31/07/2026
A packed room, the payment terminal timing out at the door, guest wifi crawling the moment the first rows fill up. Three different problems, but they almost always come down to the same mistake: calculating bandwidth by counting people in the room, when networks think in connected devices.
An event with 80 guests and 15 staff can easily reach 120 devices connected at once. And every service, guest wifi, payments, production, streaming, has its own requirements that need to be added up, not estimated by eye.
Our latest article breaks it down: how many devices to expect, why POS and check-in need protecting even though they barely use bandwidth, when to separate the technical network from the guest one, and what changes when the venue is remote or the event moves from stop to stop.
A guide for anyone organising, directing, or running the technical side of an event who wants to reach the day itself without surprises.
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Guest wifi, POS, streaming, production: how much bandwidth an event needs, service by service, so nothing breaks on the day.