Ubiquiti Access Points question
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Have any of you used the "Allow meshing from other access points". See the picture below. What are the advantages or disadvantage of this? All access points are hardwired and there are plenty of access points for coverage, so I am thinking that we don't need this.
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Meshing is for when you have APs that need to extend from other APs. If they are all wired in, this would be a negative.
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@penguinwrangler said in Ubiquiti Access Points question:
Have any of you used the "Allow meshing from other access points". See the picture below. What are the advantages or disadvantage of this? All access points are hardwired and there are plenty of access points for coverage, so I am thinking that we don't need this.
I only use it when an AP doesn't have hardwired connections and I need to connect that location.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti Access Points question:
Meshing is for when you have APs that need to extend from other APs. If they are all wired in, this would be a negative.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
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I did this between two houses. Worked pretty well.
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Basically, you never want to do this. You lose throughput.
In the rare scenario that you absolutely cannot get a wire ran, then you enable it.
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@jaredbusch Yes doesnt it halve throughput?
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@momurda said in Ubiquiti Access Points question:
@jaredbusch Yes doesnt it halve throughput?
No, it's not that simplistic. It lowers throughput, but by all kinds of different amounts at different times. Might do it just a tiny minuscule bit in one case, might lower by 90% in others.
