Wireless Access Points

[OzziGoblin]

Hi everyone

I'm in need of some recommendations, obviously, I'm using Opnsense as my firewall, but as I'm living in a double story home, I need a mesh wifi solution.  Currently I'm using 4 wifi AP's so that I can separate IOT & Guest clients from home client devices.

Can anyone recommend some AP's that I can use that will allow vlans over wifi and still support a mesh system?

I've heard Ruckus can do this but I'd appreciate some feedback from the Opnsense community.

I'd like to replace the current system with 2 AP's but I'd like to have more VLAN's on the wireless network.
Does anyone have any recommendations that they have successfully implemented?

thanks

[Stormscape]

Personally I use TP Link's Omada APs. They're quite good and can do fast roaming and mesh very easily, if you set up the Controller, which can run on any Windows/Linux machine, or you can use a dedicated hardware controller.

[nero355]

Personally I use TP Link's Omada APs.

They're quite good and can do fast roaming and mesh very easily, if you set up the Controller, which can run on any Windows/Linux machine, or you can use a dedicated hardware controller.

IMHO stuff like TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi can become very annoying if there is something wrong with the Controller :
You can access them via SSH or some sort of CLI anyways, but any changes can't be saved and are lost after the next reboot... -_-

And when you host the Controller yourself the MongoDB dependancy is also extremely annoying because you need to check which version you will need to run and which CPU instructions are mandatory for that specific version !!

I love my UniFi In-Wall units, but the next time I need to buy something I would rather have a situation in which every Switch or Accesspoint has it's own webGUI and SSH access :)

[passeri]

Mikrotik offers WiFi6 devices such as the wAP and cAP but not mesh as plug and play. On the other hand, they give you absolute control of every other aspect of operation including nigh-endless vLans or virtual radios. Do you have ethernet between the levels?