While technically complex, if you can have someone come and configure your router (or add in a device like pfsense, untangled, mikrotik, etc), it can make a huge difference on prioritizing some types of Internet use over others (like say Skype=Priority 1 vs streaming music=Priority 5). We wouldn't be able to effectively run our space without such controls since ensuring quality Skype calls is so essential to many of our members (and bandwidth is hugely expensive here).
We have a series of cascading priorities that put skype and voip calls on top, regular internet traffic in the middle, and high-bandwidth applications (video, downloads, etc) at the bottom. During normal times, it's all the same. During peak loads, things are prioritized accordingly. Plus we do per-user speed limits during peak times, etc to ensure fair usage for all of our members. Among other things. But again, this is all quite complex to setup (especially if you have multiple Internet providers like we do) but is pretty effective when working correctly. Cheers. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:27:21 AM UTC+8, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: > > Looks like about everyone is streaming music while at Cohere so it's > putting a strain on our bandwidth. Has your space had this issue and what > are some solutions? > > Angel > -- 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/d/optout.
