Ubiquity ap question

[Computersarethebest]

Can someone explain to me in lamest terms what this means? All my aps are hardwired so I'm guessing the 5 ghz spectrum is crowded? 

 

I have 4 cameras at the front of my garage and this ap is pretty much running my 4 cameras.....

[Falcon1986]

8 hours ago, Computersarethebest said:

Can someone explain to me in lamest terms what this means?

Ubiquiti doesn't exactly clarify what that means either. We're left to speculate that the AP is detecting that, for the area in which it is placed and the number of clients connecting (or frequently disconnecting), you might need more APs.

 

If you're in a high client-dense environment, this would be useful information to guide more AP deployment so that say 2 APs can leverage 500 clients instead of a single AP. However, if you're seeing this at home with a few connected clients, it might mean that your clients are frequently disconnecting and reconnecting, a behaviour that might be interpreted as "high density".

 

I wouldn't worry about it if your devices are running as intended.

[Computersarethebest]

Thanks for the response, ya everything is working and working much faster with all my new aps.

[LAwLz]

I tried to look through Ubiquiti's documentation but I couldn't find any article explaining what this means either. The particular wording and measurements shown could mean a few things. 

 

If you ask me, the most likely interpretation is that some clients connected to that AP have low signal strength, so unifi is telling you "maybe you should consider buying more APs". It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the number of clients connected to a single AP or a high density deployment. 

 

If you aren't experiencing any issues then just ignore it. 

[brwainer]

I believe this “density” reading is telling you what signal strength each AP is seen by others / its nearest neighbor. If the signal strength is reading too high, it means the APs are closer than they need to be, and clients might not roam as expected and you may have more interference. If the signal strength reading is too low, the APs are farther apart than is ideal, which would cause connection roaming to sometimes not happen fast enough for certain things like calls. 

[NobleGamer]

On 6/11/2025 at 9:32 PM, Computersarethebest said:

Can someone explain to me in lamest terms what this means? All my aps are hardwired so I'm guessing the 5 ghz spectrum is crowded? 

 

10 hours ago, brwainer said:

I believe this “density” reading is telling you what signal strength each AP is seen by others / its nearest neighbor. If the signal strength is reading too high, it means the APs are closer than they need to be, and clients might not roam as expected and you may have more interference.

While this seems the most plausible, for all we know the signal strength number is the average or median signal strength that clients at those APs have, or a few people on /r/ubiquiti on reddit say it is something else:

 

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The diagram shows the worst recorded connection over the last few hours, so it isn't really representative of the average experience. Instead take a look in the client list and check what kind of signal strengths the individual clients are getting.

 

I agree with this educated guess.

 

I would also say that it would be more useful to get the Wifiman mobile app, and use that to check signal strength from any given location to see all available APs signal and a visualization of channel use across all bands.

 

Or you can go to community.ui.com and ask there since a search of those forums turn up no real answer as to what AP Deployment Density actually is, but they're going to have more UI AP users. The only definitive answer can come from UI staff replying to a thread (rare) or maybe their tech support.