So I'm finally fed up with the WiFi at my local church and I'm going to fix it. I have a good idea of what I'd like to do, but I'm not sure what WAP's I need to do this with. Right now they have a Verizon Fios router running to a switch and 1 UniFi AP connected to that. It covers a few rooms and you can get some connectivity in the sanctuary but it can't cover the entire church plus it's just one AP so it can't handle 200 clients at one time on a given Sunday. So here's what I'm thinking:
1.) Replace the switch with a easy to use POE switch. But which would I get? A UniFi unit?
2.) Replace the 1 UniFi AP with 4 WAP's that should be able to cover the space. I'm looking for easy to manage WAP's - I'm not really the most experienced when it comes to networking. What WAP's would I choose for this?
I was thinking of just adding more UniFi WAP's but I've read that they don't support true 'client handoff'? Again I'm not an experienced networking guy but from what I understand the UniFi WAP's won't seamlessly hand off the client from what to the other when you walk around the building so once you get in range of another AP with stronger signal, you're client may/may not disconnect from the current AP and join the AP with the stronger signal and it will cause it to lose connectivity for a moment while it renegotiates IP address etc... I'm not exactly sure the correct terminology for this so I just call it client handoff lol.
Anyhow I'm looking for the simplest and cheapest solution to cover this building and support maybe 230 clients at peak and 15 and non peak times. What do you guys suggest?
Thanks a million in advance for any help you can provide!
1.) Replace the switch with a easy to use POE switch. But which would I get? A UniFi unit?
2.) Replace the 1 UniFi AP with 4 WAP's that should be able to cover the space. I'm looking for easy to manage WAP's - I'm not really the most experienced when it comes to networking. What WAP's would I choose for this?
I was thinking of just adding more UniFi WAP's but I've read that they don't support true 'client handoff'? Again I'm not an experienced networking guy but from what I understand the UniFi WAP's won't seamlessly hand off the client from what to the other when you walk around the building so once you get in range of another AP with stronger signal, you're client may/may not disconnect from the current AP and join the AP with the stronger signal and it will cause it to lose connectivity for a moment while it renegotiates IP address etc... I'm not exactly sure the correct terminology for this so I just call it client handoff lol.
Anyhow I'm looking for the simplest and cheapest solution to cover this building and support maybe 230 clients at peak and 15 and non peak times. What do you guys suggest?
Thanks a million in advance for any help you can provide!