selling roughly 25 mbit per user) through a single server will definitly give you problems with cpu-load, filedescriptors, memory-allocations etc.

Cheers,

Max