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    gigabit ethernet connection necessary for WAP?

    The UniFi UAP-Pro's came with a PoE injector so if you have a non-PoE enabled GbE switch you can use it and not be tied to your 10-100 speeds. Chris
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    10,000 sq ft coverage

    No reason to go WiFi on the router - you'll have the UniFi's for wireless and you may even create performance issues, and certainly management overhead, between it and the UniFi's. My personal preference is OpenBSD on a small Atom based box such as the Supermicro SYS-5015A-EHF-D525 (and even an...
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    10,000 sq ft coverage

    Finished a UniFi AP Pro deployment (3 units covering a larger space) at a local office recently and it was certainly a pleasure. The units come with a PoE injector which works fine if you don't have a PoE enabled switch. Nice to be able to get them up and out of the way without needing a nearby...
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    Need recommendation on access points (not routers) for townhouse deployment

    I'm probably going to go with the HP 2520-8G-PoE Switch (J9298A). They call it an 8 port switch but it actually has 10 ports with POE only active on 8.
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    Need recommendation on access points (not routers) for townhouse deployment

    I agree that one wouldn't do it for absolute best performance, and that it certainly isn't "best practice", but in many cases it works fine, and is easy to undo (pull the cable out) if it doesn't - no harm, no foul. It might be a bigger mistake to use a WAP or router without a GbE connection...
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    Need recommendation on access points (not routers) for townhouse deployment

    The more I look at it the more I think that most of the "business class" WAP's are really not that great and that some of the consumer routers have superior performance and features. The Asus RT-N66U has better specs than the current Netgear WNDAP350's I'm, running and it supports IPv6 which the...
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    Access Point or Router ?

    Not that I have a need to but surely one could use the other LAN ports if desired - it's just another switch.
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    Access Point or Router ?

    Need wireless coverage for a small business, both bands and N, to replace several Netgear WNDAP350's as they just haven't been entirely reliable (mostly dropped connections), although I do like their feature set for the most part such as logging to a syslog server, they do not support IPv6 and...
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