How to design a small school network with Ubiquiti APs, switches, controllers and firewall equipment?
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I wanted to ask how effective is to design a school network with Ubiquity equipment. We are very tiny school with 500 students and came to the point of upgrading from consumer level routers to something better. Ubiquity equipment seems like work nice with our budget.
Here is the list of equipment:
UAP-AC-LR (6 AP pieces), UC-CK (network monitoring device), US-24-250W (unify switch-24port), USG-PRO-4 (Unify security gateway pro).
The problem we are trying to solve is the network stability and network bandwidth control. When students (100-200) try to access the internet at the same from their computers and mobile devices then network quit working properly.
I wanted to ask how effective is to design a school network with Ubiquity equipment. We are very tiny school with 500 students and came to the point of upgrading from consumer level routers to something better. Ubiquity equipment seems like work nice with our budget.
Here is the list of equipment:
UAP-AC-LR (6 AP pieces), UC-CK (network monitoring device), US-24-250W (unify switch-24port), USG-PRO-4 (Unify security gateway pro).
The problem we are trying to solve is the network stability and network bandwidth control. When students (100-200) try to access the internet at the same from their computers and mobile devices then network quit working properly.
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Hello masnrock, thank you for your input. No, we have not set up VLANs yet. Consumer level router based network school with 10 students outgrew to 500. I got some advice on setting up separate VLAN for students and staff members and I am thinking how to best implement this.
We don't have a network controller so we are not able to tell how many people accessing the network, except we know when it happens everything slows down.
We don't have a network controller so we are not able to tell how many people accessing the network, except we know when it happens everything slows down.
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Thank you David for your response. Xirrus looks great judging from their website. Ubiquity purchase is not final yet. I wonder what will be the cost for similar solution from Xirrus. Any ideas?
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Thank you David. Yes PM me with your contact person, please. From my quick research, seems like Xirrus is designed to handle high-density environments and pricing is somewhere between Meraki and Ruckus kits. It would be interesting to see their solution to our problem.
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David I messaged your inbox. You can just reply to it. Thanks.
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Thank you Tom for your input. I need to point out that we are not a K12 school but rather a career school. So the network demand is not as intensive as K12 school network. At this time we don't employ a dedicated sysadmin and try to do everything in the cloud. In my area, the highest internet speed is 100 mbps, so we got two accounts with 100 mbps. Are there any other alternative solutions instead of using windows servers?