[lug] wireless router or access point suggestions

[Stephen Kraus]

I like our Ubiquiti APs, but we've had persistent issues where the APs
randomly drop access and cause all connected clients to lose access until
the AP is rebooted.

Really ticks me off.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:24 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 7/30/2015 1:13 PM, Steve A Hart wrote:
>
> I'm looking to put a wireless router or wireless access point into a
> small conference room.  As not to interfere with the CU Boulder wireless
> setup, I need to have the following available in the device.
>
>
> I've been using a few Engenius EAP 600 units. Here's my take on them.
> They've got 5Ghz and 2.4GHz radios. The radios are extremely good. I used
> two units to cover a church that's something like 30,000 square feet,
> including a basement. The EAP 600 is an access point only. It has no
> routing. The units support POE, and include a ceiling mount. They look like
> smoke alarms so you can put them pretty much anywhere. Historically,
> they've had some stability problems, but the latest firmware updates seem
> to have addressed that. They run a custom linux distribution and include
> support for SYSLOG and CRON.
>
> They support multiple SSIDs on each radio and VLAN tagging. I used one
> unit with a HP Procurve to create segmented public/private LAN's on the
> same device. It took a while to get things working but it did work. The
> real kick seems to be that the ISC DHCP daemon doesn't handle VLAN tagged
> packets right.
>
> The units support SNMP, so you can monitor the devices with MRTG and keep
> track of the bandwidth. Each SSID actually has it's own virtual interface
> that can be monitored via SNMP.
>
> They're not exactly cheap, but if you're looking for a pretty manageable
> device they're decent.
>
> - Must use the 5 GHz channel
> - Ability to turn off the 2.4GHz channel
>
> Yes. You can turn off the radios.
>
> - Ability to control the power in terms of how far it reaches.
>
>
> You can set the broadcast power levels.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions on makes and models would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> --
> Steve Hart
> Systems Administrator
> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado BoulderSteven.Hart at colorado.edu(303)492-8109
>
>
>
> --
> George Sexton
> *MH Software, Inc.*
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> http://www.mhsoftware.com
>
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