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Is there a cheaper version than the U6-Enterprise supporting 6Ghz band.?
Also has anyone tested U6-Enterprise with Quest 3 for PCVR streaming.?
And last but not least if the U6-Enterprise is the cheapest 6Ghz UniFi access point what is the lowest price people seen it at.?
Also has anyone tested U6-Enterprise with Quest 3 for PCVR streaming.?
And last but not least if the U6-Enterprise is the cheapest 6Ghz UniFi access point what is the lowest price people seen it at.?
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No.
I haven’t but it works fine with other WiFi6E clients so I can see no reason why it wouldn’t work just fine. Bear in mind that you have DSR rights so if you order it, carefully unbox it and it doesn’t work as you’d hoped, you can send it back.
Yes, it basically is the cheapest and retail, it’s as cheap now as it has ever been because the pound is OK against the Euro at the moment. You should be able to get one well under £300 delivered.
Really appreciate all the answers.
Thanks.
The front of the house is covered by a G4 Dome in the soffit and G4 Doorbell, however I wanted the driveway/front of garage covered. G5 Bullet arrived today along with some protect lights which I will fit another day. Will need to make some minor adjustments but very happy with the quality. Ideally it should be higher but there's no other way to approach without first being captured by it.
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Been interested in protect lights myself, but £££
Only tested in the house and garage so far but they're bloody bright. Plus one ecosystem to manage, and they can be paired with the cameras so pretty neat. But yeah, they are not cheap!
Their addition means I can finally make use of a US-8-60W which has been sat in my tech drawer of unused stuff for some time, pretty sure I have another around somewhere.
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I see this reported a lot. People very commonly look at the headline numbers and the fact that the MediaTek chipset in the LR is “5th Generation” as opposed to the “6th Generation” Qualcomm and they completely miss the massive difference in potential throughput on 2.4GHz. And they also miss the fact that when you’re at the very edge of signal, and 5GHz has disappeared, you can still get high sustained throughput on 4x4 2.4GHz. And the physically bigger LR has a larger antenna array so as well as being able to transmit as well as the Pro it can hear distant clients far better than the Pro.
So if you’re in a small-ish property with mainly 5GHz clients and only a few 2.4GHz clients, get the U6-Pro or even UAP-AC-FlexHD but if you’re looking for extra coverage and you have a smart home with a large number of 2.4GHz clients the U6-LR is generally the superior option. My most common deployment recently has been U6-Enterprise and U6-Enterprise-IW in the main living areas and U6-LRs or U6-IWs for the background in-fill. WLAN is an imprecise science and I don’t think there is just one go-to access point. You have to weigh up all the client devices and the needs of the users and then determine what the best access point might be.
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I've got one of those too
and certainly haven't sold it. It was replaced with a US-8 as I didn't need PoE for where it originally sat. My garage isn't connected to the house, so it'd have to be via a WiFi Mesh.
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The front of the house is covered by a G4 Dome in the soffit and G4 Doorbell, however I wanted the driveway/front of garage covered. G5 Bullet arrived today along with some protect lights which I will fit another day. Will need to make some minor adjustments but very happy with the quality. Ideally it should be higher but there's no other way to approach without first being captured by it.
The cameras are at the perfect height for what you want gem for - to see things. Yes, they can be messed with, but anything can be messed with. I attended a camera last week that had been attacked with an extendable chainsaw - the sort of thing you use to lop branches off trees. So just because it’s 3 or 4m up doesn’t make it safe from attack. And then you only see the tops of the intruder’s hoodies…
So I got the U6-Enterprise and so far streaming to Quest 3 is pretty bad.
Every band is split into separate network so the headset is always connected to 6Ghz but I’m getting network latency spikes every now and again causing massive stuttering in games.
At first I thought it was caused by my MikroTik router so connecting my desktop directly to the same switch that the access point is connected to but it didn’t help.
The AP is about 8-10 feet away from me with direct line of sight to the headset.
Any suggestions.? Could it be caused by some setting.?
Every band is split into separate network so the headset is always connected to 6Ghz but I’m getting network latency spikes every now and again causing massive stuttering in games.
At first I thought it was caused by my MikroTik router so connecting my desktop directly to the same switch that the access point is connected to but it didn’t help.
The AP is about 8-10 feet away from me with direct line of sight to the headset.
Any suggestions.? Could it be caused by some setting.?
Draw a picture of your network and post it.
This is how it is connected at the moment where before I had my pc connected to the other switch (without poe) but it didn’t make any difference.
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Are all the switch ports 1 Gbps? Have you checked the AP using the Network Controller to make sure that it's also 1 Gbps?
Yes it is connected at 1Gbps.
Anyway whatever was causing it earlier seems to be gone now as I just had an hour of gaming session and it only happened once at the beginning.
Could it be that it was still setting itself up earlier as I just added it to my network.?
Also noticed that when I’m facing away from it and looking down sync speed to Quest is dropping from ~2400 to ~1900.
Hopefully once I mount it on the ceiling it will be more stable.
Unlikely, once it's set it's set.
Turn off nightly channel optimisation and use a wifi scanning app to ensure there's no overlap.
Not having it installed properly on the ceiling ins't going to help.
I just realised that I actually changed 6Ghz transmit power to max which is probably why it improved.
Any suggestions on Ethernet cable for this one.? I need probably 10-15m and it will be connected to 2.5Gbps network.
You want transmit power to minimum ideally.
Any cat5e cable will do, don’t fall for the marketing.
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6GHz is slightly different to 5GHz or 2.4GHz in that it doesn’t penetrate nearly so much as 2.4GHz or 5GHz, but if you’re in the same room for lengthy periods I would still keep the power down as low as possible. This is still RF radiation so best to keep it to a minimum.
The transmission pattern from the access point is like an empty cone so you get nothing directly underneath unless you have reflections from floors or walls and they are designed to sit on the ceiling and cover a large area.
And yes, if you block the 6GHz signal with your body it will cut the signal, especially if you are very close to the access point.
6GHz has a substantially shorter wavelength than even 5GHz so it bumps into the molecules in things more often and gets absorbed or reflected back. More dense things reflect and absorb the signal more and you (human) are REALLY high density and high water content so 6GHz gets stopped easily by people.
The transmission pattern from the access point is like an empty cone so you get nothing directly underneath unless you have reflections from floors or walls and they are designed to sit on the ceiling and cover a large area.
And yes, if you block the 6GHz signal with your body it will cut the signal, especially if you are very close to the access point.
6GHz has a substantially shorter wavelength than even 5GHz so it bumps into the molecules in things more often and gets absorbed or reflected back. More dense things reflect and absorb the signal more and you (human) are REALLY high density and high water content so 6GHz gets stopped easily by people.