This is great information! We are pushing our two Airport Extremes and are starting to look for a more enterprise solution. They have been great, but these days we are averaging 120 devices a day and if I don't reboot them once a week they stop accepting new connections about Wednesday or Thursday.
I wonder if we could get away with only having two of these or if we should get more. Currently we have an Airport on each 5000sqft floor and have plenty of coverage. Jacob --- Office Nomads - Individuality without Isolation http://www.officenomads.com - (206) 323-6500 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Markwell < jonathan.markw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not got hard data but since we got our UniFi AP Pros I've not had to > think about WiFi. It's the only networking hardware I've ever had that gets > close to an Apple-like Just Works experience. > > We regularly have 90+ devices without a problem but we've got 3 APs > sharing the load - I've never stress tested one by itself. They're such > good value and play so well with each other that I get the impression we'd > be fine adding more APs if we needed to scale. I understand that among > other things regulate their own signal strength so they don't interfere > with each other. They even continued to work without complaint when the > controller (an old Mac Mini) was accidentally turned off for a few days. > > Jon > > > On 10 February 2014 17:32, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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. >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Markwell > > Software engineers with startup experience - > http://CoderFounders.com<http://coderfounders.com/> > A home for your work in Brighton - http://theSkiff.org<http://theskiff.org/> > > mob: +44 (0)7766 021 485 | tel: +44 (0)1273 252 191 > skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot > > -- > 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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