Stephen, Could you give a little more detail about the microwave antenna solution? Who's your service provider? Did they provide the equipment?
On Friday, February 21, 2014, Stephen Shumaker <[email protected]> wrote: > We were having the same issue at our more 'techy' building with lots of > heavy bandwidth users, here was our expensive but effective solution: > > > 1. Upgrade bandwidth to as much as we could afford, which is 50/50 > mbps symmetrical. One-time cost of $5k (to install microwave antenna on > roof), then $125/mo. We also have backup dual-line DSL for failover and > VOIP. We have the option to upgrade to 100/100 in the future if needed. > 2. Upgrade Wifi Access Points to Ruckus Wireless. We originally had > the Unifi APs, and they worked reliably and provided good coverage, however > they do not have any sort of load balancing or rate limiting features. > Ruckus APs are a significant cost at $660 per AP and over $1000 for the > hardware controller, but they have some incredible features, such as AP > roaming, rate limiting, and what they call 'airtime fairness'. Airtime > fairness works to dynamically shifting more RF energy to the devices that > need it the most (such as those streaming video or syncing to a cloud > server). Most APs shoot RF in every direction, like a lightbulb, meaning > that all devices get the same 'priority' in terms of the RF reaching them. > Ruckus APs 'point' their RF in a particular direction, like a lighthouse > with a rotating spotlight. This means that light users browsing the web or > checking email won't be bogged down by heavy users streaming or syncing. > Ruckus also supports rate limiting at the AP level, though we've found that > just the airtime fairness feature was enough to solve our bandwidth issues, > so fine-tuned rate limiting isn't needed. However, I did configure a hard > cap of 45/45 mbps via the Ruckus APs, so that no single device can ever max > out our bandwidth, leaving a 5/5 mbps buffer for all the hardwired devices > that bypass the APs. > > At $10-15k this is not a cheap solution, but it has solved all of our > network/bandwidth-related problems practically overnight. For our third and > future buildings we will be rolling out this system from the beginning. > > -- > 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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- twb @twbrandt Sent from my Phone of i -- 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.
