good advice linus as always

The router doesnt matter ? this ap do ALL the dirt work ?

Have to agree, consumer stuff is crap, even into the $200 price point. I ended up going a different direction than buying a pre-packaged item. I bought a PC-Engines APU2, 2 WLAN cards (one does AC, one does N for 2.4Ghz) Ceiling mount antennas, and coax to hook it all up. Antennas aside (they cost about as much as the other hardware alone!) The setup was fairly cheap, runs Ubuntu, is future up-gradable (change out WLAN cards) and just works. It doesn’t have a fancy GUI but I rarely was ever in a GUI after setting up the device. This was much like building your own router using pFsense or similar.

please give me one

Bought a UniFi AP AC LR and love it. It is installed in the middle of my 1500 sq.ft house and covers all the way to the street, and backyard.

This is hella old but still useful believe it or not lol

i LOVE my Ubiquiti APs. we have the exact model in our infrastructure. we have 6 sites, all the same SSID and password for our guests, and our internal users. Love the portal too.

I just bought the Ubiquiti UAP-AC-HD Unifi AP, can’t wait to hook it up

Linus, my home is 3655 square feet and my only wireless AP is a Netgear Nighthawk C7000. It is a combination unit that combines a cable modem, Router, switch, and wireless AP in one device. It is located at my computer desk upstairs at the front of the house and I can use the wi-fi for streaming HD video on an older macbook pro in my kitchen or great room downstairs at the back of my house. It has to handle three laptops, six smartphones, a 4K TV, an Amazon Fire stick, an all-in-one, and four tablets wirelessly. It also handles a desktop computer, a Verizon Wireless range extender, and a WD Mycloud on the wired side of things. It does all this without any issues.

if you are watching this in 2017 do yourself a favor and avoid this older square model. I do however 100% recommend the newer round UAP AC Pro model. I’ve personally installed and manage roughly 50 of these units across multiple locations. Coverage is strong, setup is a breeze, and they are rock solid. They are also considerably cheaper than this older model.

I replaced my $200 Router with $114 Router after 8 years and I would have keep that Router if, It didn’t randomly lose DNS or restarted.

I am really happy with my new Router so far since, it handles FTP, Media Server and QoS without issues.

i got rid of of the 10 Ubiuiti AP AC Pro units i bought last month. they are terrible. they advertise 120+ METERS of range on that model. i can’t even get 25!

Wireless are only for mobile devices like my phone or laptop if it’s at a fixed location like a desktop, tv or console lan all the way

Best way to network your home/small office in my opinion:

– (optional) Buy a reputable modem and kick the company-provided one out the window although it would be pointless if the quality of service is already terrible.

– For router, if network-level VPN w/ encryption is not important to you, simply buy a reputable router and install dd-wrt firmware on it; otherwise go overkill on your router with a little Skylake Pentium/i3 build, 2-4GB of RAM is plenty (mITX form factor). Install pfSense on there (if you go the x86 route). Or you could get a ARM-based computer and use dd-wrt.

– Buy an 8 to 16 port switch (think in terms of the future, will you need more ports? Make the 16 port switch investment then not later)

– As pointed out in the video, if a constant connection like VoIP/Streaming over wifi is important to you where you will be moving between APs then go with something fancy, otherwise some cheap PoE APs from TP-LINK can be purchased on Amazon for like 45-60 per unit.

– Ceiling mounting is probably the easiest and most aesthetically-pleasing approach. It’s out of sight, super easy to install via the attic and gets the job done.

– Go ethernet where possible. Sure you’re not going to use your phone/tablet with an ethernet cable, but don’t be lazy and let your smart TV or home entertainment system run off the wifi – wire it!

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