Re: Improving WiFi Coverage

["Phil Harris phil@xxxxxxxxxxx [ukha_d]" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The EdgeRouter Lite (again from Ubiquiti and available from LinITX) is
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a great little bit of kit - sneak it in behind your existing router, turn =
off the WiFi on your existing router and just use it as a gateway to the
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tside world with the EdgeRouter Lite managing your network then use the
Ubi=
quiti APs to do your WiFi and you'll have a (to all intents and purposes)
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ulletproof network.

I've given up p*ssing about with consumer routers for anything where I
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that I'll get grief if it goes down ... I was banging away for years with =
our ex-MD at work as he was complaining that his networks was crap - he
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APs dotted all over with EOM uplinks and it was a mess.

I was plugging away at him for years to give the Ubiquiti stuff a try and
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ventually when I moved out of my old flat and had my kit 'spare' I just
sai=
d to him to *TRY* mine in his place.

I installed it one Friday evening after work, ran some long network cables
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around his house temporarily to feed the APs (they're PoE so only one wire
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to them) and left him with it. Monday morning I asked him how it was
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..

"Works great, no problems at all, get WiFi everywhere in the house and
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out to the garden - why didn't you put that stuff in before?"

I could have slapped him! (Except for he was the boss...) :-)

If you *HAVE* to co consumer grade kit then the LinkSys EA7500 is proving
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retty good for us here at the office when used with our streaming audio
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and is about =C2=A3130...=20

Phil

Sent from another bloody fruit-based portable device...

> On 24 May 2016, at 12:27, Nick Shore nick.shore@xxxxxxx [ukha_d=
] <ukha_d@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I would run cables, and then use products from the new Ubiquiti UAP-AC
> range:
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> https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-ac-lite-867-mbps-aphotspot/=
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> https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-ac-lr-867-mbps-aphotspot/14=
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> https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-ac-pro-1300-mbps-aphotspot/=
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> Or have a look at the xclaim range from Ruckus, which don't have all
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> the fancy stuff of their zoneflex APs but do work very well:
> https://linitx.com/search.php?keywords=3Dxclaim
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> As usual we always happy to advise on this stuff, just drop us an
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> to shop@xxxxxxx or pick up the phone !
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> Nick
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>> On 24/05/16 06:26, Rob Iles rob.iles@xxxxxxx [ukha_d] wrote:
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>> Yay for a Phil review ;-) (Know exactly the type of client you're
>> dealing with)....
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>> So, am I right in saying the consensus is:
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>> 1) Hard wire (Not Ethernet over mains) wherever possible.
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>> 2) EoM if it works for you =3D=3D good luck, but don't bank on it,
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>> point-in-time snapshot isn't indicative of real world
>> performance/reliability.
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>> 3) Devolo / Ubuquiti =3D reasonable WiFi coverage for *impossible*
to
>> cable regions (listed building, can't touch certain walls :(  )
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