Fuck me, today I promised a room full of people that I can provide wifi for 500 people with redundancy in a multi-roomed venue. Then I started researching and figured out I'm probably in over my head. What the fuck do I do?
install gentoo
play dead
provide shitty wifi.
>>51273029
>>51273038
These combined.
Come out clean and make a fool of yourself
Are the rooms wired for internet?
Gather up all those people in that room again
bar the door
make a break for it and never go back.
>>51273016
start looking for another job
>>51273038
this. look for any loopholes in the promises you've made and exploit those.
in the future, don't overpromise.
>>51273016
call in sick, have Rajeet do it
you need a couple of AP's, one of those fancy wireless controller things, i guess two internet connections for the redundancy, load balancing, firewall, probably some sort of squid cache a bunch of stuff i dont know
>>51273102
Is Rajeet even an indian name?
googling says "rajit" is, but rajeet isn't.
is this how retarded you fucking faggots are? you can't even find real indian names? have you met any fucking indians before?
Search for ubiquiti's unifi, 500 clients is overkill but it can help you anyway.
>>51273131
>have you met any fucking indians before?
nah, we're mostly just into the whole racism thing
>>51273016
No matter what you do OP it all cones diwn to a variety of things. How much bandwidth do you have to play with? How many connections? Are these rooms heavily insulated?
Regardless of what you do, it seems your attempt will be lacking compared to what you promised. Take this as a life lesson kiddo. Never over promise. Always do your homework before jumping in head first.
>>51273131
Autism befalls you.
>>51273163
That's terrible. There's so much material to make fun of indians if you've actually met them. I'm not saying I'm stormfront or anything, but I've seen so many obnoxious traits that seem overwhelmingly common among indians that I've met, and the thought of someone hating Indians without having ever actually met one seems like cheating or something, for some reason.
>>51273131
>have you met any fucking indians before?
Yes
a few went to my middle and high school
patel is a common surname desu iirc
>>51273131
>phonetic spelling for names written in different script
stay mad curryfriend
>>51273131
>have you met any fucking indians before?
Yeah but I don't ask them how they spell their names. It's not like I can even understand them when they have the worst accent on the whole fucking planet.
>>51273131
>implying indians wouldn't name their children Rajeet
Don't take it personal Sanjay.
Why doesn't Apple make routers?
>>51273168
Probably a cable connection with 20 mbps
been researching some 4g routers and Ubiquity products.
I'm trying to figure out if I can create a 'hybrid' connection, with wired being the primary, and once bottlenecks occur, offloading connections to 4g.
>>51273016
What's your budget?
>>51273131
I work with several Indians and they're almost all great to work with. But in the name of shitposting, I use some shitty Indian-sounding name instead of a real one.
I gotta say we have some hot female Indian contractors, I'd like to do the needful with them if you catch my drift.
>>51273131
I met about 30 of them when a company had a company trip at the place I worked. They were exactly as /g/ describes.
All of them were employed as cheap import code monkeys. They left the toilet a mess as well.
>>51273016
Can't you use a bunch of extenders?
That should reduce latency?
>>51273216
They do
airport™ extreme™™
>>51273237
the /g/ horror stories are amazing to me. I swear my department is half Indian and they're nothing but courteous and efficient. It makes me afraid to go to another company.
Do this >>51273038 then give out excuses from the BOFH excuse server if there are any complaints.
>>51273237
>They left the toilet a mess as well.
No need to lie for them anon, just admit they shat in the hallways after being unable to find a designated shitting street.
>>51273216
They do and they're pretty decent, but they're not really on the 500 connection level.
Stuff like Ruckus and Xirrus are pretty hardcore, but also like $2k for a router.
>>51273131
I used to date an Indian, strengthened up my jaw pretty good mowing through that dense bush.
>>51273231
Probably 3k if I truly needed it to be. I can talk my bosses into absorbing some of the cost so that they can reuse the equipment rather than having the client buy it.
>>51273233
>I gotta say we have some hot female Indian contractors, I'd like to do the needful with them if you catch my drift.
If you're tall, white, and look like a dufus, they already want your seed. Go get em champ!
>>51273264
Ruckus is fucking garbage
>>51273244
I think that's part of my plan, https://www.ubnt.com/enterprise/
Buy the pro AP and then get a few extenders to make sure coverage is everywhere maybe two AP's at each end and extenders to fill in the gaps.
>>51273299
Why? These test results are solid: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/carnet-performance-testing
>>51273293
I look pretty handsome but I've definitely gotten vibes from some. I have a girlfriend right now (although that may be sinking, I'm not sure) but if I were single I'd definitely hit it.
>>51273016
>buy cheam refurb Linksys router
>load with ddwrt or shibby tomato
>connect cheap access points to said router
>?
>profit
>>51273233
>>51273237
>>51273274
I literally don't care about any of this. I don't care about racism, but "Rajeet" isn't even a real name. At least be semi-accurate with your slurs, or you look like you actually have no idea what you're making fun of.
>>51273016
Buy some MR series open mesh 802.11ac units and implement per-client throttling from there. OM stuff you can manage from the internet entirely and its easy to shut abusive users out if you need to.
Make sure you have at least 100mbps downlink to play with, though, or all your clients are going to flood your internet link and it'll all be over before the wireless becomes a bottleneck.
>>51273016
Grow a spine and admit your fuck up.
>>51273583
Based trump
>>51273569
Nah, most of my career advancement has come from getting into trouble and dicking around until I figure things out.
>>51273583
goddammit lmao
>>51273441
Half the humor is in botching the name friend, it shows you don't even care to read their name tag, and they will be wearing a name tag.
steal some cisco "city" ruter,
or buy few of shitty and cheapest tp link put some open wrt and you are ready to go
>>51273441
facebook com/public/Rajeet
it is
>>51273583
fuck that was close
>>51273583
The greatest. Time to troll everyone on Kotaku's Facebook
>>51273252
I refer you to pic related
wow, /g/ is full of inept-faggots today
>>51270531
>>51273016
Dude you fucked up. Next time don't be such an autist. You make real IT techs look bad.
>>51273583
yeah, i'm sure he played fallout, and *DIDN'T* just use some sound byte some intern on the "how to win over the youth intelligence committee* came up with
>>51273332
You trust vendor marketing over magic quandrant? lol
>>51273583
FUCK YOU
>>51273131
DESIGNATED SHITPOSTER
>>51273492
Vendor name is Meraki
>>51273583
america is so easily distracted
>>51273628
This is a terrible, unstructured idea
>>51273315
Don't use an extender the ubiquiti APs use a controller and can create a mesh network.
The APs should work well for you but your going to need a few (no more than 30 people an access point if you can help it) in the whole area.
>>51274029
No, its not. Look it up. Open Mesh. They have a series of access point designated MR.
Meraki wireless equipment is great but its expensive as fuck.
>>51274057
No shit.
Anyway, based on the conversation here and thinking more, my goal is getting some kind of router setup that switches between different lan ports depending on performance. One would hook into a cable internet connection and the others might be 4g routers.
Then I need to disperse a few access points with something more hardcore than a walmart linksys. http://www.xirrus.com/product/xr-2000-series/ is what I'm researching now, wondering how well extenders will work with it.
Of course you can do it.
I hope you didn't say it would be cheap tho
>>51273016
what's the problem? not enough routers?
make up something, say it's the ISP
>>51273016
ask your friend for help
>>51273372
He probably doesn't know how to do that.
>>51273583
Do people really care about the story in Fallout games? Like, sometimes there can be the funny character interaction or the quirky sidequest but the main stories are capeshit tier bullshit
>>51275390
I'm not into really into hobby software when it comes to my job.
>>51273131
>>51273583
>photo of a websight
oh I'm laffin
>>51275404
Are you saying ddwrt is hobby software?
>>51273016
install Aerohive or Ruckus.
full disclosure I work for a Ruckus certified VAR
>>51273264
Xirrus is trash. Helping a customer pull it out right now.
>>51273299
That is literally false.
>>51273016
I don't get it, just buy the equipment and set it up for internet. How is that hard again?
>>51275505
But anon, I need 500 internets :(
>>51275529
Put it on their account, it's not like you're paying for it.
>>51275541
Ah, why didn't I think of that. Alright, I'll just go out and buy a bunch of equipment and slap it around with my dick until I can connect about 600 individual devices in a 10,00sqft area.
>>51275582
Good idea. Next time you should probably keep your trap shut.
>>51275660
I'm starting to get the feeling that you're being intentionally mean in my thread :(
If you pay for my plane ticket I'll head there and make a mobile hotspot with my phone.
>>51275395
The focus of the real Fallout games (1,2, and New Vegas) are world building and addressing ethical questions. The plots are all basically excuses to get the action rolling.
>>51273016
Go buy some kneepads, prepare to suck 500 dicks
>>51275404
pay up 3k then, fucking idiot
>>51273278
In your case go with Aruba's. Cheap and if you configure one all of the others on the same subnet will be configured with the same SSID/Encryption. Also make sure you get the iAP models. The AP models don't come with this feature.
OP
Electrical engineer here here who designed some enterprise level high density Wireless LAN clients.
There are some essential factors you didn't specify, such as:
1- The area.
2- The budget.
3- The intended use of the service ( bandwidth, protocols, frequencies, SLA needed, etc.).
4- The bandwidth needed per application ( like : Web - Casual : 500 Kbps, streaming: 2-5 Mbps, etc.)
However, user density is the critical one here, and the connection characteristics per user is a challenge for a small area.
AP is typically placed in such areas ( high density ones), and a WCS (wireless controller system) is need too (pic related)
I'd suggest to use 5GHz for high user density in a small area, due to high spectrum and the resulting bandwidth for a theoretical single clients increase.
other factor also to consider in your design is:
1- Calculate Aggregate Throughput.
2- Co-channel interference.
3- Use Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channels.
4- Antennas design ( placements in [ceiling, under floor,walls,etc ], gain, MIMO,etc.)
And finally optimize the whole thing by some spectrum analyzer in your survey.
>>51275981
nice tip mate :)
>>51273258
> designed shitting office cubicle
>>51275884
well New Vegas got even less story, it's basically a mediocre sized map with random quests here and there.
>>51273441
Stay mad, rajeet ;^)
![asus-rt-ac5300[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/vgjBxYq.png "asus-rt-ac5300[1].png")
Make a pact with the devil.
>>51275404
Instead you make promises when you have no clue.
Go figure.
I can help yoy if yoy want
>>51273016
>google "wifi solution for 500 people"
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/908824
>>51278348
Well OP could just buy like 4-6 routers, same AP name, same pass, and hope the clients will distribute themselves somehow.
>>51273131
DESIGNATED
>>51275981
1. The main room is about 102,000 sqft of column-free space. The adjacent room is somewhere around 40,000 sqft
2. I have about $3k to work with, but might be able to push to $5k if I need to.
3. Just bandwidth for services at the event. Highest stress point should be people reloading pages to bid on auction items and participating in live asks.
>>51275981
4. casual web
Thanks anon, I'll read up on the extra factors you mentioned. Biggest point I'm trying to figure out now is how to make sure there's enough bandwidth going to this setup.
>>51273036
this
>>51273036
kek'd
underrated post
You have 3 options.
1. Buckle down and learn how to do it or make it work, if you can't do it within budget or whatever then see option 2.
2. Admit defeat, tell whoever you promised the truth and say you thought you could do it but it turns out you can't, better that you duck out before it's too late/before it becomes a problem than have it be a problem and take the blame for it. Humans make mistakes and have poor judgment sometimes.
3. Try and hope for the best. This is the worst option, it's literally a gamble.
Bonus: Learn from this experience and try not to do it again.
