Moving my agency into a new building. Advice needed.

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Signing the lease on a new building in the morning and all hands to the pump to get my digital agency moved there in the next 12 days.

We are also opening up a new co working business and I need to know the best network setup for all this.

We are taking the building over from a smaller creative agency who have a normal 900/128 fibre setup but we are coming from a building where we have a dedicated 1G each way.

We will make do with the current connection in the short term but when we open the co work space in 2 months or so we will need to upgrade.

Network in our current building is mainly wifi 6 with a few of us on ethernet.

There are currently 15 of us. By the time we have all the TVs, smart speakers and everyone's phones connected there can easily be 50 devices connected.

The co work will have a capacity of 28 so we could potentially end up with 100 devices connected to the new WiFi quite easily.

What should I be putting in?

I was thinking 2 connections into the building, 1 for the agency and the other for the co work.
This would also give me some redundancy.

Then maybe wifi 6e or wifi 7 routers and some sort of mesh.

I don't want to spend a fortune but I need it to be reliable for this amount of creative people.

Any help would be appreciated
 
I'm probably going to annoy you, and there will be posters on here who chip in and give you advice and disagree with me. Pay a professional to do this. You have no comeback if someone gives you duff advice on a forum, and I think it's a bit much to get free help designing a network that you're then going to generate revenue off the back of.

The amount of work this needs to do properly just in terms of requirements gathering is a few hours at least before getting into specifics about your building layout, intake locations etc. and anybody you think is being helpful here is going to get tired of it before you get to a design you can buy and implement.
 
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I know what you are saying. I will likely speak to a couple of our customers who we have in this industry but I would like to be armed with the info before I do.
 
You can play with this if you want, it will at least get you started even if you pick a different brand

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Caged said:
I'm probably going to annoy you, and there will be posters on here who chip in and give you advice and disagree with me. Pay a professional to do this. You have no comeback if someone gives you duff advice on a forum, and I think it's a bit much to get free help designing a network that you're then going to generate revenue off the back of.

The amount of work this needs to do properly just in terms of requirements gathering is a few hours at least before getting into specifics about your building layout, intake locations etc. and anybody you think is being helpful here is going to get tired of it before you get to a design you can buy and implement.
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Agreed, pay the man and remove the worry. Get a few quotes and pick the best for you.
 
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