Thoughts on the EAP225 Outdoor?
Hi Guys,
Thinking of adding an EAP225-Outdoor to my existing home Wifi solution. I currently have 2xEAP225 and an OC-200. I get some Wifi outside (experimenting with a separate SSID w/band steering for fallback to 2.4GHz). But speeds are low (likely due to poor STA return signal).
So I was thinking of adding one or two these EAP225-Outdoor units in a wireless MESH configuration with my existing indoor 225's. Both of the indoor units are hardwired (one directly to my Router) so I'd make this the master node.
I forget how many child nodes are supported per master? 2 or 4? Also it seems like the AP has a gasket/gromet for weather tightness. But (from the picture) it appears the midspan injector does not?
Anybody using these? What channels are you using compared to your indoor APs (same or different)? What kinds of speeds are you seeing? My main interest would be for 5.8GHz to ideally get 100-300 Mbit of useable bandwidth.(e.g. 80MHz, or perhaps 40MHz) while outside in the back yard.
Since this is V1, do we think a V2 or V3 is coming? It seems like V1 of this product is already pretty similar / identical to V3 of the indoor model. Firmware seems to mirror the V3 firmware as well.
Thanks,
Jonathan