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Well – if you are looking to make money – suggest the Ubiquity Networks Unifi product. You can spend hours configuring it and getting seemingly no where. Then… it works. ARGGGG. OK – here are some lessons learned. Once it is up – the system rocks out. $120 or $180 (5G) per device – can’t go wrong but the setup – still cheaper than the big guys and it is easy to configure once a device is adopted. The stats are out of this world awesome and you can lock people out, VLAN etc. Here are more links that I wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

First, save a backup. Of course mine didn’t work – so nightmare again. I installed this at the other campus of this customer and it too was a nightmare. \u00a0Here are the steps<\/p>\n

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  1. a) Install or upgrade (that was the ticket for me) the latest JAVA 64 AND 32 bit. Just do it – it does not have to make sense. Read the support articles they put out.\n
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    1. put the path to java into your env. PATH variable<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. next save a copy of your files<\/li>\n
    3. once configured, put a copy of all the files SOMEWHERE OUT OF\u00a0THE USERS HOME DIR (why don\/t they fix this!) and make sure permissions are great<\/li>\n
    4. do the upgrade<\/li>\n
    5. as soon as the software comes up on the web page restore from backup<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      No I did the backup before I added the last unit a few months ago and I forgot to save the backup with it.<\/p>\n

      So – would it adopt? NO – follow this advice<\/a> – I think I will every time for adopting via ssh. It is a little weird – but just do it. Read it first then read it again then do it – while you do the first set… command – re-read it – you don’t have to wait that long in between commands (e.g. 10 seconds). Also set the refresh rate on the web page to every 15 seconds.<\/p>\n

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