Most retail WiFi is for serving the guests. I think the #1 hated thing about free WiFi is poor performance. Usually it'd because they're on a 1.5 meg DSL, but another big contender is the mobile devices just not dropping the bad wireless connection when they should. They hang on too long.
*nods* The UBNT fast handoff doesn't work on open networks. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caleb Knauer" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:46:27 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant The only thing I can think of where rapid handoff would be needed in a restaurant is for mobile POS terminals if the wait staff is entering orders and payments and such at the table via tablet. Otherwise anything that matters (to the business) is going to be fixed or isn't super-duper-realtime critical. Unifi has a zero-handoff roaming feature but you need to take into account the design restraints. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Cameron Crum < [email protected] > wrote: I wonder how much hand off is happening at all in a restaurant? On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Mike Hammett < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Not really? All of the ones I setup I don't recall there being any issues... even with the original software releases. That said, the fast handoff isn't as good as what you're going to get from Ruckus or Xirrus. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: "joseph marsh" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:53:04 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant Isnt unifi a bitch to set up with software? On Jan 13, 2015 9:51 AM, "Jaime Solorza" < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Wyndam in Midland uses UniFi AC and it worked well. The local reservation casino is implementing it as well after testing Cisco and few others. Jaime Solorza On Jan 13, 2015 7:51 AM, "Rory Conaway" < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Xirrus. More granular packet control. Rory From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant Meraki Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: joseph marsh < [email protected] > Reply-To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM To: " [email protected] " < [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant Doing WiFi for a restaurant what would be good for deploying WiFi Ubnt unifi, meraki or something else? </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>
