Is this particular product flawed, or are all access points just less reliable than routers as a class?
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"All Routers are Notoriously Unreliable", so saith my Night school professors in Networking. But, this particular product, the APA20 IS NOT A ROUTER, its is an ACCESS POINT. trying to use it as a router will bring you trouble. This unit also runs on five volts, so your fancy surge protector only starts to work at around 300 volts. to protect your equipment you must use a A/C power conditioner that corrects to 115 VAC +/- 4.
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Hi, I have a Linksys Ea6500 router and tried the Amped Wireless Access point that can delivery at AC speed. The AP seemed to lock up a lot. I then bought and tried the Amped Wireless Access Point that can delivery at N speed. It was more reliable with not the best range. I then bought another Linksys Ea6500. I set this up at a LAN to WAN. Extended my network with great range at half the cost. I did have two different SSIDs. I did try it at LAN to LAN. This allows one SSID. Not sure if this worked or I set it up correctly. Switched back to LAN to WAN.
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I have not been happy with it. I went with a Net gear wireless and have has no problems at all.
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The hardware is more than capable. However the GUI front end was quite different than off the shelf routers. Many advanced functions were as of a couple of months ago only available from the command line. I've got one running at home for basic NAT, and saturate my a 25 Mb/s cable connection with torrents and it has no issue with that. However a high end Buffalo with DD-WRT , even if you turn off the radios would be my first choice. Unless you are going to use the POE for ubiquity WiFi.
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Sorry, I don't know. I am using Netgear router, and it works for about half an hour. Then it disconnects until I reboot the it.
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I would not recommend this wifi Access Point for home use, it requires a controller to be installed on one pc in order to configure and manage the AP. This is not a router though.
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Me too, the 655 seems to suck. I upgraded router, desktop cards and USB adapters because their marketing claims rave about better range, even calling the USB adapter an "Extreme Range extender". What a load of crap. So far signal strength is lower and less stable than the old G parts (also D-link).Wish I'd kept my receipts and not waited a couple months to install these because they appear to be a complete waste of hundred$.
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If you're familiar with Belkin entry level routers its about the same. I live in a two story house with solid concrete walls. The router is downstairs and I get good signal on the side of the upper floor above the router. On the other side of the upper floor I have to use a repeater.
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We have 9 of them and these things are just awful. It could be a configuration issue, but we have had someone come in to try and fix the issue and it still drops connection fairly often. Has no DHCP server inside so your network needs one already.
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I'm not sure "the repeater" mean "access point". Anyway It could use for AP as well!
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I don't have any of that issue with mine. I have the base set close to my router an several others close to a few of my other pc,s an had no instances of losing internet.im using Comcast for my ip.
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Same problem. I got a faster and better router and upgraded my mps from 20 to 50. Still drops a lot (Default gateway not found)... Bought a external USB wireless adapter and now it works perfectly. Well not perfectly, it is like a spare tire; quick fix but does not really solve problem. A computer this expensive shouldn't need an auxiliary part that sticks out the side.
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Thanks for your reply. Now my decision is whether or not to give up the home phone or buy another router.
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From my experience working with these units you can only have the access point in one mode. However you can link the Bullet to a switch and have a Nanostation M2 Rocket M2 on that switch, and p;ace it in the router mode to resolve you challenge.
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Hey Jose, Good question and I can see why you asked it. The -5- in the product name indicates only 5 access points. The amazon listing contains an error that is not easily fixed. I tried submitting a change to amazon but the "15 access points" comment is not easily removed. Mike from AndoverCG
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I am sorry but I don't have an apple router. So I am unable to speak on that. I do have a NetGear router that it connected automatically with. I set it up as an access point and it works great. Since I have a kind of long house and the router is at one end. This has greatly extended our wireless signal in our home. A access point is the best way to go, since it connects to our router by a Cat 6 internet cable so you don't lose part of your bandwidth when you set it up as a WiFi range extender.
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I also have Uverse. If you go with the UniFi AP I recommend to continue using the the 2wire, configure the settings on the UniFi the same as the 2wire settings e.g. security method, password, etc. except make sure you turn off DHCP. I think some of the people who are having problems getting it configured to work properly are not doing this.
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I am not networking guru. I had it for 1 week until I throwed it away. Mine was useless.In repeating mode it was loosing signal 10+ times a day. As main router worked better, but still had to reset almost daily.
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These are good products however, a lot of the "range" id dependent upon the type equipment that you have i.e., language being utilized and whether its laptop and/or desktop. Especially important will be be type input Modem being utilized at your home for outward dissemination. It all adds into the equation. I have personally used these years ago for equipment in my home (large area home) and with a laptop at the end of the house; it worked satisfactorily. I would highly - very highly - recommend that you contact your local provider and inqjuire with them as to the range requirements for their channel input/output regarding the usage of the Netgear PL AV200. We were fortunate in that our Provider happens to be Bright House, one of the best in the industry if not the best - for full range of connection. Their input modem (located in our home) is the Ubee with wide-area coverage and no additional expander/boosters are necessary. Again, check with you local Provider and they should be able to provide you with the exact parameters you need to follow i.e., distance from their input modem, etc..... Sorry, but equipment these days is relevant to Provider-provided Modem equipment; thats the main goodie in it all........... Good luck...... Skip