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Does anyone think that Netgear isn't doing the exact same thing with Orbi? (It's a given that Google is doing it with Eero.) Anyone taking odds on Ubiquiti?

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My access point is still Ubiquiti, since I haven't found a solution to get WiFi access across my house that works directly with my homebuilt router that I'm sufficiently happy with. I'm sure Ubiquiti is doing the same stuff, behind the scenes.

I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them on the best way to avoid this.

In case you know -- is there a way to get into Ubiquiti without having a drop where I need the secondary AP? Today I use an Eero at the cable modem and a second Eero just mounted on the ceiling upstairs with . I'd like to move to something that isn't locked down the way Eero is (and which has a web UI), but I like the whole 'mesh with a dedicated backhaul on a separate channel' thing. My house is constructed in a way that would make running ethernet upstairs not convenient.

Yes, Ubiquiti has AP mesh hardware that uses a dedicated backhaul radio, so you can extend the mesh without needing wired backhaul for mesh points.

It's slow as shit though. I had 5x U6-Mesh after ditching the Google/Nest Wi-Fi garbage. Now, I have U6-Enterprise running on PoE on dedicated copper. There's no substitute for the bandwidth afforded by physical media.

FS: U6-Mesh for cheap! ;)

Can you define slow as shit? Was it worse than the Google/Nest Wi-Fi things? I am aware ethernet drops would be faster, but I just don't need 1Gbps in my bedroom -- just for the connection to be reliable and of a reasonable speed. My benchmark to beat would be what my Eero mesh thing gets.

I have Ubiquiti APs that run off a local UniFi VM. The APs don't have internet access and the UniFi box has only limited access to grab firmware updates. No need to trust when you can enforce limits on a separate router running a FOSS OS like opnsense.

Eero is Amazon.

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