Small business product list needed
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I've been wanting to try TP-Link Omada products now for a while. A friend has a diesel mechanic business, 3 employees. It has two buildings: a shop 100 ft from the office. The office has Spectrum internet and Spectrum phone service but no phones yet. There's nothing in the shop but power. He wants 2 cameras on the exterior of the office, 3 cameras on the exterior of the shop and 2 interior cameras in the shop. WIFI in the office and shop. One AP in the office and probably two - three in the shop. The shop dimensions are 200 ft long x 44 ft wide, 20 ft ceilings. Office demensions are 24x24, 8 ft ceilings, 3 rooms. I need to use POE to the cameras and APs.
Product suggestions on the following please:
- Cameras interior/exterior, I've looked at Reolink, Hikvision, Amcrest with Blue Iris
- APs interior
- Point to Point
- Phones
- 12 - 16 port POE switchs office & shop
- Modem and router/firewall (possibly get rid of Spectrum modem/router)
Firewall
The distance from the Office to the Shop is about 100 feet, I think the first thing to consider is that how to transfer the signal from point to point.
Here is what I think:
1. Use two CPE210/510, one set up as the Access Point and another one set up as Client. After the wireless bridge is established, connect another EAP back of the Client, or you can connect a POE switch back to Client CPE, then all the EAP access points connect to the POE switch with hardwired cables.
2. Use the EAP225/245/225-outdoor to build the mesh. The mesh means that the second EAP connects to the first EAP wirelessly. As far as I know, the range for the EAP225-outdoor is about 180 meters far. Also, we can connect an additional switch of EAP back to the mesh downlink EAP.
