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Nighthawk or Orbi
Hi all, Looking for advice on a Network setup for our new summer home. The house is 3 levels, approximately 1,200 SF each level. First floor has kitchen, living room, 3 bedrooms. Second floor...
Pure modem. I don't have a router yet. I would decide which one once I figure out if I'm going Orbi, Ubiquiti, or other.
the ubiquiti unifi stuff is very good and a neat solution if you where in building stage and able to run ethernet to the ceilings and mount them where they are designed to be and then employ a ubiquiti edge router to go with them , btw you dont need to go the pro stuff , the unifi ac lite ap's are good enough
however you arnt in building stage and so are limited to where the ethernet is located and how to have it all connected
i still think a few well placed r7000 in ap mode is going to solve your wifi coverage issues , i do however prefer asus routers for feature set and over all performance
the choice is your and ether way should be fine but as i said the orbi sats wont connect to the ethernet and must rely on its 5 gig wifi backhaul which may be an issue depending on location of the cable modem and where the orbi router can be located
so go with ether the unifi or r7000 suggestions above rather than the orbi simply due to the fact you have the structured ethernet in place
You decide what you like best, but here are the peak throughput figures from Ubiquiti employees on their forums. This is for a single very capable AC client, a few feet from the AP.
UAP-AC-Lite: ~300 Mpbs
UAP-AC-PRO: ~600 Mbps
UAP-AC-HD: ~900 Mbps
Total throughput drops pretty fast for 10 clients or more, to 130 Mbps for the Pro and 370 for the HD.
st_shaw wrote:You decide what you like best, but here are the peak throughput figures from Ubiquiti employees on their forums. This is for a single very capable AC client, a few feet from the AP.
UAP-AC-Lite: ~300 Mpbs
UAP-AC-PRO: ~600 Mbps
UAP-AC-HD: ~900 Mbps
UAP-AC-Lite: ~300 Mpbs is 867M max
UAP-AC-PRO: ~600 Mbps is 1300M max
UAP-AC-HD: ~900 Mbps is 1733M max
so again almost all portable devices are limited to a max 867M 2 x 2 so the throughput 300Mbps no matter which ap you employed
coverage is a different matter and has been shown even the HD unifi doesnt have the same coverage as the higher end wiireless routers
these unifi ap's and others like it are designed to work in multiples and to saturate the area with wifi