Want to move away from Asus routers, Ubiquiti? advice needed

[Jbennett360]

I can see ~800Mbps on an iPhone, but in reality it doesn't matter and mobile devices have power saving features we can't control.

Yep, it's weird. The WiFi Man app can easily hit 800 on the speed test, but I believe that local speed and not an actual speed test using external internet?

Which means, the internal setup is correct and working as intended, I guess!

 

[Tech9]

My advice - don't pay too much attention on speed test numbers over Wi-Fi. It's a best effort shared technology. If you don't have any devices regularly moving large amounts of data over Wi-Fi and plan more than single AP - drop the channel bandwidth to 40MHz. Interference will be reduced, wireless range will be improved, network latency will be better.

I run 40MHz on my 4x APs system in last 2 weeks and family members using mobile devices for online meetings say the "connection and responsiveness" is better. Since different devices connect to different APs - in my case the aggregate wireless throughput is about the same and devices don't wait for each other. I have it setup currently as 2x APs on Ch.38 and 2x APs on Ch.46. Average reported signal -56dBm around the house, PHY rate 574Mbps, throughput ~430Mbps or >50MB/s steady.

What we invest money in - happy family or speed test numbers?

 

[Jbennett360]

My advice - don't pay too much attention on speed test numbers over Wi-Fi. It's a best effort shared technology. If you don't have any devices regularly moving large amounts of data over Wi-Fi and plan more than single AP - drop the channel bandwidth to 40MHz. Interference will be reduced, wireless range will be improved, network latency will be better.

I run 40MHz on my 4x APs system in last 2 weeks and family members using mobile devices for online meetings say the "connection and responsiveness" is better. Since different devices connect to different APs - in my case the aggregate wireless throughput is about the same and devices don't wait for each other. I have it setup currently as 2x APs on Ch.38 and 2x APs on Ch.46. Average reported signal -56dBm around the house, PHY rate 574Mbps, throughput ~430Mbps or >50MB/s steady.

What we invest money in - happy family or speed test numbers?

I had been looking at dropping the 5Ghz down to 40MHz actually, seen a few comments on reddit etc where they advise to do this. Which has led me to....

Grab a U6+ to for the upstairs!

This will effectively replace the RP-AX58 and sit in the same spot. I can just about get a 5Ghz coverage in certain areas, but it struggles, 79-84dBM and I'd rather have everything on the 5Ghz channels too tbh.

2.4Ghz coverage is okay up there, but throughput varies depending on the device and there's a scary amount of other 2.4GHz networks nearby!

Total cost for everything is roughly £350

 

[Tech9]

Get yourself another U6-Pro, it’s a better AP with 4-stream 5GHz radio.

 

[Jbennett360]

Get yourself another U6-Pro, it’s a better AP with 4-stream 5GHz radio.

It'd be overkill I think.

The RP-AX58 was a 2x2 on both bands, it worked fine for what it needed to do.

The U6-Pro is £65 more expensive too - and a lot bigger!

 

[Tech9]

and a lot bigger

Understood. The local ruling party approved certain type of APs for home use and I have to adhere to the set regulations. The previous industrial design Ruckus APs were removed and the new ones have to look like light fixtures and emit certain colour light. Part of "keep the family happy" thing. The colour is actually bright white, came bluish from distance and camera zoom.

This is how I got to 7x U6-Mesh for all home installations... Now I expect wall discoloration over time because they work >50C hot, but will deal with this issue somewhere in the future.