Hi Guys, please share your experience and news about ISP which offers hAP lite for their broadband subscribers? What default configuration they have such as simple masq NAT, routing, few firewall rules and VLAN&IGMP for multicast IPTV etc…
I have plan to offer this model to our broadband subs, since it has very competitive price comparing to it`s HW specification. Just one drawback is on-board wireless antenna, which may have poor quality of signal.
Check all APs by mikrotik, all have internal antennas.
I wouldn’t be concerned about that, the only limiting factors:
1.- Area to provide wireless coverage. a Hap lite won’t be able to provide coverage for a several story house, this is conceived for flats.
2.- CPU: Depending on bandwidth, it may or not be suitable, and you may need to optimize firewall rules.
Keep in mind rOS doesn’t support IGMP snooping, so that multicast traffic for IPTV could flood the network and use excessive CPU.
ROS supports IGMP-Proxy, PIM and offer plenty of L2 tools to engineer a IPTV network, I doubt any serious WISP operates a “flat” L2 network.
When the customer asks for a router for their home I generally have provided hAP lite’s in the past. Their CPE’s are generally UBNT Nanobeams, Rockets, or Nanostations. Those have always been billed at cost with me.
Now I’m starting to migrate away from that and move over to the regular hAP for PoE and simply configuring the PoE port as the WAN l port while providing power to the CPE.
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Thanks Guys. I appreciate sharing your experience and really good points.
Any other suggestions?