Ubiquiti - UniFi E7

You’d be surprised how many people have been buying Ubiquiti E7 access points for their homes. And I’m one of them.

I never had issues personally but things have supposedly gotten better with the newer APs and firmware.

2100 SQ/FT house - 4 floors, U7 Pro Max not cutting it range wise - just ordered the E7 yesterday and should see it tomorrow. Going to put the U7 in the basement and mount the E7 on the top floor - this should cover everything. Contemplating putting the E7 one floor down and just using one, but the U7 has been solid except for range. Easy to adjust. For sure overkill - but the range and antenna design should help me keep connected while out on the property.

90% perfect - I think the E7 placement for my situation would be better on the 2nd floor versus the 3rd floor. Equipment wise - the E7 has been exceptional.

I got so tired of about a year of trying to get my Orbi 7 mesh to work properly, to not constantly drop my wife’s iPhone and mine, to not constantly have odd issues with things like smart TVs and treadmills not being able to connect consistently. I finally had it, and after some reading picked up a Ubiquiti Dream Router 7 along with a switch and two E7 access points. It’s a commercial grade system that should cost way more than I spent on the Orbi stuff, and yet it’s somehow cheaper. Like, a lot cheaper. Speeds are way better than with the Orbi. Coverage better. And so far, I am not seeing any annoying iPhone drops. And the smart TV and treadmill that kept disconnecting seem to be working great. I wish someone had grabbed me by the neck and forced me to do this a year ago. Lesson learned. Just wanted to share this here for others like me who dealt with nothing but headaches with the 970. Good luck to folks here. I’m out. 👍

I have Ethernet run to the APs. I didn’t even realize it was possible to run them in mesh wirelessly, but when I was setting up, I got the impression that you actually can. In any event, these E7 units are so amazing, I have one on each end of the house (one in the attic, and one in the basement), and I have the Dream Router in the other end of the basement, and I have 1G speeds on my iPhone sitting in my kitchen. Bonkers. By the way, the Unifi app is UNREAL. The amount of information, diagrams, control. There is so much you can see and do. That Orbi app is so amazingly awful in comparison. Still can’t quite believe the difference.

I have two E7 units (not U7) — right now one is laying on its back on a plastic shelf in the basement, the other is leaning against a wall in the attic. Probably I should properly mount them at some point and figure out what direction is best. But just laying there, they are fantastic.

Yup my E7s are wired with Ethernet. Frankly I don’t even know for sure if they do a wireless mesh.

My Orbo970 system was overpriced junk. Fast, but we all use iPhones in my house and it just doesn’t know how to deal with them. Recently switched to a UniFi system and no trouble at all with iPhone handoffs on their wifi7 APs. Best decision ever.

Unifi has nothing that compares to actual wireless mesh by the home router competitors. Their accessible products like the DR7 and UE7 don’t use 4x4 antennas, 6ghz or MLO for backhaul which significantly decreases bandwidth. They also don’t have any products with a band for dedicated backhaul, they have absolutely nothing that can compare to a full WiFi mesh from competitors like ASUS, Tplink, Eero or netgear.

Unifi is not the way for WiFI mesh and even if you don’t need mesh it’s not for the average joe either. They are expensive but the easiest setup and most feature rich for the average consumer is ASUS.

Ubiquity hands down. Their WiFi 7 gear is reasonably priced too

Get ubiquity. Fuck that other crap. I tried all that other shit you are looking at, get a couple WiFi 7 access points and a gateway and have some reliable easy to upgrade stuff. If your existing Poe is the 48 volt Poe+ stuff you won’t need to get Poe injectors or Poe switches for the access points. Since I went this route I do t know what to do with my free time, as I am not battling my iot shit disconnecting and going off line.

I've used Netgear Orbi, Eero, and Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 7 systems all long term. If you want an excellent ecosystem all behind one very sleek pane of glass WITH better performance and reliability and control than the other stuff, just get UniFi. The only caveat is lack of a dedicated wireless backhaul channel but this is often inconsequential because of better range and overall bandwidth. If you want to set it and forget it and have tolerance when a forced botched firmware update is pushed with no rollback option, consider Eero.

This is my current setup. Three WAPs(Ubiquity unifi) 3 years ago, have already replaced 2 switches and now all my access points are constantly failing. I have a Verizon router that my Apps are hardwired to for each floor. I was only using the WiFi from my APs before it started acting up, I’m currently using the WiFi from the router as a backup for a stable connection. My question is, is the SSID from the router interfering with the APs? If so, how can I resolve this. I’m only using the WiFi for my IoT devices.

I’ll really need your help. I’ve had this issue for the past three years now. A company installed 3 Ubiquiti WAPs for me that are now out of warranty. Have replaced 2 switches that just died and now all of my WAPs are not connecting to the network.

All the unifi access points support mesh just fine. You can set "auto" or pick specific address points to use for priority 1 and 2. I have one of 4 APs with wireless uplink, and have no complaints. It's in my shed and has two wired security cameras attached that are constantly streaming. They also all support 802.11r/k/v for roaming and fast switching, regardless of wired/mesh uplink. These protocols make devices seamlessly switch APs as they move around, and without dropping connections. You can be on a video call and walk around without interruption.

I’ve used Unifi APs for years with my Firewalla. Another option you might want to investigate is the Firewalla AP7.

Have you looked into Unifi? It’s not the cheapest and gets hate from the open source crowd because, well, it isn’t open source. It works really well though and they have a huge ecosystem to build out your network.