Re: FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for SOHO network?

A quick note to the benefit of Ubiquiti (might get one myself) and 
EnGenius (have had a few).

With the managed series, both offer the DFS channel selection (here in 
the US), which grants 25 channels @ 20MHz width in the 5GHz spectrum, 
instead of 9 channels @ 20MHz width.  At that point, it become debate of 
UI and cost.

Open-Mesh has a great offering ('cloud' managed with reporting, good 
price point), but lacks DFS channels currently - that makes it 
unappealing to me currently.

Meraki makes a solid device, but the price is unreasonable.  The same 
goes for Aerohive, Aruba, Ruckus, Cisco, etc...

- Joel -

On 6/6/2017 10:58, David Sims wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I use Ubiquiti Pico Station radios... About $75 from Amazon.... They are
> very functional in several different modalities (client, station, etc) and
> the firmware is very functional... POE... Carrier class....
>
>    Additionally, Ubiquiti caters to all aspects of the WISP market and has
> products to do high bandwith long distance links...
>
> Dave
> ********************************************************************
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, David Christensen wrote:
>
>> ipcop-user:
>>
>> I am looking for a FOSS-friendly Wireless Access Point (WAP) for my SOHO
>> network, to support Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, etc.,
>> Wi-Fi devices.  I'd like something with an external power adapter (wall
>> wart), dual-band, 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Gigabit Ethernet port, built-in
>> antennas, wall mount, good factory firmware (I will use this as an AP
>> only; DD-WRT bricked my last router), and that can handle warm
>> temperatures (say, 100 F).
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, a PCI (not PCI-e) adapter with an external antenna that I
>> can put into my IPCop 2.1.9 machine.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any advice, warnings, recommendations, etc.?
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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