On 18/Jul/18 17:35, Brielle Bruns wrote:
Customers are still harping on me about going wireless on all of their desktops. Since most of our customers are CAD/Design/Building companies, during planning, we insist on at least two drops to each workstation, preferably 3 or more.
But, every time we go to do an upgrade...
"Why can't we just use wireless?"
Even though 20 minutes prior they're complaining at how slow it is for their laptops to open up large files over the network over wifi.
"If you want faster speeds, you'll need to go from AC-Lites to AC-HDs with Wave 2. They're $350 or so each, and since your brand new building likes to absorb wifi, you'll need 5-8 of them to cover every possible location in the building. Oh, and you'll need to replace your laptops with Wave 2 capable ones, plus Wave 2 PCIe cards for every desktop... Except for the cheap $200 AMD APU desktops you bought against our recommendations that don't have expansion slots and no USB 3..."
I long for the day when we can get 100mbit throughout a building or house reliably.
(I'm a Ubnt hardware tester too, 99% of my customer setups are a mix of EdgeRouter, EdgeSwitch, and Unifi Switch and AP setups).
I have a 100Mbps FTTH service to my house, sitting on 802.11ac (Google OnHub units, pretty dope, had them for almost 2 years now). With my 802.11ac client devices, I can do well over 600Mbps within my walls, easily, over the air. But that's because only one of my neighbors that is closest to me has wi-fi (in 2.4GHz, thank God). The rest are too far for my thick walls. It's a totally different story in the office where (fair point, we're still on 802.11n, but...) the wi-fi is simply useless, because of all the competing radios from adjacent companies in all bands and on all channels. And despite having several AP's all over the place + using a controller to manage the radio network, fundamentally, I prefer wiring up when I'm in my office, and only use the wi-fi for my phones or when I need to go to another office or boardroom with my laptop. But the point is you and I get this phenomenon. Users don't, regardless of whether they are sending a 2KB e-mail or rendering a multi-gigabit CAD file. Mark.