Best AP I've used for range is a Ruckus 7363 I was evaluating for work, that's enterprise kit though and pricey.
I was testing with a laptop mostly, had some iPads connected but not for testing range.Was that inc an IOS device in regards to the range
I'm using a Netgear WNDR3700 (with DD-WRT), the range is pretty good on it, not sure how it compares to an RT-N66U though. You can pick them up second hand for a good price.
Best AP I've used for range is a Ruckus 7363 I was evaluating for work, that's enterprise kit though and pricey.
We Install and "maintain" these at work (within schools) fantastic bit of kit when using a zonedirector, especially with "meshing"
Back to the point, everytime somebody wants an AP the Asus' get recommended.
Yeah, it was for a school WiFi overhaul project I was leading, Would have been over 50AP's total due to it being a private school with old buildings and crazy walls. Great Kit, and worked out to be pretty good value too once you factor management/licensing in. I've been tempted to pick up a Zonedirector 1100 and 4 or so AP's for home, but it would purely be for my own entertainment as my current setup works fine for pushing Plex and my pitiful rural Internet around (Got a WNDR3700, 2x WNR2000 and a Billion 7800, with another cheap TP Link AP in an outbuilding connected back over WDS)
I think you were the one recommending the Cisco small business WAPs? If so, how would you compare them against the Unifi Pro?The world's moving away from controllers. Aerohive place all the logic in the AP so you don't have to rip-and-replace a controller when you add more APs than it can control. Meraki sort of do the same thing, but their APs become pretty useless if the cloud controller connection is down.
Sound just like a job I helped my boss with, 50+ AP's in a big secondary school, they had 2 zonedirectors so that they had redundency in case of failure which I thought was a great feature. Unfortunately I'm not involved in the costings side but our company is a reseller of their kit.
Ruckas at home would be sweet, but very pricey
I think you were the one recommending the Cisco small business WAPs? If so, how would you compare them against the Unifi Pro?
Cheers, thanks for that! Adding a couple of the Ciscos to my shopping list...Very capable units. The radios are easily as good as the UniFi, the diagnostics are much better, and the support actually exists.
There is an 8 or 16 AP limit on a cluster though, so they aren't the product to use for anything other than small deployments.
In Somerset?
The thing I don't like about the Unifi is the requirement for the separate controller to configure it. It's not a huge deal, but just one more thing to look after at home.Quite interested in the unifi/cisco solution myself for home. Need to look into the Cisco stuff but the unifi stuff looks ace and considering the long range one can be had for 70ish quid and it is a managed system makes it potentially a bargain.