[177643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mos)
Thu Jan 29 12:45:37 2015
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From: Seth Mos <seth.mos@dds.nl>
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:45:27 +0100
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Op 29 jan. 2015, om 17:18 heeft Tyler Mills <tylermills@gmail.com> het =
volgende geschreven:
> 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.
> Production firmwares seem to be of beta quality.
It=92s meh, but it=92s good enough. Getting wifi =84right=94 is really =
hard considering the sheer amount of different hardware, network stacks =
etc.
> 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
> tagging 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
> features 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.
That=92s not true in my experience.
Fyi, I just setup a new site here using the Unifi Pro AP=92s and I=92ve =
been doing the reverse. Management is untagged, and tag all the traffic =
VLANs. That works just fine, have been doing that since 2013.
The networks are all plain WPA2, but most devices on our wifi seem fine =
roaming throughout the building without dropping much traffic. The =
management tool is quite allright, more so when considering the prices =
and the lack of a subscription model.
Really, the subscription models offered for some of the other gear is =
off the wall.
The Unifi gear is by no means bad, but it=92s still way better then =
manually configuring wireless APs without any management. It=92s still =
far better then the 3Com/H3C gear I had before that was 3 times as =
expensive and still lacks proper english for the management.
We have a site with 26 APs, and a new one with 8. You can now manage =
multiple sites from the same server too.
>=20
> They cost more, but you get what you pay for.
Yup!
Cheers,
Seth
