On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:25 PM Brandon Gillespie <[email protected]> wrote:
If you are doing it for home, I really urge the AmpliFI HD. It's a small cube and two edge mesh WAPs. Installation is mostly turn-key. > On 8/14/19 2:32 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > I'm not in the market for a $300+ AP. I don't need the coverage. > > To speak to this more directly. If you have Broadband that is more than > 50Mbit, then you really do want to buy a good AP. Most people don't > realize they have a 200Mb broadband, but their Wifi is a huge bottleneck. > > Before Ubiquity I had the ASUS monster (the batmobile looking one), plus > I had been through a variety of others trying to keep it cheap, but I > struggled to sustain and keep high bandwidths with large streaming > (games and TV services) when over wifi. I am very sensitive to network > bobbles--more so than most people, and I love hi-def resolutions, so > pixelating drives me crazy. > > Switching to Ubiquity I now max out my broadband and the problems > disappeared. So all the hours I messed with it were wasted, for > something I just plugged in, turned on, and configured an IP for. > Everything else is easy to monitor or manage either on the touchscreen > on the front, or through their mobile app. > > This is speaking to me. I have been on a Netgear NightHawk for a while now. Been through some of their firmware nightmares. Dealt with bandwidth issues from all the gaming/streaming systems my family runs all the time. I hardwired most of the heavy hitters (gaming PCs and media streamers) with ethernet, but it is all still going through the NightHawk router. After I moved stuff off the wireless and onto wired the latency issues got better. So the AmpliFi sounds intriguing to me, but maybe not what I need since I have a mix of wired/wireless. Was thinking of getting one of their gateway routers and 1-2 APs. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:22 PM Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally, I use Mikrotiks. Specifically I recommend the hAP AC such as > the RB952Ui-5ac2nD-US or the RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC-US. > > I had not heard of Mikrotiks, but their stuff looks pretty nice. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
