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Building the Kingston Community Network.
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Hardware Specs #12

Open BitSwift-v2 opened 3 years ago

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

This issue is to track hardware related issues like hardware specifications and configurations etc.

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

should we go AC only or deploy AX (6) ? hmmmm.... damn your wifi standards.

sacha-l commented 3 years ago

Given that we want to optimize for cost and upgradability (i.e. hardware changing over time), can we list all hardware and specifications here to get an idea of what KCN participants will require? This is important to know what our upfront costs could look like. Also a world I have no idea about!

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

This is what I am thinking. We can go with 5 packs and re-sell to the customers who are signing up. Save everyone a bit of money: https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-access-points/products/unifi-hd

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

UAP-AC-HD

Dimensions | 220 x 220 x 48.1 mm Weightwith Mounting Kits | 700 g (24.7 oz)830 g (29.3 oz) Networking Interface | (2) 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports Ports | (2) Ethernet RJ45, (1) USB Type C Buttons | Reset Antennas | (2) 2.4G internal single band antennas, dual polarity (2) 5G internal single band antennas, dual polarity Wi-Fi Standards | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ac-wave2 Power Method | PoE 802.3at Power Supply | PoE Injector 48VDC -0.5A Gigabit Maximum Power Consumption | 17W Max TX Power | 25 dBm BSSID | 4 Per Radio Power Save | Supported Wireless Security | WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA-Enterprise (WPA/WPA2, TKIP/AES) Certifications | CE, FCC, IC Mounting | Wall/Ceiling (Kits Included) Operating Temperature | -10 to 70° C (14 to 158° F) Operating Humidity | 5 to 95% Noncondensing

VLAN | 802.1Q Advanced QoS | Per-User Rate Limiting Guest Traffic Isolation | Supported WMM | Supported Concurrent Clients | 500+

802.11a | 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps 802.11n | 6.5 Mbps to 450 Mbps (MCS0 - MCS23, HT 20/40) 802.11ac | 6.5 Mbps to 1.7Gbps (MCS0 - MCS9 NSS1/2/3/4, VHT 20/40/80) 802.11b | 1, 2, 5.5, 11 Mbps 802.11g | 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 Mbps

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

if we go with AX gear we can expect the price to double.. not to mention I am not certain the wifi 6 (ax) standard is even fully complete, so the gear would be classified as "experimental". Although I do recall experimental wifi N and AC devices coming out with no issues moving forward. Even still, the cost alone to go to AX makes it sort of infeasible.

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

I am thinking it would only take 3 of these access points located in the correct area to serve the down town core block of Kingston. So that is to say our initial "trial" phase could possibly be deployed with less than $1000 worth of hardware (access points).

sacha-l commented 3 years ago

OK. Let's assume this is for the "trial phase", thus let's stick to what we have. Are all these costs already covered? Do we need to account for them?

BitSwift-v2 commented 3 years ago

We could technically enable the KCN now with what we have spanning the businesses we already have on our managed network services. No need to even consider new access points for anyone at this point for the initial "trial" phase.