Yes it's the same as routers and switches. You need a SmartNet contract for software updates. Warranty is life-long (meaning 10 years on the hardware) in many countries, but you have to check this with your local Cisco reseller. I never used an 18xx model, only the 2x00 and 3x00 ones. Those models are very high quality and failing very rarely. ... View more

Meraki is a daughter company of Cisco. Ubiquiti is a completely different brand. I find the price to high, if it's without service contract. On Amazon it's around 240 USD. And here in Switzerland it's also around 230 USD, without contract (which you require for software upgrades). ... View more

I still believe 802.11d tags are being sent, but you'd need to check this with a sniffer and a device that can scan the packets correctly in promiscuous mode. For example a Linux with Wireshark. ... View more

You find the differences here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/aironet-1815-series-access-points/index.html I would probably take the model w or i. The other models can't be Mobility Express masters, I think (on version 8.5 code). But honestly, if you only need 1 or 2 APs, I would not take a Cisco Enterprise model and would rather go with a Meraki or Ubiquiti SMB (Small Medium Business) model. As you will not use most of the features of the Cisco AP, which you pay for. ... View more

Ah right, I've never used that Fastlane feature, because I don't see any reason to advantage apple users from others. I sadly can't further help, because I think it should work. Then again, I've never used a foreign apple device. My suggestion, disable the UNII-3 channels for the network, that should still leave enough 80 MHz channels. ... View more

Thanks, this shows various good values. Here the more important ones: QoS Level........................................ Platinum WMM Support...................................... Enabled Channel.......................................... 100 Current Rate..................................... m4 ss3 Policy Type...................................... WPA2 Authentication Key Management.................... PSK Encryption Cipher................................ CCMP-128 (AES) Radio Signal Strength Indicator............ -64 dBm Signal to Noise Ratio...................... 27 dB I'm surprised about the chosen QoS level, I guess you have changed that?   Otherwise you can see that the signal strength is good, encryption is also correct and WMM is enabled and the client is connected to channel 100, which means DFS is also working.   Regarding the speed, your client is connect with m4 ss3. That means 3 spatial streams and connection speed m4. Depending on your channel width (20, 40, 80 MHz) and guard interval (800, 400) that would equal to: 78, 86.7, 162, 180, 351 or 390 Mbit/s.  Details (check the table/image at the last post): https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless-mobility-documents/how-to-interpret-802-11ac-datarates/ta-p/3151995?lightbox-message-images-3402917=13625i2A74E522D5789F13   What that output doesn't show is the noise the AP can see. Depending on that, the m4 is a tad on the low side or realistic. Honestly I can't see much wrong at the moment, besides possibly the configured channel width.  ... View more

Please see my answer in your other thread. ... View more

You find the different specifications here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/access-points/product-comparison.html The 1850 will probably reach in reality around 20-50% higher throughput as the 1815 and will have a little bit better reach. On the other hand, some variants of the 1815w allows you to connect 2 clients via cable directly to the AP, it has a tiny switch built in. Please note, that requires some configuration. ... View more

Two threads for the same questions, bad :) The 1850i has Internal antennas, the 1850e has External antennas (means you also need to buy antennas!). For a normal office space, the an ....i model. I think your old AP has a power supply issue (not anymore offering enough power) or a hardware bug. Both should be fixed by switching to a new AP. ... View more

Sensitive applications = voice, real time video, VDI and similar. On the page before you wrote 40 clients, so I suspected you mean 40 people :) If it's only 15 people, then you should be fine with a single AP. The 1830 AP (data sheet: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/wireless/aironet-1830-series-access-points/datasheet-c78-735582.html) supports the 802.11ac Wave2 wireless standard. This is currently the fastest one on the enterprise market and offers up to 5 times the throughput rate for your clients (if the clients also support 802.11ac). More realistic will be around 2-3 times the speed. Also the CPU is much more performant of the 1830 and will offer much better performance with many clients attached. So no, you typically don't need 2 APs with 15 clients, but if you require wireless for your daily business, then it's never bad to have a backup (a second AP). ... View more