On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Roy McMorran wrote:
Hi All,
At my place of employment we have about a dozen wifi devices scattered around
our campus. These are mostly consumer-grade Netgear routers and they are not
very (ahem) robust. Many of them are actually plugged into little Radio
Shack AC timers so they will power cycle every night, but even with this
kludge we have frequent problems. We might have an opportunity to get away
from this playskool crap, so I'm looking for some advice.
My former colleague was apparently a big fan of Netgear and was looking at
the WNDAP360, which does seem to be a step up from where we are, and can be
tied to a 'ProSafe 20-AP controller' for some more enterprisey features; we
actually have a couple of these APs in service now and they seem decent. But
I wonder if there are better options. Anyone have a vendor they are
particularly happy with?
Other than the fact that your APs lock up, what problem are you trying to solve?
Is this a wide-open network (like MIT used to have), is this something for
visiting guests to use, or do you intend for this to be only for your employees?
do you have issues with coverage?
how many people do you expect to be using the wireless at any one time?
what are they doing on the wireless? (using SSH to connect to servers is vastly
different than streaming HD video)
etc..
David Lang
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