Newbie to the fold with a few questions!

[jason_sparrow]

Hi all,

Im looking at jumping from the Unifi ship as i find their products extremely frustrating, coverage poor and things are showing disabled when they aren't etc so...

I live in a standard two story house and at present, i have aUnifi AP pro on the landing upstairs, and one in the main living room downstairs. This provides reasonable coverage on the 5ghz band, but regardless of settings etc, most of our devices are roaming like mad, even when they havent moved for a hour or so, and when our iphones sleep, they disconnect and latch on to the mobile network which in turn uses my data allowance.

What Ruckus product would you recommend to replace my existing Ap Pros?

Do i need two of a higher spec?

My current set up is a Ubiquiti Edgerouter poe, am 802.11af 16 port switch (which provides the 48V to the AP's)

many thanks for any help

🙂

[seanmuir]

I'm glad your happy with Ruckus, it truly is a great product!

[neil_neil_67001]

Jason,

Just stick with defaults. Channels and channel power are set by the country code. The access point will dynamically adjust the power used depending on the data rate. Just let the AP's do what they do and stick with defaults, don't worry about trying to adjust settings -unless you really understand what you are doing and why, it won't serve any purpose.

As in the other thread, I'd be happy to answer any specific technical questions as this sort of info is useful and people are curious, so answers may help others as well.

Neil Mac
CWNE #113, CWNT
Senior Technical Trainer, Ruckus Wireless

[seanmuir]

I tend to disagree with your comment "it won't serve any purpose".

By using the 5.4GHz UNII-2-ext you can achieve the same effective cell range as 2.4GHz, as opposed to having weaker coverage on the 5GHz UNII-1/2 bands due to the logarithmic delta between these 2 frequencies.

If all devices are capable of operating on the 5.4GHz band there is no reason of optimising your network so coverage across the bands has same the same effective cell edge.

[neil_neil_67001]

In a house..
with 2 standalone AP's...
with minimal client devices....

Just stick with defaults.

[seanmuir]

Each to their own I suppose.

There is no reason to rule to out having an optimal netowork.