Recommendation for Wireless AP

My boss has asked me to look into a good Wireless AP for our patients in our cafe that has a disclaimer page that they have to say agree on to connect to the internet and have the ability to log the surfing. Any recommendations?

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mgeorge

It's all about the price he wants to pay... A nice setup would be a 2106 wireless lan controller with a few 1242AG lap's

Or if its just a small cafe then a single 1240K9-A-G (autonomous ap) that can be configured as a stand alone with some sort of wireless security gateway.

A cheap setup would be a 1231K9-A-G with some open source wireless security gateway.

thenjduke

Well we are looking to pay next to not much just the price of the AP. I been looking at DDWRT and a NoCatSplash

tiersten

thenjduke wrote: »

Well we are looking to pay next to not much just the price of the AP. I been looking at DDWRT and a NoCatSplash

If DD-WRT + NoCatSplash does everything you need then why are you asking in the CCNA:Wireless forum? :P

It may have Cisco on the box but anything that is also Linksys branded is a completely different product and doesn't run IOS at all.

As for what consumer AP to get, you'll have to look at the compatibility list at the DD-WRT site since it varies. Linksys alone have a multitude of different models and each model has differing hardware versions. Not all of them are good and not all of them are compatible with DD-WRT or any other third party firmware build.

thenjduke

tiersten wrote: »

If DD-WRT + NoCatSplash does everything you need then why are you asking in the CCNA:Wireless forum? :P

It may have Cisco on the box but anything that is also Linksys branded is a completely different product and doesn't run IOS at all.

As for what consumer AP to get, you'll have to look at the compatibility list at the DD-WRT site since it varies. Linksys alone have a multitude of different models and each model has differing hardware versions. Not all of them are good and not all of them are compatible with DD-WRT or any other third party firmware build.

Because I was hoping to get some other input.

and you guys are great at giving it