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Thanks for the review of Ubiquiti in general. I'm still not sure I see a great use case, however. If the customer can get away with a single wifi router (eg. A
by dual_basis 7y ago
Thanks for the review of Ubiquiti in general. I'm still not sure I see a great use case, however.
If the customer can get away with a single wifi router (eg. Asus AC 5300) that will generally be easiest for them to manage (eg. easy to reset if necessary, no concern that older devices are connecting to the wrong access point). It also gives very strong download speeds (around 450Mbps for a gigabit connection).
If the customer needs multiple devices the Linksys Mesh system has worked very well. I can connect the nodes to each other wired or wirelessly, and I can get speeds in a similar range as a single router (450Mbps). The Linksys app is dead simple to setup and restart the system, and clients have even been able to apply firmware updates from their phone without issue.
I don't consider the Ubiquiti software easy to use for general consumers, so I would only install their products if I was planning to fully manage the network for them, i.e. they would have to call me in the event that the power went out and the system didn't come back up correctly or something.
Regardless of ease-of-use, I am more concerned about the speed. It seems like the Ubiquiti access point I have installed top out around 200 Mbps, so I don't even want to use them for my own house.
My guess was that the Ubiquiti devices were designed for use in an office setting, where making sure that everyone can connect is more important than enabling the fastest speed for say 5-10 devices.