Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Thu Jan 29 17:15:22 UTC 2015


UBNT just fixed some of this in their latest firmware:

http://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Beta-Blog/UniFi-3-2-10-GA-is-Released-for-Soaking/ba-p/1157252

I’m not saying the UniFi stuff doesn’t leave something to be desired, but in a small deployments i’ve had good luck with them.

- Jared

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just curious, were you using WPA2 or were the networks open?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> On Jan 29, 2015 8:56 AM, "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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 ....
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:53 AM
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 




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