Access Point U6 Mesh

i'm in the "Mesh works great if you use it right" camp. i use a u6 pro which is wired to my u6 pro in meshed in my home office to devices that don't have WIFI (desk phone, PC, etc...), and a u6 lr+ which is wired to my U6 mesh in my garage which is meshed and have no issues. there's also a U6+ meshed to give better service to another part of the house (i didn't give it AP priority). both my wired AP's are in the basement (front and rear of the house), and both meshed AP's that are in the house are on the second floor. my cameras on the garage, what i do in my home office, and everything else on my network doesn't care what which AP it's on, works for what i need.

I have the same problem. There is form insulation everywhere, I can’t punch new holes in the walls or ceilings. I deployed the In-Wall 6 and Mesh 6s. The in wall in the office and primary bed room. Two Mesh 6s in the living room front of the house. Blanket coverage.

I like ubiquiti, their U6-MESH APs are pretty rock solid for the price. Side note: do you have coaxial ports in your apartment? I lived in an apartment for a few years that had coax ports in the walls that ran back to the utility closet with the water heater and they were all connected together so I was able use moca adapters and get that sweet sweet wire hard wired speeds anywhere in the apartment. Food for thought

I use 2 U6 Meshes specifically for their tabletop form factor and the number of 5GHz spatial streams. When I first set them up, they were both meshed and everything was fine. Interference was a bit high. I've got one wired now and it happens to do most of the heavy lifting in my house. The second one is meshed to the first and performs well but typically there are less than 10 devices connected to it. FYI the U6 Mesh APs do get hot to the touch.

Oh, I mean they operated completely fine as meshed units. I have been very happy with them. I have plans to run POE to the second one but haven't had the time and the priority is low since they operate just fine for home networking as mesh units. To be clear, any of Unifi's APs can work as a meshed device as long as you are getting power to it using a POE AC Adapter. 20/20 hindsight, it was super easy to run POE for the one on my first floor and I wish I had gone with a U6 In-Wall because I now have a need for additional ports.

It’s not that UniFi is a bad mesh system. It’s that if you’re already resorting to mesh instead of wired backhaul, IMO there are better solutions that are easier to use and cost less. Eero is widely known as basically a completely bulletproof mesh system. High throughput, excellent range, incredibly easy setup. There’s a reason a lot of fiber ISPs are starting to provide Eeros - they’re great and continue to be great even above the 1Gbps WAN mark. The advantage of Ubiquiti systems is that they perform extremely well, even better than Eero because there’s less latency and no bandwidth loss per hop, but that advantage comes only when wired. Once you go mesh, you get all the downsides of a typical mesh connection but you also have the increased complexity of the UI interface versus something like Eero or Orbi. And also increased cost - a UDR7 plus two U6 Mesh’s, for example, is $740 plus you need PoE injectors for the Mesh’s, so make that $750 at a minimum. And that’s an extremely basic mesh network designed for every single mesh node to be placed literally anywhere just like an Eero or Orbi system - no wall mount APs with weird rear facing dead zones or APs that require a ceiling mount so you might as well have run Ethernet in the first place. You can get three Eero Pro 7’s that blow that UI setup out of the water performance wise for $549, and you get dual 5GbE ports on each endpoint to support probably as fast a connection as anyone using mesh Wi-Fi will want for the next few years at least. UniFi is great. But if you’re using it in mesh, you’re giving up a lot of its advantages compared to simpler and more proven mesh-first systems.

Okay, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I've set up both UI mesh systems and Eero systems and what you're saying is just not accurate. Ubiquiti is absolutely NOT plug-and-play. There's a lot of settings that are preconfigured by Eero (like channels, bandwidth, security, etc) that you have to manually configure on a UI system or you won't get the same performance. In addition, the Ubiquiti interface locks some settings behind the desktop interface and won't let you adjust them in the mobile app. Eero is a mobile app-first UI - it's simpler, but also doesn't ever require you to go out to desktop. On top of all that, any Eero can be the base router node, which is not the case for Ubiquiti unless you're using all UX7's. But if you're using three UX7's, then if you take a look at the [Rtings testing for the UX7 versus the (now $50 cheaper) Eero Pro 7](https://www.rtings.com/router/tools/compare/eero-pro-7-vs-unifi-express-7/94825/96633), you'll notice the UX7 absolutely eats beans compared to the Eero on range so you might as well buy the Eero for best performance.