Hello community,
we have to make a very interesting offer to one of our clients who lives in a castle..
In his castle he is showing some audio streams and videos and other interesting informations about his castle to visitors (maybe 20 people per visit).
Now to the problem:
- the visitors will use their smartphone to connect to the WLAN as they enter the castle on the ground floor and will then go along a specified route/path to view all the interesting stuff what's exposed in some different rooms (not all the castle! just some parts of it).
- the visitors will get a voucher and use it like an internet hotspot solution (they enter their credentials into the browser, a special landing page is opened an there are the hyperlinks for the different language streams)
- since they are listening to audio streams (or maybe video if the bandwith should be enough..I don't think so!) during the visit they have to roam between the accesspoints called AP1 to AP8. It really has to be a "true roaming" solution as the buffering is very short and otherwise they would just see timeouts and errors on their smartphones and our client would get angry.
- the problem in this castle is the available infrastructure.. there are no network cables, just energy cables.. and clearly there is no possibility to lay a copper or fiber optic cable in this building.
- using wireless hardware with 2 different radio modules would be nice but to expensive for this project.
- the internet router will be connected by ethernet to the first AP (AP1)
1. How could we make this project as a good working solution with roaming capabilities?
2. Should we use the WDS capabilities of the accesspoints and mesh them all together? Have tried this in a Motel without success!
3. What are you thinking about MPLS (so a routed and bridged network)?
I hope there is someone out there with some good ideas for us..
Thank you very much in advance!