>Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed
Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?
Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device. The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them. All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference. I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together. Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better. Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.
You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)
Access Point - https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/
POE Switch - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/
Management Interface - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/ OR Cloud Management https://unifi.ubnt.com/
Router - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/
You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.
I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in. It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.
That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords. Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, "How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare)
Same as this , except with one change. For the router, use the (cheaper and more powerful) Mikrotik Routerboards. We don't use a Poe switch - we just use cheap Poe adapters and connect directly to the routerboard.
For those who have never touched a Ubiquiti, configuring it could be a little iffy . I normally advise setting up DHCP 43 advertisement on the router before trying to setup the access points.
But seriously, this stuff scales.
I'm currently using Mikrotik happily for AP and router needs, but considering switching to a Ubnt setup for ease of management that does not depend on Windows/Wine and without having to write my own configuration management tooling. As central management is somewhat lacking.
What are your considerations for not choosing Ubnt for routing?
I'm not GP, but what drove me towards MT and away from Ubnt was Ubiquiti's history of violating the GPL [1].
Is the Mikrotik any better in this regard? Has anyone taken them up on the offer of a GPL source code CD?