CiscoWAP121-E-K9-G5 Small Business Wireless-N Access Point with Power over Ethernet 677Q103

As a lucky owner of a BT Homehub3, dreadful range and frequent drops of connection were aplenty before, even in the same room. I currently run this WAP into a Cisco switch which then leads into my HomeHub before the MODEM and thus WAN: The range has greatly expanded with a very reliable connection. While the HomeHub did freak-out at first, a quick reboot fixed the issue and everything works flawlessly together; after disabling the HomeHub's own WiFi, I haven't looked back.While the WAP works great, the WebUI is a little clunky and leaves you not much time for thinking before being asked to log in once again - which can be annoying; still, the UI is still quite intuitive, being easy to navigate, and does its job. It is a shame that the 5Ghz's price-slope is so steep.Future plans: Hook this and my Cisco switch up to my Ubuntu computer/server, running pfSense or Untangle within a virtual machine.

Works great but the instructions are very unclearl for home setup.Revised: all died after 3 years. They started doing about 5mbps download and 30 upload. It is a recognised problem (see online) with no back up from manufacturers. Beware these products

I bought these to help me setup a small wireless network around my home. Cisco isn't renowned for it's usability but these routers aren't too bad to setup. One nice feature is that you can give a group name to the first access point that you setup and when you put another one onto the network, you tell it the same group name and it will automatically get all of the settings from the first router. From that point on they are managed as a single entity.I did have a few niggles configuring them but they weren't horrible to sort. It's worth remembering that this is an access point only - not a router so it can't connect to your ADSL or Cable modem directly - you will need a router for that.I was also a little surprised that they don't seem to support 5Ghz but I needed range rather than speed so that doesn't matter overly to me.

I've used one of these at home for 8 months now, and it hasn't missed a beat. Although it is aimed at small businesses, I was sick of the poor quality of wireless access points aimed at the residential user so went for a low end business unit and the difference is significant - especially in terms of how reliable it is.Has a huge number of settings, most of which I haven't explored as they wouldn't be of use to me, it is easy enough to get set up for simple home use anyway as you don't need to look at most settings.After 8 months of flawless performance I've bought a second unit to improve coverage, and the single point setup works brilliantly.

Bought this after trying the Ubiquiti Unifi AP at a similar price point. They both have "OK" wireless performance. This though is a major problem as I live amongst large blocks of flats, where I can see at least 30 something WiFi points around me at any one time. I suspect someone living on a street of houses wont suffer this.The selling point for the Cisco for me over the Unifi are that:- The Cisco allows you to control the unit via a webpage (as you would hope) while the unifi needs software on your local PC to start up the management interface.The Guest Network feature in the Unifi is rubbish as you cant change any of its settings, (eg name, vlan etc). At least with the Cisco you can do all that and have the firewall or a captive portal do the rest.- The PoE on this operates at standard 48v meaning it can go into your PoE switch as you expect. The Unifi actually operates at 24v PoE so if you plug it into a PoE switch you can probably kiss it goodbye.Plus points to the Unifi it probably looks nicer if on show on the ceiling. This Cisco one though is no larger than a DVD and so far as robust as the Unifi in terms of realiability - no need to reboot it a million times other than some other brands.Edit October 2014Two weeks later I decided to purchase another one of these Cisco units. The cluster function works amazingly. Simply define a cluster name on your original AP. Then fire up the new AP and join the cluster. All the settings get synced over easy! The only items that dont change are hostname, IP address and location (though you wouldnt want them to). The 2nd AP automatically gets another channel not the same as the previous AP. If you are using a managed switch remember to tag VLANs on the new ports you are using for the new APs. (If you're a home user plugging into your router this probably wont be relevant to you).Speed and coverage is now 100% all over. But the coverage issue as mentioned above is due to my location.

This was a fulfilled by Amazon purchase. I’ve had one of these for years in a domestic setting, and it’s been great. I sent this one back unopened though as it was refurbished, not new, so I don’t know if it’s good.

Although at the small office end of the market and priced accordingly, it's a very useful piece of equipment and the ability to set up to 4 virtual networks with their own SSIDs is handy for giving visitors temporary access or (for example) if you want to make changes to your network gradually e.g. moving to a different SSID. The 'Rogue AP Detection" feature gives a list of networks in range and can be useful if you want to choose a clear channel manually rather than letting the WAP decide.

Is this some sort of a practical joke or what? WIRELESS access point that can not connect to my router WIRELESSLY and requires to be hard wired to the router to be usable as an access point. I bought it to see if it would perform better than the few wireless extenders that I have tried to extend my wifi network based on the favorable reviews but was very disappointed to realise that despite the wide array of settings and configurations, that it misses this one very fundamental function if you would want to get rid of wires.