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Anybody got any experience with the Unifi product? looking to get one but trying to see if they're worth the premium.

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I do indeed which is something I never thought I'd be saying...

So, I run 2 AP AC Lite's in the house and noticed a significant difference over our previous wifi solution which was just the router that Virgin Media gave us.

We're supposed to get 380mb/s download tops which, via Ethernet, we get. On wifi, this drops down to a measly 290mb/s... The AP's went above and beyond my expectation.

I would say that you might need a little bit of networking knowledge before setup. Not too much but a little. You have to install your own controller and make sure that the AP gets power. During this project, we run CAT 6 throughout the house, 2 in each room, and run it all via a POE switch which also powers the Access Point so it's all done fairly clean on our end. It' not necessary to do it this way but it's just a clean way IMO rather than powering the AP via an injector.

In terms of range, so the reason why we got 2 was because 3 floors needed filling with wifi in this house. So I put one downstairs and one in the roof where I belong. This means the middle floor gets the signal from 2 AP's and devices can choose what ever is the strongest signal. Even then, you still get fall speed whilst sitting on the bog so no complaining.

TLDR - It's worth it if you're willing to put in a little bit of time to setup.
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Adam wrote I do indeed which is something I never thought I'd be saying...

So, I run 2 AP AC Lite's in the house and noticed a significant difference over our previous wifi solution which was just the router that Virgin Media gave us.

We're supposed to get 380mb/s download tops which, via Ethernet, we get. On wifi, this drops down to a measly 290mb/s... The AP's went above and beyond my expectation.

I would say that you might need a little bit of networking knowledge before setup. Not too much but a little. You have to install your own controller and make sure that the AP gets power. During this project, we run CAT 6 throughout the house, 2 in each room, and run it all via a POE switch which also powers the Access Point so it's all done fairly clean on our end. It' not necessary to do it this way but it's just a clean way IMO rather than powering the AP via an injector.

In terms of range, so the reason why we got 2 was because 3 floors needed filling with wifi in this house. So I put one downstairs and one in the roof where I belong. This means the middle floor gets the signal from 2 AP's and devices can choose what ever is the strongest signal. Even then, you still get fall speed whilst sitting on the bog so no complaining.

TLDR - It's worth it if you're willing to put in a little bit of time to setup.


I've just upgraded to the virgin M350 because we've gone to full fibre now, but the problem was i was getting solid 350's on the cable but the second i stood more than 2m away from the router it would be 150mbs best case, tried netgear boosters etc and all they do is bottleneck my bandwidth and send my latency sky high.

Spoke with an specialist and he basically said he'll put 2 Mesh's in the house (Fair sized brick/block house) but he explained obviously that these bits of kit have a bit of premium so was just checking they're worth it.

Will report back in a week or so with my thoughts
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Yo..

We use Unifi products at our business and have a few of their switches as well. Their AP's are very nice and they also make some security gateways which would be a perfect at-home firewall.
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