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If you need 6 or more unifi devices, that's quite advanced. And quite a large area. If you have such a big house and also need WiFi for your fancy lawn mower, I

If you need 6 or more unifi devices, that's quite advanced. And quite a large area. If you have such a big house and also need WiFi for your fancy lawn mower, I can't shed a tear for the 149 USD budget unifi decice not being adequate for you.

philjohn 3y ago
This. I have a pretty large house and I would be fine with this - I have three AP's and a 48 port PoE switch for the 36 drops in my house.
izacus 3y ago
2 floor house + Outside is immediately 3 APs. You'll also need at least one PoE switch to power them. That's 4 devices already, without adding anything else like security cameras or similar.
- lukeholder 3y ago
  Yeah so it’s not the device for you and you buy the another higher model in the line up?
  - catchnear4321 3y ago
    or you buy a different product from a different vendor, due to dissatisfaction with artificial product tiering. isn’t that typically the implicit message being sent by disgruntled customers complaining about a company’s seeming lack of foresight or excess of greed, or both?
    - novok 3y ago
      The Dream Machine Router which can do way more is only $50 more...
- semi-extrinsic 3y ago
  We live in a 3 floor 1800 sq.ft. house, with have a garage that is 300 ft away. My single UAP-AC-LR manages to cover this quite nicely, only the far corner of the garage has poor connection, out in the garden it's excellent. Unless all the walls in your house are heavily reinforced concrete, I don't see how you need that many APs.
  - mapmap 3y ago
    Are you using 2.4 or 5ghz? 2.4 will blast through walls, to an extent, where 5ghz will struggle. I’ve seen situations where the 2.4 band is completely saturated by neighbors and the solution was that every other room needs its own 5ghz puddle to achieve top speeds. This kind of setup is easily achievable with UniFI POE gear, but will hit the 5 device limit of this router. The original USG didn’t have this limit.
  - bdavbdav 3y ago
    What is your house built of? In the UK, we’ve got houses with brick walls everywhere - it’s killer for signal.
    - semi-extrinsic 3y ago
      I live in a wooden house, which is kind of ideal yes. You say brick, which isn't actually that bad, if you reference the classic NIST report [1]. And even in a brick house a lot of the interior walls are still just plywood or drywall, even in the UK AFAIK. What is interesting though is that OP said it is sufficient with one AP per floor plus one outside. So apparently propagation within one floor is fine, but between floors or to the exterior is not. In that case, it has to be a building where the interior walls are mostly just drywall, and the exterior walls and floor slabs are reinforced concrete with little in terms of openings. Which sounds more like an apartment building than anything else? [1] https://www.nist.gov/publications/electromagnetic-signal-attenuation-construction-materials https://www.nist.gov/publications/electromagnetic-signal-att...
      - bdavbdav 3y ago
- benhurmarcel 3y ago
  Most people don't have any need for a PoE managed switch. You just get a basic PoE switch if you have APs to power, it's cheaper and simpler.

philjohn 3y ago

This. I have a pretty large house and I would be fine with this - I have three AP's and a 48 port PoE switch for the 36 drops in my house.

izacus 3y ago

2 floor house + Outside is immediately 3 APs. You'll also need at least one PoE switch to power them. That's 4 devices already, without adding anything else like security cameras or similar.

lukeholder 3y ago
Yeah so it’s not the device for you and you buy the another higher model in the line up?
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  or you buy a different product from a different vendor, due to dissatisfaction with artificial product tiering. isn’t that typically the implicit message being sent by disgruntled customers complaining about a company’s seeming lack of foresight or excess of greed, or both?
  - novok 3y ago
    The Dream Machine Router which can do way more is only $50 more...
semi-extrinsic 3y ago
We live in a 3 floor 1800 sq.ft. house, with have a garage that is 300 ft away. My single UAP-AC-LR manages to cover this quite nicely, only the far corner of the garage has poor connection, out in the garden it's excellent. Unless all the walls in your house are heavily reinforced concrete, I don't see how you need that many APs.
- mapmap 3y ago
  Are you using 2.4 or 5ghz? 2.4 will blast through walls, to an extent, where 5ghz will struggle. I’ve seen situations where the 2.4 band is completely saturated by neighbors and the solution was that every other room needs its own 5ghz puddle to achieve top speeds. This kind of setup is easily achievable with UniFI POE gear, but will hit the 5 device limit of this router. The original USG didn’t have this limit.
- bdavbdav 3y ago
  What is your house built of? In the UK, we’ve got houses with brick walls everywhere - it’s killer for signal.
  - semi-extrinsic 3y ago
    I live in a wooden house, which is kind of ideal yes. You say brick, which isn't actually that bad, if you reference the classic NIST report [1]. And even in a brick house a lot of the interior walls are still just plywood or drywall, even in the UK AFAIK. What is interesting though is that OP said it is sufficient with one AP per floor plus one outside. So apparently propagation within one floor is fine, but between floors or to the exterior is not. In that case, it has to be a building where the interior walls are mostly just drywall, and the exterior walls and floor slabs are reinforced concrete with little in terms of openings. Which sounds more like an apartment building than anything else? [1] https://www.nist.gov/publications/electromagnetic-signal-attenuation-construction-materials https://www.nist.gov/publications/electromagnetic-signal-att...
    - bdavbdav 3y ago
benhurmarcel 3y ago
Most people don't have any need for a PoE managed switch. You just get a basic PoE switch if you have APs to power, it's cheaper and simpler.