Business WIFI Planning and Deployment
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Which AP do you like the best? I was looking at the AC PRO's. I think I could stick 3 or 4 of them in and have pretty good coverage.
Does the AC Pro need 2 Ethernet cables or is that to daisy chain them?
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Three. Each end of the back hallway and one in the middle of the front hallway.
Turn the power down and walk you are done.
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@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Which AP do you like the best? I was looking at the AC PRO's. I think I could stick 3 or 4 of them in and have pretty good coverage.
Does the AC Pro need 2 Ethernet cables or is that to daisy chain them?
Just 1, the 2nd ethernet jack is just for adding network devices.
I use the AC PROs at home, and will be replacing the Sophos units at work with them before the current contract expires. I can replace the gear with Ubiquiti for less than the Sophos maintenance contract
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Do the Ubiquity units require a contract for management?
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@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Do the Ubiquity units require a contract for management?
Nope
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@dashrender said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Do the Ubiquity units require a contract for management?
Nope
That's even better!
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@ccwtech said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Do the Ubiquity units require a contract for management?
Nope, I don't think any of us would recommend gear that pulled stunts like that. That you are totally free of those encumberments are reasons we all recommend UBNT so heavily.
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Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
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@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
Is there a model that you would recommend?
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@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
Is there a model that you would recommend?
No, I don't work with networking equipment enough. I just know that (through experience) UBNT APs are the bees knees, and that MikroTik Switches seem to work well. Not so sure about the hAPs yet.
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@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
IIRC Mikrotiks has a much bigger presence in Europe.
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@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@tim_g said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Just curious why nobody likes or recommends Mikrotiks?
Is there a model that you would recommend?
No, I don't work with networking equipment enough. I just know that (through experience) UBNT APs are the bees knees, and that MikroTik Switches seem to work well. Not so sure about the hAPs yet.
I think that that is the core problem, that not a lot of people have used them and don't know how they compare.
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It looks like they require a license for their OS?
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@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
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@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
Yes.
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@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
Yes.
No not at all. They use RouterOS and is pretty nice.
The hAPs seem to be working well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
@coliver said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
It looks like they require a license for their OS?
MikroTic?
No, MikroTik. https://mikrotik.com/
I do not use them anywhere, but only because I think UBNT is over all better.
They are my second recommendation after UBNT.
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Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
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@black3dynamite said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
No, because HPE bought them to milk.
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@black3dynamite said in Business WIFI Planning and Deployment:
Have anyone ever used Aruba http://www.arubanetworks.com/?
we have aruba stuff at work.
switches are ok, no problem nice stuff.
APs are also great, I really like the virtual controlled embedded in APs and set inHA by default (the virtual controller dies? it its respawn on another AP).
main issue you must find a tech which is able to tune the load balancing... we are still struggling at it...
an UI is terrible.
