James Knott wrote:
On 2023-04-20 12:29, Per Jessen wrote:
Home: I have five APs - partially because of how poor TP-link APs are, partially because of distances, partially because the house is built with reinforced concrete. Main house - two APs. My lab has one AP, my office has one AP and a third one in the roof for outdoors. Oh, I forgot, an extra Netgear for iot, because the current tp-link devices have trouble with doing 2.4GHz and 5GHz at the same time.
With 5 PoE devices, I'd go with a PoE switch.
Seeing how popular / omnipresent PoE devices have become, I'm beginning to wonder too. Last time I looked was probably 10+ years back, and the price of a 24-port HP PoE switch would make your eyes water.
I also have had a bad experience with a TP-Link AP, in that multicasts from the main LAN got into the guest VLAN. This made it impossible to use IPv6 on the guest SSID.
I have had two key issues - a) four-five years ago, for environmental monitoring, I deployed a number of small (5x5cm) ARM devices, on IPv6. They kept loosing their connectivity. I could find nothing wrong, but rebooting the AP always did the trick. In the past, I have had truly excellent support from Zyxel, but TP-link ... <expletives deleted>. b) to keep up with the times, we installed a TP-link dual-band AP in the house. It works great for laptops and mobiles on 5GHz, but as soon as you add some 2.4GHz devices ... I really do not know why I have three tp-link devices. Can I claim temporary insanity?
BTW, with the Unifi access point, if you buy one, it comes with an injector. If you buy the 5 pack, it doesn't. I guess the presumption is, if you have that many APs, you're likely using a PoE switch.
thanks, that is a very interesting point, have taken note. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.6°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes