[177641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Jan 29 12:17:43 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjBLkiSyMB+78wD-CFVF_ksRs6-3Dc27cXO0+asogVL2ow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:15:22 -0500
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
UBNT just fixed some of this in their latest firmware:
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http://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Beta-Blog/UniFi-3-2-10-GA-is-Released-f=
or-Soaking/ba-p/1157252
I=E2=80=99m not saying the UniFi stuff doesn=E2=80=99t leave something =
to be desired, but in a small deployments i=E2=80=99ve had good luck =
with them.
- Jared
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just curious, were you using WPA2 or were the networks open?
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> Thanks,
> Mike
> On Jan 29, 2015 8:56 AM, "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
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>> 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 ....
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>> 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
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>> 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 -----
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>> 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
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>> 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 =
idea
>> to use UBNT but it definitely turned me off of their product after =
digging
>> into their gear...
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>> 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
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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
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>> What problems have you had with UBNT?
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>> 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 -----
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>> 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
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>> Dear nanog community
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>> 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
>> Ruckus or with a similar vendor. My experience with ubiquity for this =
type
>> of requirement was not that good.
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>> Thank you and have a great day
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