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when I installed a Ruckus r700 wireless

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access point in my house to replace my premium consumer wireless router my

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wife's immediate reaction was that she thought I had actually swapped out her

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phone for one that looked the same but was faster so as much fun as it is for

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us Hardware enthusiasts to blow the rent on a new graphics card a bunch of RAM or

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a fancy case I concluded at that time that we could probably actually get more

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value for our money by considering why

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less upgrades instead of some of that other stuff it's just too bad that the

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unit I showed off last time costs ,000 making it attainable only to folks

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who are out shopping for water blocks for their Titan X graphics cards but

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today that changes this is the xclaim

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xi3 your next wireless access point

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Kingston's KC 310 business class ssds deliver massive capacities firmware

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based power loss protection and enough performance that we're powering our

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brand new storage server with them click right here to learn

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more so when you open the box for an xi3

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the first thing you'll see is a gigantic QR code yes this business grade Wireless

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solution wants you to set it up with a mobile phone what oh and I guess there

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are also some accessories in there but I you know it took me a while to figure

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that out cuz my pick my jaw up off the floor so you get a power over Ethernet

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injector a $15 value some mounting hardware a little key for removing the

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unit from the aform mened mounting hardware and an Ethernet cable and then

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in most cases I guess probably also the xi3 Andor access point itself and let's

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talk about this sucker for a minute shall we the hardware actually looks

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pretty familiar but I guess it's not exactly a top secret that xclaim is a

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daughter company of ruckus the makers of the super awesome and Enterprise grade

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Wireless gear that you're most likely to find at an airport or University versus

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at the local Starbucks so let's see which one of ruckus's models got cut

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down a little to make it more price appropriate and user friendly for Wanda

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of Wanda's Diner to deploy in her restaurant raw specs wise the xi3 looks

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pretty darn similar to The Ruckus R500

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it's got the same 2x2 antenna config with the same power output it can handle

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the same N300 megabit speeds on 2.4 GHz

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and AC 867 on 5 GHz and even the power

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draw is rated exactly the same I mean sure the 500 client advertised capacity

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has been toned down to 100 and along with the other feature trimming very

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notably the removal of beam Flex plus ruckus's proprietary tech for punching

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through interference and barriers more easily there is no compatibility with

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rasist Zone director controllers for local or Remote Management of scores of

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access points across a large deployment although apparently a cloud option is

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coming soon no xclaim figures any more

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than 10 APS and you're probably overdoing it and you should move up to

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Ruckus so back to managing them then how are you supposed to do it right the app

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it starts with that QR code from before that basically brings up a how-to guide

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then you install the harmony for xclaim app password protect the app which by

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the way Touch ID support on iOS is a very nice touch then you go through a

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very basic AP setup that pretty much amounts to creating an SSID or a name

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for your network and a passphrase then you scan for access points on the

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network and that was the first stumbling block for me and one that I think xclaim

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could handle a bit better both of my units upgraded their own firmware once

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connected to the network with internet access but they didn't reboot on their

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own and I had to read a little error message in the app to discover that I

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needed to go manually hard reset the devices to a plug the firmware upgrade

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that should happen on its own with that out of the way though I got the AP

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configuration page fired up and there's

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basically nothing in there you can assign one or both of your radios to the

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ssids you create although I would recommend manually breaking out 2.4 and

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5 GHz if you intend to use this at home so you can manually reserve the faster 5

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GHz band for devices that matter and leave 2.4 GHz to non-performance

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sensitive ones instead of relying on the ap's band steering to decide for you and

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muck up your game stream performance potentially you can choose a particular

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Channel and Channel width for each radio or leave it on auto to let ruckus's

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Channel fly technology hop around

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according to whichever has the least congestion a feature uh whose

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functionality I was surprised to discover when I cracked open my wipy and

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saw it flopping around like a Mexican jumping bean in our crowded 2.4 GHz

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environment and one that I'm not 100% sure how I feel about since not being on

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one six or 11 is not really a recommended configuration when you ask

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most Wireless Experts there are a few other little things you can tune in

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there on a per SSID basis you can set bandwidth limits and you can control

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whether or not clients can see the rest of the wired devices on the network but

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that's pretty much it I covered the whole thing Wireless for dummies which

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doesn't mean that it sucks it lacks a central controller so with multiple APS

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clients are left to decide which one to

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connect to but the xi3 delivers great

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wall and floor penetration power even on 5 GHz new settings from the app are

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applied nearly immediately clients connect almost instantly compared to

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that horrendous leg that's typical of consumer grade gear and range was

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absolutely freaking awesome I don't

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really know what to say other than this is really good stuff and you're getting

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it for less than a third of the price if you're willing to give up some of those

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Ruckus features that if we're being honest with ourselves we'd never be

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dinking around with in the first place if the bloody Wi-Fi just worked but it's

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not perfect either I think Ruckus is getting pulled in a couple different

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directions right now they've got a great idea here making deploying a great

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reliable Wi-Fi solution so easy that any

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small business or home user can do it but their users you know Wi-Fi Tech

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heads who manag to Employments for their customers are inherently hardcore and

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asking for things that Wanda of Wanda's Diner will never understand so Ruckus

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needs to decide once and for all what xclaim is personally I'm glad that they

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caved and added a web-based management tool even if I only poked around in it

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after I'd set everything up through the app but Wanda actually needs things

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simplified even further even if that

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means hiding terms like 20 mahz or

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client isolation behind friendly sliders

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that say I'm in a busy area with lots of other Wi-Fi or I'm in an isolated area

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and want more performance and they it needs like a OneTouch guest network

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setup for example that does everything for Wanda and while we're at it the

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navigation of the app does need some Polish too like the grade out actions

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button in the iOS app that's actually clickable to access some pretty critical

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settings or the unclear difference between the Wireless symbol and the Cog

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from the dashboard which is called statistics instead of I don't know

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dashboard for some reason and while we're at it why does the statistics page

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contain information about how many packets have been sent instead of pretty

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graphs of use over time or alert heavy user leeching bandwidth off the network

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or something like that I mean wand doesn't care about packets unless they're catchup but of course I don't

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think any of this stuff is a deal breaker not even the odd crash of the

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app because I did have it happen if I did think that I wouldn't have told you

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this is your next access point now to be clear it's not for everyone for a single

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or even a couple of Wireless clients a similarly priced consumer device will

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deliver higher speeds but the fastest individual link speed is not the be all

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and end all of Wi-Fi performance

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especially as you start to load up more clients and I'll take ruckus's PoE

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deployment making better positioning much more possible since you're not

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reliant on a power jack nearby and

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ruckus's ability to not have the hardware fold like a cheap suit once a

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