[lug] wireless router or access point suggestions

Steve A Hart shart at colorado.edu
Fri Jul 31 11:06:17 MDT 2015


Thanks for the insight on this topic.  This conference room is 
relatively small, about 250 sqft.  Thekey is in the software controlling 
the unit giving me the option to turn the 2.4GHz off and manually 
adjusting the power of the signal.

I appreciate thehelp on this.

Steve

On 07/31/2015 10:47 AM, Stephen Kraus wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 Boulder
>>     Steven.Hart at colorado.edu  <mailto:Steven.Hart at colorado.edu>
>>     (303)492-8109  <tel:%28303%29492-8109>
>>
>
>     -- 
>     George Sexton
>     *MH Software, Inc.*
>     Voice: 303 438 9585 <tel:303%20438%209585>
>     http://www.mhsoftware.com
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Steve Hart
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