Helping to spec Ubiquiti Unifi for my house

Link to my setup here: Home Network Overhaul - #36 by MongooseMan

A couple of suggestions (without doing a fullblown installation spec):

  • The wifi6-lites are cheap, and do fairly well in my house with lots of thick walls. I’ve got 4 installed
  • For rooms with a network point that need wifi and ethernet, I recommend the In-Wall. It has 2 ports (1 is PoE), and is powered by PoE, so that’s great.
  • In general, I find the Unifi APs handoff to each other pretty well as I walk around. Very rarely do I need to do the “turn wifi off/on” dance to jump to the strongest signal. You can also tell them to prefer 5GHz connections, which helps to.
  • For the main router, I went with a Dream Machine, since I also needed Wifi in the room where the Fibre Modem is. You could also get a cloud key + USG if you don’t need an AP there.
  • It’s not clear from your description if you need much PoE (apart from the access points), so you could probably get something like this and that should be fine.

Hope that helps, or at least answers more questions than it raises. Shout if I haven’t explained anything clearly.

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