Wireless Access Point?

devious93

devious93

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Hi Guys,

I need a hand figuring out the best way to get wireless to the bottom of the garden in a new building. We have a cat 6 cable running from here to the crappy sky standard default router and I need a high performance access point in this location to get internet access!

Looking around it seems like a nightmare finding high performance consumer units. I'd stick to Cisco/Ruckus which I'm used to supporting for work but I'm not made of money :)

Anyone have any ideas for a sub £150 pound solution which supports 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands. preferably with 4/5 ethernet ports if possible.

Thanks in advance for any advice guys!
 
RanxZy said:
In anticipation of moving from ADSL to FTTC I've used a Gigabit Powerline kit, (BT 1000 powerline flex kit) then connected that to a Netgear WAC120 which was £80 on the rainforest. The bedroom upstairs struggled to keep a good Wifi connection until now. Not the most sophisticated setup and Cat 6 is always the best if you can run it, but it does a job for me.
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Something I was going to consider but it's a separate building and doesn't run off the same consumer unit (I think thats the word, otherwise fuse box thingy it is). So powerline isn't an option. Also with my experience of powerline adaptors they work okay but are a bit flakey and not really suitable if I'm running Cat 6 there anyway.

Zyxel units used to be fairy budget AP's but were solid and reliable. I was looking at the ZyXel NWA1123-AC but that was wall/ceiling mountable only and the 3205 didn't have very good reviews.
 
the-evaluator said:
I'd think faxfan was referring to the UniFi AP AC Lite (£80) AC LR (£100) or AC Pro (£130). All of which come with a PoE injector.

The first 2 aren't 802.3af/803.at PoE, they use 24v passive PoE so even if you had a PoE switch they wouldn't work. You can get an adapter to let them use a PoE switch but it only has 10/100 interfaces on it whereas the APs are GigE.

I've got an AC LR and am really happy with it.
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That would make more sense!

Where do you have this unit located, mounted on a wall/ceiling or laying on a work surface?

What's the range and signal/speeds like around the house?
 
@faxfan and @the-evaluator it's looking like I'm going to get the pro now (Damn you both :P). If you put this down on a worktop/coffee table does the signal still get reasonable coverage and no dead zones?

Ceiling mounted solutions and coverage confuse me a little in terms of what can and can't work!

Where it's going to be based ceiling mounting is out the question and wall mounting isn't really doable (a work around would be to use 3 command large hooks to secure this to a wall without drilling) but I'd rather not do this.
 
faxfan said:
I just used a couple of "command strips" to ceiling mount it in the a corner near a cupboard, it's very light. Though just placing on a non metal surface as well should be fine :)
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Same solution for mounting then, didn't realise you could use the strips by themselves :)

Rightyo, in the cart it goes.

Thanks for your help!
 
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