Wlan for a large RV Park

[Patrick Werner]

Hi Community.

We have to install Wlan in a large RV Park. We have calculated that we need about 10 AP's evenly distributed on the RV Park. The Registration Office has a Internet conenction. It is not possible to get cable to the AP's, only the AP at the registration office is connected with a network cable. All other AP's should connect to the central AP over Air.

How do i accomplish this. Which AP is the best to accomplish that. As i know WLC doesnt work in this scenario. Is it possible to connect all 9 AP's over Air to the central  AP?

Thanks and regards patrick

[Amjad Abdullah]

Patrick:

What you need is a MESH APs.

APs will communicate over air to reach one (or more) APs that are connected over the wire.

Read this document. You'll find it very useful:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/mesh/7.0/design/guide/MeshAP_70.html

HTH

Amjad

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[George Stefanick · Accepted solution]

I've done a few RV and camp grounds. You need to make sure your survey is solid. You need to make sure you have line of sight between your links. You need to make sure you take out any growth that will impact the links. I would also bandwidth restrict clients. Some reason people love to d/l all their music and movies before they leave an kill the network in the process.

Mesh is the way to go. Back haul 5 ghz an client connect on 2.4 ..

Doing it right I would use a 1524 or 1550. But these are expensive. Next option is a 1260 or 1240 and the needed antennas.

I've used the older 1252 and 1240. Both work well ..

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[Scott Fella]

I agree with Amjad and George with using mesh.  Now I have only used outdoor mesh AP's due to temperature variations, but I also have never designed a mesh that had more than two hops back to the RAP.  If you do have line of site with no obstructions between the mesh ap's, I would see if many can join the RAP unless you try to stay with two and no more than three hops away.  The 1550's have a model in which there is 3 separate 2.4ghz and 5ghz antenna ports so you can use a patch on the MAP which can help you choose if the MAP will connect to the RAP or another MAP.  So keep that model in mind when designing your MESH.

Thanks,

Scott

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[Patrick Werner]

Thanks for the answers. So it is possible to connect wireless to an MAP and the MAP will forward the traffic to the RAP.

But how i do that with the WLC, To change the mode for an AP to MAP or RAP is easy. But how i add the Wlan (and the associated VLAN) to the MAP, is it possible to add more than one WLAN to the MAP.

[Scott Fella · Accepted solution]

It will explain it in the guide... here is two, one for outdoor mesh AP's and another if you choose to use indoor AP's in mesh:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/mesh/7.0/design/guide/MeshAP_70.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_white_paper09186a0080b1c101.shtml

Thanks,

Scott

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[Leo Laohoo]

Next option is a 1260 or 1240 and the needed antennas.

You can't use them any more, George.  End-of-Sale already.  Didn't you get the memo? 

[George Stefanick]

I still have access to them *cough ;)

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[Scott Fella]

We knew you got the memo:)

Thanks,

Scott

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