I bought 3 for a mesh system in a 3100 SF trac home. Only unboxed and setup two of three. With two just downstairs the coverage was really weak and the speeds were low. After tinkering with them for a week I sent all 3 back. They couldn't out perform the TP Link XE75 Pros, or TP Link BE63's. Tested Eero 6 and finally settled on a two pack of the Asus BT10's. Two BT10's both downstairs cover our entire home, garage and large backyard. Wasn't impressed.
Unfortunately no I wouldn't. I have been slowly converting friends and family over to ubiquiti just because it works with no issues once set up and has better management/expansion/upgrade options. Instead of the eero maybe look into either the dream router 7 or express 7 as a starter. If you want something easy to set up and drop in place those are the two all in one solutions. Otherwise the cloud Gateway Ultra with an ap (and poe injector) is the next step up I would recommend.
This is exactly what I have done. I have a Cloud gateway Ultra and 2 access points. One wall AP that broadcasts in one direction and one normal AP. They cover my 3-level, 3400 sq ft house beautifully. BUT this is an advance set up that requires some customization.
Don’t listen to him. He doesn’t know.
A Unifi Express 7 cost 179€ and include the Wifi AP, the Unifi controller (brain) and connect to your modem.
This is all you need and much cheaper that two Deco 50 !
Sorry it wasn’t obvious. Anyway the important fact is that he only need an Unifi Express 7 and it’s damn cheap to step in the Unifi universe of good reliable internet like no other that hypnotise all their clients for life.
He doesn’t need two AP, he said it clearly. Unifi provide the most stable wifi network for IoT of all the AP on the market, even with one VLAN, even in mesh configuration. On top of this you can setup dedicated IoT VLAN and dedicated IoT SSID, use their new object oriented policy management (unique on the market) for the most complex IoT setups. They went that far to have little icons for every gadget on the market in their interface.
I know a bit or two, I have +200 IoT devices in my home from Apple, Switchbot, Aqara, Logitech, Eufy, Hue, Govee, and numerous exotic brands. I have been through hell with solutions from Apple, Orbi, Peplink, Meraki, Eero, Huawei and many many more. And only since I am rocking on Unifi I can open my Apple Home app with not a single device error !
At 179€ the Unifi Express 7 is, by far, the best solution for OP and a damn cheap ticket for discovering the “Apple” of networking.
UniFi object policy management allow you to easily pick devices and create group of them that are accessible by your kids (mobile, switch, laptop, smart tv, …) then control (block with optional schedules) access to classes of websites (ex. porn), groups of applications (ex. Social media), specific websites (lol) or specific apps (TikTok). I use it with two teenagers (one study computer sciences, the other polytechnic) and it resisted their hacking tentatives until today. On top of this there is an optional subscription that allows to use Cloudflare to go even further in granularity.
Absolutely. Get and try it for a week. You can always send it back if it doesn’t fit your need. But I am 100% that you will fall in love with Unifi, like all of us.
Believe me, I tried them all. Unifi is the best, easiest, fastest, most reliable solution for Wifi.
You can start with a simple Unifi Express 7 : https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/products/ux7
Warning, you may end up with a home full of Unifi products and a beautiful rack.
I would return the dream router get the Unifi express series either the regular or the 7s. put one in the cupboard and put another in the house they mesh.
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