[SOLVED] Is deco M5 enough for big user and company ?

[hakim.homecentra]

Hello, we want to upgrade our WIFI Connection

currently we are using three router, so it has three WIFI Connection, but it really is bad. our company is a retailer it only has one floor but its pretty huge more than 300m length is more than 200 Meter, our sales use a smartphone to scan our product to get the current price and sell it to our customer, so when they walk around the store, WIFI might get disconnected and our sales to reconnect to another closer WIFI Router which is bad especially on rush hour

recently i just open the TP Link website and it has a great technology like Deco M5 that can be use to roaming seamlessly with three or more device and ONE WIFI, it really is a great solution for us
but is it really good enough for us ?

• we have 50 people for our sales that use smart phone to connect to WIFI, 30 on weekday and fuil 50 on weekend, even worse when we do a Stock Opname all of our employee use the smart phone so it about 95 to 110 people connect at once.
• it has a pretty big range, about 300m the length is more than 200 Meter, as for the width about 50 to 80 i think...
• can the device do a restricted user, like if our sales connected it just get an IP to connect to our database, but does not have an internet connection but if back-office employee use the WIFI, it will have an internet connection. [we have a mikrotik too, if it does not possible for deco m5 only , can it be integrated with our mikrotik to do this ?]

if deco M5 not good enough, any other device that can fulfill our requirement ? any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance

 

[hakim.homecentra]

Yes your mikrotik router would be acceptable.
"Mesh" is not what you want. Mesh is a wireless uplink between APs. You want single SSID. You can configure Ubiquiti APs with the same SSID. In fact you can have multiple SSIDs per AP.

im sorry if im asking stupid question, but is setting same SSID is the same as deco mesh technology where you have multiple device but only one WIFI Connection? or it still has as many WIFI as the AP Device?

 

[kanewolf]

im sorry if im asking stupid question, but is setting same SSID is the same as deco mesh technology where you have multiple device but only one WIFI Connection? or it still has as many WIFI as the AP Device?

The goal is to be able to define "WORK" wireless network and have it magically applied to all WIFI. That is a single SSID. The user devices choose which WIFI signal to connect to. You have to tune your WIFI to get devices to roam gracefully between WIFI sources. It is not plug-and-play.
I don't know what features deco mesh advertises.

 

[hakim.homecentra]

The goal is to be able to define "WORK" wireless network and have it magically applied to all WIFI. That is a single SSID. The user devices choose which WIFI signal to connect to. You have to tune your WIFI to get devices to roam gracefully between WIFI sources. It is not plug-and-play.
I don't know what features deco mesh advertises.

so it will has a multiple WIFI name huh, actually that is one of our dilemma too since many of our sales person is outdated people who think that WIFI can be automatically change when their position change so they always complain to us when WIFI is slow but actually they just need to change to the closer WIFI

as for the deco mesh advertises, here some link https://www.tp-link.com/id/landing/decowifi/ if you scroll down a bit there some GIF image which ilustrate how their Deco Mesh works. and that is what we actually needed though if possible...

 

[kanewolf]

so it will has a multiple WIFI name huh, actually that is one of our dilemma too since many of our sales person is outdated people who think that WIFI can be automatically change when their position change so they always complain to us when WIFI is slow but actually they just need to change to the closer WIFI

as for the deco mesh advertises, here some link https://www.tp-link.com/id/landing/decowifi/ if you scroll down a bit there some GIF image which ilustrate how their Deco Mesh works. and that is what we actually needed though if possible...

I talked about roaming. It is up to the device. WIFI was not designed for seamless roaming. There have been things added to help, but it is not guaranteed. This is where TUNING comes in. You adjust the transmit power DOWN to minimize overlaps. You manually assign channels to minimize interference. You run narrower channel width to minimize interference. As I said, it is not plug-and-play to do it right.