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Alternative to Orbi
Getting frustrated with the constant drops on my IOS devices, wondering if it is time to take the Orbi back to Costco and get something else. I have a 4000SF house, wood construction and Ethernet dr...
So what does everyone recommend for a rock solid router and AP set-up, I liked the idea of a mesh wireless network for wifi calling.
I just bought a couple Ubiquiti APs--one AP-AC-PRO and one AP-AC-LR. I'm using with an eisting FiOS router. Online reviews are good. So far so good, but they've only been running about a week. I get full FiOS speed throughout the house (75M/75M). I have may close neighbors at that site, and can see their WiFi routers, so I'm not sure Orbi would be kind to my neighbors there.
st_shaw wrote:I just bought a couple Ubiquiti APs--one AP-AC-PRO and one AP-AC-LR. I'm using with an eisting FiOS router. Online reviews are good. So far so good, but they've only been running about a week. I get full FiOS speed throughout the house (75M/75M). I have may close neighbors at that site, and can see their WiFi routers, so I'm not sure Orbi would be kind to my neighbors there.
I had those too and they are great with ethernet drops for APs. But I can't get cables to my remote locations in the house. So when I used they wirelessly connected to main, I got tons of buffering on AppleTV and drops. Orbi has (almost) been trouble free.
whsbuss-1 wrote:I had those too and they are great with ethernet drops for APs. But I can't get cables to my remote locations in the house. So when I used they wirelessly connected to main, I got tons of buffering on AppleTV and drops. Orbi has (almost) been trouble free.
I use the APs at a location where I can run wires. At another site where I cannot, I use the Orbi. The Orbi is working well. The only potential issue I am seeing with Orbi is high variability and latency when pinging between wireless clients. I'm not sure what's going on there yet.
st_shaw wrote:
whsbuss-1 wrote:I had those too and they are great with ethernet drops for APs. But I can't get cables to my remote locations in the house. So when I used they wirelessly connected to main, I got tons of buffering on AppleTV and drops. Orbi has (almost) been trouble free.
I use the APs at a location where I can run wires. At another site where I cannot, I use the Orbi. The Orbi is working well. The only potential issue I am seeing with Orbi is high variability and latency when pinging between wireless clients. I'm not sure what's going on there yet.
Maybe you can expand on this. I have had a few instances where connectivity is lost between the Orbi router (in AP mode) and the FiOS router. When this happens I quickly do a ping of the static IP of the Orbi router and that's just fine. However pinging the IP of the FiOS router gateway fails completely.... then it comes back.
What's strange is with my old Asus 68U I never saw that. But I did have a netgear R6300 (v1) which I did see the same issue. So please share what you are seeing.