Josh, Congratulations, first off. Welcome to the fun!
What are the connectivity needs of your users? Are they pushing large amounts of code & files daily? Are you serving data from your end? We've always gone with a "reasonable" uplink. Business DSL for a long time, then a cable line in addition, eventually adding fiber for data & keeping a dsl for 1 member's VOIP phone. I've been in IT long enough to know you can never have a large enough pipe, so set the expectations early, find out what's the right size without busting your budget & work with your members - know them well enough - to avoid any hurt feelings, problems, etc. We're at around 40-ish members now. Our data line is fiber, 5 up / 5 down, I think it is. Our core router is an Airport Extreme base station. Off that is a 24-port gigabit switch, as the space came with some wired data ports. We run another Airport Extreme to extend the cloud in the main room. Extended off that is a Linksys & a D-link wireless router (both flashed with dd-wrt). Each of these has a old network printer attached to it. Easy-peasy, pretty much runs itself. Cheers! Pat On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Josh Aberson wrote: > Hey all, > > Without getting into too much introduction and details, I'll just cut right > to it. > > I'm opening a space next week in South Dakota. Working on finalizing details > right now, and one thing I'm not too sure about is internet. We've got 20 > members or so pre-signed to move in day 1 and in trying to plan for the > future, am trying to figure out what sort of internet speed I need, and what > sort of router to handle the space's size and amount of people. It's a long > space, about 150ft, and we could very easily have 100 people accessing the > network at any given time. > > Any of the larger spaces out there have insight? I'm currently looking at an > internet speed of 50 down/10up or 100 down/15 up. Also am looking at 801.11n > routers that have two to three adjustable networks built into the device. > > Would love some thoughts. > > Best, > > > Josh Aberson > [email protected] > m: 521.6158 | @JoshAberson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
