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for wireless AP's? It really depends. I actually just went with Wave2 stuff. In the end i bought some UAP-AC-HD's because 1. I am familiar/setup to handle thei
by croutonwagon 6y ago
for wireless AP's? It really depends. I actually just went with Wave2 stuff. In the end i bought some UAP-AC-HD's because
1. I am familiar/setup to handle their quirks and had 99% of the setup already done.
2. I really wanted an AP with Dual 5Ghz AND dual 2.4 Ghz dedicated antennas for some very specific applications (multiple rtsp streams over wifi+client plex wifi streams+client traffic. With the first two largely being on 2.4Ghz.
3. I am lazy (lots of this, my wife is less tolerant of me re-designing the wheel and being locked into an upgrade for days)
4. The security stuff i had mostly addressed anyway.
If this were a greenfield purchase or I didn't really need/want dedicated radios.
Id go with a ruckus. the r700 unleashed and/or r500 unleashed can be found cheap and are chock full of features. and 2x2:2 is normally going to be perfectly fine in a home setting.
Going with ones that are "unleashed" mean that the controller runs on the AP's. not extra hardware needed.
For most home uses. wave1 is still more than enough and their Wave1 AP's can be had cheap. Hell you can probably even get one of the R710/R510's in a very good price range and be at wave2.
For switching...mikrotik is solid for cheap and works and stable. Even modems etc. For firewalls my preference is BSD, so something like opnsense...But mikrotik will probably do okay as well.
- karlshea 6y ago> Id go with a ruckus. the r700 unleashed and/or r500 unleashed This is the problem with Ubiquiti, and maybe why they feel they can advertise in their UI and let their quality slip: a new r710 lists for $1295. That's almost four times as much as a UAP-AC-HD. On sale for $810 it's still over twice as much. Some of the Ubiquiti WiFi 6 stuff can be had for $100-150. Like, yeah, I'm sure Ruckus is way better, but I'd hope so for the price difference.
- kmlx 6y agoi have had very good experience with the Ubiquiti WiFi 6 products.
- croutonwagon 6y agoYou can get the r710 on Amazon for $430. R510 are even cheaper around 230 or so. These aren’t the latest iterations of their hardware. Ruckus doesn’t require a contract to get updates firmware/software. Theses are around the same prices as a uap-ac-hd. Regardless of list price. They can be had as cheap as ubiquiti and their software/firmware is not only better but doesn’t have all the telemetry crap built in.
- alimbada 6y ago> They can be had as cheap as ubiquiti I'm assuming you're talking of used hardware as this isn't the case, at least in the UK.
- croutonwagon 6y agoNo it is still new. Just not the latest line of production gear (Which would be the R750). Im not going to post direct links because i assume that's a no-no. Ruckus refreshes their gear fairly frequently and the overstock can be had at a steep discount. Those not needing to do huge, high density deployments in things like auditoriums, stadiums, classrooms and the like but are just looking for something for their home can get a really solid piece of gear (imho better than ubnt) at a steep discount. Its not really the same as even grey market Cisco stuff. Like i said, i stuck with ubnt because of some specific things, including the fact that I could re-use mounting holes/measurements and could upgrade in an hour vs rebuilding entirely. https://imgur.com/a/a4LLnqH https://imgur.com/a/a4LLnqH
- alimbada 6y agoThanks for the detailed information. Unfortunately, the UK prices don't reflect the US prices, both on Amazon UK and other retailers here. The only way to get Ruckus gear that cheap (or cheaper) is to get them used on eBay. I think I'll probably go down the TP-Link Omada route as someone suggested elsewhere in the comments here. The feature set and prices look to be about right for me.