Thanks Kyle! Do you (or does anyone else on the list) know about a specific place where these APs are in production with 100+ devices connected? One of the things that we learned to account for is that 100 members usually equals 200+ devices (count in mobile phones, tablets, etc.
We did trials with a bunch of options - with an emphasis on the cloud controllers - and found that nobody performed as well as the Ruckus devices in spite of the promises on their websites and from their sales people. We have two Ruckus 7962's that outperform every other device we tried in production (including Meraki & Cisco hardware, at opposite ends of the price spectrum). Mind you, the cloud controllers are WAY better than what we have, and man, do I want some of those features. But they don't matter much when people can't consistently connect to the AP in the first place. ;) With all of that in mind, I'd replace our Ruckus hardware in a heartbeat if I knew for a fact that we'd get equal or better performance. So you'll have to forgive me for being suspicious of the theoretical performance capabilities, and why I'm hungry for more data. You mentioned reviews - could you point me towards them? -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Kyle McLaren <kyle.mclar...@gmail.com>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 <http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ> > > On Monday, February 10, 2014, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> > 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 <kyle.mclar...@gmail.com>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 <http://ubnt.com/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<http://www.firebase.com>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 <http://www.twitter.com/EnginroomHQ> >>> >>> >>> 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 >> coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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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