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As a Unifi home user, they don't even have a reasonable WIFI 6E product, so there's little chance I'm going to early adopt anything like WIFI 7 from them.

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As another Unifi home user I've seen little reason to move beyond the 802.11n offerings.

What kind of performance do you get? I have little reason to move to 6/6E from Wifi 5/ac Wave 2 but surely N is a little long in the tooth?

My work computer and the PS4/firetv/etc are all wired anyway. So it's basically just a few phones and lightly-used laptops, none of which are doing anything particularly intense— at most pulling a 1080p Netflix stream. When my partner was doing Twitch, she was also wired.

At the end of the day my home internet is only 100/30, so it just seems silly to upgrade everything for slightly more bandwidth and maybe a bit better stability/recovery/utilization.

What's wrong with U6 Enterprise? It supports 6E just fine AFAIK.

$279 and can connect up to 600 devices, I only have ~40 devices. I don't need an enterprise version.

At the time I looked I couldn't find a Wifi 6E Access Point significantly cheaper than $279. Have you?

Totolink X5000R. 50-70€. OpenWRT support. Wifi 6e on 2.4 & 5 GHz Bands.

I think this one is only Wifi 6, not 6e (i.e.: the 6 GHz band)

Right. Always forget about that. 6GHz licensing in Europe is bad / late. So we didn't get to enjoy the 6e fun here :-/

But I can highly recommend to get Wifi 6 on the 2.4 GHz Band, too. I've finally gotten usable 2.4GHz again as that band was stuck on Wifi 4 (Wifi 5 (ac) was a 5Ghz improvement only).

But WiFi 6E is approved in Europe? I'm in Sweden and my U6-Enterprise is perfectly happy broadcasting in the 6GHz bands without any region hacks.

There is a nice world map. Yes, the lower part of the 6GHz spectrum is enbaled. So only parts if it.

No outdoor use unless power is capped massively

Ah, didn't know that. Is there a plan to enable more of it or has the EU already allocated 6 GHz to some other use?

Wifi.org says it's under consideration. But I wouldn't wait for it to happen.

Due to all of that I mostly ignored the 6GHz wifi stuff.... So interesting to hear it's working for you. That's the first time I hear someone from Europe say it's working for them.

There's plenty that are around the $130 level, like Google Nest Wifi. Plus, the U6 Enterprise is only an Access Point, it's not the full router. It only connect your wifi to your Unifi network.

Sure, it's just an AP, it connects wifi to you network. But there's no requirement to use unifi for the rest of your network. Personally I'm happy to trust ubiquiti with my AP, but not with my router.

More than fine, the U6-Enterprise is an amazing device, but it's pretty expensive, the U7-Pro is actually cheaper (but has 3x 2x2 radios compared to the Enterprise which has 2x2/4x4/4x4 radios, 2.4/5/6 GHz respectively).

The U7-Pro should be a better choice for most home users.

If someone has the latest MacBook Pro as the only client on their AP (https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/deployment/dep2ac3e3...), is the U7 Pro going to use the same channel configuration in 6 GHz as the U6 Enterprise? Does that 4x4 kick in for a single device?

The terminology is confusing because there is both the number of streams and their width

What’s the issue with their 6E offerings?

Their only WIFI 6E product is their "Enterprise" product, which is overpriced for home use. Everything else is WIFI 6

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