On 2018-02-16 9:29 am, hw wrote: > Mike Burger wrote: >> On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote: >>> William Warren wrote: >>>> I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the >>>> software >>>> onto your machine directly. If you do not have a power over >>>> ethernet >>>> switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run >>>> it but >>>> after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't >>>> have to >>>> install anything on to your machine >>> >>> One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and >>> administration of >>> their wireless infrastructure out of hands. >> >> The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same >> management software, on your network, rather than installing the >> software onto a Linux server...it's literally the difference between >> an ethernet connected (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device >> running the software or running it on a full fledged computer. >> >> There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands. > > You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes? Why don´t > they call it just that ... Because that's not the only function...it's the control center for your entire Ubiquity Ubifi network...APs, switches, routers, I guess. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1