WiFi Access Points

[en0ch]

Any suggestions on a good access point for a commercial office? I need three to cover the office and they need to be able to roam between the APs seamlessly. Currently, there are three D-Link APs but the max transfer speed is 30Mb. The office has a 100Mb fiber line and I need something that can handle that kind of speed. Also needs to be PoE...

 

[jzukerman]

Ubiquiti UniFi AC Pro would work nicely in that option. How big is this office? The range on AC Pro units is pretty darn far depending on building construction. I have not set up Zero-Handoff (roaming between APs) in the AC Pro units. I think that is a feature coming soon?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Big Ubiquiti fan here......Unifi AC LR models.

Re: Roaming.....expectations of that, and how it actually works, and what supports it well....there's a lot of misinformation there.
Setup a bunch of Ubiquiti APs on the same controller, same SSID, different channels...and you'll find taking a laptop and moving about the office (or house) works just fine. The very very brief disconnect/reconnect the wireless client does as it changes from AP to AP is usually not even noticable.

Having true roaming, which Ubiquiti calls Zero Handoff, makes all of the APs appear as 1x massive AP. Same SSID and channel.
However....properly working with that also depends on the client....having drivers, wireless NIC software/manager, that properly supports that. Else....you'll find out it doesn't do what you hoped for it to do.

Ubiquiti has had Zero Handoff as a feature since controller version 3.1 or something like that...for quite a while.

 

[en0ch]

Thanks for the input guys. I don't believe that the small disconnect/reconnect time will be an issue. I think I have my answer

 

[acscva]

OpenMesh is my choice.