Heres How we do it..
I have come from a long time ago internet age as some of us here are. I
pre-fer to let the E400/E410/E600 do all the dirty work for wifi.
The R2xx series are just that simple SOHO routers they do not have the
ability as I know to mesh with the enterprise line of cnpilot.
I usually will let the R2xx series do all the gateway stuff and turn off
its wifi and use a small poe switch to plug the E4xx series into.
depending if separate nets for vlans are needed the we move to a
mikrotik for doing the fancy routing and firewalling.
Most of the time homes that are a little larger than 2500sqft will only
need one E400 centrally located so EZPZ install the R200 with a POE for
the E4xx series and rock on.
We just got in our first E430 wall plate so excited to see what it
carries in features, but I can say so far after looking at it Cambium
has thought of a few gotchas from past devices that imitate it.
On 12/27/2018 9:37 AM, Donnie McCorkle wrote:
Dave,
Can you describe a typical installation with Cambium?
cnMaestro is an awesome ACS, and while testing all of the cambium wifi
units, I find disparate mechanisms in the WiFi on the R-Series routers
(which are neat enough themselves) and the E-400 series WiFi AP
platform (great APs).
So far I have been unable to “MESH/WDS” the R-Series routers to the
E-series WAPs. Also the WAPs have advanced roaming features not
supported in the router series.
WiFi SSID’s and Passphrases do not auto-propagate across the home, and
a number of other small issues that make the platform less
“Manageable” than I would like.
Have you found ways around these issues or is just adding the WiFi
enough for your clients?
*From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *dave
*Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2018 9:22 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi
We are doing the pure cambium solution using the cnmaestro with all of
it is AWESOME!
Inventory track is easier with a simple hand scanner products come in
and get scanned straight to cnmaestro where they wait to on boarded.
On 12/21/18 5:01 PM, David Coudron wrote:
We have been running into more and more situations where customers
either have homes that are too large to effectively cover with a
good router, or have so many devices at the far end of the house
from where their router has to be positioned that we are looking
for good options to provide better whole house coverage. We have
worked with Powerline extenders, but consider them to be too
inconsistent for wide spread use, and have worked with some
wireless extenders. The wireless extenders have a pretty big
impact on wireless speed that we aren’t excited about them as a go
forward solution. We also can’t log into the powerline or
wireless extenders without some port forwarding work in their main
router. We have played around with some mesh options,
particularly the Ubiquiti Amplifi product, which we really like,
but feel like it is not an option since we cannot manage it
remotely. Netgear Orbi certainly seems like a viable option, but
kind of spendy if you need 3 nodes. Cost isn’t necessarily an
issue since customers will buy this equipment rather than us fund
it, but we don’t want the solution to be so expensive no one opts
for it. I know there has been a few threads on managed routers,
but this seems like a little bit different take since we are going
to have customers buy the equipment, but would like to be able to
manage remotely. I suppose one option would be to still provide
an inexpensive managed router as we currently do and have them
manage the mesh system on their own. Any thoughts on what has
worked well for whole house mesh systems, especially in a remote
management situation?
Regards,
David Coudron
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