Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

Thu Jan 29 17:21:55 UTC 2015

Open – it was just for a trade show setting .. few years ago ….

Thanks,

Paul

From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.lyon at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:07 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: Mike Hammett; NANOG
Subject: RE: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

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 <mailto: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 <mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org> ] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:53 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org <mailto: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 <mailto:paul at paulstewart.org> >
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net <mailto:nanog at ics-il.net> >, nanog at nanog.org <mailto: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 <mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org> ] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org <mailto: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 <mailto:mmg at transtelco.net> >
To: nanog at nanog.org <mailto: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