Looking into picking up and donating a couple of R610's or R710's for a local non-profit that will likely have about 50-75 users during certain times of the day. Planning to upgrade their 4 old 802.11g off the shelve consumer access points with 4 of the R610/R710. POE+ switch equipment is already on-site.
On ebay, it looks like 4x lightly used R610's go for about $165 ea. ($660 total), or 4x lightly used R710's for about $275 ea. ($1,100 total). The users will be a revolving mix of cellphones & laptops that just need modest internet access for light stuff like email, google G-Suite, social media, and Zoom video calls. I'm leaning towards the R610's based upon price and if needed could deploy a 5th R610 as that would fit within the budget, but could really go either way if someone had some experience with both the R610 & R710 and could share how/if the R710's were much better for this type of usage. Internet connection at the non-profit is 1 Gbps down / 100 Mbps up.
Any experienceS between these two models would be very helpful!
On ebay, it looks like 4x lightly used R610's go for about $165 ea. ($660 total), or 4x lightly used R710's for about $275 ea. ($1,100 total). The users will be a revolving mix of cellphones & laptops that just need modest internet access for light stuff like email, google G-Suite, social media, and Zoom video calls. I'm leaning towards the R610's based upon price and if needed could deploy a 5th R610 as that would fit within the budget, but could really go either way if someone had some experience with both the R610 & R710 and could share how/if the R710's were much better for this type of usage. Internet connection at the non-profit is 1 Gbps down / 100 Mbps up.
Any experienceS between these two models would be very helpful!
