[177634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Thu Jan 29 11:22:26 2015
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:19:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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That would be a nice feature to have and I have been on them about that.=20
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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
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From: "Tyler Mills" <tylermills@gmail.com>=20
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>, nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:18:31 AM=20
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Most of the issues are related to firmware. Most of my UBNT experience was =
with the UAP-Pro and the UAP-AC, and it wasn't a good experience. Productio=
n firmwares seem to be of beta quality.=20
For features, they can't compete with Ruckus. One thing I can think of off =
the top of my head is support for tagging management on its own VLAN and ta=
gging wired traffic onto another. If you were to implement this on the UBNT=
products you would have to SSH into every single one and implement the fea=
tures as you would on a linux box, and it might work. Ruckus, you configure=
the VLAN's how you would want through the Zonedirector or the AP's GUI and=
it will just work.=20
They cost more, but you get what you pay for.=20
On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:54:44 AM Mike Hammett < nanog@ics-il.net > wrote:=
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Did you figure out why it was dropping out? All of it dropping out? Just so=
me APs dropping? Just some users dropping?=20
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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
http://www.ics-il.com=20
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From: "Paul Stewart" < paul@paulstewart.org >=20
To: "Mike Hammett" < nanog@ics-il.net >, nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM=20
Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office=20
I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. 6 acces=
s points setup for public wifi. The radio levels were quite good in various=
areas of the tradeshow however traffic would keep dropping out at random i=
ntervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't my idea to use U=
BNT but it definitely turned me off of their product after digging into the=
ir gear...=20
Again as someone pointed out, for residential and perhaps SOHO applications=
it can probably work well - and in my opinion it's priced for that market.=
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Paul=20
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From: NANOG [mailto: nanog-bounces@nanog. org ] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett=
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM=20
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Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office=20
What problems have you had with UBNT?=20
It's zero hand-off doesn't work on unsecured networks, but that's about the=
extent of the issues I've heard of other than stadium density environments=
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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
http://www.ics-il.com=20
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From: "Manuel Mar=C3=ADn" < mmg@transtelco.net >=20
To: nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:06:39 PM=20
Subject: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office=20
Dear nanog community=20
I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs that=
you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend recommended me =
Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your experience with Ru=
ckus or with a similar vendor. My experience with ubiquity for this type of=
requirement was not that good.=20
Thank you and have a great day=20
