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Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Jan 30 11:20:06 2015
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:19:31 -0500
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_Mar=EDn?= <mmg@transtelco.net>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Manuel Mar=EDn <mmg@transtelco.net> wrote=
:
> I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs th=
at
> 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 ty=
pe
> of requirement was not that good.
Hi Manuel,
At 300-500 users you may still be in dd-wrt territory with the lack of
smart roaming and self-healing features mitigated by a price that
makes it practical to simply deploy more access points. Dumb roaming
can be good enough when the user count per AP is low.
Aruba it is not, but I had a 150 user deployment on 5 dd-wrt APs that
was largely trouble-free.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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