Advice for new office setup
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@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
I was planning on using the Draytek router to apply specific bandwidth to each office but assume this can also be done on the ER-8?
is that a good idea? that means that everyone gets poor performance. Do you really want the network to be split into eight slices and no one gets good performance? That means that an 80/80 pipe turns into eight 10/10 pipes. That just sucks. Letting everyone have access to everything is way better, 99% of the time, and why pretty much all ISPs handle things in that way.
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@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
I was planning on using the Draytek router to apply specific bandwidth to each office but assume this can also be done on the ER-8?
is that a good idea? that means that everyone gets poor performance. Do you really want the network to be split into eight slices and no one gets good performance? That means that an 80/80 pipe turns into eight 10/10 pipes. That just sucks. Letting everyone have access to everything is way better, 99% of the time, and why pretty much all ISPs handle things in that way.
I was wondering about this as well, but from the OP, not the more recent post.
I'm assuming there is a way to ensure minimum bandwidth - right? I guess you would want to ensure that each line has a minimum of some thing available so you don't run into an issue where one company decides to suck up 95% of the bandwidth.
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@Dashrender said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
I was planning on using the Draytek router to apply specific bandwidth to each office but assume this can also be done on the ER-8?
is that a good idea? that means that everyone gets poor performance. Do you really want the network to be split into eight slices and no one gets good performance? That means that an 80/80 pipe turns into eight 10/10 pipes. That just sucks. Letting everyone have access to everything is way better, 99% of the time, and why pretty much all ISPs handle things in that way.
I was wondering about this as well, but from the OP, not the more recent post.
I'm assuming there is a way to ensure minimum bandwidth - right? I guess you would want to ensure that each line has a minimum of some thing available so you don't run into an issue where one company decides to suck up 95% of the bandwidth.
Yeah, some basic QOS should cover that, and be easy to setup. I don't have a Ubiquity router to try it with tho.
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@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
That's ideally how you want to do it, let everyone use 100% if no one else is using it. And have them all agree to prioritize RTP traffic no matter whose it is or why.
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@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
That's ideally how you want to do it, let everyone use 100% if no one else is using it. And have them all agree to prioritize RTP traffic no matter whose it is or why.
So it's @Joel 's responsibility to judge when bandwidth upgrades are needed? What if the bandwidth usage is way higher for one company but others are within their normal ranges? Are you going to charge them based on the percentage of bandwidth used @Joel? Seems hard to manage that.
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
That's ideally how you want to do it, let everyone use 100% if no one else is using it. And have them all agree to prioritize RTP traffic no matter whose it is or why.
So it's @Joel 's responsibility to judge when bandwidth upgrades are needed? What if the bandwidth usage is way higher for one company but others are within their normal ranges? Are you going to charge them based on the percentage of bandwidth used @Joel? Seems hard to manage that.
That's what IT does normally. Think about an ISP, how is it normally handled? @joel is the ISP in this situation.
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@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
That's ideally how you want to do it, let everyone use 100% if no one else is using it. And have them all agree to prioritize RTP traffic no matter whose it is or why.
So it's @Joel 's responsibility to judge when bandwidth upgrades are needed? What if the bandwidth usage is way higher for one company but others are within their normal ranges? Are you going to charge them based on the percentage of bandwidth used @Joel? Seems hard to manage that.
That's what IT does normally. Think about an ISP, how is it normally handled? @joel is the ISP in this situation.
It just sounds odd to me
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 How does this actually behave? It wouldn't be minimum, it would be a soft maximum, right?
4 companies have a soft cap of 25% of the bandwith. If 3 companies use 10% the fourth would be able to use 70%. Right? Decreasing the more bandwidth is being used by the other companies.
Basically each company out prioritizes all others up to 25% but all resources are usable by everyone--or something?
That's ideally how you want to do it, let everyone use 100% if no one else is using it. And have them all agree to prioritize RTP traffic no matter whose it is or why.
So it's @Joel 's responsibility to judge when bandwidth upgrades are needed? What if the bandwidth usage is way higher for one company but others are within their normal ranges? Are you going to charge them based on the percentage of bandwidth used @Joel? Seems hard to manage that.
That's what IT does normally. Think about an ISP, how is it normally handled? @joel is the ISP in this situation.
It just sounds odd to me
ISPs do exactly this over a huge range of users. The only thing weird here is that there are only eight of them. This is a much more casual situation, I'm sure. But an ISP sells you a connection, say 100/100. They don't promise ANY level of overcommitting or even that they have 100/100 to provide to you. You get 100/100 to the ISP, nothing more. @joel's customers will get GigE between each other, and share what goes out on the WAN.
He can limit each of them and charge more for more, but that would just screw everyone. Everyone would lose, a lot. Because they'd have to pay for SO much more than they could use, causing it to be totally wasted.
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So, we're actually going for a 1GB bearer so each office will have a super super super amount of bandwidth to play with.
I will probably let it all open as SAM suggested and apply some QOS to priotitise phone and data traffic (can this also be done on Ubiiquiti ER8?) .I will however limit the guest network in the building to only consume say 8mb for example as I dont want guests using much at all.
The guys are VERY heavy internet users and need a super quick and reliable network to work from so need a reliable and secure base infrastructure
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@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
So, we're actually going for a 1GB bearer so each office will have a super super super amount of bandwidth to play with.
I will probably let it all open as SAM suggested and apply some QOS to priotitise phone and data traffic (can this also be done on Ubiiquiti ER8?) .Yes.
I haven't heard of any switches failing in years now. Failed due to bad configuration/wiring/heat/cold yes. Anyone around here actually had a switch go bad on them?
The cold thing, someone thought it would be a good idea to keep the window open in the middle of winter to attempt to cool the server room. He came home one day to 2 feet of snow sitting inside the room (melting), and a nice large pile on top of the main Cisco switch.
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@travisdh1 Same here, haven't lost a switch in many years.
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@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
So, we're actually going for a 1GB bearer so each office will have a super super super amount of bandwidth to play with.
I will probably let it all open as SAM suggested and apply some QOS to priotitise phone and data traffic (can this also be done on Ubiiquiti ER8?) .Yes, by protocol for example. Prioritize RTP the most.
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@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
I will however limit the guest network in the building to only consume say 8mb for example as I dont want guests using much at all.
that makes sense, you don't want guest getting comfortable and using a lot even if no one else is using it.
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@travisdh1 I haven't ever had a switch die on me.
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 I haven't ever had a switch die on me.
Used to be common, back in the early switch does of 1999 - 2005. Often individual ports would die or the whole switch would just choke.
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We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
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Guess im not as lucky. Within the last year i had a 24 port completely die, a 48 start randomly dropping packets, and finally a 48 that would sometimes boot but these were 7-8 year old switches. I ended up replacing the remaining 48s as a precaution.
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@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
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@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
Even with a UPS?
