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This isn't actually a Home Networking question but close enough. Could someone recommend an access point that we can throw on our small office network to provide wireless access. We only need basic security (WPA2/MAC filtering), it doesn't need to be a router and we need coverage in a room which is about 20m x 20m with a couple of thin partition walls that shouldn't casue much in the way of signal issues (and the most frequent users will be in direct line of sight). I have a Linksys E2000 at home which has worked well for me, I could just pick up one of those (or similar) and disable DHCP. Is there a benefit to buying a straight up AP over doing this? They don't seem to be any cheaper. WAP610N is £70 and doesn't have great reviews, compares to an E2500 for £75. Any recommendations would be great, thanks.
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I have a house with ethernet faceplates in a few places and I want to put a 4-port switch and a wireless AP on each one because coverage is spotty with a single router. Is there a recommended device that does both of these things at once? The recommended ones in the OP don't seem to have wired ports on them. Bonus points for PoE support, though I'll also need a way to add that at the router end. Would be good to avoid having multiple devices that each need power and everything looking messy.
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Apr 18, 2016 18:45
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Antillie posted:Any consumer router is an AP/switch combo device if you turn off its DHCP server and ignore its WAN port.
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Apr 18, 2016 22:17
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Krailor posted:Adding in a bunch of APs all over the place seems like overkill for anything that isn't a mansion or some crazy house with chicken wire in all the walls. There is a ISP-provided modem/router by the front door which can't move since that's where the phone/fibre socket is. It's a fairly long house and the signal doesn't carry to the back but that may just be because it's a crappy router. It also has a loft conversion and a garage at the bottom of the garden. He's had CAT6 and faceplates installed already, two in the house and one in the garage, these will give good coverage across the house and garden. And we'll turn off the AP on the ISP router. So not sticking them all over or anything crazy, it's only two in the house. It looks like I can connect a PoE switch (TP-LINK TL-SG1008P) to the modem/router and then use a PoE splitter (TL-POE10R) at the other end to power whatever router I want, let's say a C5. Anything terrible about this plan?
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Apr 18, 2016 22:56
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Viper_3000 posted:If he needs wired connections for other things in the room, then getting consumer routers and turning them into switches/APs is likely going to be the easiest and cheapest option. Given I'm going to turn off DHCP so most of the software features are useless, is there anything smaller than a C5 with decent Wi-Fi performance and 4 gigabit ports? Should I even care much about what routers I pick given I'm using them as dumb switches with APs?
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Apr 19, 2016 10:09
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I meant physically smaller, not necessarily cheaper. Maybe they have poo poo antenna on smaller boxes?
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Apr 19, 2016 18:35
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redeyes posted:I'm totally with this idea, Mikrotiks are Awesome. loving rock solid compared to any consumer class crap. Just get Winbox ( the management tool for Mikrotiks) and away you go. They can basically be as simple or complicated as you want to get. Aside from the insane flexibility these have, they have really good radios and I have never had to 'reboot' one to get it working again.
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Apr 21, 2016 14:37
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Viper_3000 posted:I'd ask the guys in the Mikrotik thread how easy/difficult it would be to do what you want to do. (Bridge all the ports, setup the wireless, disable DHCP turning it into a switch/AP)
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