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Coworking Wi-Fi: per-member access on one connection
A coworking floor is several companies sharing one connection, which is a harder problem than one company with several floors.
Separation is the product
Members are not colleagues. Two businesses on the same floor have no reason to be on the same flat network, and a shared password puts them there by default.
Isolation between members is not a premium feature in this setting. It is the baseline the space is implicitly promising, and most spaces are promising it without having implemented it.
Members come and go faster than staff
Coworking turnover is higher than an office and less predictable than a hostel. Day passes, hot desks, month-to-month members and a permanent core all coexist, which makes any access model built on manual steps unworkable within a quarter.
Access tied to membership rather than to a password means a lapsed membership stops working without anybody performing an action.
Fair use, without policing
One member saturating the line affects everyone else's work, not just their own. The useful response is not a cap that punishes normal use, but a share that holds up when the line is busy and gets out of the way when it is not.
The same identity and per-user shaping that EWUS AnyB provides for residents applies to members, and EWUS Secure covers the space's own network: guest and member traffic isolated, and management kept off both.
Where EWUS actually is. The gateway described here is pre-certification: there is no stock, no pre-orders and no availability date, and nothing on this site is a photograph of finished hardware. What is described is what ewusOS is built to do. If it fits a problem you have, the waiting list is the only thing on offer today.