Josh, Never had any issues with the firewall. I eyeball the logs every so often & haven't seen anything odd.
The primary base station works great as a central router - no DHCP issues, NAT works great, DNS etc. Very low-key & stable, as it should be. On the wireless side of things, there's no way we would be able to satisfactorily handle more than 15 or so people on 1 wireless router. Don't even try it. So I bought two (plus, it made the little red light in the back of my head slow down. 2 is 1, 1 is none, etc) of the Extremes. We segmented out our cloud into three, in order to provide connection points for the different speeds without causing a slowdown for faster devices. Each uses the same wireless key, so it's convenient for users to get on. My original plan of 1 cloud for all failed spectacularly the day we had a visitor with an old 802.11b card connect, killing connection speeds for everyone. D'oh! Cheers! Pat On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Josh Aberson wrote: > 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. -- 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.
