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| Topic: | Does anyone have any experience with the OnQ wireless access port? This thread has 13 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 11:50 |
mcn779 Senior Member |
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I know that this is just a Motorola repackaged but is there anything that justifies the enormous increase in price. The only advantage I see is the housing that it comes with but that certainly doesn't justify the price. Is there anything else out there like the OnQ but reasonable?
Marc
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| Post 2 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 12:17 |
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i like th3 onq piece..true it cost's alot...... but its still cheaper thaqn cisco
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 3 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 16:09 |
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I just used one in a 6K Sq. ft. home. OnQ recommends putting it up on the ceiling of the highest floor for best performance. Their claim as to the service area are VERY optimistic. The unit covered the core of the house only. My guess is that the range is a 50Ft. sphere.
Aside from the fact that it looks like a big smoke detector, I would be more inclined to running additional runs of cat 5 and finding a place to hook up multiple WAP's to cover the entire home.
I would also like to experiment with additional antennas but I believe this would slow down the performance of the system due to the fact that they would be daisy chained. Half duplex is a term that has been kicked around on some of the manufacturer sites i.e. Netgear and Linksys.
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| Post 4 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 16:28 |
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I am a HUGE Greyfox fan, but I think OnQ totally missed the boat on this one. From what I have heard they are going back to the drawing board and coming out with something a lot smaller and a lot cheaper.
I have never installed one because of price, but we have done several Linksys WAP in closets, etc with very good luck. You just need to coordinate with the sparky to get you an outlet in some places they normally wouldn't put outlets. But with the new PoE products, you don't even need that anymore.
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Just my opinion, I could be wrong. |
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| OP | Post 5 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 16:56 |
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I talked to OnQs tech support and there are a couple of advantages to this piece. Don't need power it's power over ethernet and the "WDS mode allows peer to peer communication with up to 4 other 802.11g wireless access points or wireless broadband routers". You daisy chain these thing together and move room to room and not have to log into the system every time. I'm suprised that they said that one of these would work in that big of house.
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| Post 6 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 17:45 |
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big houses i only use cisco... 2-3 plus a good 6 db antenna and your good. you set them up for roaming and you get to walk around seamlessly.... only problem is they are really expensive but worth every dime.
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 7 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 18:00 |
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Ed,
Can you email me where you get your Cisco from?
I have been looking for a supplier and have struck out with all the traditional suppliers. Can you make any money on Cisco?
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Chasing Ernie's post count, one useless post at a time. |
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| Post 8 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 18:38 |
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cdw or winncom
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Ed will be known as the Tiger Woods of the integration business, followed closely with the renaming of his company to "Hotties A/V". The tag line will be "We like big racks and tight holes"... |
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| Post 9 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 23:28 |
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On March 31, 2006 at 17:45, ceied said...
and you get to walk around seamlessly.... Isnt this the norm on ANY multiple WAP system?
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No, I wont install your plasma with an orange extension cord hanging down the wall. www.customdigitalinc.com |
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| Post 10 made on Friday March 31, 2006 at 23:31 |
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On March 31, 2006 at 16:28, tschulte said...
From what I have heard they are going back to the drawing board
and coming out with something a lot smaller and
a lot cheaper. They are shipping now. They are at the EHXPO. They have an in ceiling (round) version, and a in-wall (rectangular) version. I ordered one from A@@D a few days ago. They are cheaper, and are mounted flush (verses convex). They dont look so much like a smoke detector anymore, not sticking out at all from the ceiling. I keep hearing conflicting stories on the range however. On here I hear both good and bad. Guys at the show swear by them. I may just have to try for myself.
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No, I wont install your plasma with an orange extension cord hanging down the wall. www.customdigitalinc.com |
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| Post 11 made on Saturday April 1, 2006 at 16:18 |
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| Post 12 made on Saturday April 1, 2006 at 20:19 |
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We have only put them in one install. 2 WAP's to cover 6,000 sqft built in 1902. All is well except in the dedicated theater. Quiet rock ($125/sheet!!! and IMHO, not worth it) with the metal through the middle is installed and it is killing both the WAP (we still have access but lower signal strength) and the MRF300. Spotty at best.
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| Post 13 made on Monday May 1, 2006 at 19:15 |
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I am working on a project for a customer who is requesting wireless ehternet capability all over his house which is about 6000 sq ft. Not being too much into the networking side of things, how does one use multiple WAPS in an installation? Are there log in and log out conflicts if one roams from one end of the house to the other? Can you just use a Linksys router and place multiple WAP54Gs around the house an assign them to the same network settings?
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| Post 14 made on Monday May 1, 2006 at 19:28 |
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lynksys is not a professional application... use cisco or the onq stuff and you will be fine
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