Decent AP for multiple users

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   Hey,
As some of you know I look after a largish building/venue. It's an 130 year old ex townhall in London.

For years our network has been a bit of a mish mash of different APs and home brew systems by the geeks. And sadly as the memory of the last major uber geek fades as does the loo roll based super APs which have been replaced with various Netgear and Draytek routers and access points. Our current system is a Draytek 2830vn+ in the basement, routing to a Dreytek 2800 being used as an AP only along with a few other Netgears 54gs on each floor. 

So before I go ahead a buy a load of Ubiquiti Unifi AC Pro APs and build a mesh, is there any other APs to consider?

Also while I'm at it, can anyone recommend a suitable adsl router or shall I just go with a Ubiquiti too?

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SamV Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 21 October 2008 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 8711	Post Options Post Reply Quote SamV Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Decent AP for multiple users Posted: 02 August 2016 at 3:03am
	Hey, As some of you know I look after a largish building/venue. It's an 130 year old ex townhall in London. For years our network has been a bit of a mish mash of different APs and home brew systems by the geeks. And sadly as the memory of the last major uber geek fades as does the loo roll based super APs which have been replaced with various Netgear and Draytek routers and access points. Our current system is a Draytek 2830vn+ in the basement, routing to a Dreytek 2800 being used as an AP only along with a few other Netgears 54gs on each floor. So before I go ahead a buy a load of Ubiquiti Unifi AC Pro APs and build a mesh, is there any other APs to consider? Also while I'm at it, can anyone recommend a suitable adsl router or shall I just go with a Ubiquiti too?

SamV Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 21 October 2008 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 8711	Post Options Post Reply Quote SamV Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 August 2016 at 3:07am
	On when I say multiple users, it's between 20 on an average day and upto hundreds on event days.

vertx Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 14 March 2012 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 578	Post Options Post Reply Quote vertx Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 August 2016 at 6:37am
	Ubiquiti is good stuff I hear. I've managed some Aerohive systems which seemed to do the job for large offices. No need for a WLC either with Aerohive. At home I have a WatchGuard T10W but that's more of a firewall with WiFi than a dedicated AP.

DJ-Dulux Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 24 August 2009 Location: Kenilworth, UK Status: Offline Points: 378	Post Options Post Reply Quote DJ-Dulux Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 August 2016 at 12:48pm
	Ubiquiti is my go to supplier for domestic and less demanding commercial setups. If more mission critical than I move up to Rukus. Dupe....
	Dupe...

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 August 2016 at 3:56pm
	rukus is cheap (but expensive to buy) crap - stick with ubiquiti you'll be fine

shagnasty Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 30 July 2007 Location: Guildford, UK Status: Offline Points: 7685	Post Options Post Reply Quote shagnasty Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 August 2016 at 3:13am
	Cisco with Meraki, if you want to open it up you need some form of liability offload, Meraki with -Twat-book log in gives you that... Plus Layers etc.....