We have Comcast and AT&T coming into Workantile, and we were load-balancing between the two. But the problem was that if you were switched to the other carrier, your IP address would change and some services didn't like that. VPNs don't like that at all, and some web apps, like Harvest, didn't like it either. So for a while we nailed one of our wifi networks to AT&T so people who needed a persistent ip address could use that.
Now, we use Comcast for our primary connection and AT&T for a backup. This eliminated a lot of confusion about which network to use for what. As for bandwidth use, your router's network management interface should tell you which mac address and host name is using how much bandwidth. --- twb Sent from my aye phone On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Aliza Torok Schlabach <[email protected]> wrote: > Do any of you use multiple carriers simultaneously (not just for back up)? > Example - Comcast + Verizon? I'm wondering how complicated that would be to > set up. > > Also, if you have a single password for the entire coworking space, is there > any way to tell who is hogging the bandwidth? > > Thanks! > > -- > Aliza Schlabach > Founder > Coworking for Parents / Juice Box > www.CoworkingForParents.com > 215.858.4658 > Sign up for our email newsletter | Join our Meetup group | Like us on > Facebook | Join the Conversation | Pinterest - Coworking | Pinterest - Kids > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > wrote: > +1 to everything Jerome said. > > There's plenty of pain within a network of people who are SUPPOSED to be able > to get on the network. You don't also want to make it hard for people to > connect in the first place. > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Jerome Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We haven't changed our password in 2+ years either, however...our issues are >> everything after that initial authentication. One of the biggest problems >> we have is someone's hogging our bandwidth. Drop a 500mb movie file in >> Dropbox midday and then, it's like rush hour heading into the Lincoln >> Tunnel. So we have to throttle each user, etc. >> >> OR, one side of the office somehow has way more devices on it so we need the >> other AP's to help balance the load. >> >> OR, one Internet feed drops so the 2nd/back-up needs to kick in immediately, >> and likely with different throttling settings since it has less bandwidth. >> >> OR there are too many other AP's nearby and their channels or whatever cause >> enough interference. >> >> Etc >> >> Jerome (not from an EvilBerry) >> www.BLANKSPACES.com >> >> On Jan 14, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Tom Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We've changed ours once in three years, and it is a pain both to inform the >>> members and for members with older machines to change it. >>> >>> --- >>> twb >>> Sent from my aye phone >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> We've changed ours twice in 6 years. The inconvenience of constantly >>>> changing passwords is a killer for the members. >>>> >>>> Is there a particular thing that you're concerned about that has you >>>> wanting to change the password daily? >>>> >>>> -Alex >>>> >>>> -- >>>> /ah >>>> indyhall.org >>>> coworking in philadelphia >>>> >>>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Melissa Saubers <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Do you change them on a daily basis? >>>>> Or do you use a similar system that a hotel would use where the user has >>>>> to sign in each day and it's good for 24 hours (not sure what it's >>>>> called)? >>>>> Or something else? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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. 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