I had been struggling with wifi at my house. I finally settled on the Ubiquiti UAP Pro. It supports dual band, PoE, VLANs, and has fantastic throughput performance[1], fantastic wifi connection stability and excellent wifi range. I absolutely love this thing. It also has a pleasant ring shape for easy aesthetic display on a wall or ceiling. It does not support the newer AC standard but I also have exactly zero AC capable devices. It easily met all of my needs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0089QB1SC

The only real problem I have with it is it requires the wifi controller software to manage the Config but once I got all the ssid and vlan settings put in place I don't really need to do make changes. I've never had to reboot it either though with PoE, I can just bounce the PoE switch port to reboot it. 


[1] about 220 mbps wifi throughout on my laptop to speedtest.net and about 95 mbps on my Android phone with the speedtest.net app both using 5ghz. I got over half both respective values on 2.4ghz. Yes, it was rather ideal test conditions but still it was impressive to me and I've tried a lot of home wifi router/ap products.





<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: swede <danyberg at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/02/2014  9:09 PM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org </div><div>Subject: [tclug-list] OT: wireless access point choice. </div><div>
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OT:  Looking for a good wireless router (Access Point) to reside on the Green (local) side of my IPCOP machine.  I've been using a WRT54G2 for many years now and am looking for something that will work as well but newer and faster.  I only use it as an access point with MAC security setup and let IPCOP handle the rest.  

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B0CQCCC/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=31028616925&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13806167873235774101&hvpone=115.09&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_59m2uyqnzx_b

is what I was thinking, the Trendnet stuff I have here is working flawlessly and it was very cheap.  Any others I should look at in that range with those options?  At the moment I think the best connection I have in the house is 802.11 N, but I figure I'd get one with 5Ghz for future compatibility.

Thanks for any input, I hope to get something or at least order it in a few days.

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