[GLLUG] Laurel Park Room

[Caleb Cushing]

you can expect them to bring fairly powerful gaming machines. you can also
expect that our problems have just doubled... perhaps we should try to get
Tom to one of our meetings if feesibly possible. We need to take his network
design into account with ours, because more than likely they'll end up using
more external bandwith than us. They'll use it for things other than simple
web browsing.

On 3/7/06, Jason Green <jave27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> > Power is still something of a variable (gaming machines or not) until we
> > get more info from the hotel. Can someone make a good guess at how many
> > amps an average PC with 17" monitor will pull?
>
> Taken from here:  http://www.twistedmods.com/article.php?artid=136
>
> Another use for this information is in planning a LAN party. Most
> household circuits are rated at 20 amps. To prevent the breaker from
> tripping, you should load up the circuit to no more than 80% of its
> rating. That means you have 16 amps per circuit. If a typical monitor
> draws 0.8 amps, and a typical computer draws 1.0 amps, that means you
> can safely fit about eight people on one circuit (approximately 2 amps
> per person * 8 people = 16 amps) without overloading it, assuming the
> circuit has no other loads on it.
>
> ----
>
> This is assuming the attendants aren't bringing super powerful gaming
> machines that require 600 watt power supplies, too.  Also, do you know
> if each outlet is on its own circuit, or if it's one circuit for the
> whole room?
>
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