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"The FCC will certainly have an issue if you try to violate the power restrictions on WiFi, and that's a many thousands of dollars fine, and maybe imprisonment too.  So a powerful access point is a really BAD idea.  Lot's of antennas is a bad idea too, because they tend to get hit by passing forklifts with product on them, plus, cabling the antennas any distance can lose significant signal, and won't help, that much anyway.  So take a look at my solution.I have over 400,000 sq feet of warehouse, not all of it with racking, but there is significant racking, but we must leave 20ft above the racking to the ceiling by fire code.  Currently using all Unifi products and the locally installed controller.  A client roaming from access point to access point NEVER has an issue, it's totally transparent.  I currently use 6 access points to cover the area, but will be adding two more in the heaviest racked area for better support.  We are looking to migrate to Meraki's, but I'm having a hard time justifying the change, when the Meraki's cost 3 times as much, plus have the yearly licenses, but do have better management (supposedly).  I have no issues with the Unifi management so far.  The only time we've had an issue has been during inventory, where instead of having 2-3 users in an area we have a LOT more, even then the issues really weren't the access points, they were more a matter of poorly managed expectations, where users were expecting 'instant' response to a scan, where in reality, there needed to be 2-3 seconds between scans, as the back end program needed some processing time.  We had been using some Cisco's in the past, or some really ancient Intermec AP's, with antenna's.  What we found, was that the large antennas the Intermec's used were constantly being hit by product on forklifts, and the Cisco's didn't let users roam very well, or handle frequencies automatically."
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