Cisco 1832 - Testing

Started by Dieselboy, February 25, 2016, 09:18:18 AM

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Dieselboy

#15
September 30, 2016, 07:52:15 PM
Yes, since the LAN port will be 100M from that 3560, I think the AP does not enable the AC wifi. When I connect this AP into the gigabit network at work, I do get AC.

Out of mine I'm getting 802.11n on 2.4 and 5GHz bands. Although the wifi connectivity speed on my laptop shows connection rate of 650mbps

PS. make sure you use the latest firmware for this AP. There's a ton of bugs in the initial releases as it went to market before the firmware was ready.

Dieselboy

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September 30, 2016, 08:01:37 PM
Quote from: SimonV on September 29, 2016, 10:29:51 AM
How are you liking them so far, Dieselboy? Are they worth considering for micro-sites with one or two access points?

Definitely keep them in mind. If you deploy 3 AP's in a site or more without wifi controller (like SMB type customers) then I would go for these. I've set up a lot of customers in the past with just 2 or 3 AP's and "office" and "office-guest" SSID's and that's it. If you're an outsourced IT company then deploy these instead, they will self manage, you can give the customer a login to change the wifi PSK for the guest SSID as and when they see fit. It should reduce the time spent managing wifi with these AP's in that scenario. I've done a few home-visits to CEOs and set up their property with wifi (so they can trade from their home gym  :o) and thinking back, these APs would have been perfect for that. Back then we used 1132's!

This new firmware though is a million times better as well so any opinions anyone had about these on the old firmware needs to take another look and get another feel for it.

deanwebb

#17
October 01, 2016, 07:36:41 AM
We are not a small business and we still have autonomous APs from the stone age here and there.

I HATE APs FROM THE STONE AGE. PLEASE UPGRADE, YOU CHEAPSKATES!
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Dieselboy

#18
October 05, 2016, 01:25:53 AM
I grabbed 2 x 10GB Fibre SFPs from stores last week, cabled up our new SAN for resilience. When I went to config the switch and bring up the 10GB SFP port, it said that it wasn't supported. Checked the SFP and it's a Fibre Channel SFP :(

Went back to stores and we have 12 FC SFP's but no 10GB ones. Arent they like $1k each? We're never going to use FC. Thinking of seeing if the boss will let me put them on Ebay so we can scrape some money together to upgrade our wifi in the offices
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