Netgear RBK53 (1 router + 2 satellite) for a 10,000 square feet gym (open space)?

[zack_1982]

Hi to all.

I could not find any similar thread, so I open a new one.

A close friend of mine is going to open a gym in a big warehouse of 160 x 65 feet (10,000 square feet). There are no walls or columns inside, it's totally empty.

The shape of the warehouse is a parallelepiped of 160 x 65 x 13 feet with on top the roof, which has the pitches running along the longest sides and merging at the center of the short side, where the height is 23 feet (13 of the box + 10 of the roof).

We come up with the idea of using a meshed wifi Netgear RBK53 (1 router + 2 access points). The plan is to put them 1 meter below the highest point of the roof, along the longest side, having each of the router/satellites each 55 feet.

There should not be more than 10 devices (tablet, pc, notebook) at the same time.

There are now two questions coming to my mind:
1) Would it be sufficient to cover the entire warehouse counting that there are no walls inside?
2) How to efficiently and safety fix the routers and the satellites 1 meter below the roof? Are there kit or structures for doing this? We can't use an iron support since otherwise we will reduce the coverage I believe. Am I right?

Thank you.

 

[kanewolf]

I wouldn't use them in a commercial setting. For the same cost, you can get commercial quality hardware like the Ubiquiti UniFI system -- https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UAP-AC-LITE-802-11ac-Dual-Radio-US-8-150W/dp/B07C7DGJ59

 

[zack_1982]

Thank you for the reply.

May I ask why you would use an Ubiquity considering the lower number of connected people? [it's a curiosity]

Would it be fine in case to mount the Ubiquity AP where the two pichtes of the roof touching themself, hence almost 23 feet about the ground?
Ubiquity as per what I read is nothing like an access point, right? So I leverage the PoE to connect the APs with the switch, and I set same SSID to all AP but different channels not overlapping. Anything extra to be configure to have the roaming under the Ubiquity to work?

 

[kanewolf]

At 23 feet off the ground, I want something that is bulletproof. Hence the recommendation for Ubiquiti. They are commercial quality. They will work if you have 10 or a class of 100. Or 200 spectators for a tournament.

 

[zack_1982]

Thank you very much. I am checking also on the ubiquity forum and it seems that the best suggestion might be 1x nanoHD in/near his office and 1x AC-Lite elsewhere.

I will post here the solution once finalized, so that everyone can benefit in the future