Home Wireless - Rewiring - Considering Ubiquiti
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So I'm considering wiring up my house with ethernet and ditching my single wireless unit for a more robust solution. Looking at Ubiquiti they have some really nice offerings but I'm hesitant to drop the money on it for the purposes of "home use" without great cause.
So I'm looking for recommendations on specific products and configurations from the community.
Any input is welcome.
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I got myself a nice AC 3x3 MIMO router by... I don't even remember who. Matters little.
Installed DDWRT on it, never looked back.
TL;DR - find yourself a nice well reviewed router, then make sure it's on the list below and have at it.
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@MattSpeller said:
I got myself a nice AC 3x3 MIMO router by... I don't even remember who. Matters little.
Installed DDWRT on it, never looked back.
TL;DR - find yourself a nice well reviewed router, then make sure it's on the list below and have at it.
I absolutely hate DDWRT.
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@DustinB3403 said:
So I'm considering wiring up my house with ethernet and ditching my single wireless unit for a more robust solution. Looking at Ubiquiti they have some really nice offerings but I'm hesitant to drop the money on it for the purposes of "home use" without great cause.
So I'm looking for recommendations on specific products and configurations from the community.
Any input is welcome.
Go professional at home. Bring your home line up to business level.
Ubiquiti ERX for $60 and a UAP-AC-LITE for $80.
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@DustinB3403 I went with their entry level Unifi AP a little over a year ago and I've had absolutely 0 issues with it.
https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap.html
Anyone have any experience with these?! https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-in-wall.html
Pretty awesome concept, I'm curious how they stack up to traditional APs.
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I love the UAP-AC-Lite units that we have at work. @JaredBusch "Ubiquiti ERX for $60 and a UAP-AC-LITE for $80." $140, done. Less than a decent "gaming" router!
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I love Ubiquiti ERX, and I love it even more after powering it via POE. One cable and power brick less.
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@JaredBusch that Ubiquiti ER X only has 1 POE out port on it, is that correct.
The only reason I ask was I was considering adding 2 AP's to the house.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@JaredBusch that Ubiquiti ER X only has 1 POE out port on it, is that correct.
The only reason I ask was I was considering adding 2 AP's to the house.
It is only a single PoE out. But all the UAP units come with the injector so you will have power for the second one still.
Your other choice would be to buy a small EdgeSwitch depending on how much you want to professionalize everything.
They just released/announced a 16 port 150W EdgeSwitch.
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@RamblingBiped said:
Anyone have any experience with these?! https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-in-wall.html
Pretty awesome concept, I'm curious how they stack up to traditional APs.
Wow those are actually a really cool concept. Limited range but you could plaster your whole house, every room with one.
Super unobtrusive.
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@MattSpeller said:
@RamblingBiped said:
Anyone have any experience with these?! https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-in-wall.html
Pretty awesome concept, I'm curious how they stack up to traditional APs.
Wow those are actually a really cool concept. Limited range but you could plaster your whole house, every room with one.
Super unobtrusive.
I think they are aiming those for the hospitality space.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@JaredBusch that Ubiquiti ER X only has 1 POE out port on it, is that correct.
The only reason I ask was I was considering adding 2 AP's to the house.
Get POE switch. ToughSwitch or Pro for example.
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@JaredBusch said:
@MattSpeller said:
@RamblingBiped said:
Anyone have any experience with these?! https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-in-wall.html
Pretty awesome concept, I'm curious how they stack up to traditional APs.
Wow those are actually a really cool concept. Limited range but you could plaster your whole house, every room with one.
Super unobtrusive.
I think they are aiming those for the hospitality space.
That or they're trying to take down the global blue nightlight monopoly
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I was actually considering wiring up the house with the in-wall units.
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The reason I was considering these in-wall units was because of the fact that I'd have to run wiring anyways for the new AP's.
Might as well get something that is discrete, as well as functional (Ethernet to hard wire in)
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@MattSpeller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@MattSpeller said:
@RamblingBiped said:
Anyone have any experience with these?! https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-in-wall.html
Pretty awesome concept, I'm curious how they stack up to traditional APs.
Wow those are actually a really cool concept. Limited range but you could plaster your whole house, every room with one.
Super unobtrusive.
I think they are aiming those for the hospitality space.
That or they're trying to take down the global blue nightlight monopoly
I was thinking Medical could benefit from this too. Higher AP density without them in the ceiling. Although I know how some facilities are wired and doubt I would trust it.
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The big problem that I see with those in-the-wall units is that they are slow. 150Mb/s... half as slow as the AC Lite units which are only 30$ more.
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@coliver said:
The big problem that I see with those in-the-wall units is that they are slow. 150Mb/s... half as slow as the AC Lite units which are only 30$ more.
Exceptionally few people would ever have a real issue with that.
Those exceptionally few people have home servers and SSD's heh.
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@coliver said:
The big problem that I see with those in-the-wall units is that they are slow. 150Mb/s... half as slow as the AC Lite units which are only 30$ more.
True and they are only 10/100...
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I wonder what kind of client density these would be looking at?
