Chris4

Does anyone have experience with Meru? We just had a site survey by a local Meru supplier and hopefully going to be getting a demo. Looks promising. Interesting to know Meru are going to be providing wireless to 1,200 schools in N. Ireland too.

Still a long way to go, but we're leaning towards Ruckus and Unifi. Aerohive's licensing costs hasn't gone down well and we're still hear a convincing case for Cisco. Thanks for everyone's help so far. PM coming your way.

Sounds great, thanks. Ok thanks, I'll look into it. PM coming your way, thanks!

Which ever solution is used, it has to be easy to manage. The school doesn't have a full-time paid technician, I'm a placement student and don't have much experience in this area - come September the school will have a new technician of whom will probably have less experience than myself and he'll be the one managing this. I'll have a look to see if I can find a local supplier/installer of Ubiquiti. I've contacted @CPLTD for a Ruckus quote, thanks. Ok I may do that, thanks. Hmm... okay thanks for letting me know.

Ok, thank you for your input. Sounds like it may have been set up incorrectly, rather than bad hardware. Yes, as I mentioned in my first post I've contacted C-P-LTD regarding Ruckus, however I'll take you up on that offer for more local companies, thank you.

I've contacted Meru for a quote, thanks. I don't have much idea on which companies are good or bad, this is my first experience. I've contacted you by email for a Cisco quote, thanks. What are your experiences exactly? What exactly do you not get with Unifi that you do with the big companies? @Avalon has contacted me by PM for a quote for Unifi, may contact @m25man too. Despite the tempting price, and yes we'd need contractors for extra ports (which we need anyway), won't a semi-managed solution be more trouble-some than a completely managed solution offered by others?

Hello, We're looking to getting a managed wireless solution for our primary school, so it'd be great to hear some opinions on this. We have 20 classrooms, of which only uses 1 teacher laptop each at present (that could be made wireless), as well as 20 netbooks that are occasionally used in KS2 classrooms. I'm looking to get a few quotes from companies to compare... so far I've got a quote from the Education IT Support at the city council for a Cisco wireless solution, as well an Aerohive wireless solution... Cisco 1 x Cisco AIR-CT5508-25-K9 Wireless Controller 24 x Cisco AIR-LAP1142N-E-K9 Access Points 2 x Cisco 24 Port Gigabit with 2 mini Gigabit and POE 1 x Installation and configuration Total = £17,800 Aerohive 24 x Aerohive AP120 24 x 5 year HiveManager Online + Support Total = £14,300 Each quote includes 24 access points - 1 for each classroom, plus other rooms; however this can be reduced once a site survey is performed (i.e. classroom sharing). Although the Aerohive solution got me excited when I first saw it, I'd probably pick the Cisco solution over the Aerohive at present, due to the local support we'd get and site survey included; whereas Aerohive seems more of a DIY job, though the cloud-based controller looks easy to manage. I done a bit of searching on this forum and I've contacted C-P-LTD regarding Ruckus Wireless which looks good. Does anyone has any suggestions, tips or comments to make that would help me out? I'm a university placement student and have limited knowledge in this area, so your opinions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris