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I switched from Ubiquiti to Eero and couldn't be happier.

The problem with the Unifi accesspoints (I used an AC Pro) is that their reach is quite a bit lower than standard cheap access points such as a TP-Link Archer C7. The only way I'd get decent coverage in my house was to install a bunch of them, but then you'd still not have seemless handover.

At first I reverted back to My old solution of the TP-Link AP and a Netgear repeater, but once the second gen Eero came on the market, the choice was easy.

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I’m curious why you didn’t have seamless handover with Ubiquiti... I have 4 Unifi AP’s and get completely seamless handoff every time, and great speeds.

same here, I have a 4500 sqft home and I use 3 Ubiquiti AC-Pros (one per floor) and I have excellent performance and coverage. In fact, in my case, two of the APs are on the same floor just that one of them is in my foyer area that is open to the upstairs and this covers the upstairs floors. And before I installed a 3rd one in my basement, I had good basement coverage there and now that I have added one to the basement, the hand offs work seamlessly. I checked and rechecked - I have roughly 15-20 wifi devices from TVs, tablets, phones, kids tablets, chrome cast, fire sticks, and probably some others I can't recall and all my devices appear localized to the nearest AP and roaming, typically with my phone and tablet, works pretty well.

For what its worth, most benchmarks and tests back up the OP was saying, that Ubiquiti stuff just doesn't have the range and speed of mid to high end consumer routers.

edit: And I am not trying to say they are bad, just that they were designed for other priorities than throughput and range.

You must be doing something wrong if your handoff wasn't working. My old apartment had them building wide and there was never a problem.

In most cases I believe handoff is a device feature and not reliant on the ap. Ubiquiti does have a service to provide handoff for devices that don't support it but it isn't as good and is off by default.

For everyone using Ubiquiti in a home setting how do you place your access points?

From what I understand they're supposed to be ceiling mounted so the domed side is broadcasting 'down' into the room. I'd imagine most domestic users aren't wiring them into the ceiling so are you just placing them on sideboards and tables sub-optimally?

Tried both. No difference in my apartment with two UAPs.

They work just fine on a table or wall.

I had similar problems with Ubiquiti after moving to it from Apple Airport Extreme and Time Capsule units. The throughput and range decreased about 40% for me overall.

The best WiFi I ever had in my home was Ruckus Wireless from back when 802.11N was hot stuff. It was way too expensive to keep up with for residential but man it worked flawlessly.

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