Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 16:22:50 UTC 2015

You can also VLAN allocation through RADIUS.  Our setup has a single SSID, 250-odd user accounts.  User connects to the SSID & authenticates with their userid/password and is assigned to their VLAN, which connects them to the appropriate DHCP server, gateway, etc.

Makes management and segregation fairly trivial (for non-trivial values of trivial :-)).

	paul

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Tyler Mills <tylermills at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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...
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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 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.
>> 
>> Thank you and have a great day
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 