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My new place is about 2245sqft. Pretty much everything is hardwired. All the interior walls will be made of wood and drywall. I am trying to decide where to place the access points. I plan on going with the U6 lite unless there is better option.

Hi! I've been asked to handle our network setup at home. Our connection is through an LTE box, and I'm planning on having 2 access points with the same SSID broadcasting so you can seamlessly go from one side the house to the other. My question is: are RJ45 surge protectors necessary? We live in a house without a lightning rod, and the access points will be in the attic so I can't unplug them in thunderstorms. Is there any danger of them dying from lightning hitting nearby and inducing a current in the long-ish patch cables? Also, if any of you great people have any suggestions regarding which APs I should choose, I'd be grateful :D, I was thinking of using the Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite, but I'm not quite sure. Thank you in advance for any answers tech tips :D. J PS: Sorry for my English, it is not my 1st language

Hello, so basically the wifi of my access point that I'm using as a router has lag spikes of 100 to 220 ms for like 3 seconds every few minutes and, I saw that this could be cause because I have high or a lot of "bufferbloat" (you can search it up) and OpenWrt can be used to reduce it. Problem is, my access point is a "off-brand" I think, I think its chinese, it doesn't have an easily visible brand, so I'm not sure how to determine if this device would support OpenWrt or not, hope you guys can help me with that. If you guys need any more info to try and help me I can try to provide it to you, thats it, thank you in advance. NOTE: I can't connect via ethernet and the access point is close to me

Hey, I have no idea where to post this also I'm researching at the moment what are some reasonable solutions for a Home Security System (Ideally 2 outdoor Cameras) a home gateway where I can store any data plus a firewall built in it and also ideally 2-3 access points for around a budget of somewhere around 800-1000 dollars. Thinking of Ubiquiti but I don't really know which items to pick either enterprise or home setup. Any ideas will be appreciated.

Hello, First very TL;DR version: I need help create stable home network in a big brick & concrete house (with basically no wood floors). I need advice about: - If the structure of the network makes sense - If three access points will be enough with the whole house coverage - If APs of my choosing are okay for the purpose of: Home Office for Data Analyst, Online teacher and one permanent gamer (my brother). The long version: Current status: (For this part, consult picture Ground_floor and Ground_floor_2D in attachments) Wife and I will be moving to my parents house where we will build floor for us and the current network is weak and shitty. The cable to modem/router goes under the floor from kitchen (around the biggy biggy hole) and that modem (provided by ISP) has to send signal across room full of furniture, and hallway towards living room, where is the extender, which already receives quite bad signal. That extended network is used by my dad in his Mancave, mainly for WhatsApp calls and sometimes by other members in the garden. So basically current status was okay(ish) for the past as brother was connected to modem directly by Ethernet and for some time fine with the Extender, but since whole house is made from Porotherm 30 bricks (mainly outside walls, inside they are different, but still pretty hefty) and a lot of concrete, for future purposes of working from home and especially in the first floor, it just cannot be used anymore. Even in the living room where is Smart TV and Kitchen, the WiFi quality just sucks. The whole range of the house is almost 20 * 16 metres. My plan: (For this part, consult picture First_floor and First_floor_2D and Network_structure in attachments) 1. There is still cable phone in the kitchen, so I would start with moving the modem in the kitchen, or most probably into the attic with cabling via the biggy biggy hole. Biggy biggy hole is essentialy non-metallic tubing leading inside the walls into the attic, where is TV antenna so there should be still additional place for some phone/ethernet cables. 2. From the modem I would lead ethernet cable to unmanaged switch (8 ports should be enough) and from switch into the 3x Access points and (in the future) NAS. Here I would stop by and ask, if the approximate location mentioned in the 2D plan would be enough, to cover whole 1st floor and the floor beneath. I will list the APs I was thinking about further below. I would put the APs into the ceiling of the first floor from the attic (needs to have PoE). The goal is to have covered full house as much as possible, except the "modem room" of brothers, where I could just get the ethernet cable directly as he doesn't have WiFi on desktop PC. The location of AP #1 will be used as an office so there has to be great coverage and couls be used also for my father, as he is not using too much of the data. Does this seems logical/okay for you? I've put the icons in green/yellowish color to see what is in plan, in comparison with pure black (which is current situation) - just to have the visual difference. 3. The APs that I was mainly looking for were Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-LR (here I am not sure if the long range version is really needed). I need AP with Power over Ethernet as there is not many sockets in the attic. What else I would need for this? My guess is some kind of PSU for the ethernet cables? What should I be looking for? UniFi seems quite rabbit hole (in terms of money mainly, lol). I was looking into UniFi ecosystem because it seems user-friendly, although I don't have many issues playing with tech/scripting/settings (i like to do it I just need some push into specific direction). And my future plan also consists of having my small home media server. I appreciate any constructive feedback as I am doing this on my own and in near future. Because of the reconstruction we are also kind of limited with the money, that's why I've chosen only threee access points, but in case, I am fine with going up to 5 of them. I am not willing to sacrifice the middle of the house in terms of coverage since it's where people mostly will be. But the outer parts are really, really nice to have stable as well. The number of average clients connected to the network will be around 10 - 15 on average, 20 max. I also have 2 old routers-only which can be used in the outter parts, but I am not sure about their ability being an AP and if that would even work. WiFi5 is fine as most of the clients actually cannot connect to WiFi 6 (at least I think so). Old TV, old phones, mainly 2,4GHz. Only work laptops support 5GHz (which is fine for me.) Software used: SweetHome3D, Visio, Photoshop (for painting, lol). As I am self-learner in this field, please be nice to me, I am willing to learn but I need some guidance. This was written based on my experience and research I've done in the past week and LTT forum is first one I've registered for thanks to Linus team. Thank you in advance!

So my house has 1 router, and everyone uses it, of course. I'm a huge gamer so I want the best wifi connection as possible, but that isn't possible sadly. I do have a small Netgear extender, but it is not as impactful as I thought it was, and "boosts" my wifi speeds up by very very tiny amounts. Also, our modem/router is in our basement, and I am on the second floor, or third floor if you count the basement. I've been doing some research and found that Access points might be the way to go, but I can't find any that work with what I want. Also, I know Wifi mesh extenders are a option, but I've seen the reviews and they last for about a week or so before dropping speeds, etc. Please recommend Access points or other extender types that are VERY WIRELESS, meaning I don't have to wire it to my router or modem, and that it has very good speeds and travels far. Thank you!

Please indulge me as I make hundreds of mistakes while talking about your hobby/passion/job (or in grammatical mistakes). So I recently wired my house with gigabit ethernet and set up a plex server so I can watch blurays on my tv conviniently, but I was wondering whether my aunt, who lives a mile away, could access these files by accessing my network, and yes plex has remote play, but my upload speeds are a pain (15 Mbps AT BEST) to play anything not compressed, remote play also gives me a lot of headaches for bitrate. So I'm stressing over this idea, if I mounted an antenna access point like the Tp Link CPE510 at both our houses, could I acess those files remotely but with waay faster speeds? So I made this diagram to seek help in setting this up. To clarify, I want them to use my network only for file sharing and plex server viewing, for netflix streaming I want them to use their connection, as their connection is faster and I don't want to downgrade them. Thanks for anyone even having the patience to read this mess.

I have been having this issue for a while now. I have two wifi access points just next to each other, each has different ISP. One for work(network A), one for the rest of the family to use (network B). I, for obvious reason, prefer using the network A for my devices. I still use Network B from time to time to access file from my old laptop. Network B often lost internet connection (ISP's fault) and is definitely not suitable for work use. The problem is my laptop (windows 11) keeps on jumping back to this network during work. It would not be an issue when the internet is fine, but it lost connection frustratingly often (logged the ping for a whole day, 1700ish instances of RTO, 600ish during my work hours with 12 instances of it lasted more than 3 minutes which is bad for my work). The thing is, the Connect automatically option was disabled for network B, and is turned on for Network A. I ended up "forget"-ing the network during my work hour to avoid frustration, however it's still not ideal, since I do interact with that network pretty frequently outside my work hour (streams movies from my old laptop, accessing old files, or doing the "Son, why is the internet doesn't work" stuff, etc). Does anyone ever have the same issue, or even better, have a solution for this?

Hi, I was wondering if, for a new, beefy wifi system, I should go industrial with an ubiquity ac hd access point, or go consumer with an asus ac5300. The ac5300 would have to be in a worse place in the house, though. Thank you!

Hi so, i currently have a cat 6 ethernet cable like 25m long running from our router in the lounge room into my room via a bunch of strategically placed couches and nails in the wall. (don't worry i didn't nail through the cable i'm not that bad, the nails are just to make sure it doesn't fall off ridges and skirtings etc.) This has worked fine up until now, because i want to plug in more than just my laptop. So i was going to just buy a switch but then i figured for an extra ten bucks or so i could just buy a router and then i'd have wifi in my room and very close to the rest of the house and important areas and the ethernet ports (this is a big plus as the wifi has been on the fritz lately and this would hopefully clear up some problems of simple range). my question is, if i am going to use the router as a wireless access point, will the ethernet connections still work off of it, or will it get confused by the different incoming things? i'm pretty sure it will work and i know enough to set stuff up and im usually ok with tech but i dont know much about complicated networking. i have the router picked out that i want to use its a tenda n60 found a good one on ebay and its a good price, so what should i do, go for it or just cut my losses and get a switch. Also last side note, since most of the internet traffic will be coming through this one cable from the router, will it bottle neck it much, the most it will have to do is put up with two people streaming and maybe an app downloading in the back ground. our internet speed is locked at 30mbps max so idk if theres really that much room to bottleneck with such slow internet in the first place but this is all kind of new territory for me. like i said its a cat 6 ethernet and it mostly keeps away from the electronics so should i be fine? Thank you for the hep in advance a late merry christmas to every one from Australia

Hello Fellas, so I just want your opinions of mesh removing access points or do you think, and maybe proof with stats, that access points will stand greetings Goofy

Hello! first and foremost: networking noob here. I recently got a Mikrotik Routerboard RB2011UiAS-RM to replace my crappy router i got from the ISP. i put the ISP router into bridge mode and set up the MikroTik as the new router. works like a charm for ethernet, but no wireless yet. now this routerboard doesn't come with wifi antennas, so i need to set up an access point of some kind. here lies my problem, there are thousands of different AP's to choose from, so how do i find out which one is right for me? it would be very lightly used. 5 devices connected tops, in a small apartment with 3 rooms. any, and i mean any help would be appreciated!

So my company is investing in some Ubiquiti access points and I was tasked with setting them up. Anyone have any pointers or at least a short tutorial on how I'd go about it? (I'm pretty new at IT so cut me some slack please XD) Any suggestions are highly appreciated. ☺

I have AT&T U-Verse (It's terrible) and I was wondering a few things. If I port forward on the access point (if I can) will I have to do it on the router (vice versa) If I get my router replaced (which happens often) would I have to go to all my devices and reconnect them Would I have any benefit running an AC access point through an N router Would I have any benefit running 5GHz access point through a 2.4GHz router Would I have NAT control through the access point (which I don't have without port forwarding on the router) Is there any way I could just use the router as an internet feed to the access point and not have my devices interact with the router directly I know I'm very uneducated about networking, so all information will be extremely helpful. Any suggestions about my network setup would be great because I'm a little out of my element. I appreciate everyone who helps, Buddy EDIT: Also we can't use a third-party router, because AT&T's service won't allow

First and foremost its so exiting to make my fist post in this community. Ok now for my question... I have a wrt54g router and wap54g access point. I have flashed the AP with dd-wrt and its working great. I want to use this AP to connect to a neighbors house and repeat his wifi for my place. I already have a pretty sweet setup as far as the antenna goes. I have a TP-link 24 dbi gain Grid antenna pointed at his house. Its 30 Feet above ground. Not sure if its perfect line of site but i do pick his signal up just fine at the moment using an engenious adapter http://www.engeniustech.com/business-networking/usb-adapters/3382-eub9603h but i would like to instead of running a usb cable into the house from the antenna tower, just put the router inside a electrical box enclosure and stick my AP inside that and repeat the signal from the neighbor on my property. So My question is....What antenna port on my AP does what? is one used for TX and RX? Is one used for both TX and RX on one connection to one of the access points, and the other for the other connection? Or are both antenna's used for both? I don't know what connector to hook the dish to and which one to hook the dipole (used to broadcast an access point for my place). I'm not even sure what to ask. Hope someone can help. Thank you!

So I have a Pfsense router that is connected to a Cisco SF 200 24 port switch. I also have 7 wireless access points connecting to the switch, they are Cisco WAP4410N. I set the router through the basic setup wizard and set the port interfaces correctly. I double checked all the parameters on the router and it should be able work. However when I'm tried to connect my phone onto one of my access poiints, it can't connect. my phone said that It fail to obtain the ip address, and I check all over the internet to see how to fix it. I tried to connect one of my old routers to the switch and it connects just find. If I disconnect the non-pfsense router while the Pfsense router is connected, my devices still have access to the internet. So I don't know what's happening. when I have a new device connect to the access point where I have my pf sense router connected then I won't connect. However when I have one of my devices already connected to the internet and just switch to my pfsense router then it still works. I only need my pfsense router as a wifi portal. any way to fix this. Thanks.

Hi Guys, I'm looking for some advise with regards to updating my network. Currently I have VDSL internet connection (roughly 25mbps down, 2mbps up) which goes through to VDSL modem which then relays that (through a wired connection) onto an Apple Time Capsule (5th gen) in the center of the bottom floor of my house. The time capsule connects via PPPoE and then does the DHCP management and then this is repeated wirelessly by 3 further devices. Another time capsule (5th gen) upstairs which all my computers in my study are connected to, an Apple airport expresses (2nd gen) in my living room which all my TV stuff (HTPC, xBox, TV etc etc) connects to and finally another airport express that gives wifi to the garden and my garage. This setup works very well. I don't really have any complaints about it. Devices are reliable, connections are smooth and fast with good range, I can manage it all over the airport app on my phone, and even though the devices aren't true MESH devices they do seem to work like one. I can move from one side of the house to another with no loss of connection on whatever device I'm using and it seems to change between 3 or more devices with no issue. The problem I have is I want to increase my internet speed. The only option I have is to add a 4G/5G modem to give me a extra speed and combine that with my existing VDSL connection. The 4G/5G connection will likely be 60-80mbs Up and 10-20mbps down. The question I have can someone recommend a good load sharing or bonding router to combine these two connections, and will such as device be compatible with my existing setup? By that I mean can I plug it into the apple time capsule in the center of my house and keep that time capsule doing the HDCP stuff without causing any NAT or IP duplication errors etc? If not can someone recommend access points and or additional routers that I can use to replace the apple ones I currently have that will work with a load sharing or bonding router? I am currently renovating my house which involves new electrical wiring so hard wiring these devices would not be an issue as I can simply put CAT 6 cable and RJ45 plugs in the walls when I am changing the electrical plugs (something I have done before). I am happy to if needed (but would rather not if can be avoided) replace everything I currently have with new hardware. Any advice is greatly appreciated.