Stable Home AP with Good Range: Ubiquiti UAP or Other Models? - NanoStation M5 Experience

alvaro99 wrote:

Hello!

I am looking for a stable AP with good range for home use. House has two floors. I know this works like a Faraday cage but it might work.
As a router, it stands on the roof of the Ubiquiti NanoStation M5. It works very steadily for me and I wonder if I should take something from their stables for AP, e.g. Ubiquiti UAP N300 ?

What do you think about this item? I will say that I do not really care about LAN ports, now I have WIFI all.

Erbit wrote:

whizzo wrote:

,,, I was convinced by the way the entire system is managed by the Unifi Controller ...

By the way, I do not know what the "Unifi Controller" can do, but CAPsMAN is used to manage AP in Mikrotik.

alvaro99 wrote:

In fact, "Long Range" gives a much better signal?

Unless you buy the good old Airlive 5460AP for 5 used and can also handle 20 Mbits and two wifi computers?

Quote:

Question: What is the difference between the Pro and Long Range versions?
Answer: The long range version has a higher gain antenna that increases range. The pro has less range (same as lite model) but higher capacity.

whizzo wrote:

The mentioned 20Mbit to LR does for breakfast. Of course, it all depends on the installed network cards. Here's a bit about Ubi performance:
http://thecyberfusion.com/unifi-uap-lr-vs-uap-ac-lr-internet-network-speed-comparison/

konik666 wrote:

A better solution would be Lite assembly and test. If you decide that the speeds and range do not suit you, you may add a second device (e.g. this Airlive for additional lighting in a nook and cranny).

alvaro99 wrote:

whizzo wrote:

The mentioned 20Mbit to LR does for breakfast. Of course, it all depends on the installed network cards. Here's a bit about Ubi performance:
http://thecyberfusion.com/unifi-uap-lr-vs-uap-ac-lr-internet-network-speed-comparison/

What does it look like in practice? The light will be about 100 Mbit in the future.
Does it have any reasonably good QoS?

whizzo wrote:

I can only write you how it works for me. A laptop with an AC card has an AP link of around 80Mbit / s (dw and up). File transfer in this arrangement is 7-8MB / s. The second lapek has no problem with a 140Mbit / s connection. And it is a stable connection.

alvaro99 wrote:

whizzo wrote:

I can only write you how it works for me. A laptop with an AC card has an AP link of around 80Mbit / s (dw and up). File transfer in this arrangement is 7-8MB / s. The second lapek has no problem with a 140Mbit / s connection. And it is a stable connection.

And tell me what AP you have? UAP AC LR, UAP LR?
I wonder what the real results are in the Lite version?

I also found a budget version for a hundred dollars cheaper UBIQUITI UNIFI (UBNT-UAP) , someone tested it, because I don't know if it's better not to pay extra?

IC_Current wrote:

Stable 100Mbps on one device to cover the entire home - it probably won't work. LR won't help here.
If you have optical fiber, you will probably need a router anyway. Then you have one floor on the AP integrated in the router and the second floor on the UBQ AP.