Re: Recommended wireless AP for 400 users office

[Carlos Alcantar <carlos () race com>]

+1 on Xirrus or Ruckus if you care to sleep at night. Just my 2cents


Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos () race com / http://www.race.com





On 1/30/15, 8:19 AM, "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Manuel Marín <mmg () transtelco net> wrote:
> > I was wondering if you can recommend or share your experience with APs
> > that
> > you can use in locations that have 300-500 users. I friend recommended
> > me
> > Ruckus Wireless, it would be great if you can share your experience with
> > Ruckus or with a similar vendor.  My experience with ubiquity for this
> > type
> > of requirement was not that good.
>
> Hi Manuel,
>
> At 300-500 users you may still be in dd-wrt territory with the lack of
> smart roaming and self-healing features mitigated by a price that
> makes it practical to simply deploy more access points. Dumb roaming
> can be good enough when the user count per AP is low.
>
> Aruba it is not, but I had a 150 user deployment on 5 dd-wrt APs that
> was largely trouble-free.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
> -- 
> William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com  bill () herrin us
> Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>