Ubiquiti Unifi Wireless?

[hallb15]

If you haven't already, download https://www.metageek.com/products/inssider/

It will really help you when you're planning where to locate the new access points.

[midweek]

I'm getting quotes to replace our old Aerohive AP121 and AP330 with Ubiquiti. Money is tight so I've been looking at nanoHD's to replace the 121's and AC HD's in the higher capacity areas. Would love to get AC HD's across the board but the funding isn't there.

 

We have a BYOD policy with about 600 children and the 121's will see about 20-30 devices max at any one time currently (general browsing, Office 365 etc).

 

Has anyone actually used nanoHD's in an similar environment who could share their experience before I commit?

[m25man]

The main difference is the lack of secondary Port on the Nano.

Functionally they are the same, the antenna layout is slightly different but no noticeable drop in performance.

They call them HD and they will accommodate 250+ associations and I’ve seen 600+ clients connected to a single AP but the uplink is still just 1Gb so your more likely to run out of IP scope, exhaust your switches ARP tables or max out the uplink before the AP runs into trouble.

[midweek]

Thanks

 

I've been trialling a single nanoHD and, aside from the latest nightmare firmware issue, it's been pretty easy to deal with. Just hoping that scaling it up to the whole school will be a success (can't be paying Aerohive's extortionate renewal price to keep using 6 year old APs).

[synaesthesia]

Anything must be better than the absolutely horrific dlink system - had it in place at a primary we used to deal with and I kept badgering them to let me UniFi them

[chazzy2501]

I bought the AP AC PRO over the nanoHD wave2 as I still have mostly N wifi laptops, 2.4ghz is still has better range, the AC PRO offers 450Mbps or triple antennas but the nano offer only 2 for the older standard.

[howartp]

My contact at 4Gon has changed recently to Ashlea Hugh ([email protected]) I always ask for a discount and they always oblige.

 

Ashlea no longer works there; just emailed her address and someone else responded telling me so!

[jmak]

That's a foregone conclusion...

 

[howartp]

Groan!!

[hallb15]

Ashlea no longer works there; just emailed her address and someone else responded telling me so!

 

They do seem to have quite a high staff turnover, but I guess that's probably not uncommon in sales.

Maybe its because they keep giving me such good discounts!