Looking for $100 Wireless AP suggestions

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Crowdie

228 posts

Master Geek

#1777895 8-May-2017 15:32

sbiddle:

With no bandsteering Mikrotik is pretty pointless for as a wireless AP these days.

With the Telcos deploying LTE TDD it is only a matter of time until the 2.4 GHz airtime utilisation in urban areas is so high the spectrum could be considered "dead" for public Wi-Fi.

Enterprise access points commonly have a 2.4/5 GHz switchable radio and a 5 GHz radio which helps getting around this issue.

djtOtago

1149 posts

Uber Geek

#1777932 8-May-2017 16:16

Taubin:

I just threw the controller on my linode server and it adopted it within 30 seconds. Must be an issue with my Pi, I'll look into it later.

Thank you all for the suggestions and help! Cheers.

If you don't need or want all the monitoring the controller gives you, you can use Ubiquiti android app to set the access point up.

It only allows you to set up the basics things like SSID, Password, Led on or off. But if you are only using it as an un-managed AP point, that is all you need.

kiwifidget

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3413 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#1780090 12-May-2017 11:29

Are the Unifi Lite's portable?

If I configure one at home, then can I take it to another town and just plug it in, no further jiggery-pokery required?

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DarkShadow

1647 posts

Uber Geek

#1780101 12-May-2017 11:37

kiwifidget:

Are the Unifi Lite's portable?

If I configure one at home, then can I take it to another town and just plug it in, no further jiggery-pokery required?

Sure.

If you're using the controller ideally you would want it to be accessible at the new location but that's not essential.

phrozenpenguin

840 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1780439 13-May-2017 00:27

Take a look here for a possible (cheap) option: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=164&topicid=214430

kiwirock

685 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1780447 13-May-2017 06:19

Crowdie:

sbiddle:

With no bandsteering Mikrotik is pretty pointless for as a wireless AP these days.

With the Telcos deploying LTE TDD it is only a matter of time until the 2.4 GHz airtime utilisation in urban areas is so high the spectrum could be considered "dead" for public Wi-Fi.

Enterprise access points commonly have a 2.4/5 GHz switchable radio and a 5 GHz radio which helps getting around this issue.

What from? Telco's using crappy RF filtering? Or nasty RF noise from end user devices?

Crowdie

228 posts

Master Geek

#1780469 13-May-2017 08:56

What you will experience is the 2.4 GHz noise floor will rise significantly and users will start reporting that they are experiencing issues associating to 2.4 GHz radios and, when they can, their performance is poor and they experience disconnections.

At a tertiary institution affected by this we installed notch filters onto the access points with external antennas and replaced the older access points with internal antennas with newer models that had internal stop filters.

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Crowdie

228 posts

Master Geek

#1781593 13-May-2017 12:25

kiwirock:

Or nasty RF noise from end user devices?

If you did a search of this forum for the term "cheap" how many hits would you get? You get what you pay for.

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