# How many users watching live stream? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [August 27, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205 "2012-08-27T16:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Kay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/1 "2012-08-27T16:09:28Z")
Ok so if I get wowza media server on my PC how many people could watch a live stream from me at the same time smoothly? My internet connection is around 50mb down and 10mb up. The video would be streamed at about 1000kbs. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/2 "2012-08-27T16:44:53Z")
The uplink is the bottleneck. The formula is throughput / bitrate: 10mbs / 1mbs = 10. But I would say 8 or 9, maybe 10. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/3 "2012-08-28T00:11:20Z")
A 1gbs nic is a good starting place for a streaming server. With a late model quad or dual quad cput, 4 - 8g ram, 64bit OS and 64bit Java, you can get about 800 1kbs streams with 1gbs nic Richard ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/4 "2012-08-28T11:21:00Z")
I meant 1mbs stream, i.e. 1000kbs If you have a 10mbs bottleneck, that will be the limiting factor. You will get 10 1mbs streams at the most. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/5 "2012-08-28T19:19:45Z")
Right, if the machine Wowza is installed on has a 10mbs connection to internet, all your clients will be streaming through that point, which will only allow 10 1mbs streams at most. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Kay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/6 "2012-08-27T16:48:35Z")
Thanks for the reply mate. So it’s not great on the local machine. What would I have to do to get… lets say 100 people watching the stream? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Kay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/7 "2012-08-28T10:02:33Z")
> A 1gbs nic is a good starting place for a streaming server. With a late model quad or dual quad cput, 4 - 8g ram, 64bit OS and 64bit Java, you can get about 800 1kbs streams with 1gbs nic > > Richard Thanks for the information Richard! Wouldnt a 1kbs stream be very bad quality? Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Kay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jimmy_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-many-users-watching-live-stream/39205/8 "2012-08-28T18:54:52Z")
Sorry to be asking all these questions but I’m very new to this. So it’s all to do with my Internet connection. I cannot improve the number from 10 unless my upload speed is improved. Correct? Thanks again!