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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 t

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
    I 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 ago
Over 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.

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
  I 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 ago

Over 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.