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I think I might move my AP-LR, it's on the wall in the kitchen and despite having a ~600m range :p, I only get about half bars/30-40Mbps in the garden which is less than 10m away and there is a pretty good line of sight. It's at the top of a side wall, wonder if I put it in the middle of the ceiling (which should give it an even better line of sight), that might improve coverage in the garden.
 
doodah said:
I think I might move my AP-LR, it's on the wall in the kitchen and despite having a ~600m range :p, I only get about half bars/30-40Mbps in the garden which is less than 10m away and there is a pretty good line of sight. It's at the top of a side wall, wonder if I put it in the middle of the ceiling (which should give it an even better line of sight), that might improve coverage in the garden.
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What is the orientation of your unit? If it’s mounted vertically on the wall then the beam from the antennae will be everywhere except your kitchen. You can probably get great performance in your basement if you have one.

One thing that came out of my ill-fated access point stand project was that Ubiquiti changed their stance on vertical mounting of the access points and introduced their own range of horizontal wall mounts. So I’d be tempted to try a horizontal wall mount but ceiling mounted is absolutely best because although you don’t need a big surface around the access point for better performance it does help if you have some plane for the access point to work against.

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Access Point Lite Arm Mount - Ubiquiti Store

Wall mount for compact UniFi Flagship WiFi access points.
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I think the Lite mount will fit the UAP-AC-LR. If it’s a U6-LR then you need the other one (Pro).
 
WJA96 said:
What is the orientation of your unit? If it’s mounted vertically on the wall then the beam from the antennae will be everywhere except your kitchen. You can probably get great performance in your basement if you have one.

One thing that came out of my ill-fated access point stand project was that Ubiquiti changed their stance on vertical mounting of the access points and introduced their own range of horizontal wall mounts. So I’d be tempted to try a horizontal wall mount but ceiling mounted is absolutely best because although you don’t need a big surface around the access point for better performance it does help if you have some plane for the access point to work against.

eu.store.ui.com

Access Point Lite Arm Mount - Ubiquiti Store

Wall mount for compact UniFi Flagship WiFi access points.
eu.store.ui.com eu.store.ui.com

I think the Lite mount will fit the UAP-AC-LR. If it’s a U6-LR then you need the other one (Pro).
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Thanks. I have it vertically mounted at the top of a wall like so....



The yellow line is the window which should give some line of sight into the garden. I would just need to give the Ethernet some more slack and could ceiling mount in the middle of the room, or in fact nearer the window as it's the garden that I'm most concerned about for this AP.
 
The WiFi comes out like a donut with absolutely zilch in the middle which always seems to confuse people who seem to think the optimal place to stand is right under the access point.

So your access point that looks like it’s firing a beam of WiFi outwards is actually optimised for folks hugging the walls. It’s not really surprising it’s crap in the garden. Sorry to be the one pointing this out but yes, ceiling mount it!
 
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Hopefully get it fitted this week.
 
Shame they aren't fireproof and you'd need to combine them with some sort of fire hood designed for downlights if you need to maintain the rating of the ceiling. Check carefully where you put them - if you're below liveable space in a house then you more than likely have to take that into account.
 
Caged said:
Shame they aren't fireproof and you'd need to combine them with some sort of fire hood designed for downlights if you need to maintain the rating of the ceiling. Check carefully where you put them - if you're below liveable space in a house then you more than likely have to take that into account.
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It's going on my roof soffit so it'll be outdoors.
 
doodah said:
Thanks. I have it vertically mounted at the top of a wall like so....



The yellow line is the window which should give some line of sight into the garden. I would just need to give the Ethernet some more slack and could ceiling mount in the middle of the room, or in fact nearer the window as it's the garden that I'm most concerned about for this AP.
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Plus it’s theoretical range will be in laboratory conditions with no RF interference and a a client device with a very sensitive antenna.

Even the glass window will be lopping a chunk of range off let alone the outer wall.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Plus it’s theoretical range will be in laboratory conditions with no RF interference and a a client device with a very sensitive antenna.

Even the glass window will be lopping a chunk of range off let alone the outer wall.
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Actually, UBNT (and everyone else) measures the device with an antenna tuned to emulate something like a ‘standard’ client. There is an ISO standard for it. It’s just radio so there’s no magic in it really.

It’s a 2.4GHz or 5GHz signal so unless it’s heat resistant or coated glass it’s basically transparent to the 2.4GHz signal and the attenuation on the 5GHz will be marginal.

The simple fact is that it’s mounted at 90-degrees to optimal and I bet you if you rotate that access point through 90-degrees it will work fine.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Plus it’s theoretical range will be in laboratory conditions with no RF interference and a a client device with a very sensitive antenna.

Even the glass window will be lopping a chunk of range off let alone the outer wall.
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Oh I know it's usually best best case for metrics like that, just made me laugh once the real world is applied - <10m is a bit of a struggle :cry:.
 
It's been in stock for about a month on the EU/Spain store. They didn't email me when it came back in stock even though I signed up for the alerts. Just found it by checking the site daily.

Been using it for a few weeks now. I'm new to UniFi but from reading the forums the main thing people mentioned in the early access was the noise. They must have fixed it as I can only hear it with my ear next to it and I normally sit about 2 metres away. The other thing people mentioned is the WAN bandwidth may be below 1GBPs without packet inspection or whatever turned on. I get full 600mb bi directionally on it. I will know in a week or so if it works on a faster 1gb line when I get an upgrade. Probably not as I can see it struggling when it's going full whack on the downloads via ethernet.

None of these were show stoppers for me so I bought it anyway.


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b0rn2sk8 said:
Their own website.

I have not seen anything to suggest the hardware is any different.
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They’ll never say what changes they’ve made but I think they’re on Hardware Rev 4 currently. Generally they “optimise” ie. cheapen the hardware as the revisions go up but they can also fix hardware issues like they did with the US-16-XG switch and the original UDM Pro models.
 
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