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click now to learn more consumer grade Wii is poo we all know it but what could
we really expect it's like that whole uh
how great do you expect the camera on your phone to be conversation all over
again a wireless router is not a real thing it's a colloquial term when you
what you call a wireless router is actually three pieces of Hardware that
are rolled into one a router a network
switch and a wireless access point then a team of highly trained monkeys
develops the firmware software and UI
which is difficult enough when you're just trying to make all that stuff for one piece of Hardware then they have to
turn around and sell all of this for whatever consumer-friendly price point
they are targeting let's say $49.99 no wonder it's all poo so I
reached out to Wendell from Tech Syndicate for help Wendell I said save
me from the Poo I'm not a plumber he replied to which I said I know it's
wireless poo and Wendell descended from the heavens with a recommendation for me
to try the ubiquity UniFi AC access
point that you see right here in its pleasing brown box so let's take a look
at the hardware it's got a pleasing ID that can be easily wall or ceiling
mounted it's nice and low profile and comes with all the hardware you need
little plastic mounting plate right here metal bracket as well as the screws and
nuts that you're going to need for that it's got a center LED ring in the middle
that's glows either white or blue and can be used for Diagnostic so you can
see whether or not it's connected to the network as well as as a device locator
so it'll Flash Blue if uh you tell it to through the software so you can actually
find where it is and identify which one is which if you're deploying a bunch of
them it's got internal antennas so that helps with the pleasing look and also is
one fewer thing to set up but don't worry the range is still quite strong
and then when we flip it over to the bottom we find two Ethernet ports uh
they're nothing sort of too complicated here guys it doesn't support teaming or
anything like that but there's just a main and a secondary and that's for
failover in case one of them outright dies the cool thing about the Ethernet
ports we don't really discover until we dig further into the box and find this
guy right here this is a PoE injector or
power over Ethernet what this allows you to do is place this pretty much anywhere
you can get an Ethernet cable you don't have to worry about AC power because
both power and data are going to be carried by the RJ45 cable so all you do
is plug this guy into a wall Ethernet from here out to your switch or router
and then from here off to your access point and the whole thing is taken care
of very very cool in terms of the actual
specs for Wi-Fi it supports up to 1300 megabit per second wireless AC with mimo
and a range of up to 400 ft although although obviously both of those things
won't be happening at the same time so what are the main advantages of this
product well number one is the consumer-friendly management software
and maybe that's actually why uh Wendell recommended it to me in particular
anyway more on the more on the management software later the next one
is seamless roaming between access points with their zero handoff feature
this is something that ubiquity talks about a lot and it's great for
applications like VoIP that are sensitive to network interruptions that
way if you have mult multiple ones of these deployed like you often would in
an Enterprise environment you can move between them and not have whatever it is
you're doing interrupted although more on zero handoff in just a moment with
respect to this one it also offers endless expandability so that whole
thing about having lots of them and just plain higher performance it's Enterprise
grade this is something I observed personally I am very very happy with
this product even though it costs $300 so let's move on to the software it
allows you to easily see the status of Any Given access point including radio
configuration uh bandwidth monitoring the clients that are connected to it and
much more it the software for management works across huge installations even
multi site like multi campuses and runs on just a Windows or Mac PC that is
connected to the same network uh they say on their site that it runs on Linux
as well but I didn't see a download for it so your mileage may vary there you
can even do things like upload little Maps into the software so when you're
managing locations you can be like okay well I put one here and you can drag it
around and you can map out your network that way it's supports automatic
firmware upgrades so it just will automatically upgrade the firmware of
your access points and it even supports cool stuff like a guest portal or Hotpot
that includes support for charging for it as well which is kind of neat now
this whole thing may have sounded like a paid product placement or commercial but
it's actually quite the opposite I bought two of these and I paid for them
because I am just so sick of dealing
with consumer grade Wireless Solutions even my rtn 66 which is the best I've
used so far for range and Signal consistency isn't as good as this and
it's just not good enough I mean my
house isn't that big it's 2,300 sare ft which isn't huge and a single router
just doesn't cut it this much better and
it's funny because it was when I first installed it I wasn't that impressed
it's actually difficult to quantify the performance difference with simple tools
like Wi-Fi analyzer for Android or just like looking at the reception bars um
and I don't actually have any strong AC clients that I could use to to Really
test out the max throughput but what I can say is that when it comes to real
world running around my house streaming video or using NVIDIA game stream or
browsing the internet this AC access point comes out on top it's simple to
use it's seamless to deploy it's easy to manage and it just plain Works mostly
the one thing that disappointed me is that zero handoff feature that's all
over their site it's not implemented on the AC version I was I was quite
disappointed because while seamless which this one does support is enough
for buffered video playback uh like YouTube or for web browsing to be
completely uninterrupted like you'd never even notice that you're moving
from one to another it is not enough to stream a game on Shield As you move
between access points and I did pick up two of these hoping that I would be able
to have perfect reception all over my house and be completely uninterrupted um
no it drops when you cross a threshold and you will have to manually reconnect
but once you do it is back up and running they do say the firmware upgrade
is coming at some point though even with that complaint thumbs up for this
product it's expensive but my expectation is that I should only be
upgrading my Wi-Fi Hardware when I legitimately need a speed increase again
rather than when I get tired of the BS from my current setup which is what
happened to me many times in the past I mean think about this okay this is $300
but how many routers that cost 100 bucks or 150 bucks have you been through in
the last year or two is it time for a new approach what do you think leave
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