The Unifi aren’t bad, they do have some interoperability issues at time with
some chipsets and also they don’t have the highest number of parallel channels
but they are very affordable and I’ve used them in enterprise environments and
they do very well. With two ubiquiti M5 access points on towers I was able to
over more than 50 miles and still negotiate out to over 100 megabits.
Perfectly flat geography though in Florida made it easy.
For home use my most favorite are the Eero latest generation tri band. They
come in two models, beacons and Eeros. Eero are full three band radios with 2
wired ports, Beacons are 2 band and no wired ports, they just occupy an AC
outlet like a night light would. They actually have night light functionality
built in. The beacons are good at the edges and in less congested areas and
the full Eero are placed in high traffic areas or areas where several points
mesh. Set the whole thing up with an easy to use, accessible app on your
phone and your whole network is managed from the cloud and frequencies /
traffic are managed dynamically across the whole mesh.
Good luck
On May 21, 2019, at 11:35 AM, David Sexton <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I love these wireless access points for mesh networking:
https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lr/
On 5/21/2019 7:43 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,===========================================================
If anyone has any suggestions on mesh network products and setup,
Raspberry Pi IP camera for surveillance setup, and integration please
let me know. I'm needing some advice.
My situation is this, I've got an area of my backyard that is needing
to have an IP-based surveillance camera pointed at it to capture
videos of any intruders. I've got several Raspberry Pis, and am
wanting to use them in a video surveillance setup. My place has the
cable modem and a router in the basement, then the main floor, then an
upstairs area. I'm already thinking to support this setup of video
surveillance I'm going to need to go mesh, put a wireless setup in
each room I've got occational drops that I'm going to need to correct
and thinking mesh might be the way.
Once I get the mesh then going to get a Raspberry Pi camera and hook
that to a pi then to an external drive for file storage. I'm thinking
a 3 to 5 day rotation time, is this feasible?
I'm also going to need a way to examine the files see if there's
something other than blankness in them.
Lastly, and this is a big one, i'd prefer not to break the bank on this.
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
Thanks.
Dave.
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