Recent content by tgl

Yeah ... I've got wifi 6E APs, and my performance-critical clients are 6E, and I have nothing that speaks wifi 7. I won't think about upgrading my APs until I have at least a couple of 7-capable clients, and that seems some ways off. By then, wifi 8 may be the new hotness, and even if I go for...

The conventional wisdom on the Ubiquiti forums has always been to avoid auto power and auto channel. Auto power has generally equated to "high", which you seldom want in a multi-AP setup, because it tends to fool clients into hanging onto a far-away AP instead of roaming to a nearer one. Auto...

I know zip about D-Link, sorry. However, if it can do VLANs at all then it should be easy to split it into two (or more) logically-isolated switches, if that's enough to solve your problem. There should be a VLAN configuration panel that allows you to assign one VLAN number as "untagged" on...

My own setup has a pfSense router (Netgate), UniFi APs, and Cisco switches in between. So I've pretty much failed at the single-point-of-network-configuration task, but I'm enough of a geek that it doesn't bother me. I use pfSense because I have fairly complicated routing+firewall requirements...

Yeah, I wouldn't mix wifi systems. One of the main selling points for either UniFi or Omada is single point of configuration. If you have a mishmash of APs, you're giving that up in return for not much. Also, I believe that you won't get 802.11k/v roaming support except from APs that are...

I have that exact switch (or at least, what Zyxel was selling under that name three years ago --- possibly there have been hardware revisions since). It's a perfectly-fine basic managed switch; it can do VLAN support, but it has no PoE output. However, I don't think it's enough for isolating...

Yeah, depending on how hard you're pushing the system, you may not really notice any difference. But the original post did ask about "ideal" setup, and I don't think you can argue that all APs on same channel is ideal.

[ scratches head... ] Makes no sense at all. Should be largely the same hardware as the u7 pro saucer AP. And I've not seen any traffic on Ubiquiti's own forums suggesting that there's a major performance difference. Grasping at straws: UI's saucer APs are typically made to have max signal...

Just to eliminate the obvious ... all these APs were running the same firmware version, right?

Huh. Per UI's tech specs, the radios in the u7 pro wall and u7 pro are the same. Antenna configuration obviously not, but that shouldn't make such a huge difference. Now I wonder if your u7 pro was defective.

Depends on how far away the neighbors are ... but in any case, with multiple APs, you want the one in the next room to be on a different channel.

As far as which of the PSC channels might be "best": as @degrub said, the first consideration is to find an unoccupied channel. Maybe you can trust the APs' auto channel choice, but my experience with that on other AP makes is that auto channel tends to suck. Unless you live in the boonies...

If you've got multiple APs it'd really be better to use a different channel for each AP. Don't pick non-PSC channels, some clients won't play along with that.

The issue definitely could be in there somewhere. A client that supposedly needs only low bandwidth can fill up a disproportionate amount of available airtime if it causes many packet retransmissions, either because it's hanging onto a poor signal or because it's just buggy. (IoT-type devices...

Yeah, you should not really expect a different manufacturer's gear to mesh through concrete any better than whatever you are using today (which you didn't say). They are all dealing with the same laws of physics and the same legal limits on transmit power. Have you looked into using powerline...