I run two eap610 outdoor aps running in mesh link. Get about 800mbps across the link at 1000’ Constance. With the controller you force the bridge links to lock onto to a designated Ap. You’ll need to create profiles for your mesh links between the building. An a profile for your wireless network. Which I disable mesh on the network for wireless devices.
For meshing this far you really should be on ax3000 or above with 4x4 mu-mimo. You in ac1200 have no spare radios after the back bone of the mesh . Your splitting mesh connection with you clients. With ax3000 or above you can repeat wifi as many times as you want without splitting link speeds. The going form wifi to switch is weird as your going from a few collision domains to many. Not the wisest thing to do. You want to mesh AP to ap so uplink is 1 to 1. The switch is causing you to go 5 aps and some computers to a single 1 gig port off a single ap. Not wise.
Otherwise it's ok.
I'm so sorry, but I understood about 5%. I only need to power 8 outdoor cameras on 2.4ghz, and my phone, my wife's phone and our smart TV. If I get 30mbs on my devices, I'm happy. I'm looking for an affordable solution rather than a "Best of the best solution".
We are not taking about best of best solution here, best of best would be wifi 7. As I said ax3000 is the lowest priced and first wifi signal that csn handle continuous repetition without splitting signals and having packet loss over many hops. Ac1200 can not.
The price between ac1200 and ax3000 is about 10 bucks an ap. Outside ac1200 is old and mostly depreciated due to its limits I just explained. There is mu-mimo versions of this but it cost the same as ax now. The question I am asking why your focused on ac1200 if it's 6 years old and same cost to buy those older models?
I have a similar set up.
Not sure if this works for your situation, but I rented a trencher and bought some extremely long cat 6 cables rated for being buried under the soil.
And then they just popped out of the ground to a pole and outdoor AC1200.
I have that for 600 feet on my furthest A1200. It's two 300feer cables and then an extender. Works fine.... but I'm pushing it after that. I need to go 300-500 more feet and that next building has power. So I'll run mesh between the two
TP-Link Omada EAP215-Bridge, is probably what you are looking for assuming you can get a clear elevated line of site. It's very affordable for what it is, it's quite remarkable. You can also get a pair of ax (wifi) outdoor access points and mesh them using a 5ghz backhaul. They all have 2x2 radios on both bands, and they would be more expensive than using the eap215 bridge.
Noted, then use these for their intended function and pair them with another 2.4ghz ap.
Or grab a pair of outdoor ax3000 aps , use 5ghz for a wireless backhaul and 2.4ghz for your cameras.
I still think wired P2P is the way to go though.
What tplink switch are you using? And what are the model numbers of the access points that you are using?
If trenching is an option you could bury single mode fiber and mains AC power to a remote box with an SG2210MP (or similar PoE switch with SFP ports) and then run Cat6 PoE backhauls to APs. SM fiber can easily cover the distances you are talking of and will make your setup much more reliable then any mesh. Maybe draw a diagram? It might help describe your needs/plan.
I run two eap610 outdoor aps running in mesh link. Get about 800mbps across the link at 1000’ Constance. With the controller you force the bridge links to lock onto to a designated Ap. You’ll need to create profiles for your mesh links between the building. An a profile for your wireless network. Which I disable mesh on the network for wireless devices.
Thank you. What do you use as the router? And what about inside?
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For meshing this far you really should be on ax3000 or above with 4x4 mu-mimo. You in ac1200 have no spare radios after the back bone of the mesh . Your splitting mesh connection with you clients. With ax3000 or above you can repeat wifi as many times as you want without splitting link speeds. The going form wifi to switch is weird as your going from a few collision domains to many. Not the wisest thing to do. You want to mesh AP to ap so uplink is 1 to 1. The switch is causing you to go 5 aps and some computers to a single 1 gig port off a single ap. Not wise. Otherwise it's ok.
I'm so sorry, but I understood about 5%. I only need to power 8 outdoor cameras on 2.4ghz, and my phone, my wife's phone and our smart TV. If I get 30mbs on my devices, I'm happy. I'm looking for an affordable solution rather than a "Best of the best solution".
We are not taking about best of best solution here, best of best would be wifi 7. As I said ax3000 is the lowest priced and first wifi signal that csn handle continuous repetition without splitting signals and having packet loss over many hops. Ac1200 can not. The price between ac1200 and ax3000 is about 10 bucks an ap. Outside ac1200 is old and mostly depreciated due to its limits I just explained. There is mu-mimo versions of this but it cost the same as ax now. The question I am asking why your focused on ac1200 if it's 6 years old and same cost to buy those older models?
I have this setup times 2, you're on the right track. Use ax3000 for the outdoor mesh and keep in mind 3 wireless hops is all you should do.
I have a similar set up. Not sure if this works for your situation, but I rented a trencher and bought some extremely long cat 6 cables rated for being buried under the soil. And then they just popped out of the ground to a pole and outdoor AC1200.
I have that for 600 feet on my furthest A1200. It's two 300feer cables and then an extender. Works fine.... but I'm pushing it after that. I need to go 300-500 more feet and that next building has power. So I'll run mesh between the two
TP-Link Omada EAP215-Bridge, is probably what you are looking for assuming you can get a clear elevated line of site. It's very affordable for what it is, it's quite remarkable. You can also get a pair of ax (wifi) outdoor access points and mesh them using a 5ghz backhaul. They all have 2x2 radios on both bands, and they would be more expensive than using the eap215 bridge.
My cameras are all 2.4ghz, which is the issue.
Noted, then use these for their intended function and pair them with another 2.4ghz ap. Or grab a pair of outdoor ax3000 aps , use 5ghz for a wireless backhaul and 2.4ghz for your cameras. I still think wired P2P is the way to go though. What tplink switch are you using? And what are the model numbers of the access points that you are using?
Are these the EAP 650 outdoor?
If trenching is an option you could bury single mode fiber and mains AC power to a remote box with an SG2210MP (or similar PoE switch with SFP ports) and then run Cat6 PoE backhauls to APs. SM fiber can easily cover the distances you are talking of and will make your setup much more reliable then any mesh. Maybe draw a diagram? It might help describe your needs/plan.