A) Separate your wireless access points from your router. You want a single router that provides network + internet to the entire network, and the wireless access points to be “dumb”, in that the wireless access points only provide a wireless connection to the network.
B) Its time for you to leave consumer access points behind. We kept throwing Airport Extremes at the problem and still had issues, so we tested…well, basically everything we could afford. I would recommend Ruckus 7962 Access Points (probably 2 of them) to cover the space. They’re pricey, especially when you buy them through a dealer, so I recommend scouting eBay. I’ve had no problem finding them brand new sealed in box for $600-800 each, which is around half what they retail for. C) Router choice is more about how much control you want. We use a “Firebox” router running PFSense, but to be honest it can be complicated if you don’t have experience configuring that sort of thing. At your scale, once you decouple access points from your router, you could get away with something on the consumer end (like a Linksys DDWRT) and just turn off the wifi. It might be tempting to leave the wifi on “for another access point”, but don’t. :) -Alex ------------------ The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://listen.coworkingweekly.com On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking <baut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Creative Density is about 3500 sq. ft. in an old manson. We have two > independent internet connections from Comcast and Centurylink each piping > in 30+mbps each. However, people, mostly windows machines but many of them > new within the last year, are having connection issues. They get on and > it's working but it is fickle. Both of the connections. We have a an Asus > RT-AC68U and an 2012 Apple Airport Extreme. They both should handle a lot > more traffic that is passing through. > What would you recommend? Settings? Routers? Other solutions.. > I know this topic has been discussed before but I wanted to start a new > thread since these situations change throughout time. > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
