I’m familiar with both the Aruba W2 mount and the Oberon alternative. The Oberon product is much better. If attached to a wall box, the screw holes are easier to access than on the W2. If attached to the wall without a box there are separate holes that can accommodate the larger screws of a typical wall anchor. The cable pass-trough is easier, so there’s no need for that adapter you get with the W2, and there’s room enough inside to store a jack and patch cord of you don’t have a wall box or your wall box is too full. It’s far more versatile, and easier to install. I also agree Lionel about the right angle bracket. In my experience the Aruba APs with internal antennae perform better than their external antenna counterparts. The right angle bracket allows you to wall mount the internal antenna models and orient them parallel to the floor as intended. And as it works out, the bracket is priced about the same as three rubber-duck antennae, so it’s basically free. We use these for almost all wall-mount applications and only use external AP models when we need a specific antenna pattern. At the risk of sounding like an Oberon salesperson (I’m not) they will also entertain custom products if you need them. They’ve produced a couple products for us over the years and we didn’t need to order huge quantities for the price to work out. I highly recommend the company in addition to these two products specifically. Chuck Enfield Manager, Wireless Engineering Penn State From: <mailto:lio...@hawaii.edu> Lionel Shigemura Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 4:05 PM To: <mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cost effective alternatives to AP-220-MNT-W2A local Aruba vendor has made some custom 2-gang cover plates modified with a tile grid type piece for another Campus. Just mount the adapter plate and clip the AP similar to a ceiling grid. It was custom piece at a "decent" price, but can't recall exactly. I've used various Oberon products and they're really nice. We have some older bldgs with plenum ceiling that use a steel frame grid with integrated supply ducts. No standard grid for clip usage. I've used the Aruba AP-220-MNT-W1 and Aruba AP-220-MNT-W2 using screws and zip ties. If the W2 is too costly, a cheaper options we entertained was to modify the included grid clip adapter and screw it into the steel plate. The latter solution was really difficult to remove so we didn't use it.
For walls, I prefer this solution until I find something better. #1011-00 http://www.oberoninc.com/products/right-angle-brackets I contacted Oberon's competitor and their similar model didn't have a knockout for cable pass-through and had some differences. This was shortly after Atmosphere. Wasn't worth the cost when we had to modify to make it work. Lionel On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:17 AM, John Kristoff <j...@depaul.edu> wrote: > Has anyone found, purchased or produced wall mounting kits suitable for > attaching an AP to a gang box. Specifically for Aruba APs like the 325 > (or the 220). We've found the AP-220-MNT-W2, but if you get a lot of them, > it gets costly quick. > > Thank you, > > John > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
