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    Wired APs - Handoff problem. Should I try a mesh setup or are there better alternatives?

    Indian houses use plenty of brick/reinforced concrete In my experience over the years, 5 ghz is no good here unless you are in LoS /minimal obstruction from the AP Aren't the newer mesh systems supposed to use AP steering to handle better handoff? Or perhaps cheap business APs that use...
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    WLAN vs Wired+AP for a housing community hotspot/CCTV setup

    While we don't have an FBI in India :) , the local law enforcement obviously can come knocking Using a pfsense router with hotspot authentication (and a disclaimer /TOS).. Checked with some cafes that provide hotspot wifi their customers and they said that as long as you have a ToS based...
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    Wired APs - Handoff problem. Should I try a mesh setup or are there better alternatives?

    I have been struggling with seamless wireless coverage in my house for the last 3+ years and have gone through enough and more routers/APs - enough to get one rack in my electronics cupboard at the spillover point :( The house has two floors with approx 1000-1200 sqft on each floor + another...
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    Wired Router for Small scale deployment

    Internet service is 40mbps .. In any case, I was more concerned about the router getting swamped with local LAN traffic.. Although I would guess that any good quality prosumer grade gigabit router should be able to handle 25-30mbps constant traffic on LAN and maybe another 20-30 mbps on WAN at...
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    WLAN vs Wired+AP for a housing community hotspot/CCTV setup

    Ended up using TP-Link Outdoor devices instead after afield test with both Ubi and TP Link equipment Was surprised to see the TP-Link outperforming Ubi by a wide margin even though they are priced well lower.. I guess we can only wait & watch on the longevity of the equipment but for now, we...
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    Wired Router for Small scale deployment

    We are in the process of upgrading an old analog camera system in our gated community to a wireless IP based one. The attached network topology should help: In summary, we have a central server connected to 3 blocks via point-to-point wireless backhaul (5ghz) and 2-3 cameras in each block...
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    WLAN vs Wired+AP for a housing community hotspot/CCTV setup

    We live in a small gated community and currently use an old analog DVR CCTV solution which is practically EOL We now intend to switch to an IP network for the CCTVs and while we are at it,we are also hoping to setup a community WLAN that can be used for provisioning Internet Access in the...
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    Community WLAN with DVR and bandwidth capped hotspot

    We are planning to setup a WLAN for internal use within our gated housing community in India. The area to be covered is approx 300 meters X 100 meters using a combination of CAT6 and OFC terminating in multiple APs with a central server The intended usage includes: 1) Backbone for 12-15 IP...
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    WAN prioritization on multi WAN router - TP Link R470T+

    My config is as follows: ISP 1 - DSL WAN (WAN 1) with very high data cap (as good as unlimited) 2 - 3G (WAN 2) with small data cap (10GB) 3 - 4G (WAN 3) with small data cap (10GB) Router 1 - TP Link 470 T+ load balancing router - Used only for load balancing Router 2 - Netgear R7000...
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