whats a good wireless access point that supports 802.11ac? I don't need the router / NAT portion
Im looking at something like this: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0ED-000J-00013CVF
so any2ix blew up briefly just then
i use a tp-link archer c7 myself
i find it fine.  i just plug into lan port
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704177&cm_re=tp-link_archer-_-33-704-177-_-Product
something like that ^
nope
oh hangon
i was looking at first
will look at second :)
its a c7 so probably :-)
yaeh like that except it was $60 US
they tax us a lot here in Canada
i got it last xmas i think
if you're not in a rush it might go on sale
it's $93.82 US on amazon atm
which tells me i bought it dec 13
so it probably came just after xmas
and it was $58.99
the newer stuff may be better now
I got a quote for cisco AP
like $500
i upgraded from unifi uap-ac
which is more expensive, but was making whining noises and actually went slower
lol if you're looking at "enterprise AP's" then you should start with Ubiquiti gear
http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B00D80J2XU
Amazon: "Ubiquiti Networks UniFi AC Enterprise WiFi System - UAP-AC"
interesting
so that's what i was using.
and yeah i prefer the tp-link
the unifi one would run hot, and it would crash a lot
and i had to reboot it
and it would randomly stop working on one band
can't remember if it was 2.4 or 5
i am wired for my desktops.
i have two of the tp-links
Don't think I've ever heard bad things about Unifi gear, not that I've heard a ton
and if using the tp-link as client at distnace can do 200 megabit easy.
brycec: the non ac  stuff is better
really unifi helps you when you want seamless handover etc.
i did firmware upgrade but it was still a pita
i went from like 1 megabit to 5 megabit with difficult to reach place with tp-link
but it's one wall away from where i can get like 150 megabit
but 150 megabit meant moving the router like a foot
if you have non moving clients it's easier to get good speeds.
like that room has a few areas that are not so great
but generally if in good placement can get 100 megabit easy on single band 433 megabit 802.11ac
and 200 to 250 megabit in same room
my laptop does about 300 megabit or so
40MB/sec whatever that is
320 megabit real performance single thread.
it was getting that speed from my proxy for package installs :)
i could also get around 600 megabit in same room with two of them back to back.
but nfs was way slower than with gigabit ethernet
mercutio: is your tp-link archer black or white?
black
are there white ones?
it's v2 or v3?
i can't remember which
it's not v1
v1 doesn't work with openwrt.
one of them has openwrt, the other doesn't.
oh it's c8 that's white, c8 is broadcom rather than atheros with faster cpu.
and i don't think is compatible with openwrt.
the store I went to today had 2 c7 one black one white
the guy there wasnt too sure of the difference other than the white was $10 more expensive
setup was a breeze
disabled dhcp, assigned an ip in my subnet, set wifi ssid name and password
you got black?
15Megabyte / sec file transfer from wireless laptop downloading off wired gigabite pc
that's pretty much what i did
s/gigabite/gigabit
<mnathani_> 15Megabyte / sec file transfer from wireless laptop downloading off wired gigabit pc
that's slow
yea, I got black
does the laptop have 802.11ac?
it does
433 or 866?
there are two?
That's what she said!!
the plot thickens
yeah
probably the slower one
not sure though
it's like how lots of cellphones do 60 megabit or something wireless n
so phones and cheap laptops are often 433
like my tablet is 433
my laptop is 866
enough to say its ac
but not the full 866
it's probably the faster one
yeah you can only really hope for half the connected rate
laptops can be kind of special though
often their antenna situation is far from ideal
and so like if you sit at a desk with the laptop, if you sit facing the opposite direction at the desk it may give twice the speed
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i spun around in my chhair when i was checking
that has 802.11ac
yeah chromecast is likely to be 433
15 megabytes/sec isn't bad though
more is always nicer though
windows file transfer
4 gig iso
the other thing is that 5 ghz channel selection can make a difference, and often naming your 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz ssid's different names helps force 5 ghz
ftp might be faster
because even if you have -20 dbm less signal with 5 ghz it's often better.
I already have 3 ssid names in my household
just use a different one for 5 ghz and 2.4
another one for 5 ghz would make residents go nuts
and you may want to add _optout_nomap to the end too
ok well with windows there's a 5 ghz preference thing i think too
it just doesn't seem to work very well
was it using 5 ghz?
3 different access points / wireless access points
you can name different access points the same
not sure about the 5 ghz
i set the password on all of my access points to be the same
then they need to match up with aes / tkip etc
wpa2
well it makes it easier for people to remember the password
password is the same
ssids are different
i don't think they need to match up with windows
i think the protection is pretty weak
there are iphones, ipods, windows phone , several android  as well
yeah
do you have two 5 ghz routesr?
ime higher frequency works better than lower
but don't know what channel restriction is like there
yes 2 5ghz
one is a cisco access point
other is this new tplink
yeah you allow high ones
so you can use 149 through 165
you need 80 mhz for 802.11ac
third is a mikrotik which I am checking
doesn't matter where you start really
oh
you can't use low channel numbers
tplink is set to auto right now
well you can use every second one
yeh i se to manual
set
and i'm using 157 or such i think
it was defaulting to 42 or something
and going slower
but if it's set to canada it shouldn't do that
i'm on 153
Acer Aspire R 13 R7-371T-59ZK Signature Edition Laptop
thats the laptop
manual should say which 802.11ac it supports
I liked that the TP-Link router didnt complain when adding IP: 10.10.100.100 /16
most other routers force /24 and usually in 192.168 range