Looking for advice on personal experience with WAPs
I am currently using a mix of Linksys LAPAC1750PRO and have been very disappointed with their stability, even after upgrading to the latest firmware. I would like to upgrade, but need to find that sweet spot between performance and price.
I used to run old Linksys WRT routers with DD-WRT and they were fantastic, but the radios started to die, and it was a pain to make a config change if needed.
One of the features that drew me to trying the LAPAC1750's was the Clustering, which doesn't even work that well.
I am looking for a controller-less solution, and had my eyes on a Cisco Aironet WAP371AK9. I have hear ubiquitis waps are outstanding - I guess I am looking for anecdotal experience. I work for an SMB, we only need about 6 access points for out entire building.
One feature I would like to have is the ability to schedule a device reboot, something I was able to do using DD-WRT, these crummy 1750PROs do not even have such a feature, nor the ability to SSH in and reboot from a shell; so I cannot even write up a cron job to do it from a linux box.
Would Any body care to comment on what they have used and had good success with?
I used to run old Linksys WRT routers with DD-WRT and they were fantastic, but the radios started to die, and it was a pain to make a config change if needed.
One of the features that drew me to trying the LAPAC1750's was the Clustering, which doesn't even work that well.
I am looking for a controller-less solution, and had my eyes on a Cisco Aironet WAP371AK9. I have hear ubiquitis waps are outstanding - I guess I am looking for anecdotal experience. I work for an SMB, we only need about 6 access points for out entire building.
One feature I would like to have is the ability to schedule a device reboot, something I was able to do using DD-WRT, these crummy 1750PROs do not even have such a feature, nor the ability to SSH in and reboot from a shell; so I cannot even write up a cron job to do it from a linux box.
Would Any body care to comment on what they have used and had good success with?
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Wow, I thought I got all my typos...please excuse my sloppy text - thank you for the replies so far.
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Hi Scott - sorry for the very late reply. I ended up going with Ubiquiti, and I have to say they are freakin' awesome. I currently have 6 in my building and I love the central control provided by the Unifi management console. I also picked up one of their EdgeSwitch devices to use as a cheap DMZ switch - it works very well and is packed with enterprise features. Thanks for the good product advice.
I'm not sure what you mean by a controllerless solution unless you mean not having to buy an expensive bit of hardware. In that case the Ubiquiti scores again, as it uses a free software controller that will run on Windows or Linux Debian and Ubuntu distros. The downside of this is that you have to have a computer running constantly to service the WAPs, but as your environment is a commercial premises then that shouldn't be a problem. In fact, I run the software controller for a client on one of my own servers because the latter runs 24/7 and the client's premises aren't suitable for always-on hardware.