AP Controller for DAP-1650

[alizaidi2000]

Hello, LTT forums.

I'm building a network setup where i require two DAP-1650s or similar AP. The obvious thing to do would be to plug it in to my network, like in my router. However, using a controller would better so that my wifi clients  could switch WIFI networks seamlessly. I'm fairly new to networking, so what would be a compatible AP controllers?

[Sidiox]

I'm pretty sure that you need a special AP to allow external controllers to work with them. Stuff like Ubiquitis Unifi platform or Edimax Pro AP's. Most manufacturers offer something along those lines.

What kind of setup is this gonna be? Home? Small office? 

 

I also think that if you setup AP's with the same SSID and wifi authentication  clients can auto switch between the 2 AP's, although it won't be seamless (cuz no controller to handle the transition)

[alizaidi2000]

1 hour ago, Sidiox said:

I'm pretty sure that you need a special AP to allow external controllers to work with them. Stuff like Ubiquitis Unifi platform or Edimax Pro AP's. Most manufacturers offer something along those lines.

What kind of setup is this gonna be? Home? Small office? 

 

I also think that if you setup AP's with the same SSID and wifi authentication  clients can auto switch between the 2 AP's, although it won't be seamless (cuz no controller to handle the transition)

When you setup 2 wifi networks with the same ssid they show up as the same one but once your connected they dont seamlessly switch you have to disconnect and reconnect

[Sidiox]

4 minutes ago, alizaidi2000 said:

When you setup 2 wifi networks with the same ssid they show up as the same one but once your connected they dont seamlessly switch you have to disconnect and reconnect

Yes that is what I said. I used to have 2 AP's with the same SSID and authentication. However it does work fairly seamlessly and I didn't notice it that much. Thats because when I got out of range AP1 I just got connected to AP2. Not seamless, but the downtime wasn't noticeable in any normal usage (webbrowsing and such). Maybe for realtime applications it won't be ideal, but again, I don't know what kind of deployment situation you have there.

 

I also believe that the current Wave 1 Unifi AP AC units don't support "zero handoff". But with my 3 currently deployed Unifi AP's I've never experienced any problems between the handoffs from one AP to another.