Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

That would be a nice feature to have and I have been on them about that. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Tyler Mills" <tylermills () gmail com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net>, nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:18:31 AM 
Subject: Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office 

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 () 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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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Paul Stewart" < paul () paulstewart org > 
To: "Mike Hammett" < nanog () ics-il net >, nanog () 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@nanog. org ] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:23 AM 
To: nanog () 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. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Manuel Marín" < mmg () transtelco net > 
To: nanog () 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