Right, so I need a GOOD Wireless Access Point. This is for the office. We can have up to probably 50 wireless devices all active at any one time. So it needs to be able to handle that. We've chewed through many £30 ones in the past and so far 3 of them have been thrown in the bin. They just don't work properly or fall over after a couple days uptime. I recently decommissioned 4 of our old servers and built up a brand new one running 2012 R2 with a couple VMs, which acts as our DHCP and DNS server. The wireless point was still going down so I know it must be the device itself as I've replaced the cabling to it all before. So this isn't an extender, it's an access point. I tried a Netgear EX7000 and while you can put it into access point mode, the wired network still couldn't even ping anything on the wireless network without 75% packet loss so I gave up. Any suggestions welcome as I need it by tomorrow AM.
A Meraki MR18 would be perfect. I throw 300GB+ a day through each AP at work without them breaking a sweat.
Meraki, ZyXEL NWA3000-N Series, Ubiquiti UAP-PRO. Take your pick. But home user stuff is a waste of time, Don't even go there. I run 2 Meraki MR18's for Home (Only need one for the range) - Never miss a beat.
Fantastic thanks guys, so this is a decent item? Need it quite urgently you see http://www.amazon.co.uk/NWA3160-N-Wireless-802-11a-Business-Access/dp/B0054QK7EY
Should cope well with that. Used to use them for a Large coffee shop chain. Once you get it make sure to load latest firmware on it. Only downside with ZyXEL is if you have an issue it's always firmware haha. They did an upgrade while I was in there UK office for some demo kit we where using.
I'd got for the dual radio version so you get both 5GHz and 2.4GHz http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21/detail/B005FZXN4U
If you start having problems, you might consider a second WAP to split the load and put half the connected devices on one, and half on the other. Not so much to split the load on the WAP, but the load on the single router port all the WAP traffic goes through with just one WAP.
