CHR1S Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 I'm hearing (and reading) some really good things about this. I've scanned the forum(s) and still have a few questions, does anyone here use this as their every day Wifi? Can it support densities of 10 laptops/PCs and up? If so over how many APs? Whats the roaming like? How does it handle and deal with rouge wifi APs from surrounding houses? Is this too good to be true? A whole site coverage for 1/10 of a full managed service?
CHR1S Posted March 30, 2012 Author Posted March 30, 2012 I think im going to do the same, £100 for 3 APs is great, id buy them from the school to use at home if they didn't live up to the high demands of a primary haha
Netman Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 We've been trialling them here, ready to install in our boarding house when the refurb is finished - performance is on a par with the unmanaged Netgear prosafe AP's we have used in the past plus they add roaming between AP's, Management controller, guest network ootb and they're cheaper... what's not to like really? They seem reliable so far to us... 1
pooley Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Ive just deployed a 3 pack of the Unifi kit, have had 30+ tablets connected to 1 access point with no dropping out at all, granted they were only browsing the web but its a good start!! 1
Blue_Cookeh Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Just a bit unfortunate the price of the Unifi Pro version is £180 odd, for those of us who want PoE without the damn external injectors 1
SYNACK Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Just a bit unfortunate the price of the Unifi Pro version is £180 odd, for those of us who want PoE without the damn external injectors And GB Ethernet
timbo343 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Am i right in thinking this a controllerless wireless network solution?
SYNACK Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Am i right in thinking this a controllerless wireless network solution? It's a software controller system that runs on a PC.
Blue_Cookeh Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Am i right in thinking this a controllerless wireless network solution? Either, the controller software is free and runs on top of Windows/Mac OS.
ToyHeartsFan Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 And GB Ethernet And Dual band We are getting a Ruckus system installed next week but if I was looking for an inhouse system I would have given this a look although the prices have trippled with the new AP so its not looking such a bargain any more.
DarrenG Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 For the price, the UniFi system is excellent but as always you get what you pay for. The server software does not have a lot of the benefits you will find with a hardware controller and is instead more of a management tool. For example you wont get intelligent load balancing, client handover or dynamic power adjustments. If you are on a budget though they certainly have their place
koffi2k Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 New to this forum, good day all - it seems the UniFi stuff causes eyebrows going up and down and question about the pricing and the abilities and disadvantages it provides. Initially I wanted to join the crowd of other schools in our area who standardized on all-Cisco and the AP-1142N. I agree that Cisco is really solid but their price is too After playing with 2 Cisco APs (not lightweight ones) and then 2 UAPs I have realized that I have spent n-times more time reading documentation to get the Ciscos barely running than the UAPs. I see UAPs offer far less capabilities but they seem to provide "just what we need". I'm still guessing - also whether Ubiquiti stocks are good enough to get a pile of them when we'd need them.
koffi2k Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 UAP-Pro has 1Gbit, UAP has 100Mbit uplink. So yes, comparing the UAP against a Cisco 1142N which has 1Gbit uplink is a bit unfair (and the Cisco is a dualband device too as is the UAP-Pro).
SimpleSi Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 Am i right in thinking this a controllerless wireless network solution? Its a bit of both The "controller" software is necessary to get your system configured (e.g set SSID/channels/power levels etc) but is not needed after that if you don't use extra stuff like captive portals etc and the "controller" doesn't control the AP in realtime - its really a setup/maintenance/logging tool. The "controller" software runs on any Window/Linux machine Si
koffi2k Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 I have opened up one of the UAPs and it's quite interesting to see that it's very much commodity embedded hardware. Which possibly explains why Ubiquiti can sell the UAP (non-Pro) for such low price. It may have less magic than other APs but if it does the job you expect from it, then why not? The UAPs run with some embedded Linux and have dropbear SSHd, you can even login on the shell with the credentials of the Unifi admin credentials once you have taken control over the AP with the software. There is at least one daemon running which must be the service whith which the controller software must be talking to configure and provision the AP. In fact you could even flash them with e.g. OpenWRT one day if you're really want. (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/unifi, there is a picture of the insides too)
SimpleSi Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 n fact you could even flash them with e.g. OpenWRT What would be more useful would be to flash a Buffalo G54 with the Unifi software Si
theeldergeek Posted June 14, 2012 Posted June 14, 2012 We use the Ubiquiti system around this site, and have circa 60 AP's dotted all over. The ability to have 4 x SSID's on separate VLAN's is pretty neat. I am just in the throws of setting up the built in Hotspot facility so that one of our SSID's is going to be available via a voucher system for any guest visitors we have on site. We have had some issues when the controller software on the server wouldn't start, but a bit of head scratching and recording the MAC addresses of each of the AP's has sorted that out should it ever happen again! Overall, very pleased, but I don't have any experience of other 'professional' systems for comparison.
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