We've never really needed an IT manager, there's always been enough talent in-house as coworkers. I've only been involved in smaller coworking spaces, where's there's been a lot of client buy-in, but whenever there's been a problem with the internet, there's always been someone in the building with the networking knowledge to help sort it out.
In terms of speed; we found that 40 people were ok to share a 20/5mbps connection (we'd do a little policing of power-users/p2p), but things are definitely better with the new 100/100mbps fibre line. The real priority for most people was latency, since we had a number of people using voip on their computers. From my experience, the challenge of having 40 people in a room share an internet connection is the local hardware. You can't cheap out on your network equipment, particularly your wireless network. This is where 95% of your headaches come from. At one point, we had our DSL connection fail. Within about 30 minutes (and long before the technician arrived), one of our members had wired up a new connection through the LTE (cellular) network, and everyone was content to share its 5/2mbps connection. On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 12:39:43 PM UTC-5, Jay Smith wrote: > > Hello everyone. I'm the IT Manager for a coworking company out of > California. I'm just curious as to what the average internet connection > speeds are at most of the coworking spaces in this group. Do you find that > your speeds could be faster, but you don't really have the option to obtain > more speed at a decent price? Or are your speeds adequate for your members > needs? > > How many of you have a dedicated IT person working for your company that > you have full access to during the work day? If you don't, do you have an > IT service that you call when things start to work improperly? > > Our slowest location has a 50/20mbps copper connection, > but our fastest location is a 300/300mbps Fiber connection. > > -- 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.
