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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 lik
by 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 agoYeah so it’s not the device for you and you buy the another higher model in the line up?
- catchnear4321 3y agoor 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 agoThe Dream Machine Router which can do way more is only $50 more...
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoWe 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 agoAre 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 agoWhat is your house built of? In the UK, we’ve got houses with brick walls everywhere - it’s killer for signal.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoI 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 agoI think it depends largely on age - “new builds” (1980s onwards) often have a brick partition wall down the middle and the rest plaster/wood stud. The last couple of houses (significantly older) I’ve lived in have been pretty much all brick walls. We’ve got 3 UniFi APs downstairs here, 2 up. There are still things on the periphery that only just cling on, and when you’ve got stuff like that it takes a lot of airtime.
- PeterStuer 3y agoOver here houses typically are built with reinforced concrete floors, and double brick walls. Also, building up instead of out is normal, so many have a basement, ground floor and 2 upper levels. Having one AP per floor is normal for coverage, so that would be 4 to serve the inside.
- benhurmarcel 3y agoMost 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.