Mesh networking, and the headaches? how do you make it work.

[RasmusDC]

Of course, it is easy to setup a Mesh network, but seriously, i have never had as bad wifi as i have since i went Mesh.

 

my setup is.

 

Fiber 1/1 into a UDM Pro, that has a 16 Port 150watt POE and a 16 Port 10gbit XG16 (All UNIFI) have a Unifi Nano HD, Outdoor Mesh AC and IN Wall AC, so again same hardware... it Meshes fine. 

 

the problems i am having, are AP´s fighting eachother, so POOR wifi performance, even though you are close to an AP equipment joining far away AP even if set to LOW transmit, and the close one set to HIGH.. so you get 5mbit when you get 400mbit when using the right one.

 

TV´s especially.

 

SONOS being a "b****" since it wants ALL equipment on ONE AP for it to work, but now i am running seperate sonosnet. 

 

i´ve simply KILLED 5GHZ on ALL execpt the NANO, and run all 4K streaming from it, and it has fixed nearly everything, and then 2.4 is just scattered, for all my IoT devices, and so on..

 

But is it just unify that sucks, or in general Mesh and extended systems that runs poorly. i know there are TONS of other settings, so there are solutions.

[Falcon1986]

4 hours ago, RasmusDC said:

But is it just unify that sucks, or in general Mesh and extended systems that runs poorly. i know there are TONS of other settings, so there are solutions.

Turn off the default mesh function in all APs. It doesn't seem to work very well. If you've set up UniFi correctly, your client devices should  still be able to roam between APs and get a proper handoff.

 

Run a wireless survey to see which non-overlapping channels are available and use those.

 

If your APs are well-spaced, you shouldn't need to run any on the highest antenna output power.

 

Also, ensure that UniFi and all hardware are on the latest stable firmware.