I keep hearing about this Comcast 50mbps connection from those who have Comcast...is it 50/50???? We have a 15/1 DSL from Megapath and if more than 2 people download intensively, it might as well be 1/1.
Jerome ______________ BLANKSPACES "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" www.blankspaces.com 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 323.330.9505 (office) On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Tom Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a Comcast 50mbps connection which is our main connection, and an AT&T > 18mbps u-verse connection for our backup. We have a router, the brand/model > of which I have forgotten, which handles failover. Like IndyHall, it's more > upstream latency that's an issue rather than the connection speed. > > The Comcast connection has been surprisingly reliable and Comcast's customer > service shockingly responsive. AT&T customer service is characteristically > sucky. Fortunately we don't need them very much. > > I can look at the failover router we use if people are interested in the > brand and model. > > --- > twb > Sent from my aye phone > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Truthfully, I can't say that Clear is much of a solution for anything and >> I'd consider it as an experiment largely a failure. >> >> When we fail over to it everybody still knows it. In order to even send an >> email to our list to let people know about the outage, I usually end up >> tethering to my iPhone. >> >> We don't have other broadband ISP options. DSL options are in the same speed >> territory as Clear, and FiOS can't get here soon enough. >> >> I've been negotiating with some local fiber providers to do a deal with us, >> but even when I get them into "reasonable" territory it's still an order of >> magnitude more expensive than we're currently paying. >> >> Comcast business class is fast as hell…when it's up. Which is most of the >> time, depending on the season :) >> >> -Alex >> >> -- >> /ah >> indyhall.org >> coworking in philadelphia >> >> On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Jerome Chang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ugh. Clear works all around our office, but not immediately on this block. >>> Same goes near my house. >>> Sorry everyone. Clear could've solved a bunch of things for me but I had >>> to search elsewhere. >>> >>> >>> Jerome >>> ______________ >>> BLANKSPACES >>> "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" >>> >>> www.blankspaces.com >>> 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) Los Angeles, CA 90036 >>> 323.330.9505 (office) >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> We currently pay $50/month for a Clear 4g modem that we fail over to. >>>> >>>> It gets swallowed up really fast, and I might argue that no internet is >>>> worse than internet that barely works. >>>> >>>> We actually have more issues with upstream latency than actual >>>> download/upload speeds. The end effect for our members is "the internet is >>>> slow or intermittent", but for the most part our pfsense configuration has >>>> addressed most of it and helps us address additional issues as they >>>> happen. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> /ah >>>> indyhall.org >>>> coworking in philadelphia >>>> >>>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Mojo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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]> 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. >>> 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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