I'm looking into upgrading my office wifi system to accommodate for 40+ people at any given time. My office has a 5400sqft on one floor. We currently have about 20 people and our Netgear Orbi will no longer suffice. The other day we had an all hands meeting with everyone gathering in one room and the closest node having issues dealing with all the devices trying to connect.
I have a custom built PFSense firewall sitting between the modem and the router and I'm probably going to get rid of it as well. It's fine for what it is but it was a pain to setup and I don't want to keep maintaining it. A basic security level firewall should do.
I have been looking at openmesh and ubiquiti. I'm leaning toward ubiquiti security gateway pro as the router to use since it does have better specs (processor and ram) compared to the openmesh g200. ubiquiti claims that this router can handle up to 2000 devices but I don't really trust that to be accurate in a real world use case. Moreover, there is also lack of additional information on the performance of the g200 causing me to lean toward unifi.
Mesh isn't a must in this setup. But POE is a must, and both do offer.
I think the setup will be:
1- UniFi Security Gateway Pro
1 - UniFi Switch L2 PoE
3 - UniFi HD
What do you guys recommend? I want to stay away from cisco meraki since that solution is a bit more expensive and ubiquiti's user interface seems a lot easier to manage.
I have a custom built PFSense firewall sitting between the modem and the router and I'm probably going to get rid of it as well. It's fine for what it is but it was a pain to setup and I don't want to keep maintaining it. A basic security level firewall should do.
I have been looking at openmesh and ubiquiti. I'm leaning toward ubiquiti security gateway pro as the router to use since it does have better specs (processor and ram) compared to the openmesh g200. ubiquiti claims that this router can handle up to 2000 devices but I don't really trust that to be accurate in a real world use case. Moreover, there is also lack of additional information on the performance of the g200 causing me to lean toward unifi.
Mesh isn't a must in this setup. But POE is a must, and both do offer.
I think the setup will be:
1- UniFi Security Gateway Pro
1 - UniFi Switch L2 PoE
3 - UniFi HD
What do you guys recommend? I want to stay away from cisco meraki since that solution is a bit more expensive and ubiquiti's user interface seems a lot easier to manage.