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Re: Type of router at AP end? Hi cmaenginsb:
What might be a second choice other then Mikrotik, for someone like me who isn't a router guru?
Aren't there any other router products out there that can be used for WISP operations, that can do pretty much what Mikrotik does? Some kind of router box, that doesn't require me to be a router genius, like Mikrotik does?
You said:
"Mikrotik is both. It can be used as a router,AP, or client device. It depends on the hardware you run it on and what you want to do with it."
The preceeding statement is what confuses me about Mikrotik. Where did Mikrotik get its transmitter and antennas to be used as an AP? Does Mikrotik sometimes come as a regular router and sometimes come in a box with a transmitter to be used as an AP? and sometimes as a CPE device? That doesn't make sense yet.
Also..."You do not need a router at each AP, at least during startup. You need a router where your network enters the real internet."
If I understand the preceeding paragraph, that means I would go from the Internet, to one router, then to a switch, and I could then have several APs connected to the switch.
After I remote in through the single router, I guess I could address each of my APs, by their local IP address...as opposed to each AP having its own static IP address?
But then, if my customers have a router at their location, they would probably have NAT turned on also on their router. So that would be NAT behind NAT, I guess, since I'm doing NAT at my AP end of things. I heard that could be a problem? Maybe after I look over the Learn To Subnet CD, I'll understand it better?
On one of the other threads, I heard that some WISP operations use something called 1 to 1 NATting at the clients end. But some do not. That is, some WISP operations handle routing at the customer end various ways. That is a little confusing.
I guess all customers have a router? I might be able to use the built in router in my 9000SMC? Or would I want to turn off the router in my SM and have the customer supply their own router?
I apologize for what are extremely elementary questions to you all, but to me are difficult questions. |
