We've gone all-in with AC in challenging environments (crowded,
congested etc). UniFi AP-AC to be exact. It's awesome.
One trick with UniFi AP-AC (vs AP-PRO) is that UniFi AP-AC *needs*
802.3at PoE PSE. It will APPEAR to work with 802.3af PoE PSE, but it
will choke under even light load. Literally it will become
power-starved and it will malfunction or reset. We've seen stability
with Juniper's 802.3af+ 'PoE-Plus' firmware update which gets you up to
~18w per PD. Without it, the voltage will sag under load and reboot.
-K
On 7/17/2015 4:11 PM, Chris Bagnall wrote:
On 17 Jul 2015, at 15:50, Jim Spaloss <jspal...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ubiquiti Unifi.
+1 would recommend - with caveats.
The AC model is… flaky - or at least, it was when I tried it at the end of
2014. Only about 50% of client devices would connect at a time - seemingly
random - restart the AP and some different ones would connect. Performance was
great for those that were connected, but I’d be hesitant about installing it at
a paying customer’s premises.
As Todd says, the basic UAP is 24v passive PoE, not 48v 802.11af. There is,
however, an adapter for around £12 that converts 802.11af into 24v passive PoE,
which works well. You don’t need to use the provided AC adapter unless you want
to.
The UAP Pro is excellent. Standard PoE from any 802.11af switch, good coverage,
decent performance, and no problems with dozens of devices connected to it.
If you don’t need 5Ghz and you aren’t bothered about the non-standard PoE, then
the UAP is cheap-as-chips (around £50 at last check). Otherwise go with the UAP
Pro.
Kind regards,
Chris
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