Recent Unifi network I did for a small Inn/Restaurant/Bar

[YeOldeStonecat]

Got a USG Pro, Unifi 24 POE, Unifi 8 POE, 6x Unifi AC Pro APs and 1x Unifi Outdoor Pro AP
Plus a CloudKey for manglement.
Likely adding a Cradlepoint cellular bridge to WAN2 for failover...they've had wobbly DSL out there in the past, a 25/25 DSL. Had new lines brought in from the street..so maybe their disconnect issues will go away.
A 3 floor building...top 2x floors are rooms, ground level is restaurant/bar, plus a big outdoor patio.

 

[purdybread]

This is the sort of work I want to be doing all the time.

Cant wait for the day of no more residential or mobile device repair c**p!

 

[marley1]

I'll have to start posting unifi.

I have had great success, only had to remove from one restaurant due to too many users

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

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I have had great success, only had to remove from one restaurant due to too many users

What actually determined "too many users"...did you see like...150 users in real time latched onto an AP?

Why not just follow the standards and sprinkle a few more APs around? You have the standardized goals (no matter what brand you use) of approx 40x clients max per AP. (for design implementation..they can handle a bit more but be smart design with plenty of overhead left) Look at possible density of people in the area you intend to cover, and local the APs based on needing to carry that count.

What models did you use? How far apart were they? I can't see a restaurant saturating a single AP due to...restaurants being quite spread out for seating. Bandwidth throttling for guest network? Separate VLANs?

 

[marley1]

This is the only client who's load was too much for the setup.

We had one outdoor n unit, and 3 indoor n units. These were prior to the new AC stuff.

Usually 100-150 wireless users on heavy weekend nights. Even with guest Network limited bandwidth was kicking the restaurants reservation tablets offline.

Couldn't run new lines and didn't want to risk issues with AC Pro.

Went with Ruckus Unleashed. Hasn't been an issue with same setup.

Now my larger country club usually has 100-200 users on the guest vlan no issues but more access points and areas.

I haven't put any ruckus in the last year this was just a special client.

 

[skdmaster]

I've been on a roll with clients upgrading them to UAP-AC-PROs from older UAP models. Just upgraded a real estate office to the UAP-HD models - wicked fast access points.

 

[SmallSpace]

Looks like a nice setup. Ubiquiti make some rather nice gear although my own experience so far has been a link from the house to workshop. I'm very interested in hearing how it goes.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Running great, excellent coverage.