[If I had any money, then I would be looking at upgrading WAPs to 802.11ac wave 2 at some point. No hurry though. I have posted on this question before, so apol]
I’m wondering about which ZyXEL top-end WAP might be a good spiritual successor replacement for my current ZyXEL NWA3560-N WAPs? Need same sysadmin features, not just network performance.
Perhaps I could add one and keep my current devices too, and let clients just roam between them. But if roaming is much better on newer devices then that would be a reason to upgrade more units. Is that the case - is roaming better now?
My current devices can do superb stuff like listing the current connected devices, can be a RADIUS server, can speak https, generate their own certificates or load ones up, speaks SNMP, can email reports, can show graphs of WLAN tx/rx vs time, most important: can do traffic capture !, can load and save config that is human-readable plain text and so can be edited with s text editor and diff’ed or copied to another device. They can also be put under the control of a controller, which is another identical WAP but it has to be dedicated to the job of controller unfortunately, so that mean buying one extra unit.
So a replacement will have big shoes to fill.
I would be very happy if they kept the best aspects of the current software and kept it so that current customers are comfortable with changes.
Desperately needs a much much faster CPU though, a better compiler, or both, as the current web UI is horribly sluggish and boot time is a joke, at over four minutes.