[Noisebridge-discuss] Serious WAPs?

[Dr. Jesus]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a low-end professional access point?
>>  I'm sick of flaky consumer-grade 802.11N crap.  Ideally, under $250.  I'd
>> prefer a router sort of setup, but I can always throw together a netbook
>> running a NAT box if there's no router in my price range.
>
> I really like Ubiquiti equipment. They're linux-based Atheros MIPS
> hardware with some custom tools to manage it all. They're usually
> pretty cheap and very flexible.
>
> If you're interested in big-name vendors, I'd look at some Cisco
> AP1100's or AP1200's. There some spare ones that are unused (for now,
> hopefully they'll be going up one day) at Noisebridge if you wanted to
> poke at them and see what they're like.

They need 48V power supplies.