Ubiquiti U6-LITE UniFi 6 Lite Access Point

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I wonder how much separation would be needed for two Lite WAPS. Would 20 feet be enough? My work is a University and they run Aruba APs for density and some are quite close together. But the Aruba controller is true Enterprise and better at management. The Ubiquiti UniFi6 Lite is a 2x2 WiFi 6 access point that can reach an aggregate throughput rate up to 1.5 Gbps with its 5 GHz (MU-MIMO and OFDMA) and 2.4 GHz (MIMO) bands.Wi-Fi 6 APs deliver an aggregate radio rate of up to 1.5 Gbps with 5 GHz (2x2 MU-MIMO and OFDMA) and 2.4 GHz 2x2 MIMO radios. Without the advantage of 4 spatial streams or Wi-Fi 6 enhancements, the U6-Lite falls behind. I couldn’t get my MacBook Pro to associate to a 40 MHz channel on any of these APs, so I excluded those results from this test. I believe Apple uses the “ fat channel intolerant” setting on their devices. As always, 5 GHz is the best option for speed, and 40 MHz channels on 2.4 GHz should be avoided in most situations. What I found interesting to see is that we can see a significant improvement between the Unifi 6 Lite and the old model. But between the U6 LR and the old Long Range model I didn’t. Unifi 6 – 5Ghz performance

You can install them on walls, but then they won’t have the same coverage. The signal goes mostly sideways in a donut shape. So having the 2 pc’s of the old LR model, living in a small village with “plenty” off free wifi channels – Then there is no point in upgrading? Ruud, thanks for sharing your tests. Please kindly advise on my situation. We live in the U.S. in an L-shaped single-story, wood framed/drywall home. The current router/AP is a Orbi which I want to replace with a hard wired router/switch that will accept 5-6 wired devices (presently using 4) and add a Unifi 6 AP and am between the Lite and LR. The current Orbi is positioned at the “corner” of the L-Shaped floorplan on the floor. The bedrooms are located off one wing of the home with the furthest about 35-40 feet away from the AP. The family room is the furthest room on the other wing of the home, about 55 feet away. We have horrible cellular reception here and rely on WiFi. Probably 25 wifi clients in total connected to the network. I had a satellite Orbi connected to main Orbi but were getting constant dropouts so unplugged it. The stability improved greatly. Would you recommend the Lite or LR? What would be a good wired router/switch to use with the Unifi AP? I had previously tried an Edgerouter with the Orbi in AP model and could not get it working. I’ve since removed the wired router and am using the Orbi for both routing and AP. Thoughts on which Unifi AP and what type of wired router to use? Thank you ~ Mike The rate of overhead varies with modulation and coding rate. With a strong signal, less redundancy is needed, and throughput improves. It’s always a tradeoff between redundancy/integrity and throughput. One LR is better, with two lite’s in one open room the client will probably hop between the two. You could also try to get your hands on a 6 Pro. Harder to get, but is better at handling more clients simultaneouslyYou can also run the test with multiple threads, which can increase the total speed that you can get, to do this use the -P switch: iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10 -P 5 -t 10 Wrapping Up With every foot of free space and every obstruction, a Wi-Fi signal attenuates and gets weaker. 5 GHz signals attenuate faster, and provide around half the range of 2.4 GHz. When deciding on how many access points you need, a good general rule is don’t expect 5 GHz coverage to extend further than 2 walls or 30 feet away. The U6-LR extends this circle out a bit, but with the others APs, roaming to 2.4 GHz or getting low SNR 5 GHz performance is possible at the far edges. Multi-device throughput should see a significant throughput increase, due to multi-user MIMO and OFDMA. OFDMA is a technology borrowed from LTE cellular modems. It’s main impact on Wi-Fi is that it breaks up a wireless channel into smaller Resource Units (RU), and each RU can be assigned to a specific client. There are up to 9 clients per 20 MHz channel, and up to 36 users per 80 MHz channel. Clients can also request and use multiple RUs at once if they need more bandwidth. Early implementations of OFDMA were tested by SmallNetBuilder, and he found no discernible benefits. And even though the congestion is bad the connection is ultra stable, no link drops at all, while the router from isp was really struggling (which made me buy the ubiquity ap) I have 1 Meraki MR33 whose license is almost up. I have in on the second floor closer to 1 side of the house but still fairly center. I added this location recently during a renovation. I also added another 1 gang box by the 2 new bedrooms about 20ft away on the 2nd floor.