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(More customer reviews)These little jewels will be an ultimate test of your patients. They only work with a DES-1228P D-Link switch as mentioned. They have no web interface and use a little (buggy) SNMP application to set them up. This makes remote administration virtually impossible. Several times I had to default the switch and APs to factory settings to get the APs to configure. There is only two settings on the switch that need set to make the APs work. This equipment would not work on my network. I had to put the whole system (switch and APs) on their own network. Once you get them up and running it seems to work pretty good. The SNMP application is the biggest downside. You can setup groups and all sorts of stuff, BUT if you load the SNMP app on another computer it doesn't recognize the groups or settings you setup on the other PC. You'll have to set it up all over again. It uses a local database on your PC to store this info. The settings are stored in the APs so after setup you don't need to use the SNMP app unless you want to make a change. With groups you can push a single change to all APs in that group. Very nice feature if you're doing MAC filtering and don't want to type the MAC address on all APs.
Bottom line is I'd do some more research before buying this system again. I know there are more expensive systems out there like 3COM. A full web interface would make this setup much better. The switch has a web interface and I wish they could incorporate the AP setup in it.
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