<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Another +1 for Ubiquiti.<div><br></div><div>I have 2 x U6-Lite in a house with a long corridor. 1 x AP at each end on low settings and no issue with 2.4 or 5Ghz bands. Similarly, these have been managed via a Docker instance on a Raspberry Pi. I SSH in after the occasional update to set the LEDs from blue to white as the wife doesn't like the brighter blue at night.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>regards,<br> Nathan D.<br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>natdan at <a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Sept 2024 at 08:45, Sen ectus <<a href="mailto:senectus@gmail.com" target="_blank">senectus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 for the ubiquiti kit.<br>I have a U6-LR and a U6-Lite to cover a 1980's house (solid double brick lots of solid walls) of about 60 devices. You hardly notice the ceiling mounted devices, and the performance throughout the house and outside the house is excellent. My kids Quest 2's and my Desktop are probably the largest demand on the wifi and they all perform very well with no issues. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Sept 2024 at 08:05, Chris Hoy Poy <<a href="mailto:chris@hoypoy.id.au" target="_blank">chris@hoypoy.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Bill,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I prefer Unifi AP meshes, I have 3 in my house (all running on low power so they hand off appropriately and do not contribute to neighbourhood noise as much). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nothing worse than doing a wifi audit and seeing 20+ APs on high power all generating noise on the same channel(s). Even funnier if they all do some auto channel "optimisation" and they flock to the same channels every day. Siiigh.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Handles multiple networks, vlans and each can be hardwired or use another unifi as an uplink</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can all be local controlled (I have a docker instance of the network controller). Doesn't need to use the cloud. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have a dedicated 2.4ghz network as well as general purpose 2.4/5ghz networks, all work seamlessly. I also have dedicated guest networks and isolated networks for various home automation and testing purposes. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't use the unifi gateway or dream machine stuff, I have mikrotik upstream that handles all the vlan and routing etc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/Chris</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Sept 2024, 7:40 am William Kenworthy, <<a href="mailto:bill@kenworthy.id.au" target="_blank">bill@kenworthy.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi, having 40 odd wifi devices in the house and all on 2.4Ghz is <br>
becoming a bit of a performance problem, especially with 4 wifi IP <br>
cameras in the mix and wanting to add more. Its unlikely that I can <br>
move much to 5G as the client hardware cant do it.<br>
<br>
So I am looking if a new AP will solve the problem:<br>
<br>
WIFI 6 or 7<br>
<br>
Indoor coverage of up to 30m - either two AP's at each end or or a more <br>
central ceiling mount<br>
<br>
Ability to link up to 8 VAP's to different VLAN's - bonus if the VAP's <br>
can be multiple channels<br>
<br>
Traffic is a mix of mobile phone connections, media transfers and <br>
telemetry/equipment control.<br>
<br>
Very strongly prefer local control - no alexa etc, no remote app setup.<br>
<br>
<br>
Currently I have two low power arm systems using USB dongles with <br>
hostapd and while its extremely flexible its congested. I did have a 5G <br>
A/P in the system but it has some unintended side effects with some home <br>
automation equipment - not sure if a more modern system will help.<br>
<br>
I am looking for recommendations on modern equipment which will meet my <br>
objectives - a 2 node mesh or one of the higher end netgear/dlink <br>
systems centrally located (are they local only? )<br>
<br>
BillK<br>
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