Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 16:18:31 UTC 2015

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.

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.

They cost more, but you get what you pay for.

On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 10:54:44 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> 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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> From: "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org>
> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, nanog at 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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> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM
> To: nanog at 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
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> From: "Manuel Marín" <mmg at transtelco.net>
> To: nanog at 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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