Just found a Cisco Wireless Access Point

paradigm

paradigm

paradigm

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About a year or so back, I ordered a used Cisco Aironet AP1231G to sit alongside my 877m router. It arrived, I set it up, and put the box in the loft for safe keeping.

Today, whilst tidying the loft, I moved the Cisco cardboard box, only to realise that it didn't "feel" empty. A quick snout around and removing some bits of internal cardboard reveals an Aironet AIR-LAP1242AG-A-K9, looks brand new, although is missing the antenna and PSU (takes the same PSU as my 1231.

So firstly, how much are antenna, and how much is this second access point worth (i know how much PSU's are because I've just had to get a replacement for my 1231)?

The unused AP (1242) has both 2.4GHz and 5GHz antenna sockets. can we even use 5GHz in the UK (I know that its supposedly 54mbps 802.11a)?

Which one should I keep, which one should I get shot of?
 
Antenna's in general are not very expensive - from Cisco for their genuine item is a different kettle of fish!

Yes you can use 5Ghz in the UK - as you correctly state it's 802.11a - and we get (i think) 19 channels to use out of the allocation here. I'm guessing in the startup config you set the region you are using.

As for which is best - I'm sorry I can't answer that.
 
802.11a and 802.11g are really much of a muchness. The benefit is that next to nothing does 802.11a so you can use it for wireless backbone or just to escape lots of interference.
 
if it's a LAP (lightweight access point), then you need to make sure that it's been convereted to IOS otherwise without the rest of the hardware that you need it'll be about as much use as a paperweight.

You may not be able to convert it as LAP shipped AP's cannot be converted to IOS, but you can convert them the other way.
 
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