-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Evan;
Fixing my link. Switch: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=541 Pods: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=634 As you can see they are a couple years old and the pods are discontinued. I am sure they have a newer version if you hunt for it. Regards; Brad On 05/23/2012 04:01 PM, Brad Hudson wrote: > Hi Evan; > > We used this at our office. > > http://www.dlink.com/category/productcategories/?cid=127 > > For the money (less than Cisco) it worked reasonably well but it > does need to have a network router/dhcp system handling the > networking. It's not a router, it's a switch with wireless 'pods' > that you hang in logical places. We did hit issues when we got to > a couple hundred wireless devices with multiple VPNs running > through it, but by this time it had been taken over by another > group and I suspect the issues were more related to limitations on > the PIX we had running behind it, or misconfiguration thereof. > > At home I currently have 2 generic wireless 'n' routers linked > with WDS. They both use the same channel and SSID. I have linux > laptops, an iPad and several androids that all move seamlessly to > whichever AP has the strongest signal. It works great with 2 > nodes, not sure how well it scales. > > You don't really need to spend a lot depending on the details of > your use case, but you do get what you pay for. Make sure you > leave room to scale. > > Regards; > > Brad > > > > > On 05/23/2012 03:37 PM, Evan Pettrey wrote: >> Good afternoon LOPSA, > >> I'm currently in the process of planning a somewhat large wifi >> network that will need to make use of several devices to extend >> the network to all corners of the necessary coverage area. In >> doing research for this project I've noticed that the majority of >> the extenders/repeaters on places like NewEgg simply rebroadcast >> the wireless network so if you walk from one repeater's coverage >> area to another it has to unjoin the previous network and join >> the next one. > >> However, I want to setup a seamless integration so that as you >> walk all around the covered area, it can jump from AP to AP >> without any interruptions. > > >> Can somebody please recommend a device that they've personally >> used and can vouch for that will do this? Preferably not too >> expensive but I'm not sure a cheaper solution exists for this. > > >> Thanks in advance! > > >> -Evan > > >> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing >> list [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This >> list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > - -- Brad Hudson SA Team Lead The Pythian Group - love your data Desk: 613-565-8696 x202 IM: pythianhudson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+9RO8ACgkQQ6JZA6y/BxlGrgCguxbHd+YmzynYUyfEV52PGWk3 qAgAni+xDVfrc3ulnRqWbe3p6GEP7J6a =nOC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
