UniFi U7 Pro(store.ui.com) |
UniFi U7 Pro(store.ui.com) |
Edit: Turns out they do have one. [0]
[0] https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...
Check out the review of one of the fastest 6E radios: https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/li... The highest throughput they can get is still short of 2.5G even when combining all three bands, and that's in controlled laboratory conditions. In the real world you'll get much less.
10G wired ethernet is significantly more expensive and power hungry. The extra heat and expense aren't worth it for something you'll never use in the real world.
Faster wifi means more people get more data in the same space, even if the individual uplinks are less than the max throughout of the connection. The air is just a single big shared wire.
And then as mentioned this max speed is pretty theoretical of the raw PHY, it's not necessarily the true raw count of bytes you care about being transmitted in your probably less than perfect space.
If you need high throughput, they and other vendors sell that.
There are tons of 10gbps PoE switches on the market.
https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...
So while I agree with a lot of other comment you will highly unlikely push the 2.5Gbps Ethernet in real world scenario. I would still have love to see it come with 5Gbps Ethernet. Which to be fair still hasn't gotten enough attention.
Managing (somewhat reluctantly) wifi in a multi tenant office building was frustrating because of all of the competing traffic, I’m just guessing that higher speeds means move overall traffic across the spectrum in noncoordinated environments.
I'm assuming that this speed is its ability to transfer between 2 wifi connected devices in optimal conditions and not transferring files from a NAS to a wifi receiver.
How'd you come to 36 Gbps?
2.4: 688 Mbps 5: 2882 Mbps 6: 5765 Mbps
That only comes to 9.3 Gbps, and if you ever get half that in goodput you're having a hell of a good day. I wouldn't expect higher speed interfaces on such a low end (albeit modern) AP.
The U7-Pro should be a better choice for most home users.
Instead it will be released in a future update.
Typical ubiquiti.
I'm sure the date won't slip and the software won't be buggy or declared beta to dodge complaints for 100 years.
I also have an ER4 the old UI a bit kludgey but they did revamp it a few years ago. I rarely connect to it and instead use UNMS to manage/monitor it (along with some other sites/devices).
These days, I just go with the UDM-Pro SE's and if I need more than 8 PoE ports, I add on a Unifi switch via SFP. You can do pretty much everything these days in Unifi, no need for EdgeMax (well, VLANs is about as exotic as my installs get).
Still running a 5+ year old UAP AC Pro and haven't found it limiting in the least. Do people really need insane WiFi speeds?
I don't really know why I would need anything newer.
I hope they upgrade their Pro switch line-up so they are aligned.
1) Is the "Cloud Gateway" required?
2) It seems that the required UnFi Network software uses a subscription pricing model. Are there other options?
3) The 2.5GbE POE ports would seem to be a bottleneck. Will they be adopting the (older) 10GbE POE standard anytime soon?
I'd much rather have something I can always manage via a local web UI from any web browser, without any cloud subscription.
We have experienced issues where some Windows WiFi chips doesn't seem to integrate that well, and have bad performance.
I realize this may sound like an exaggeration, but it really isn't.
I just can't justify a Pro when all I do is web browsing and remoting into servers. The Air is more than capable of light development work.
The difference was night and day. The guest networks actually worked. They had uptimes of over a year without issue.
Sadly only _some_ Unifi AP models are supported by OpenWRT. Check before you buy. I use GL.inet stuff where possible now.
That's my way to manage a few openwrt devices
No buggy software required.
I don't see any reason to believe this new access point won't support standalone, so I just ordered one to replace an older access point (an Amplifi Alien that was in Bridge Mode).
The access point should do nothing except convert between wired and wireless, which is all I ask. I have a separate, wired-only router.
On the UniFi U7 Pro, standalone mode was limited to 40MHz channel width on 5GHz and 160MHz channel width on 6GHz, which was a dealbreaker for me. The hardware is capable of 240MHz on 5GHz and 320MHz on 6GHz. So, I installed the controller on a local server and used that to configure the hardware to its fullest potential.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639363
https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/scqlg3/what_happe...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubiquiti-user...
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.
The terminology is confusing because there is both the number of streams and their width
My entire file library is only about 10 TB, and most of that is from ripped DVDs & blurays. My opportunities to transmit or receive more than a gig of data in a single transfer is extremely rare, so it makes little difference to me (and my assumption is by proxy, most users) that it could go ~4 times faster.
For actual business work, though, any lab I set up from the future on will be min-spec to 2.5gig and expected to run 10gig on at least any IT machine/vlan/subnet, whatever.
But for the home consumer, 2.5 is probably 10-50x their home internet connection and more than sufficient for normal daily use.
Any recommendations for comparable equipment that doesn't have any kind of push towards cloud or app?
FWIW I don't trust the OEM firmware of any router. They're all a mix of crap, some intentional, some not.
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).
No outdoor use unless power is capped massively
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.