Ubiquity UniFi APs

[Jay]

They look fantastic! They mount on the ceiling of your office / room and are controlled centrally from the software provided. They are PoE but you need to use their PoE adapter to get them to run (one comes with each device)

The only down side up to now is that if you use Orange UMA they don't seem to work with it (like most APs for some reason)

Anyway I paid about £60 each for these and the management software is free. Pretty decent if you need to create a basic Wi-Fi network for your home or office and they look the part as well

[Moby-Dick]

thats a lot cheaper than the cisco equiv !

[Jay]

yup and the killer is UMA didn't work on the Cisco kit either! lol I am still stuck with a huge army of WRT54Gs all over the place in work as they are the only APs (well routers really) that can actually give good performance with UMA. Crazy!

[gss03]

They look very swish - where in the UK can we get them from? They don't appear to have a UK disti from what I can see.

[alsenior]

http://www.4gon.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi...ck-p-5265.html

i might have to fill the house with these

[Jay]

I got mine from MS (Distribution) UK Ltd

http://www.msdist.co.uk/

[funkymunky]

You can get them for ~£40 if you badger the distributor enough Decent bits of kit, you can install a router build from Ubiquiti on them as well if you so wish, see http://www.ubnt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25524.

[Jay]

Just a bit of feedback on my thread here, I have been using these for a while now and they have been fantasitc, signal strength is amazing as well.

[watercooled]

Any joy with UMA now?

[Jay]

I found that it was only O2 phones that had been converted to UMA (Orange) via my sneeky backdoor method. Real Orange phones where fine on it with UMA.

[dirky]

UMA - Unlicensed Mobile Access?

IE - like the vodafone sure signal stuff?

hmm, misread I think. These don't do it just act as a managed wireless setup? they look good though.

[watercooled]

UMA just routes what would usually be cellular traffic over the Internet via WiFi instead, a good solution to poor signal quality in many buildings and it prevents people using those awful signal repeaters.

[dirky]

yeah so like the "sure signal" device vodafone offering - this ubiquiti device is just an access point though right?

[Jay]

yes, just an AP but with lots of decent features such as central management for them.

[watercooled]

yeah so like the "sure signal" device vodafone offering

No, not quite. UMA has the phone connect to the network via its WiFi radio, which is why it works (in theory) with any access point. Vodafone Sure Signal is a femtocell, a small base station which connects with your phone via the usual GSM radio.

[dirky]

Cool I assume you need to do some handset configuration for this to all work?