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sparkymark75 said:
Yeah it’s probably more of a tinkering/upgrade itch tbh. They work perfectly fine and I’ve never had any reliability or performance issues.
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TBH I'm probably not the best example, as I love an excuse to buy more stuff & upgrade, but if you're not having any issues, I'd probably leave as is.

Although saying that, you can often get a U6-pro for <£100, so it wouldn't be that much to upgrade if you fancy the extra speed.
 
R.C.Anderson said:
TBH I'm probably not the best example, as I love an excuse to buy more stuff & upgrade, but if you're not having any issues, I'd probably leave as is.

Although saying that, you can often get a U6-pro for <£100, so it wouldn't be that much to upgrade if you fancy the extra speed.
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I think I managed to get a U6 Pro used for £80 just for getting some WiFi into the outdoor kitchen area. I already have wiring into my loft so will drop it down the soffit and fit there.
 
A couple of U6 lites would probably do me. Don’t need a pro.

I also have an AC pro and an AC LR in the soffits for outdoor WiFi for my car and charger and for WiFi down the bottom of the garden as the insulation in my house destroys the signal from inside the house.
 
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michty_me said:
I think I managed to get a U6 Pro used for £80 just for getting some WiFi into the outdoor kitchen area. I already have wiring into my loft so will drop it down the soffit and fit there.
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Yea, I got one for the same price to upgrade a AC-Pro, decent price for an upgrade imo. Not worth double that+ for the wifi 7 versions yet though, as I don't need that much speed through my wifi devices.
 
In need of help. I've been having all sort of issues over the last few months and as I said in a previous post, my wife said most of it started when I added the U7 Pro XG to our network.
  • My work laptop reports as weak/poor signal a lot of times resulting it dropping during calls
  • Poor signal strength (dbm), often seeing high -60s/low-mid 70s
  • Devices locking on to an AP much further away so having weak signal strength
  • More recently - I notice browsing YouTube on my phone really chugs/generally poor WiFi experience and the only way to rectify this is by power cycling my UDM-SE and Community Fibre modem
  • Our TV decides the WiFi network it was on has disappeared and I either need to wait ages for it to rectify itself or manually join the network again
Before this I had one U6 Pro upstairs and my only issues were corners of the house having weak throughput but manageable and our G4 Doorbell struggling at times. The U7 Pro XG is downstairs, to give the doorbell better coverage as well as the aforementioned corners. And when it works, I get much improved results in Bufferbloat/Speedtest. But I don't understand the degrading WiFi experience issue - it happened again this morning as I was standing close to both APs at separate times and getting 3-9Mbps.

APs are as follows:
  • U6 Pro (upstairs)
  • U5 LR (cupboard under the stairs - for testing to help fix previous Doorbell signal strength issue)
  • U7 Pro XG (hallway downstairs)
SSIDs:
  • Guest network (5/6GHz)
  • IoT (2.4GHz)
  • CameraWiFi but my G4 Doorbell completely brain farts now if I try and connect it back to this (5GHz)
  • Standard network 6 (5/6GHz)
  • Standard network 7 (5/6E GHz with MLO)
My settings are fairly standard, not using an RSSI, 20Mhz for 2.4, 80Mhz for 5GHz and 160Mhz for 6GHz. I've tried manually setting the channels and auto but most of the time, either way seems to eventually end up in a congested channel. When I have time, I'm going to turn off the XG and see how it fairs back on just the U6 but somewhat stumped.
 
Might be worth trying with 2.4Ghz turned on - especially given that MLO can make use of the 2.4Ghz band anyway on Wifi 7. Turning off/separating bands really shouldn't be necessary with modern clients.

However given the mish-mash of different AP's (i.e. 5, 6, and 7), it might be issues with devices trying to roam between AP's and then finding they have to fall back to lower operating modes rather than just changing AP (hence maybe staying connected to the more distant "better" Wifi 7 AP for example, even though signal strength is worse.)
 
doodah said:
In need of help. I've been having all sort of issues over the last few months and as I said in a previous post, my wife said most of it started when I added the U7 Pro XG to our network.
  • My work laptop reports as weak/poor signal a lot of times resulting it dropping during calls
  • Poor signal strength (dbm), often seeing high -60s/low-mid 70s
  • Devices locking on to an AP much further away so having weak signal strength
  • More recently - I notice browsing YouTube on my phone really chugs/generally poor WiFi experience and the only way to rectify this is by power cycling my UDM-SE and Community Fibre modem
  • Our TV decides the WiFi network it was on has disappeared and I either need to wait ages for it to rectify itself or manually join the network again
Before this I had one U6 Pro upstairs and my only issues were corners of the house having weak throughput but manageable and our G4 Doorbell struggling at times. The U7 Pro XG is downstairs, to give the doorbell better coverage as well as the aforementioned corners. And when it works, I get much improved results in Bufferbloat/Speedtest. But I don't understand the degrading WiFi experience issue - it happened again this morning as I was standing close to both APs at separate times and getting 3-9Mbps.

APs are as follows:
  • U6 Pro (upstairs)
  • U5 LR (cupboard under the stairs - for testing to help fix previous Doorbell signal strength issue)
  • U7 Pro XG (hallway downstairs)
SSIDs:
  • Guest network (5/6GHz)
  • IoT (2.4GHz)
  • CameraWiFi but my G4 Doorbell completely brain farts now if I try and connect it back to this (5GHz)
  • Standard network 6 (5/6GHz)
  • Standard network 7 (5/6E GHz with MLO)
My settings are fairly standard, not using an RSSI, 20Mhz for 2.4, 80Mhz for 5GHz and 160Mhz for 6GHz. I've tried manually setting the channels and auto but most of the time, either way seems to eventually end up in a congested channel. When I have time, I'm going to turn off the XG and see how it fairs back on just the U6 but somewhat stumped.
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Mixing AP models can have this effect. Clients will become sticky with those higher data rates and not wanting to roam. For the TV, you can use the option to fix the client to an AP. For mobile clients, you are stuck unless you roll out Wi-Fi 7/be APs.
 
Dangerous said:
Mixing AP models can have this effect. Clients will become sticky with those higher data rates and not wanting to roam. For the TV, you can use the option to fix the client to an AP. For mobile clients, you are stuck unless you roll out Wi-Fi 7/be APs.
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Would this cause a similar issue between U6 Pro and U7 Pro?
 
Armageus said:
Potentially yes - you still have different capabilities e.g. MLO and different data encoding 4096-QAM Vs 1024-QAM
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Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for this although my U6 Pro will be mainly outside with the U7 Pro being in the centre of the house. Good to know though for potential future issues.
 
ChrisD. said:
What are you power levels? Should be low or medium with 3 APs.
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On auto for all 3.
Armageus said:
Might be worth trying with 2.4Ghz turned on - especially given that MLO can make use of the 2.4Ghz band anyway on Wifi 7. Turning off/separating bands really shouldn't be necessary with modern clients.

However given the mish-mash of different AP's (i.e. 5, 6, and 7), it might be issues with devices trying to roam between AP's and then finding they have to fall back to lower operating modes rather than just changing AP (hence maybe staying connected to the more distant "better" Wifi 7 AP for example, even though signal strength is worse.)
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We need to get a new camera and small switch so I'll swap out the U6 Pro for another U7 XG or U7 Pro.
 
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