Cisco Business 140AC 802.11ac 2x2 Wave 2 Access Point 1 GbE Port- Ceiling Mount, Limited Lifetime Protection (CBW140AC-E)

I have lots (40+) of devices on my WiFi network - mostly home made IOT home automation ESP32 devices. Previously, I've struggled with extremely unreliable WiFi. I've tried dual WAPs by TP-Link and WavLink but it wasn't until I purchased this fantastic Cisco router that my WiFi issues were finally solved!it seems that most home grade WAPs and routers only support a very small (<8) number of WiFi devices connected to them at one time. Any more and you get random dropouts.But this Cisco router is a breathe of fresh air! It just works!There is one possible negative to mention - it takes about 6 minutes to boot up and start operating. But this will ONLY happen after a power down. Unlike other routers, it doesn't randomly reset. It just works. I've had mine up and running continuously for literally three months without any problem what so ever - no drop outs - no resets - no devices randomly being kicked off the network. Brilliant!

I'm sure that this is great little AP but having to be a wifi client (ie. use your phone) to configure it is quite silly. Impossible to remotely manage this AP - poor show cisco.

It does help if you read the instructions for setting up. As a techie I typically didn't till I had issues, lol. I bought one to test with a view to replace the Unifi APs I have had at home for over 3 years and as I do not use any other Unifi products I'm not really going to be missing out on anything. One port can passthrough power so am going to use that to power the IP phone in a bedroom. One AP gets nominated as a master and you configure the settings on that. I've ordered another one so will report back on how adding that goes.I cannot seem to find any documentation that show the radio pattern to work out best placement which is kind of annoying. If you enable Application monitoring it can identify traffic and identify high data usage.

Access point looks good but configuring it is difficult, I have to try with 3 different Phone and Tablet to get is configured and after spending few hours found that there is only 1 SSID for 2.4Ghz and no 5Ghz, contact CISCO support and did not get a direct answer on how to configure the device. Documentation on the device is poorly explained. CISCO business app on Android shows 2.4 and 5 Ghz radio but when testing out with Notebook, desktop and Android Phone shows only 2.4Ghz. I had learned an lengthy lesson to get this CISCO device. If purchasing such a low price device need to engage an expert to install I might well go for an high end AP. Most AP after configuration if successful will show up 2 SSID for 2.4 and 5 Ghz and all devices will automatically logon to the strongest best signal.

I've two of these and three of the 240 model and I love them, the have some nice useful features. However setting them up was a pain, after much head scratching I managed it. I had to do it on a LAN without any VLANs configured no idea why as the work fine with the VLANs after the initial setup. That includes mapping SSIDs to VLANs to isolate them.

Good coverage, easy to setup and monitor clients. Install a pain as rear Ethernet port. Cisco sell a mounting bracket if your lucky to find on for sale

Any average network person can easy install, configure and maintain. The AP is perfect for small-medium 2 floor house. You can separate main, guest and IoT wifi networks with vlans (with switch), have nice GUI and easy to operate with, if you are not console person. Lots of features. With app for 0 day config.

It says 'download the app'.....from where???? Cisco website impossible to navigate.When finally entering all required data it says website not found!!!!!Went to app store, myriad of possible apps but none that identified as cisco business appIm sending the package back tomorrow