edwin2006 wrote: > Interesting to hear how this goes. Nice to know would be what your > environment is. Is the building outside a city, are there other wifi > sources in the neighborhood etc.
Some environmental particulars: The main structure is four levels totaling 3,500-4,000 sq. ft., with the maximum interior run dimension being approximately 125 ft. It is not uncommon for a client to be 2-3 floors and 5-6 walls away from the server. No masonry or steel construction, which is a plus in this context. The extended exterior roaming zone covers about 2 acres of mixed wooded and open space, with an outbuilding @ 70 ft. from the main structure. The general outside vicinity is moderately congested, but primarily in the 2.4 band with lower-tech traffic. I can detect good signal from five surrounding outside wireless networks besides our own from the property. This physical environment is why the property was previously wired for gigabit ethernet when 10/100 fast ethernet and 802.11b were still the standards (the primary distribution trunks to the server have since been upgraded to be 10G-capable). The primary switching equipment is Cisco 350 level quality, and those elements have retained a 10-14 year effective service life. But we have stuck with Asus prosumer-grade routers and wireless components due to the faster obsolescence curves of those elements (and they tend to be upgraded every 3-4 years as newer wireless standards emerge). It was a difficult single-point wireless install in years past, and earlier AP and repeater solutions were frankly excessively complicated (including from a security perspective). And that infrastructure decision has proven a boon for many years, as there is still nothing better for fixed clients (such as SB players). Our TPs and Touches never have dropouts thanks to ethernet. Mobile clients were the historic problem, but there were few of them. That has obviously changed with the rise of IoT. The introduction of mesh technologies has eliminated that last obstacle, and we now get excellent signal across the entire property, especially with ethernet backhauls (yet another benefit of that earlier investment). The future is AX, but the wireless tools have dramatically improved in the last four years. As I mentioned, in our instance, we only need to deal with a relative handful of older legacy wireless clients. And I understand that our network infrastructure exceeds the usual residential standards. _But_IT_WORKS_in_our_Asus_AX_router-driven_environment,_and_that_is_the_takeaway_for_this_conversation._ If the Asus AX nodes prove to present an obstacle, we will probably still keep them and keep working the problem. The one Touch could probably be run to ethernet. And iPeng playing on an iPad Pro is not a bad substitution for a balky Radio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112167 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
