Thanks Pat, appreciate the help. I was looking into the Airport extreme option. I really like that it has USB connectivity for shared drives, and that it's a dual antenna so can separate out networks for different uses. Am mainly concerned with firewall protection on the main line coming in.
Have you ever had any issues with the firewall on those? Also, if you didn't have two, do you think your 45 members would bog it down? Thanks again! Josh Aberson Sent from my iPhone On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Pat Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
