Requesting Wifi 6 AP recommendations

[Snowmirage]

I've had a xclaim AP for years now been pretty happy with it.

But its time to upgrade.

I'd like something I can add addtional APs to form a Mesh network down the road, and that supports PoE and Wifi 6 with out spending a ton of money on an enterprise solution.

I'd prefer to keep things simple with just PoE APs but if I have to get something with a built in router and just not use it well.... so be it

[Alex Atkin UK]

Personally I'm waiting for WiFi 6e.

[Falcon1986]

5 hours ago, Snowmirage said:

I've had a xclaim AP for years now been pretty happy with it.

But its time to upgrade.

I'd like something I can add addtional APs to form a Mesh network down the road, and that supports PoE and Wifi 6 with out spending a ton of money on an enterprise solution.

I'd prefer to keep things simple with just PoE APs but if I have to get something with a built in router and just not use it well.... so be it

If you can't wait for WiFi 6e, check out the Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite AP.

[Alex Atkin UK]

17 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

If you can't wait for WiFi 6e, check out the Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite AP.

Not at all convinced on those specifications though:

 

Gigabit ethernet

2.4 GHz band 2x2 MIMO with radio rate of 300 Mbps <-- Sounds like WiFi 4

5 GHz band 2x2 MU-MIMO and OFDMA with radio rate of 1.2 Gbps

 

The nanoHD does 1.6Gbps radio rate on WiFi 5 with 4x4 MU-MIMO, although its pretty meaningless as I've never managed to get over 800Mbit real-world throughput (dropped to 700Mbit after firmware updates).

 

It doesn't appear to support WiFi 6 on 2.4Ghz where you'd potentially get the most improvement, which means its only half a WiFi 6 AP.

 

I guess for the price its a decent compromise, but its rather bottom of the barrel WiFi 6.