We offer peak speeds of 4mbps, and we have an extrordinary amount of people using (abusing as some would say) streaming video for many hours of the day causing headaches for us.
I would bandwidth limit the ports, as someone else already mentioned. I would also enable WRED, ECN and everything else I could lay my hands on. What is that port connected to in the customer's end? Are they plugging into a 8 port switch and fanning out that connection to their DVD player which they use to watch Hulu and Netflix and a bunch of other services? My Sony DVD player came with about 6 Internet video services programmed in it and it has an ethernet port. Do they have a slingbox where they are going to watch their home TV from work? And just having all those users on a flat switched network would be one heck of a security hazard (again, as someone else mentioned). But to be honest, I wouldn't deploy that model at all. One person can DOS the entire building depending on how it is deployed and that is without even touching the uplink port. Now figure about a tenth of those computers will be infected by bot nets and will sit there sending spam and click fraud all night long, too. G