![]() ![]() The coverage is good and the TX power can be adjusted to suite your needs. In some offices I am meshing them together, putting wireless in places where coverage used to be an issue with other brands.Īs far as roaming from AP to AP, no issues. Some offices they are all hard wired because the network jack was available. Chris, do you have all your AP's hard wired or are you meshing them together? Do they do a good job of picking up devices that roam from AP to AP without any connection drop?īoth. The lack of a cloud controller fee really sparked my interest. But for now I will stick with Open-Mesh, they are very affordable and perform well, I like the idea of not having to buy licenses to use my wireless access points like others charge for and the cloud controller is free. I like being able to setup a separate DNS server for the guest network, I block all social media networks on our network, but didn't want to block it on the guest network, so on the guest network I used a different DNS server, Norton DNS, so all the offensive things are blocked, but allowing guests and employees to get onto their Facebook accounts while still keeping it blocked on the private side.Īll the vendors make excellent products, and I have used Cisco, Meraki, AirTight, EnGenius, NetGear and so on. Open-Mesh is enterprise certified, http:/ Opens a new window / om2p-hs-certification. In other offices the same thing, people on the guest network stream Pandora or something on their cell phones and tablets.Ī lot of people think Open-Mesh is a joke due to their low price point, but I can assure you they are not. People can still do the things they need to do and the network does not suffer. In this office where I am at, it gets used all day long from company laptops accessing the network on the private side to people using the guest network for their phones and tablets streaming Pandora all day while at their desk, again the bandwidth on the guest side is throttled. Just installed Open-Mesh for my chiropractor not too long ago, they use a variety of laptops, tablets, and stream music throughout his office, and uses AirPlay to his AppleTV for health presentations along with providing guest access to people waiting, zero issues. I have mentioned this a few times in recent posts, but will mention it again. He can stream just fine and the network doesn't suffer. In one office a lady brings her kid into work with her when he gets out of school, the little dude likes to stream Netflix on his iPad, so I set the guest network to be throttled so hes not using up bandwidth. They get used and abused all day long and have not failed once. I have lots of them installed and have not touched them since they have been installed, basically set them and forget them. So if an employee was in question, I pull my logs from there. ![]() I also have the option to block the users MAC address within this area as well to keep them from using the wireless, and I can also remove the block as well.įor logging I use a combination of things if I needed to get really specific, like OpenDNS, Trend Micro, and my router logs the website every workstation goes too and dumps that off on a server. You can sort the report for a month, week, day, or the past 2 hours. It gives me a time frame next to each persons connection and I can click it and see the times they used it and how much they used up to 30 days. It gives me the users MAC address and name of the device (like Chris's iPhone for example), tells me which access point the device was last seen on, tells me the vendor, and how much bandwidth is being used, and some other misc things. The reporting only works for the public SSID. And I am ok with that, I have more important things to do anyways. Yes there is reporting, but its not super fancy like some other company's provide in their reporting tools. ![]() So the private SSID password is not given out. If someone needs a company laptop or tablet, IT has to set it up anyways. I had the lady in the business next door using her iPad on our network once, and I know I didn't give out the password, so someone talked. I do that because people do talk, even though they say they don't. The only ones who have the private SSID password is IT. The public is password protected, the password is given out to guests and employees, the employees use their cell phones and tablets on it. Yes I have a public SSID and a private SSID. ![]()
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