Companies that provide networking

[mmotala44]

Hi,

I need some advice I'm looking for companies that provide networking solutions in Durban.

A friend of mine has a buildings in durban cbd that provides student accommodation to approximately 500 students. (I'm not sure how many floors the building has and how many tenants per a floor).

His looking to provide internet access to the entire building. Any advice on how to go about it or who to contact would be appreciated.

What I had in mind was to take a few Lte uncapped packages. Connect them to a switch with a whole lot of access points around the building.

No fibre access at the building.



Thanks

 

[Leroy Brown]

You will have to get someone to build a solution where you are able to provide a capped amount of data per person or even shaping per application if you want to go with an uncapped route. I can't imagine LTE being a viable solution, it would simply cost too much. Get uncapped business DSL, a firewall, perhaps 1 switch per floor to cut down on cabling costs and as many wireless APs as required. Work with someone who can setup the firewall for a once off fee. Most MSPs should be able to supply this kind of thing, DM me if you need assistance, my place also does this

 

[Watchdogs]

Try http://poynting.tech for a solution

 

[Sinbad]

Unifi solution. Includes voucher access and traffic management.

 

[Leroy Brown]

Agree with the Unifi solution

 

[HeftyCrab]

Hi,

I need some advice I'm looking for companies that provide networking solutions in Durban.

A friend of mine has a buildings in durban cbd that provides student accommodation to approximately 500 students. (I'm not sure how many floors the building has and how many tenants per a floor).

His looking to provide internet access to the entire building. Any advice on how to go about it or who to contact would be appreciated.

What I had in mind was to take a few Lte uncapped packages. Connect them to a switch with a whole lot of access points around the building.

No fibre access at the building.



Thanks

Not sure about specifics, but they could look at a (proper) wireless link to the building if there are no other options.

Perhaps someone else can help more.

As for the internal network, I agree with the above. Ubiquiti all the way.

 

[access]

Unifi solution. Includes voucher access and traffic management.

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[mmotala44]

Thanks for the feedback got. A bit caught up and forgot about this thread... I'll check with those companies and see what they have to say.

Abit more information

1) Address: 47 Mallinson Road
2) Name Disney heights
3) Size . 13 Stories
4) occupation - 44 persons per floor
5) length of corridor . Approx 50 m
6) no of flats per floor - 10
7) Building Structure Solid Brick

 

[mmotala44]

Thanks for the feedback got. A bit caught up and forgot about this thread... I'll check with those companies and see what they have to say.

Abit more information

1) Address: 47 Mallinson Road
2) Name Disney heights
3) Size . 13 Stories
4) occupation - 44 persons per floor
5) length of corridor . Approx 50 m
6) no of flats per floor - 10
7) Building Structure Solid Brick

With that amount of the tenants what speed line would I require to provide fair usage speeds to all tenants.

 

[Sinbad]

At least 100mbps. Probably 200mbps. Dependant on usage profiles.
You'd also want some very good QoS/throttling going on, to prevent some torrenter using all the bandwidth.

 

[yogidabear]

students = proxy and yes we all know a torrent server on the sly, its just a fact of life - then good networking and a decent Internet connection