Unifi is by far the best in home systems for the bigger houses with a cloudkey you have full remote admin controls too it's been awesome
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 3:09 PM Sterling Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. > > If it's a multi-story house, putting the wireless router in the middle of > the house is better most of the time. > > I like wireless routers with antennas that are external and can be > arranged like TV antennas of old. > > Not sure what the state of Mesh/Handoff is on Mikrotik these days, but you > could try placing a router in the wiring area/closet, then an AP on an > Ethernet extension. > > I've got a lot of opinions about this subject. > > My current home router solution is Amplifi, but not the wireless mesh > system, the newer boxed set with three box like units where one is the > router and the other two are wired to other parts of my house. > > It works better that way. > > I've also used the top of the line Asus mothership and Netgear Nighthawk > mothership from a year or so ago. > > They work well, even from my rambler basement under metal, but there were > still dead spots on the other side of the house through solid concrete etc. > > They had the advantage of not having to use a handoff between wireless > antennas. > > But they still had moments of re-attachment to wireless and odd random > streaming problems. > > And their software and phone apps sucked ass. > > Amplifi has a much simpler set of configs and their app is great. > I would like to see them expand a bit in an expert/advanced mode so I can > control a bit more. > > I would also like to see them incorporate some of their device stats > functionality from their enterprise line, but that's just me wishing for a > Ferrari while paying for a Tesla. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 12:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Best Home Wifi Router > > We have used both the RB951Ui-2HnD and RB952Ui-5ac2nD on occasions when we > provided a managed router but was wandering if the more expensive > RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN with actual antennas performed much better? Have > customers blame us when there wifi does not reach everywhere in there house. > > Is placing the router in the basement of a wood frame house going to > drastically reduce range? >
