Ruckus APs are worth every penny but there is a great alternative that's a little cheaper and much easier to setup.
You still need a separate router as Alex described but the thing that makes the biggest difference to WiFi is more access points. They just need to be intelligent enough to regulate their signal strength and work together rather than against each other. We use 5 Unifi UAP Pro's for a similar size space to yours but depending on the layout 3 would probably be plenty. You can get a three pack of them for less than $1000. They work best with a computer permanently set up as a controller either on your local network or remotely but they're not dependent on it. The software is significantly easier to use than most domestic router software I've used. I was able to set them up within 15 minutes of unboxing them and they completely transformed the WiFi. It went from a running joke to one issue in six months. That one issue required nothing more than turning the APs off and on again. Your Internet connection and/or router will become the bottleneck with these APs. We'd already switched to a leased line and a high spec router by the time we got them so we knew it was the APs causing problems. Now we don't have to really think about the Internet connection, everything else gets more time. We see around 100 devices per day and I'm confident that we could go well above 200 with this set up. I'm feeling pretty lucky that they work as well as they do given the price difference. Has anyone had a contrasting experience with Unifi kit? Jon — Jonathan Markwell Follow my adventures in space, time and code: http://jot.is/sustainablyindy The Skiff: Brighton Coworking Community http://jot.is/sharing-space Coder Founders: Digital Product Consultancy http://jot.is/investing-time CoGrid: Meeting Room Booking Software http://jot.is/writing-code +44 (0)7766 021 485 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking <baut...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am ready to make the dive off the deep end and go high grade with the > routers that Alex is talking about. I don't need to fine tune control but I > want it to be reliable for 100 devices. We often will have 30 people using > the space at once and with tablets and cell phones that number spikes above > 50. It's a one time fee that is probably worth the investment. > -- > 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.
