This information is quite helpful. Thanks. We recently upgraded our connection for 100+ people at www.CoWorkIndia.com (Bangalore, India) to 250/250 mbps fiber. We also upgraded our infrastructure to Cat 6 cables & GBPS switches. I am monitoring the throughput on the gateway and it is usually in the range of 15mbps to 30 mbps for download and less than 5 mbps for upload. Torrents are blocked.
Aaron is right. 95% of headaches come from internal network. On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 10:02:58 PM UTC+5:30, Aaron Mader wrote: > > 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.
