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Worse still almost all new routers and mesh systems, don't have the admin interface on the device, you have to sign up and manage it through a cloud account controlled by the manufacture.

If anyone can recommend a good wifi mesh system that supports wifi 6 and doesn't require signing up for a manufacture cloud account, please let me know.

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Ubiquiti access points support meshing and you can run the controller yourself. I have AP Lite 6.

They also used to be able to be set up standalone without controller (have one AP lite as well) but they removed that from their "apps" a while back (already set up APs keep working in standalone mode). This has caused me to make new AP deployments around the house using TP-Link Omada APs w/ OpenWRT firmware instead. Ubiquity is no longer worth the premium if they keep messing with the software side of things (although their hardware keeps working well).

It's still possible to setup standalone UniFi access points.

I just tested it. The AP Lite 6 on the latest firmware can be set up in standalone mode with the latest Android app. You click the + icon in the top right, wait, then click other setup options -> standalone UniFi access point.

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