Could use some advice

[kpinn]

I have some interesting home requirements which has me looking into smb ish products and i ran into the forti series.

My Orbi with 5 AP is not functioning correctly.

If i scooped up a FortiGate-80F-POE 8 X GE PoE ports, 2 x RJ45/SFP shared media WAN ports. Could i directly use it with the fortiAP access points? Or is there a separate wifi ap controller I’m missing?

I have existing cable modem and unmanaged switches. Also planning on throwing away 5 netgear orbi rbs50 but if i could reuse them that would be neat.

Do you all have any idea on licensing costs? If i needed 5 access points (also only 4 users)

[ozkanaltas]

Hello @kpinn ,

You can manage 5 FortiAP with 80F without any license requirement. Also, you can use your old switches in that environment.

FortiGate licensing is different than other vendors. For example, you don't need to buy a license for a user count. How many users are supported by the device you prefer, you can use this count of users.

If you want to use security features such as IPS, AV, Web Filter, etc.. you need to buy a license for those features.

You can review these documents for user count supported by 80F and licensing.

https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/fortigate-fortiwifi-80f-series.pdf

https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/og-fortiguard.pdf