Aruba a Hewlett Packard Enterprise companyHPE Instant ON AP12 (US) - wireless access point

I had a basic SOHO setup before the Instant-On Conversion;Before: Netgear Nighthawk R7800 with another Netgear WiFi 'repeater' in another area of my home.The R7800 had some issues with range and the Firmware/UI was buggy. The WiFi firmware was broken on newer firmware updates that were required to fix CVE. Not only that, Etherner Switching on the R7800 was CPU bound (limited to no H/W acceleration), so backups to my NAS would slow down the Netgear WiFi! Also, the WiFI repeater running on 5ghz was 70% slower!Time to upgrade;Purchased an Aruba IO 8 port switch with a AP11, AP12 and AP15.After getting VLANs configured via the mobile app (By the way, you *CAN* manage your network with a web browser instead of a mobile device, there's a website that does the same thing as the mobile.)Getting it configured was easy. All I had to do was name the devices (ie: Downstairs, upstairs, etc) and it was ready to go. I didn't have to do much. Now here are the caveats you should be aware of:The AP's will use the 5ghz bands for meshing. This is a good idea because 5ghz isn't as crowded as the 2.4ghz bands. For example, using the 'WinFi' tool (Windows 10), it shows I have nearly 90 access points near me, with 70 of them advertising on the 2.4ghz bands. That is a -lot- of noise! If the AIO AP's were using the 2.4ghz bands for meshing, it would probably be painfully slow.If you want to do proper meshing in a home, the AP12 and Ap15 have 3x3 and 4x4 5ghz MU-MIMO, and the rest of the devices only have 2x2. Get an AP12 or a AP15.Some caveats/info you should be aware of.- Firmware updates are automatic. You don't know anything about updates.- AIO's uses Amazon's Cloud for the Instant-On. You can't locally manage the APs (the switch can be managed locally)- Starting from Firmware version 2.3.0, 802.11k is enabled by default, and now you can manage all the radios (power, transmit, etc) with some other changes.- TURN OFF Application details under 'Visibility and Control' - This will slow down your WiFI network because it gives a breakdown of bandwidth usage per device/website/category. (it does layer7 sniffing of traffic)- 20mhz 2.4ghz is the default, but you can do 20/40mhz on the 2.4ghz band for a speedup.- Band steering is enabled by default with no way to disable it.- The mobile app will tell you if your network is down/offline, kind of useful- Per device bandwidth + what radio/AP it's connected to- You -cannot- use the ethernet port on a mesh AP for bridging on the AP11/12/15, only on the AP17. (ie: you can't have a kitchen AP15 with a laptop plugged up to it)

I have been waiting for something like this to come out for a while.Have seen products like Google and Eero that are probably great, but do not support Radius or VLAN tagging. This supports both.Very easy to setup, love Aruba.

After 4 months it died. I called support and they agreed to send me a new one. Then they said - Oh we cant send you a new one because you are not a corporation. I did end up sending them my purchase invoice. so it should be ok. Don't bother with Aruba for home networking.