After the fun and games with internet connections at epic.TEN, we promised to keep you updated with things for epic.ELEVEN as things are confirmed, but we wanted to wait until things were physically in place before we made any promises. 

As a reminder at epic.TEN we had:

• 5 ADSL connections giving us 35mbps down and 5mbps up but over multiple lines. Of these, 1 was reserved for Dota2 and 1 was reserved for priority use for server updates, IRC, DNS and database connections.
• 54mbps from the satellite connection, which was completely down for around 7 hours of the event, and intermittent for the rest meaning we had to entirely fall back on the 35 mbps from the ADSL during those times.

So far, there are now 3x FTTC lines already installed and running at the venue which gives us approx 195mbps down and 60mbps up. So that's already significantly more than we had available at epic.TEN, especially when the satellite connection was down. They are also over fewer connections, so this will allow things like higher quality streams to be delivered as they require a high upstream over a single connection - at epic.TEN we could only use the satellite connection for streaming video, now we can provide multiple streams on a single connection.

We do plan to add a number of additional lines, depending on the estimated numbers attending as there is a significant cost, but obviously there is a cut-off for placing these orders, so the sooner people book, the sooner we can get the additional lines confirmed.

The extra bandwidth will still be prioritised towards gaming traffic first. Our main aim is to get people connected to the popular Steam based games that require authentication, and then other LAN and online games. We are likely to keep restrictions in place for things like iPlayer, Sky Go, maybe YouTube until we've got the gaming traffic sorted, hopefully you can save your viewing of Eastenders until you get back home after the LAN!

More updates to follow...