Yes, just one Airport Extreme. At the moment we have 42 devices connected to the wireless out of 63 in the space... but it's also a quiet day. Last Wednesday, our busiest day ever, we had 107 devices in the space. I can't see how many of those were on the wifi. I say "devices" because most users are at least 2 with their phone and their laptop. Today we have 26 members in the space.
Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com > wrote: > Just one Airport Extreme How many people share that AP? > > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: > > We run pfsense on an old P3 machine and it works great. The WAN fail-over > is a little clunky so don't expect seamless transitions. It takes about 10 > seconds to switch over and all VPNs, file transfers, etc are dropped. That > said, 10 seconds of outage is better then being down. That's why we pay > $200/month for a second internet connection. We balance it out by having > that line (comcast) handle all our phones (4). > > Wifi we are happy with our Airport Extreme. 5000sqft and solid coverage. > > Jacob > > --- > Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation > http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 > > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > I'm working on a complete redux of the evolution of our networking > equipment as we've grown for my blog, I'll share it here when it's done. > Here's a bit of a preview of the latest evolution. > > On the router side of things, we now have a pfSense-based appliance called > a Firebox. pfSense is a very robust piece of router software and can be run > on a variety of appliances that range in price, but we were able to pick > one of the older models (RX6264S) up on EBay for ~$220. > > pfSense itself is free and open source, but specialized hardware can run > it optimally. We looked at new hardware from http://www.hacom.net and > it runs $800-1500. > > It's a LOT more powerful than anything in the consumer arena, handling > 1000's of users and millions of connections. Consumer gear starts to slow > down with anything north of 50 users. It' usable, but you'll start noticing > problems. Also, pfSense gives us REALLY great analytics for finding and > squashing problems, like connections that are flooding the network for all > users and also gives us really useful tools for giving things that need > connection priority (like Skype and SSH connections) over things like > Youtube and torrents. > > For us, that means a much easier to manage "network policy". You can use > just about anything on our network, and the router figures out if it's > causing problems and throttles the amount of network it has access to. > > The hardware we bought also allows for bridged WAN, which means we can > install a fallback ISP for when our primary ISP is having issues, and that > way people don't' ever lose their connection. > > On the wireless side of things, we tested Meraki and Ruckus and went with > Ruckus. Meraki APs seemed to have a shorter range and while the Cloud > Control system was badass, we'd never use 99% of it. The sales people were > really nice and helpful, but it didn't seem like a good fit for us. > > Ruckus, on the other hand, was challenging to work with through their > normal enterprise sales channels so we went to Ebay again and bought a new > AP for 25% off list price and it works awesome. We don't get their > enterprise support, but I'm not too worried about it. I'm very happy with > the performance of a single access point (covering and supporting >100 > users on 2 floors) and plan to buy a 2nd AP to beef up the coverage. We're > using the Ruckus 7962 - > http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/zoneflex-indoor/7962 > > Thanks for the recommendation for Ruckus from the Cambridge Innovation > Center crew. I'm a happy customer. > > I also strongly recommend NetSpot (www.netspotapp.com) for doing a site > survey, which I was recommended by Chris Johnson (copied on this email). > It's a free app that lets you do a heat map of signal strength and signal > to noise ratios. It gave me a TON of insight into placement and the > resulting coverage of wifi. Probably the most useful tool I learned about > last month! > > -Alex > > > > > > > > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Monday, June 4, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > I lied, we use Netgear routers. They're odd. They needed to be restarted > constantly when we first moved in but now run very smoothly. > > On Sunday, June 3, 2012 8:55:04 PM UTC-6, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > We use Dlink routers. One in the basement conference room where the juice > line comes in that's hardwired up to the 3rd floor where most of the > coworking happens. Both are activated for wireless. Additionally, I think > the guys ran hard wires all the way upstairs and then hooked up a couple of > switches. Several people hard wire in while at Cohere but the majority > don't. > We have 5-10 people in the space at any time and we have Comcast Biz class > 50/10 for $200/mo. It all depends on how your city is wired up. We have > some special consideration being just a couple of blocks away from a large > university here. > > Angel > > On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09:58 AM UTC-6, JJ wrote: > > Hey all, > > Without getting into too much introduction and details, I'll just cut > right to it. > > I'm opening a space next week in South Dakota. Working on finalizing > details right now, and one thing I'm not too sure about is internet. We've > got 20 members or so pre-signed to move in day 1 and in trying to plan for > the future, am trying to figure out what sort of internet speed I need, and > what sort of router to handle the space's size and amount of people. It's > a long space, about 150ft, and we could very easily have 100 people > accessing the network at any given time. > > Any of the larger spaces out there have insight? I'm currently looking at > an internet speed of 50 down/10up or 100 down/15 up. Also am looking at > 801.11n routers that have two to three adjustable networks built into the > device. > > Would love some thoughts. > > Best, > > > *Josh Aberson* > i...@workmeso.com > m: 521.6158 | @JoshAberson > > > > 220 S. 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