[177640] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Thu Jan 29 12:10:06 2015
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:07:06 -0800
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Just curious, were you using WPA2 or were the networks open?
Thanks,
Mike
On Jan 29, 2015 8:56 AM, "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
> It was all users getting randomly disconnected ... the AP's stayed online
> but the traffic would completely halt for 15-30 seconds at a time. Their
> association with the AP would stay in tact ....
>
> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:53 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>
> Did you figure out why it was dropping out? All of it dropping out? Just
> some APs dropping? Just some users dropping?
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>
> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>, nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:34:46 AM
> Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>
> I had a bad experience with it one time at a tradeshow environment. 6
> access 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 intervals as soon as about 300 users were online. It wasn't my ide=
a
> to use UBNT but it definitely turned me off of their product after diggin=
g
> into their gear...
>
> Again as someone pointed out, for residential and perhaps SOHO
> applications it can probably work well - and in my opinion it's priced fo=
r
> that market.
>
> Paul
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>
> What problems have you had with UBNT?
>
> 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
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Manuel Mar=C3=ADn" <mmg@transtelco.net>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:06:39 PM
> Subject: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>
> Dear nanog community
>
> 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 recommend=
ed
> me Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your experience wi=
th
> Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience with ubiquity for this typ=
e
> of requirement was not that good.
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> Thank you and have a great day
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