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A few lesons we learned in the last three years: we operated in Dogpatch Labs in union square for the first half of 2010 and the wireless was painfully slow. So

A few lesons we learned in the last three years: we operated in Dogpatch Labs in union square for the first half of 2010 and the wireless was painfully slow. Some other teams actually brought in their MiFis and we used this to connect to webmail and calendars. Mabe this changed since then. We then moved to our own office in Chelsea and the Internet is bad here, as we use Verizon's second best connection. Depending upon the location of your office or where you work in manhattan, you may have time warner, verizon, optimum, etc. and high speed Internet is usually a crapshoot.

warfangle 15y ago
Fios isn't that much of a crap shoot. And it's available in much of lower Manhattan. I also know for a fact that many unassuming buildings have gigabit ethernet drops that connect directly or semi-directly to 60 Hudson or 111 8th Ave. Probably wouldn't be able to get access without some serious contacts, though. Most of the co-working spaces I've worked out of have horribly inept people in charge of their network allocation. They use older WiFi routers that have trouble with packet collisions. They provision a 768k DSL line to serve 20 coworking spots. As recently as two weeks ago, about 16 people overloaded the internet at a coworking space I was visiting. Someone else (not affiliated with the space; the space employee didn't know how to do this) mentioned that they'd initiated a dhcp reset and a couple minutes later everything was back. When I asked him how he knew the router password, he said: "Oh.. they were just using the factory defaults." TBH, I wouldn't want to conduct business over a wifi network whose router was using the default admin password.
- nissimk 15y ago
  Exceptional bandwidth is available in offices in NYC for reasonable prices. Cogent offers 100 Mbps service on their city-wide fiber backbone for 700 - 1000 / month. There are a number of other fiber / ethernet providers with similar service around 2X that price. Cogent is lit in many buildings in Manhattan and the list is available on their site. If you are in a lit building they can have you up and running within 3 weeks: http://www.cogentco.com/index.php?continent=North+America&country=United+States&state=NY&metro=New+York&city=New+York&site_type=OB&action=search&option=com_content&view=article&id=40 http://www.cogentco.com/index.php?continent=North+America&#3...

warfangle 15y ago

Fios isn't that much of a crap shoot. And it's available in much of lower Manhattan. I also know for a fact that many unassuming buildings have gigabit ethernet drops that connect directly or semi-directly to 60 Hudson or 111 8th Ave. Probably wouldn't be able to get access without some serious contacts, though. Most of the co-working spaces I've worked out of have horribly inept people in charge of their network allocation. They use older WiFi routers that have trouble with packet collisions. They provision a 768k DSL line to serve 20 coworking spots. As recently as two weeks ago, about 16 people overloaded the internet at a coworking space I was visiting. Someone else (not affiliated with the space; the space employee didn't know how to do this) mentioned that they'd initiated a dhcp reset and a couple minutes later everything was back. When I asked him how he knew the router password, he said: "Oh.. they were just using the factory defaults." TBH, I wouldn't want to conduct business over a wifi network whose router was using the default admin password.

nissimk 15y ago
Exceptional bandwidth is available in offices in NYC for reasonable prices. Cogent offers 100 Mbps service on their city-wide fiber backbone for 700 - 1000 / month. There are a number of other fiber / ethernet providers with similar service around 2X that price. Cogent is lit in many buildings in Manhattan and the list is available on their site. If you are in a lit building they can have you up and running within 3 weeks: http://www.cogentco.com/index.php?continent=North+America&country=United+States&state=NY&metro=New+York&city=New+York&site_type=OB&action=search&option=com_content&view=article&id=40 http://www.cogentco.com/index.php?continent=North+America&#3...