The important thing to remember is if you think that getting away from
wire run to just do mesh will do the trick is underrated.
The only time I do mesh if its impossible without digging earth or
aerial drops.
For example we have 3 large lakes in my town and lots of condos and one
of the condo sites has light poles right outside in front and behind the
units so we deployed 6 E500 units 2 of which are connected to routers
for access. Which we installed at the pole with a small nema enclosure
for power and switching and each meshed unit just had Poe injector in a
smaller sched80 enclosure at the base of each pole where one was
installed for mesh.
It was really neat to mesh all of the radios using the 5Ghz radio which
I placed on its own vlan then did separate vlans for both the 2.4 and
5Ghz ssids. I then enabled Wan and subscriber limits on each of the APs
for not only throughput but also the number of devices that can connect.
I also used the enhanced roaming feature.
There are some other features these things have I found to be useful
such as the Off channel scanning and interference channel scan. These
greatly help with noise floor and smoother connections.
On 1/11/19 2:11 PM, Donnie McCorkle wrote:
Thanks Dave.. that helps me understand.
Donnie
*From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *David M
*Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:36 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi
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]>
<mailto:[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *dave
*Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2018 9:22 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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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