Suitable WAPs for a rugby club

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#2890645 23-Mar-2022 12:59

Earbanean:

I guess my original question still stands, even if just out of interest. i.e. An Aruba AP15 is twice the price of a Grandstream GWN7630. What do you get for the significantly extra cost?

Is it enterprise management features, sophisticated roaming, etc? Or are there more fundamental features that I could make use of in my use case?

Fyi Aruba Instant On APs ie AP15, AP22, etc is a SMB product and not exactly Enterprise grade ie Cisco Catalyst, Meraki, Aruba IAP, Ruckus, etc

You get a Aruba cloud hosted controller that can be accessed by a web browser or mobile app from anywhere that provides you a single management pane for their switches and APs. With Grandstream one of your APs acts as a virtual controller. You can set up a port forward (not really secure) on the router for remote access.

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#2890648 23-Mar-2022 13:03

WAP?

I thought Rugby was trying to move away from that image

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#2891051 23-Mar-2022 22:44

I have some E400's I'd be prepared to part with if you want them.

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#2891364 24-Mar-2022 12:37

dt:

any idea's on max devices the solution would need to support? that's where you will start to notice the different between aruba and grandstream

I personally never trust whats written on the spec sheets in real world use cases

Phase 1 would really only be around 10 'admin' clients, so there's no issues there. Phase 2 and 3, would extend to members and guests, but with restricted bandwidth per client. That could result in up to 100 concurrent clients.

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#2891365 24-Mar-2022 12:39

networkn:

I have some E400's I'd be prepared to part with if you want them.

Thanks for that. However, I think I've talked myself into 2x2 ax WAPs, for some level of future proofing. When we open access up to members and guests, there will be a reasonable amount of ax client devices.

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#2892044 25-Mar-2022 13:08

Earbanean:

Phase 1 would really only be around 10 'admin' clients, so there's no issues there. Phase 2 and 3, would extend to members and guests, but with restricted bandwidth per client. That could result in up to 100 concurrent clients.

with up to 100 client devices I would recommend Arbua as the starting point of kit to support those numbers - they're reputable enterprise vendor and their instant on is targeted towards 'small business'

I played with a pair of the older grandstream 7610's at home when they were the 'flavour of the month' on here and I seriously didn't rate them at all.. I would not want the headache of having to try and support them with 100+ devices connected to them :)

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#2892096 25-Mar-2022 13:20

Aruba instant on we just deployed to 60 people in a business and it's been working well. We would use again. We have done the same with Cambium, works fine. Basically, you want SMB business-grade or entry level enterprise-grade and you should be fine.

Our local squash club uses Ubiquiti and despite having around 1500 members in reality the peak usage of the wireless has been around 20 people connected at the same time. Most people have their own decent data plans and don't even bother.

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#2892320 26-Mar-2022 04:35

dt:

I played with a pair of the older grandstream 7610's at home when they were the 'flavour of the month' on here and I seriously didn't rate them at all.. I would not want the headache of having to try and support them with 100+ devices connected to them :)

I would not want the headache of having stopped at 5 years old technology. Nevertheless I would trust for 144 devices on the GWN7610 I had and maybe even 500+ (to be tested) for the GWN7664.

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#2892323 26-Mar-2022 06:29

richms: Also keep in mind support when you're not there. A unifi login is pretty easy for a random to be able to log in and look at. Other gear not so easy.

I think this is the best advice so far. Having dealt with “friends” installs unless you want to be supporting it forever which you may be happy to do paid or unpaid you should consider what happens when you want to leave.
I’m a big unifi fan specifically because you get free updates and it’s super easy to have everything managed by a single controller that you can hand on your heart give to the password in an envelope to the chairperson and know even a fairly sub average technically minded person can pick up without any trouble.

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