We got a mailer I assume they got the list from the Cedia member list. It was for a product that mounted on the ceiling and ran off a cat 5 that gave a wireless access point, looked like a smoke detector.


anyone remember the name of the company?

On-Q

[Link: linkyourhouse.com]

That owould work, not the one I was thinking of though.

Have you used it, thoughts on range and / or linking multiple units seamlessly in one house? ~5000 sq.ft with foam insulation

We work in large scale homes built with alot of heavy woodwork, stone, stucco and plaster on interior walls and we tried the on-Q's in a job once and the range was horible.

did yo uend up using another alternative or just stuck it out?

cisco...all cisco and not that crappy lynksys stuff either

Packedge.
Try: www.packedge.com.

I installed one 2 weeks ago and worked pretty good. I just order a second one for another job that I'm working on.

Cisco 1100 series access points! We have ONE that covers our entire 33,000 sq ft showroom and our office area.

That sounds like what I remembered, but your link is wrong

what was the square footage of the home?

I'm sorry is:
www.pakedge.com
I'll post more info in the install tomorrow. I used it to replace a Cisco Aironet 1130AG and outperformed it.

We have used one of the OnQ models, the signal kept dropping out. We changed from the default channel 11 to 3, and it got better, its still no linksys, but it sure does look good in the ceiling.

okay, that is the message that is worth taking away here, but it goes on:


Why would that matter? This reminds me of the first twenty years of Terk's existence. They continually got design awards for products that worked like crap. What good is a design award?

The On-Q works great as long as it is installed in the right location. A large home might require more than one, but there are several advantages:

1-one cat5 to the install location, no need to worry about power
2-multiple WAPs will handoff to each other, so there is no problem with someone walking in the home from WAP to WAP, the signal will not drop
3-the cost -- the new WAP costs about 40% less and has the same features as before
4-the look of the product is important, you guys work in high-end homes, are you telling me that you can add ugly black antennas without any concern from the homeowners? come on...

Three On-Q posts in a row all resurected from the grave..
You should change your signature to "On-Q WAP Guru"

Not to sound like a jerk Avi, but as custom installers, typically we try to hide "ugly black antennas so they aren't seen by the homeowner. I don’t know of any homeowner that wants another box or round thing on their ceiling....

Just because it's painted white doesn't make it attractive. Use a high quality WAP-Cisco, Sonicwall, etc....not the low end garbage, put a good high gain antenna on it and away you go.

Besides the range, the NO.1 most important thing us as custom integrators should be concerned with is security. The low end stuff is just not secure enough for me to be offering to my clients without a warning. We offer them Sonicwall/Cisco stuff for secure, reliable networks, or they can choose a low priced solution-that isn’t secure-their choice!