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BenjieF's avatar
BenjieF
Novice
Oct 05, 2011

Urgent - wndap350

Im very new to this.

I have been asked to set up a wireless network at my company (small company), they want one ssid for the users and one for the guest. The users wireless ssid will give them access to the server, printers and internet. The guest ssid will only give them access to the internet.

I have been looking at WNDAP350 access point. After some digging I found out that its supports multi ssid.

Today we have a router (not wireless) and two small neatger 8 ports switches, nothing fancy.

Now to my question:
Is it possible to set this up as i explaind at the top with what we got and the WNDAP350?
Or do i need to buy a new router and/or switch?

I appreciate quick response!
Thanks.

2 Replies

  • grehund's avatar
    grehund
    Aspirant
    Oct 09, 2011
    Many people, including myself are experiencing reliability issue with this unit. The firmware version 2.0.27 was meant to fix it but it hasn't helped many users, including me.

    This unit is very attractive on paper, but it's hard to recommend it given the outstanding issues.
  • JimiSweden's avatar
    JimiSweden
    Aspirant
    Oct 25, 2011
    grehund wrote:
    Many people, including myself are experiencing reliability issue with this unit. The firmware version 2.0.27 was meant to fix it but it hasn't helped many users, including me.

    This unit is very attractive on paper, but it's hard to recommend it given the outstanding issues.
    I have to agree on that and here is my version of the story. I have got 5 pieces of those WNDAP350 and also a manager, WMS5316. The price and specification is attractive but I would never recommend them until the firmware is stable (I actually would never recommend Netgear stuff to a business that can afford Cisco stuff, but switches works good enough for low capacity networks). The configuration via GUI is slow and not always logical. Problems so far: When upgraded to latest firmware on WMS (2.1.2) and APs (2.0.27) New APs could not be added to WMS. Downgrade of all units solved this problem. (WMS 2.0.3, AP 2.0.9) All five (5) units have had problems with losing the connectivity to the LAN, WLANs are up but Internet Access is lost. When connectivity from AP to internet is lost I cannot ping the LAN interface. I also have statistics from Cacti showing that the problem most often appear during business hours, but not always. First I thought that my POE switch (dlink 1316 poe) didn’t provide enough output power but after removing 4 of the APs from the POE switch and putting them in to different switches on both access and distribution layers I still have the same issues. Even when turning of the G-band and running only on A-band the Aps are having problems. (I realize now that I haven’t turned off the A band on all Aps, next step..)