You need a unifi controller to manage the system. The individual AP's
don't have a web page. You put the controller on the same LAN segment
as the AP's and it will discover them and add them to the network.
You could use your laptop as the "controller" to set them up and then
take it with you when you leave. The AP's will keep working without
being able to reach the controller.....but don't do that. If you want to
change anything later you'd have to go back with the same laptop. If
you want to associate the AP's with a different controller you have to
default them.
For a super small deployment I just install the controller software on
the customer's PC. Once you get past a handful of AP's then you include
a $300 PC in the cost estimate.
So the unifi is like a normal ubnt. Product just program it and leave. It?
On Jan 13, 2015 10:47 AM, "Rory Conaway" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have a customer yanking out his Meraki’s in a couple months and
going to UniFi. We have a installations with them, zero
problems. But you do need a management computer. I have the
XClaim radio too that I tested at my house. The only problem is
no management tool outside your phone and you have to be onsite.
They said they will have something in a few months for that.
Xirrus is enterprise grade and probably as expensive as Meraki
with all the bells and whistles. I’d stick to UniFi if it was me
for financial reasons if you simply want to give away free internet.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Gino Villarini
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:31 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
I have 2 at home, easy setup. Basic feature set… problem with
reatail locations like restaurants is that you need control of the
users… how much time they can browse, when the AP will be
available (avoiding night leeches), login mechanisms, value added
marketing for the host restaurant (like pop ups every x min with
advertisement) Etc… Retail is a different animal… Meraki even
offers visit statistics of how many passerbys( mac detected but
not registered) , users (loged in) with how long they stayed, how
recurrently the pass or visit ect! Very extensive reports for the
host restaurant/retail location
Gino A. Villarini
President
Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
www.aeronetpr.com <http://www.aeronetpr.com>
@aeronetpr
*From: *Darin Steffl <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Reply-To: *"[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Date: *Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 12:24 PM
*To: *"[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
We also ordered a few Xclaim AP's and they seem to be performing
really well and at a great price as well.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Daniel White <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The new Xclaim AP's are designed for this type of environment.
Get the Ruckus RF engineering technology with the coffee shop type
price.
Installing one in our new office... will have my hands on it on
Friday. Only need a single AP... and of course it will be lightly
loaded (mostly for cell phones,etc... computers are hardwired
typically).
Got mine from JR at WAV - good price on those units too.
Daniel White – Managing Director
SAF North America LLC
Cell: (303) 746-3590 <tel:%28303%29%20746-3590>
Skype: danieldwhite
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On
Behalf Of
Jay Weekley
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:19 AM
> To:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
>
> The problem I have with Unifi is there really isn't a stand alone
feature that
> doesn't require a controller that I know of. I would like the
option of logging
> in locally, changing a few settings, and moving on.
>
> Cameron Crum wrote:
> > Unifi is not hard to set up at all. I put about 20 of them in
my kid's
> > school and it works great. VLAN'd 3 separate networks, one for
> > teachers, one for students, and one for guests. I don't use the
> > payments stuff of course and access is still controlled by a CCR
> > behind it all, but it has not even had so much as a hiccup in
over a
> > year since it went in. This is not even the enterprise version
as it
> > was not out yet when I put the system in.
> >
> > Cameron
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Bill Prince
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >
> > Gino,
> >
> > What do like (and dislike?) about Meraki, and which others
have
> > you tried?
> >
> > bp
> > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
> >
> > On 1/13/2015 6:47 AM, Gino Villarini wrote:
> >> Meraki
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Gino A. Villarini
> >> President
> >> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
> >> www.aeronetpr.com <http://www.aeronetpr.com>
<http://www.aeronetpr.com> ï¿1Ž2ï¿1Ž2
> >> @aeronetpr
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: joseph marsh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> >> <mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >> Reply-To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM
> >> To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >> Subject: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant
> >>
> >> Doing WiFi for a restaurantï¿1Ž2ï¿1Ž2ï¿1Ž2 what would be
good for
> >> deploying WiFiï¿1Ž2
> >>
> >> Ubnt unifi, meraki or something else?
> >>
> >
> >
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