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I've been increasingly tempted to switch to one of these consumer mesh setups from my current Unifi. I just pick up two new Unifi Wifi 6 APs(A U6-Pro and a U6-M

by kcb 5y ago

I've been increasingly tempted to switch to one of these consumer mesh setups from my current Unifi. I just pick up two new Unifi Wifi 6 APs(A U6-Pro and a U6-Mesh) and the performance is just poor. I don't know whats going on. I'm lucky to get 300mbps with a Wifi 5(3x3) or Wifi 6 client. I'm pretty sure there's something physically wrong with the U6-Mesh as it gets scolding hot in use and seems to throttle between 30-300mbps. I ended up reverting back to the Wifi 5 APs while I figure out what to do.

mccanntech 5y ago
That hasn't been my experience with the U6-Pro and U6-Mesh. Are you running 80 MHz channels? Do you have a lot of 5 GHz interference around you? I'm typically seeing 500-800 Mbps on the top end, from close range, with those APs. That's with a relatively clean 80 MHz channel though.
- kcb 5y ago
  Yea, I have 80 MHz channels on with one AP at 36 and the other at 149. I live in a suburban area and the channels definitely aren't perfect. My closest neighbor seems to have quiet a few Google Wifi APs with pretty strong signal at my house. Did you ever notice your U6-Mesh running hot like really in an alarming way?
  - mccanntech 5y ago
    You might have more reliable results with 40 MHz then, or with moving to a DFS channel. The U6-Mesh definitely does run hot, but most UniFi APs do. The U6-Mesh does seems the hottest-running of the dozen plus models I've used though. I know some people have had to RMA them, but it's too early to know if that's a real problem or not.
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rhexs 5y ago
I switched my family from AmpliFi to Eero —- drastically more reliable. Few firmware update hiccups but they’ve been great so far. Better speeds. Only thing missing is good QoS —- the “SQM” they advertise doesn’t work nearly as well as true SQM on OpenWRT. In fact I was never really able to see Eeros SQM doing anything on multiple connection types.
- dtaht 5y ago
  I wish eero's sqm was more configurable and adequate statistics were available. sch_cake, as used on the eero 5, and in the modern openwrt SQM world, is definitely proving out better for many workloads.
  - rhexs 5y ago
    I had a eero 5 before upgrading to the 6 -- found the traffic shaping pretty useless on both to be honest. "CAKE" or not, didn't do much for me on two connection types that absolutely need shaping -- local cable and local DSL. Had a OpenWRT box as well, and shaping with CAKE was night and day better. Trick is I can't remotely manage OpenWRT for family. Eero is so much better for that. (so stable I don't have to manage it, it just works) I agree they need for knobs, but that doesn't seem likely.

by kcb 5y ago

mccanntech 5y ago

That hasn't been my experience with the U6-Pro and U6-Mesh. Are you running 80 MHz channels? Do you have a lot of 5 GHz interference around you? I'm typically seeing 500-800 Mbps on the top end, from close range, with those APs. That's with a relatively clean 80 MHz channel though.

kcb 5y ago
Yea, I have 80 MHz channels on with one AP at 36 and the other at 149. I live in a suburban area and the channels definitely aren't perfect. My closest neighbor seems to have quiet a few Google Wifi APs with pretty strong signal at my house. Did you ever notice your U6-Mesh running hot like really in an alarming way?
- mccanntech 5y ago
  You might have more reliable results with 40 MHz then, or with moving to a DFS channel. The U6-Mesh definitely does run hot, but most UniFi APs do. The U6-Mesh does seems the hottest-running of the dozen plus models I've used though. I know some people have had to RMA them, but it's too early to know if that's a real problem or not.
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rhexs 5y ago

I switched my family from AmpliFi to Eero —- drastically more reliable. Few firmware update hiccups but they’ve been great so far. Better speeds. Only thing missing is good QoS —- the “SQM” they advertise doesn’t work nearly as well as true SQM on OpenWRT. In fact I was never really able to see Eeros SQM doing anything on multiple connection types.

dtaht 5y ago
I wish eero's sqm was more configurable and adequate statistics were available. sch_cake, as used on the eero 5, and in the modern openwrt SQM world, is definitely proving out better for many workloads.
- rhexs 5y ago
  I had a eero 5 before upgrading to the 6 -- found the traffic shaping pretty useless on both to be honest. "CAKE" or not, didn't do much for me on two connection types that absolutely need shaping -- local cable and local DSL. Had a OpenWRT box as well, and shaping with CAKE was night and day better. Trick is I can't remotely manage OpenWRT for family. Eero is so much better for that. (so stable I don't have to manage it, it just works) I agree they need for knobs, but that doesn't seem likely.