How many direct play clients at once?

[Goolong 0]

So I'm thinking to test a raspberry pi4 4gb emby server in a college environment for browsing and playing lectures (and for the entire dorm). With an SSD over USB, and a hostapd compatible WiFi AC USB card to create an access point.

 

Each client will get an allocated 5mbs of wireless bandwidth. With total bandwidth on the access point being 800mbs at 5ghz and 400mbs at 2.4ghz. All videos will be in mp4, 720p at 4mbps for bitrate, h264 aac. Server configuration will be set to no transcode. Client will connect only via http/https.

 

Plan to not enable any signon screen and have all users go straight to library view.

 

If what I understand about direct play is correct, the CPU won't matter much and it's all about wireless bandwidth and storage speeds. I should get in theory 160 direct clients (800mbs/5mbs bandwidth per client) on 5ghz and 80 clients on 2.4ghz. I understand that bandwidth would probably be a lot less so I'm hoping for around a total of 100 clients on 5ghz and 50 clients on 2.4ghz. Is my understanding/plan correct?

[Luke 37230]

@@Goolong, yes the number of direct play clients is really more of a question of your available bandwidth rather than horsepower.

 

@ or @@pir8radio may have some tips. Thanks.

[Guest asrequested]

Just remember that wireless bandwidth isn't static. It will range with the signal strength.

[badous 14]

Were you able to test your setup?