This is a very timely post - as our area of the city experienced a system-wide outage for about 15 minutes the other day with Charter. We have a Charter Business service with 50Mbps ... and no usage cap. We have a wireless router on each floor to complement the 24 ethernet ports distributed throughout the space. I agree with Alex - at coworking space should NEVER be without easy/uncomplicated connection to awesome quality Internet service.
So, after the outage the other day, we're looking at a back up. Some members suggested that we look at a 4G connection just to activate during emergency outages. We also have another really great local ISP here called Skyrunner. Does anyone have a true "back up" system in place? If so, I'd love to hear more. I also would like to explore further the idea of throttling bandwidth hogs. I don't think we have many ... but is there a way to see which connections are using the most? On password changes ... we only changed passwords once in the past 2 years. We moved locations and it was like starting new again. We felt like it made sense to have a new passwork ;-) Cheers, Craig On Monday, January 14, 2013 11:28:05 AM UTC-5, Alex Hillman 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]<javascript:>> > 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 <http://www.blankspaces.com/> > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Tom Brandt <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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]<javascript:>> > 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]<javascript:>> > 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.
