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[dee.jay]

I guess I might be in a minority here, but as I use all my own equipment, my router is actually a pfSense virtual machine that runs on a machine that's nowhere near my telephone socket.

As it's a virtual machine, and pfSense, my router is just a router.

I have personally purchased Unifi AP's over the years and yesterday tested a Unifi 6-Lite AP for the office that's being built at the end of the garden (Will need to support some WiFi devices, of course, exterior grade CAT6 is being used to connect this building to the house).

I was very impressed to get 700/700 up/down (to an internal speed test tool, of course!). I managed to snag a Unifi 6 Pro for a decent price, replacing a AC-Pro model of AP (that I can just about get 200/200 out of).

Curious to know what folks around here use for Wireless - just use routers?

[g3uiss]

Uni - Fi AP Pros here

[broadstairs]

I have a BT Whole Home 3 disc system and my router is just a router - wi-fi turned off. Works well in this old house.

Stuart

[meritez]

Huawei AX3 Mesh

[Weaver]

I use several ZyXEL NWA 3560-N WAPs that are about 12 years old. They’re great, really sophisticated but I am going to need to replace them in the not so distant future, before they fail and of course I need to get something much faster. I’m thinking Aruba.

[Weaver]

@dee.jay - Your new Unifi AP, is it 802.11ax now ?  Does it also do that new(ish) very high frequency band, 60 GHz, too ?

[Alex Atkin UK]

I guess I might be in a minority here, but as I use all my own equipment, my router is actually a pfSense virtual machine that runs on a machine that's nowhere near my telephone socket.

On this forum, at least the regulars, I'd say you're in good company actually.  My network config is in my forum signature.

@dee.jay - Your new Unifi AP, is it 802.11ax now ?  Does it also do that new(ish) very high frequency band, 60 GHz, too ?

No mainstream AP that I have seen supports 60Ghz as no clients do.  Its pretty much abandoned due to that, reserved for things like wireless backhaul/ point to point links.

Its a shame, as 99.9% of the time I'm in the same room as my AP in direct line of sight, it would have been useful.

[Chrysalis]

Wanted open source and cheap, got an Archer C7.

Although I did observe the plusnet hub one has much better wifi reach whilst having no external antennae.

[Weaver]

@Alex, wow what a shame. Only needs Apple and say Samsung, Microsoft, Dell - a few huge companies to support it and I think the corpse could be revived pdq.

[Alex Atkin UK]

@Alex, wow what a shame. Only needs Apple and say Samsung, Microsoft, Dell - a few huge companies to support it and I think the corpse could be revived pdq.

Unless you meant 6Ghz (WiFi 6e), which IS starting to be supported but client support is still lacking beyond PCs.

[Weaver]

Ah of course, thanks, that’s a good thing too, much more usable, isn’t it, the 6 GHz slot ? I was thinking about the marketing term 6e or something like that, but I then went on to google 60 GHz instead. Is that marketing speak for "802.11ax plus 6 GHz support" ?

[Alex Atkin UK]

60Ghz is 802.11ad, it was being developed before WiFi 6 for ultra short-range, high-bandwidth and AFAIK has no definition under the new "WiFi" branding.

That article seems a bit wrong though as WiFi 6 is not specifically for 6Ghz, that's WiFi 6e.  Though it may be that WiFi 6 was originally intended only for 6Ghz, I'm not sure.

[dee.jay]

@dee.jay - Your new Unifi AP, is it 802.11ax now ?  Does it also do that new(ish) very high frequency band, 60 GHz, too ?

Yes 802.11ax WiFi 6.

The first one I bought is just the Lite model, however have a pro coming today. That apparently will saturate a full Gbps connection. Will tell you how that goes later.

[XGS_Is_On]

For a few reasons a Netgear RAXE500 in access point mode connected via 2.5GE to the wired network.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Yes 802.11ax WiFi 6.

The first one I bought is just the Lite model, however have a pro coming today. That apparently will saturate a full Gbps connection. Will tell you how that goes later.

Ubiquiti WiFi 6 hardware is a bit bizarre.  The Lite not supporting WiFi 6 on 2.4Ghz already seemed bad, then still only having a Gigabit port on the Pro is insane.

I've seen my Macbook Pro do 980Mbit to my NAS, already surpassing what a Gigabit ethernet port can do.  My gaming laptop has once or twice done 1.44Gbit.

Its not so much that those products shouldn't exist, their prices are kinda comparable to their competition, but the product naming is misleading as you'd expect the Pro to be fully capable of saturating both bands concurrently, never mind bottlenecking on one of them.  Baffling them advertising it as 160Mhz capable when it bottlenecks on 80Mhz.  Although all manufacturers are claiming 4.8Gbit (due to the 4x4 MIMO) so somewhat complicit in this.