Hotel WiFi Bandwidth Calculator.
Get the total Mbps your hotel needs for its carriage uplink. Sized on Liveport’s six-year telemetry from 150+ Australian properties, part of the full Liveport Hotel WiFi Systems stack.
Adjust the sliders. Number updates live. Numbers are conservative-correct, better to oversize than chase complaints six months in.
Sized for 120 rooms at 85% occupancy, 2 devices per room streaming HD, plus 100 Mbps conference and 50 Mbps back-of-house.
1 Gbps dedicated fibre to the property (wholesale-grade) + NBN or Starlink failover via SD-WAN
Or single fibre uplink ≥ 2.5 Gbps where available.
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How this calculator is sized.
Total carriage = (rooms × occupancy × devices × per-device Mbps × concurrency factor) + conference load + back-of-house allowance.
Concurrency factor: 0.10 by default. Real Liveport telemetry across 150+ Australian hotels shows that at 6-9pm peak, the aggregate guest WiFi demand runs at roughly 10% of the naive “every device streaming HD at full bitrate” model, most devices are idle, between videos, on ad pauses, or running adaptive bitrate at lower quality. Example: a 280-room hotel running 85% occupancy actually peaks around 250 Mbps, not the 3 Gbps a 100%-concurrency calc would suggest.
HD streaming: 10 Mbps/device. 4K: 25 Mbps. SD: 6 Mbps. Aligned to ABC iView, Netflix and Disney+ recommended bandwidth.
Calculator is a starting point. A Liveport site survey delivers the actual sizing for your specific building, including AP count and placement, that’s where the real money is saved or lost.
Hotel WiFi bandwidth, common questions.
How much bandwidth does a 100-room hotel need?
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Around 300-500 Mbps for a 100-room hotel at 85% occupancy with 2 devices per room, plus conferencing and back-of-house. Liveport typically runs a 1 Gbps dedicated fibre to the property (wholesale-grade) for headroom and SLA, with NBN or Starlink as automatic SD-WAN failover. Most Australian hotels under 500 rooms are well-served by a single 1 Gbps fibre pipe. The calculator gives the exact number for your assumptions.
Why does the calculator assume 0.10 concurrency?
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Real Liveport telemetry across 150+ Australian hotels shows that at 6-9pm peak, the aggregate guest WiFi demand averages roughly 1 Mbps per occupied device, about 10% of a theoretical HD stream bitrate. Most devices are idle, paused, between videos, or running adaptive bitrate at lower quality. Sizing for 100% concurrency over-provisions by an order of magnitude. Example: a 280-room hotel running 85% occupancy peaks at around 250 Mbps in reality, not the 3 Gbps that “all-devices-streaming” math would suggest.
Should I just buy 10 Gbps to be safe?
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Usually no. Carriage cost scales with bandwidth, and most Australian hotels under 500 rooms are well-served by a 1 Gbps dedicated fibre circuit; even larger properties rarely need more than 2.5-5 Gbps. The bigger lever for guest experience is AP placement and per-room VLAN isolation, that’s a site survey deliverable, not a carriage purchase.
Why dedicated fibre instead of NBN for the primary?
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Liveport runs a dedicated fibre lead-in directly to the property as a wholesale-grade primary carriage. Dedicated fibre gives the hotel a symmetrical, contended-only-by-you circuit with a hard SLA, the difference guests notice in evening peak. NBN Enterprise still has a place as a secondary path or for small/regional properties where fibre lead-in cost doesn’t pencil; Starlink Business handles the rest. SD-WAN ties them together so a primary outage is invisible to guests.
Do I need Starlink for my hotel?
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Starlink Business is excellent for failover and for regional/remote properties where fibre lead-in is uneconomic. For metro hotels, dedicated fibre + Starlink failover via SD-WAN is the typical Liveport recommendation, guaranteed uptime even when the primary fibre fails.
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A real Liveport site survey turns the calculator output into a deployable plan, AP count, placement, carriage mix, three-tier roadmap.