[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2014-04-14 Thread leon . schabel
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Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-14 Thread Jordan Running
Jacob, Take a look here: https://github.com/armooo/cloudprint If your printer is on the network or connected to your pfSense machine you can install CUPS on the latter (there's a good guide on the pfSense forum) and then this script acts as a Google Cloud Print daemon. This depends on your

[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Toni Hogan
This is REALLY making my head hurt! :-( Toni Hogan On Jun 4, 10:59 am, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a complete redux of the evolution of our networking equipment as we've grown for my blog, I'll share it here when it's done. Here's a bit of a preview of

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Hillman
My advice is to keep it simple and grow as you need. A high-end consumer router (around $200) will and wifi access points handle 20 concurrent users without too much trouble. Once you break 20 people on the system at the same time, especially people who have a laptop + a smartphone with wifi,

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
We run pfsense on an old P3 machine and it works great. The WAN fail-over is a little clunky so don't expect seamless transitions. It takes about 10 seconds to switch over and all VPNs, file transfers, etc are dropped. That said, 10 seconds of outage is better then being down. That's why we

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Just one Airport Extreme How many people share that AP? -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jacob Sayles wrote: We run pfsense on an old P3 machine and it works great. The WAN fail-over is a little clunky so don't expect seamless

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
Yes, just one Airport Extreme. At the moment we have 42 devices connected to the wireless out of 63 in the space... but it's also a quiet day. Last Wednesday, our busiest day ever, we had 107 devices in the space. I can't see how many of those were on the wifi. I say devices because most users

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Hillman
Impressive. How many other wifi access points are within range? I have a feeling that our signal to noise ratio was hurting our ability to run that many devices from even 4 Airport Extremes. I guess the lesson here is your milage may vary on any of these pieces of equipment, so don't expect

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
We have a lot of traffic with 4 apt buildings surrounding us so there are approximately 20-30 competing signals depending on where you sit. We still have issues if someone is on 802.11g only (2.4ghz) but most users are on the 5ghz band. The full place is wired though so if anyone has issues, we

[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Toni Hogan
I had an Airport Extreme in my hands about an hour ago but I got nervous. We only had 4 people here today and the Linksys and been blocking additional users since yesterday. It's only letting on person connect. The Netgear only works for about 10 minutes. I had to go home to get my Clear

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Matthew Arkin
Airport extremes are really awesome, much better than the more consumer oriented Linksys and Netgear stuff. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Toni Hogan t...@theofficeconnexion.comwrote: I had an Airport Extreme in my hands about an hour ago but I got nervous. We only had 4 people here today

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Matthew Arkin
Jacob, you should be able to Share printers with Google Cloud Print http://support.google.com/chromeos/a/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1329537 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jacob Sayles ja...@officenomads.comwrote: We have a lot of traffic with 4 apt buildings surrounding us so there are

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-13 Thread Jacob Sayles
Yes, that is what Alexandra did, and that is why it is linked to her account. If she doesn't have chrome open, logged in to google, then the share doesn't work. :( Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at

[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-04 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
I lied, we use Netgear routers. They're odd. They needed to be restarted constantly when we first moved in but now run very smoothly. On Sunday, June 3, 2012 8:55:04 PM UTC-6, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: We use Dlink routers. One in the basement conference room where the juice line comes in

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-04 Thread John Wilker
We're probably a good model of overkill but we're also hi bandwidth users. Our current setup is Comcast Business gateway (50/10) that we can increase with a phone call if needed. 4 Airport Extremes extending a single 5GHz network, with a 2.4GHz network off of one unit for Phones to use.

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-04 Thread Alex Hillman
I'm working on a complete redux of the evolution of our networking equipment as we've grown for my blog, I'll share it here when it's done. Here's a bit of a preview of the latest evolution. On the router side of things, we now have a pfSense-based appliance called a Firebox. pfSense is a very

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-04 Thread John Wilker
I can second netspot, we used it at Uncubed to see what was going on around the building and see where our weak spots were John Wilker Founder, 360|Conferences (720) 381-2370 twitter: jwilker (http://twitter.com/jwilker) johnwilker.com (http://johnwilker.com/) | 360|MacDev

[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2012-06-03 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
We use Dlink routers. One in the basement conference room where the juice line comes in that's hardwired up to the 3rd floor where most of the coworking happens. Both are activated for wireless. Additionally, I think the guys ran hard wires all the way upstairs and then hooked up a couple of

[Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2011-08-26 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
We have Comcast business class 50mbps/10 up/down and can have 35 people on our wifi router which I think is a Netgear-N I picked up at Bestbuy. The router also handles two different networks. One for people with older computers and one for newer computers (B/G vs A/N). Mixing the two was a

Re: [Coworking] Re: New Space Question

2011-08-26 Thread Joshua Marpet
up to a certain level, the consumer and prosumer solutions being proposed here are perfectly cool. Above that level, it needs to get serious. Astaro is a great provider of enterprise grade WAP's that just work. They also sponsor the Bsides security conferences that are free, and awesome! (I