Alex - what a goldmine of information and insight. It's so much more practical to hear from actual operators who understand the clientele and with experience of running spaces. Thank you very much!
Unifi swtich - our ISP will be providing enterprise class Cisco or Huawei routers, will these be compatible with this switch? Uifi controller - impressive list of functionalities but does it also provide individual user access from the APs? not sure what the technical term is but I'm looking for a solution that allows members to login to the wireless network with their own individual login and password credentials over the same network, as opposed to everyone given the same password to login. Furthermore, does the controller allow for the creation of a captive portal, say on a Guest wireless network? Trevor - thanks for sharing! Are you concerned with 50mb up being insufficient, or do you envision the use case for the majority of members not requiring extra bandwidth? On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:21:56 UTC+1, Alex Hillman wrote: > > In my experience, 100 mbs up and down *should* be ample for most users. > 30 people with ~2ish devices each should be fine. > > We have 150 down/120 up for over 150 users and *never* run into bandwidth > issues, even when lots of people are streaming videos, downloading large > files, doing big dropbox syncs, etc. Actual real world usage in our 150 > person space shows that that it's a near-zero occurrence that more than 1-5 > people are large bandwidh users *at the same time. *At this moment as I > write this email, 6 people are using more than 1 meg per second. > > That said, even with the exact same setup we used to have *major* issues > with our old Comcast service, their non-fiber upload speeds are limited and > more importantly, when you "fill" the upload pipe it can do anything from > slow the download connection to crash the modem. Go figure. Comcast > "business class" is pretty terrible. Avoid at all costs. > > For the rest of your infrastructure - I'd plan for *more than one* Unifi > AP. I've got a super detailed outline of our Unifi setup in this other > thread on the google group > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/rJ7PBY_-Tko/deEmQ6wNBgAJ>. > These day's I'd recommend going with the AP AC Pro. They're awesome. > > That said, every environment is different, but we start to see performance > degradation when there is more than 30-40 devices on a single AP. Two > should be good, and help you spread coverage across the space. And make > sure you follow the mounting instructions! > > Alex > > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:26 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Super new to this and would appreciate some advice. I'm opening up a >> small space with a capacity of 30 people, including laptops and phones I >> expect around 60-70 devices at full capacity.I expect to have our CCTV, >> entry system, POS and printer hooked up to the network at all times. >> >> I estimate 90+% of our users to be of the drop-in type, similar to those >> who work from your local coffee shop or Starbucks. The remaining minority >> of users will have more demanding needs in terms of their internet speeds. >> >> I'm planning on getting an uncontended leased line, with symmetrical >> speeds of 100mbs on a 100mb circuit and 1 UniFi AP. Do you think this will >> be sufficient? My research is telling me it's everything ranging from >> complete overkill to being insufficient (target of 5mbs per person)?? >> >> Please also sure your bandwidth and no. of users for comparison. >> >> Many thanks! >> >> -- >> 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:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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.
