Wireless management - many access points

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z16a
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Wireless management - many access points

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I have around 30 OpenWRT access points in our building (plenty of them are old Linksys). It's time to update our wireless network. Some of old APs will be replaced with TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750. Problem is that maintain 30+ access points is quite quite time consuming (if you want to change passwords, you have to do this on each access point ...). Is there any solution for managing many access points. I found OpenWISP but their documentation is pretty poor.
Thanks for help.

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Re: Wireless management - many access points

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openmesh + Gargoyle?

or

ubnt unfi + gargoyle

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Re: Wireless management - many access points

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Thanks for your reply.

Did you know if there is any documentation or tutorial for openmesh? They support just their routers, and I would like to use my TP-Link AC1750

Is possible to set up Ubnt unifi with TP-Link and Gargoyle?? Did anyone already try that?

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Did you know if there is any documentation or tutorial for openmesh? They support just their routers,
only there own routers now
Is possible to set up Ubnt unifi with TP-Link and Gargoyle?? Did anyone already try that?
yes, I do

internet -- Gargoyle (TP-Link) -- Ubnt unifi

stable wifi plus gargoyle control and monitoring

Perfect

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Is possible to set up Ubnt unifi with TP-Link and Gargoyle?? Did anyone already try that?
yes, I do

internet -- Gargoyle (TP-Link) -- Ubnt unifi

stable wifi plus gargoyle control and monitoring

Perfect
Do you have any manual or. guide how to establish that?
Any description would be very useful.

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no but its basic

Purchase a gargoyle router

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/shop/pro ... router-1-1

purchase some radios

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/

install some software and your good to go

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Re: Wireless management - many access points

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Did we miss each other?
I want to manage tp-links not buying new Ubiquiti routers...
I already have TP-Link access points.

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Is there any solution for managing many access points
No, not that I am aware of with gargoyle

unifi, yes
openmesh, yes

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