Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Aaron Cruikshank
We found that the upload speed was an important consideration if you have a lot of people in your space doing video conferencing via Skype, Google Hangouts, etc... At the HiVE, we were on a coax cable internet plan and the upload speed was 1 MB/s. It used to brown out the internet for everyone if m

Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Jacob Sayles
Also on the DHCP front we switched to using a netmask of 23 instead of 24 to get twice the number of addresses. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Stuart Lambert wrote: > Yeah, dropped it down to a day from 7 and our helped. > > (Secretly looking for an excuse to buy better kit anyway! ) > On 2 Ap

Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Stuart Lambert
Yeah, dropped it down to a day from 7 and our helped. (Secretly looking for an excuse to buy better kit anyway! ) On 2 Apr 2015 18:29, "Glen Ferguson" wrote: > If you shorten the DHCP lease time to 2, 4, or even 8 hours, that should > address the problem of running out of leases. > >*Glen F

Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Glen Ferguson
If you shorten the DHCP lease time to 2, 4, or even 8 hours, that should address the problem of running out of leases. *Glen Ferguson* Phone: 301-732-5165 Email: g...@coworkfrederick.com Website: http://coworkfrederick.com Address: 122 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 a

Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Hillman
Oh yeah my experience matches Stuart's, the dual band is *much* better. I thought we could get away with the single band $99-per-unit versions when we expanded our initial cover and...yeah, they're just not as good. Definitely spring for the Pro units - this 3 pack: http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti

Re: [Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Stuart Lambert
+1 to the Unifi recommendation. We found that the dual band versions work far better. It seems a lot of users in the building our space shares are using 2.4Ghz only routers so we have the 5Ghz band to ourself... Something we've bumped into very recently is exhausting the DHCP pool on our route

[Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Alex Hillman
I've never seen a resource that organizes bandwidth usage that way - even within our individual respective spaces I think that would be tricky data to acquire! But two things that aren't obvious about Internet usage (and how bandwidth is just a tiny part of the equation) until you've had hundreds

[Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-02 Thread Ramon Suarez
>From home connections to gigabit, everything goes. Make sure that you can >upgrade easily -- 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 rec

[Coworking] Bandwidth questions for new coworking venture

2015-04-01 Thread Cassidy
Hi everyone! do you recommend any websites or databases for researching average data consumption by industry and/or company size? or do you have any insights to share regarding how your ventures provide internet services? thanks :) Cassidy -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.c