Help buy the Access point

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@System Error Message - I wasn't talking specifically about this thread but more about your advocacy of Mikrotik in general. I don't have a problem with it, I just want to make sure it's clear that Mikrotik is more of an enthusiast/professional solution than most of the things we discuss here.

Tend to agree - the Microtik boxen, they're pretty cool for those who have advanced knowledge of networking and wireless - but for the general public, there are perhaps better solutions from a usability perspective.

Good enough is good enough...

 

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I hear you. I started out messing with VAX VMS and DECNet in the college computer lab and turned it into a 20-year career. The problem is that a lot of people, while having the capability, don't have the time or determination that you do. I know I don't anymore, even though I did 10-15 years ago. Sometimes people just want to plug it in and walk away.

Without getting too far off track...

I started my development work on VMS - so I know it pretty well...

I issued an RFP a couple of years back, and one of the platforms, believe it or not, was OpenVMS based - and at the end of the day, we declined, as my Operations team was Solaris/Linux - at the end of the day, even though the platform was very capable (VMS Clusters, very cool), the environment was rejected...

Even with folks that know their "stuff", usability is key...

 

[stevech]

VMS, RSX-11
didn't have a mouse.
but they NEVER crashed.

 

[htismaqe]

I went from VMS in college to VMS and DEC Alpha's at my first ISP job. Then I went to work for a manufacturer who had some HPUX on 3000's but was still running primary manufacturing apps on an HP System One.

 

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Hi All,

I have office around 50pp. setting up the wireless. I have router i want buy the Access Point. Anybody know which model can support 50user(wireless client)
My office have L: 70m and W: 25m , few Wall thick 25cm.

Any model AC can support my purpose pls let me know.
Thank you very much.

I'll bring up another approach:

Mac Mini Server with two Airport Extreme AC's, GigE switch.

MacMini - $499 - 4/500 config, which includes two TB ports, and 4 USB3 ports for storage
OSX Server - $29
Apple GigE Thunderbolt Adapter - $29
Airport Extreme AC's - $140/each on the Apple Refurb Store
Generic unmanaged 8-port GigE switch - $40

With OSX server - One gets a full DNS server (not dnsmasq), DHCP, Radius for authentication, L2TP/IPSec and PPTP VPN servers, and centralized management of the AP's and User Accounts - also includes OpenDirectory and SMB/AFP file servers... and it's an unrestricted Client License...

Less than $1000 out the door, and more than enough horsepower to handle a 50 user office environment.

 

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VMS, RSX-11
didn't have a mouse.
but they NEVER crashed.

Getting slightly off range - old-fart remembrances

Completely agree - I've seen VAXen with years of uptime - VMS is old, but it was incredibly stable.... individual apps/processes might crash, but never to the point of taking down the system

11/780 for development, and we deployed on a 42 unit MicroVAX cluster - zero downtime across the cluster, even though we'd have the occasional MV2 node go down - but that was easy, just down the box, make the fixes, and bring it back up and resync...

Spent many hours staring into Vt420's, and my main Dev station was a MacII with a 20" Grey Scale display...

 

[stevech]

Also, these didn't have a .NET interpreter (band-aid for bad apps).