Suggestions for PoE Access points welcomed

As per the subject. Whatever I find on the internet always seem to come with two opposing feed back information with a glowing report on one hand and another suggesting the product is rubbish.

Would someone please hold my hand and point out what I should buy?

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

As per the subject. Whatever I find on the internet always seem to come with two opposing feed back information with a glowing report on one hand and another suggesting the product is rubbish.

Would someone please hold my hand and point out what I should buy?

i can't give any recommendations buuuuut as i've found out with some network gear, there are some major fanbois and haters for various models. welcome to that world of - WHYYYYYYY!

Not enough information to go on here really. I recently deployed some Aruba AP-515s with Central management but nobody is buying them for their house.

Have a look at the Ubiquiti range - ceiling or wall mount and many options. WiFi6 if you want, outdooor if required, residential grade or business (number of clients) &c &c. You need a controller - which can be software to manage them.

I have a large house - and it is covered adequately by just two. I'm happy with them, friends are happy with them ...

I have 3. 2 TPLink with a software Omada controller and a Zyxel nebula cloud based AP

I don't like the Zyxel as it's cloud based. You can setup local control and it's admin page in standalone mode I cannot seem to get any browser to work with. It also doesn't support ipv6 in cloud mode.

The tplinks (eap-610 V3 and Eap-615 wall) are good and I run the management software in a docker container on my Asustor NAS, avoiding cloud access altogether

I also have a couple of older Unifi APs. I run the controller as a CM on Proxmox and it only runs when I run an update or need to make changes and you can run this up on a PC when required. The software is pretty easy to understand and the hardware is reliable in my experience.

Edited by smouty (Fri 29-Mar-24 20:33:07)

In reply to a post by MHC:

Have a look at the Ubiquiti range - ceiling or wall mount and many options. WiFi6 if you want, outdooor if required, residential grade or business (number of clients) &c &c. You need a controller - which can be software to manage them.

I have a large house - and it is covered adequately by just two. I'm happy with them, friends are happy with them ...

Same here. I have two Unifi APs, ceiling mounted, PoE driven from a Mikrotik, and have been running stably since about 2017.

I leave the controller running in a Linux container, as it can collect stats about usage and performance.

The model I have is AC Lite which is Wifi 5; it has a raw max bit rate of 867Mbps and gives ~400Mbps in real-world throughput (iperf3 to LAN).

Its modern replacement at the same price point is the U6+ which gives you Wifi 6. It still only has a gigabit ethernet uplink, but that should be fine for domestic use. It's what I'd buy if I were buying again today.

If you want Wifi 6E or 2.5G uplink then it gets a lot more expensive.

3 TP-Link APs here. EAP 245, 265 and 610. Managed by the Omada app on the phone. Can also be managed over the LAN to their IP addresses. Can't fault them, they do what they say on the tin.

I am using 2 x Zyxel NWA90AX in the house which seem to work very well
Personally I control them locally, not in the cloud
Give them a unique IP address, such as 192.168.1.150 and they can easily be controlled in any browser then

Mine are Flex HD. Good thing about UI is that they do (usually) give access to all channels, up to 13 at 2.4GHz and up to 165 on 5 GHz so easy enough to find empty slots.