[TriLUG] Large coverage area wifi: Eero, Ubiquiti, other?

[Dewey Hylton via TriLUG]

+1 for ubiquity equipment. i have it at customer sites all over the us, use it for line-of-site connections between buildings (even in the mountains where trees are sometimes in the way), and in one case have APs in 4 states that use the same SSID and are all managed from the single management instance.

----- On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion trilug at trilug.org wrote:

> For what its worth, I just bought a pair of Ubuqity UAP-AC-PRO units for our
> house (2-floor, 3K sqft), and they are outstanding.  I installed one unit
> upstairs (centrally located) and was able to max out the cable internet
> connection (220Mb/s) on wireless if I was anywhere upstairs.  Once I went
> downstairs in some remote corners, I was able to get about 110-120Mbps.  Still,
> very good, but I wanted the fastest connection anywhere in the house.  Thus, I
> put one upstairs and one downstairs (opposite corners).  Fantastic coverage.
> 
> The Ubuqity software is easy to use.  Just create a wifi profile via the GUI,
> and it will get pushed to all the APs automatically (instead of managing each
> AP individually).  Took about 10mins max to setup the devices.  I have a single
> SSID all over the house with roaming; no dropped connections; all is good (wife
> is happy!).
> 
> Just my $0.02
> 
> 
> 
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> On 8/29/2016 9:11 AM, Warren Myers via TriLUG wrote:
>> I am getting ready to wifi my house, garage, and detached workshop.
>> 
>> I've been hearing great things about the Eero (eero.com) and was recently
>> reminded of the Ubiquiti products (ubnt.com)
>> 
>> Are there other better / equal options in roughly the same price range (say
>> in the ~$500 ballpark, but definitely under $1000) that will handily cover
>> an end-to-end distance of 200' across a couple floors?
>> 
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