Hey guys!
The "what is the best way to provide business class wifi in a coworking space” question comes up every couple of months. We tackled it and made specific good/ better/ best hardware recommendations on the Coworkaholic blog today. http://cowork.mobi/index.php/2015/09/02/wifi-good-better-best/
If you have other recommendations or coworking IT questions that you’d like us to answer, please chime in.
Cheers!
Lindsey
Hi all!
The "what is the best way to provide business class wifi in a coworking space” question comes up every couple of months. We tackled it and made specific good/ better/ best hardware recommendations on the Coworkaholic blog today. http://cowork.mobi/index.php/2015/09/02/wifi-good-better-best/
If you have other recommendations or coworking IT questions that you’d like us to answer, please chime in.
Nice article, thank you!
From our experience, Ubiquiti works well while you are using it in office mode — I mean providing wi-fi access for 10-20 devices per access point and approx 400 sq ft. — but if you have plans on providing wi-fi for large meeting rooms or conference halls where you will gather 50-100 ppl for lecture for example, Ubiquiti will fail. The only way is to use wireless network controller — we use the one from Cisco — and compatible access points — I think it is the solution mentioned as “enterprise” in the article.
Actually, we covered our whole space of 8700 sq.ft. by one wireless network controller Cisco 2504 and six wireless access points Cisco 3704i and Cisco 2704i. We hosted a lot of events, had up to 400 devices online at once and 0 (zero) minutes of wi-fi downtime for 4 months since our launch. So, one can call it expensive, but it is worth it.
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Sergey Petrenko
Terminal 42
Look around in order not to get stung for price. The answer of course depends on your size but here I go with my two pence/cents worth;
Fibre connection would be ideal
Have backup lines or a system so if one goes down, the other has you covered
Have many access points dotted around
Don’t think in terms of absolute speed, think about bandwidth and if you have 20, 50, 100 people at once will they all have a workable speed. Maybe each user can have an up/down allowance.
Make it easy to use and long in and easy to ‘manage’. Have an idea who is on your network, what they are doing and how much they are using.
Have clear defined rules and T&Cs - MAKE THEM VISIBLE.
Have fun with the wifi network names *LoveYourWork *WeLoveGuestsToo
Just some ideas.
Alex
Founder at Shhared
On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 23:19:41 UTC+2, Lindsey Rima wrote:
Hey guys!
The "what is the best way to provide business class wifi in a coworking space” question comes up every couple of months. We tackled it and made specific good/ better/ best hardware recommendations on the Coworkaholic blog today. http://cowork.mobi/index.php/2015/09/02/wifi-good-better-best/
If you have other recommendations or coworking IT questions that you’d like us to answer, please chime in.
Cheers!
Lindsey