Router Advice

Cowork Gloucester VA opens the doors officially on November 1st!

We just had the Internet installed today, and now we need a router that will do the trick.

I know we will eventually need access points (and I've been reading up on that in this forum), but starting off, we don't much of a budget to work with, and we don't have enough members to really justify a robust setup.

For right now, we will have everyone in one floor (which is roughly 1000-1200sqft), with two private offices, a conference room, and a shared lounge/coworking area.

I don't anticipate there being a ton of bandwidth used, and right now, there are only 5 members (plus several others who will be popping in part time).

Can anyone make a suggestion for a router that can handle this kind of traffic? We can upgrade later when the traffic justifies doing so. We just need something for getting started that does a good job but isn't too costly.

Thanks!

Look at Ubiquiti , specifically Unifi equipment they make. Very cost effective Commercial grade equipment. The AC Pro Access Points work great.

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On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7:50:58 PM UTC-5, Kevin Haggerty wrote:

Cowork Gloucester VA opens the doors officially on November 1st!
We just had the Internet installed today, and now we need a router that will do the trick.

I know we will eventually need access points (and I’ve been reading up on that in this forum), but starting off, we don’t much of a budget to work with, and we don’t have enough members to really justify a robust setup.

For right now, we will have everyone in one floor (which is roughly 1000-1200sqft), with two private offices, a conference room, and a shared lounge/coworking area.

I don’t anticipate there being a ton of bandwidth used, and right now, there are only 5 members (plus several others who will be popping in part time).

Can anyone make a suggestion for a router that can handle this kind of traffic? We can upgrade later when the traffic justifies doing so. We just need something for getting started that does a good job but isn’t too costly.

Thanks!

Wouldn’t consider anything but the Unifi kit at this point.

$120 for the router (Unifi Security Gateway)

$150 for the access point (Unifi AC Pro)

You can install the controller software on almost any old computer. If you don’t want that, you can get a Cloud Key for $80

Shan

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On Oct 22, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Brian Jones [email protected] wrote:

Look at Ubiquiti , specifically Unifi equipment they make. Very cost effective Commercial grade equipment. The AC Pro Access Points work great.

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7:50:58 PM UTC-5, Kevin Haggerty wrote:

Cowork Gloucester VA opens the doors officially on November 1st!
We just had the Internet installed today, and now we need a router that will do the trick.

I know we will eventually need access points (and I’ve been reading up on that in this forum), but starting off, we don’t much of a budget to work with, and we don’t have enough members to really justify a robust setup.

For right now, we will have everyone in one floor (which is roughly 1000-1200sqft), with two private offices, a conference room, and a shared lounge/coworking area.

I don’t anticipate there being a ton of bandwidth used, and right now, there are only 5 members (plus several others who will be popping in part time).

Can anyone make a suggestion for a router that can handle this kind of traffic? We can upgrade later when the traffic justifies doing so. We just need something for getting started that does a good job but isn’t too costly.

Thanks!

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