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.
>>
>>
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