I'm looking at buying a home AP (I like the idea of the AP being seperate to the router, on PoE etc), but this really puts me off ubiquiti.
What are good alternatives?
What are good alternatives?
At the same time if you want something more customer friendly simply search for "mesh system" (all major brands have one).
MikroTik is cheap but lacking on the software and UI side. There are lots of complaints about RouterOS and SwitchOS on forums. I will be getting a 10gb switch for my backbone in the near future due to price.
I have top to bottom UniFi gear in my house and a family vacation home. I also use UniFi protect which is their video option. Tons of PoE APs, switches, and cameras available. Setting up dynaDns, home VPN, subnets, and automatic updates are a breeze with UniFi.
If you have specific questions I’d love to answer it.
P.S. Zero affiliation to them.
Repeaters are put where your signal is already low (not right to the router's antenna). This means they will just repeat signal that is already low, and the further you get from repeater itself the signal will get even worse.
Ie. You put repeater where your signal is at 50%. When you stand near it with your phone, it will show full wifi, but it will be just at 50% of the original one. Then you move away from repeater and you see that your signal is at 50%, which in reality means it's just 25% of the original... so yea, that sucks.