Range or Speed?

[AMD Lover]

So I'm almost certain I'm gonna go with a Ubiquiti Unifi setup with Airfi cameras and a AVR added on later however I am now in the dilemma of 3x AP-LR's (300Mbps~600ft) or a single AP-AC (1300Mbps-400ft). 400ft would cover what I would need it to cover but 3x 600ft ones is almost so overkill I want to do it even though it would not help my game streaming. What would you choose, theres only about a $20 difference between the two..... 

[ddbtkd456]

range....not like 300 MB/s isn't fast enough...

[Anthony10]

Unless you plan on getting google fiber, I would pick range

[Blade of Grass]

I would suggest going with the AC AP actually. I own an AP-LR, and while the range is great, the speed isn't (pretty constant 20-30Mb/s max outside of a close-ish range. Hopefully since the AC AP has faster networking capabilities it will provide better speed even at distance.

[ddbtkd456]

I would suggest going with the AC AP actually. I own an AP-LR, and while the range is great, the speed isn't (pretty constant 20-30Mb/s max outside of a close-ish range. Hopefully since the AC AP has faster networking capabilities it will provide better speed even at distance.

Usually seems to not work that way tho.

[Blade of Grass]

Usually seems to not work that way tho.

In my experience, my ASUS N66u which used a faster networking chip than the AP-LR, while having less range, performed better when you were within range (35-65Mb/s instead).

[Enderman]

Speed decreases over distance though, so if you don't plan on using it over 400ft you will get higher speeds with AC (the difference might be 30Mbps vs 10Mbps which is a pretty big difference)

[skywake]

It depends on what you're trying to achieve. I'd personally go with 1x faster one and then see if there were any really problematic blackspots. Then use that as a reason, down the road, to get a second AP. Because if you're doing game streaming over this then the bandwidth you'll get on 2.4G, N300 isn't going to cut it. Especially if you have multiple APs and want them work work nicely together (i.e. 20Mhz not 40Mhz).

 

Also remember that the AC one will be dual-band while the LR one is just on the 2.4G band. The LR ones are more for use with general browsing in a large hall or something, not for bandwidth intensive tasks. In use, setup properly it could be the difference between 30Mbps and 250Mbps on your device.

 

range....not like 300 MB/s isn't fast enough...

Just.... no... all of the no....

 

For a start you mean 300Mb/s not 300MB/s. That's an eight fold difference in speed. Worse still when we're talking wireless standards N300 is 300Mbps theoretical but more like 70Mbps IRL. Even more than that we're talking about three APs with the intent of using them in fairly close proximity to each other. If you're doing that you'll want them on channels 1, 6 and 11 but if they're in N300 i.e. 40Mhz mode they'll extend out to adjacent channels causing interference with other APs. If the OP is doing this on 2.4G they'll want to run it at N150 rather than N300. N150 you'll get speeds closer to 30Mbps.

 

So basically you said the OP would get 2400Mbps when in practice they'd probably get 30Mbps with that setup. More than just slightly wrong there.