We ran a couple Ubiquity routers at The Coop. They were our saving grace after a bunch of trials with other hardware. We've got two AP's and we have no issues on average managing 200+ connections.
Sam Desktime powers Coworking. http://desktimeapp.com On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Kyle McLaren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Alex, > > They are cheap, Ubiquity is famous for disruptive pricing. At maximum > capacity we hope to have 100 members with 2 AP's running (may add a third). > The AP's have some nice features like automatic load balancing of traffic and > zero-handoff for seamless roaming between AP's. > > The nice thing about UniFi is they have a software controller (as opposed to > hardware) that can even run on a cloud server, it's free as well whereas > Cisco etc charge licensing fees for their software. > > Time will tell how they perform but reviews have been great. Many people > reccomend them over Ruckus for instance and for a coworking facility, you > probably don't need much more. > > (I have no affiliation with them :) > > Kyle McLaren > Founder > @EngineroomHQ > > On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > wrote: > Those UniFi AP's look pretty great, but are surprisingly cheap to me compared > to the other enterprise options I've tested. It says "up to 100 concurrent > connections" in the traffic management part, but I've learned the hard way > that those numbers are usually theoretical :) How many people do actually you > have distributed across each one? > > -Alex > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Kyle McLaren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of implementing a technical solution to this for my new > coworking space (Engineroom). > > We have a Ubiquity UniFi WLAN from which I'm able to get a list of users > (through a 3rd party API) who are currently active on the network. This list > is then published to a Firebase database and users can then view (in > realtime) who is active on the network via a web app that pulls data from > Firebase. > > Kyle McLaren > Founder > @EngineroomHQ > > > On Friday, 31 January 2014 01:36:15 UTC+2, Eli Malinsky wrote: > Hey all > > Wonder if anyone has novel ways of showing which members are in the space on > a given day. Do you use table signs? flags? Pictures? Anything? I'd love to > hear any creative ideas. > > We've tried a few things in the past but nothing's really stuck. I'd love to > hear your experiences, see pics, etc. > > thanks! > > Eli Malinsky > Centre for Social Innovation > New York // Toronto > > -- > 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. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/S7ZJ7Yf5WHA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
