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[n30_mkii]

I'm looking at sorting the wireless coverage in my house out. I've currently got two flex-hd's, one upstairs to the north side of the house and one downstairs to the south side of the house. Walls are all solid throughout the house, and so wifi signal isn't always great, and it certainly doesn't give much coverage in the garden outside the main walls. The current APs are hard wires back to a pro max 24 port switch.

I'm thinking I'll swap to a couple of ceiling mounted APs but I'm a little out of touch. I can see the u7 pro is out now, but u6 pro is probably fine for what I need. What's considered the best bang for buck currently? I could have course bring in one u6 pro and then use the flex-hds for tactical coverage or even mount them outside if the u6/u7 pro are much better

 

[b0rn2sk8]

WiFi 7 is sooo much better than WiFi 6, in my mind it makes no sense to invest good money in wifi 6 at this stage in its life cycle.

So I would only be buying new WiFi 7 access points, particularly given wifi 6 access points are not particularly cheap from Ubiquiti.

Edit: if you’ve got walls which block wifi and you want coverage outside, you may be better spending some money on outdoor APs. Are the flex HD’s outdoor rated? You could move them out if they are.

 

[robj20]

I'm looking at sorting the wireless coverage in my house out. I've currently got two flex-hd's, one upstairs to the north side of the house and one downstairs to the south side of the house. Walls are all solid throughout the house, and so wifi signal isn't always great, and it certainly doesn't give much coverage in the garden outside the main walls. The current APs are hard wires back to a pro max 24 port switch.

I'm thinking I'll swap to a couple of ceiling mounted APs but I'm a little out of touch. I can see the u7 pro is out now, but u6 pro is probably fine for what I need. What's considered the best bang for buck currently? I could have course bring in one u6 pro and then use the flex-hds for tactical coverage or even mount them outside if the u6/u7 pro are much better

Depends what devices you have and what radios they use.

 

[n30_mkii]

Depends what devices you have and what radios they use.

Multiple mobile phones, laptops, macbooks, printers, TVs, google home assistants, nvidia shield, harmony elite and many others. A handful of the phones are Wifi 6 capable but nothing wifi 7 at the moment. Feels like Wifi 7 is still pretty early, so I'm not looking to pay for the premium. That said what I need is solid coverage on a the two story property, and ideally in the surrounding garden. Let me know what other info you might need. Property is circa 140sqm in size over two floors. Integral garage has cavity walls to inner property and so do the exterior walls.

 

[n30_mkii]

WiFi 7 is sooo much better than WiFi 6, in my mind it makes no sense to invest good money in wifi 6 at this stage in its life cycle.

So I would only be buying new WiFi 7 access points, particularly given wifi 6 access points are not particularly cheap from Ubiquiti.

Edit: if you’ve got walls which block wifi and you want coverage outside, you may be better spending some money on outdoor APs. Are the flex HD’s outdoor rated? You could move them out if they are.

Sorry i missed this, Yes the Flex-HDs are rated for outdoors too. I thought that Wifi 7 was super early as I only have a handful of wifi 6 capable devices, nothing with wifi 7 to my knowledge. Happy to go cutting edge, but I'd also seen that maybe the U7 Pro antenna configuration was worse than the U6 Pro? Is it the U6 Pro or U7 pro I should be looking at for best overall AP, or are there others I should explore?

 

[Caged]

Best advice I can offer is that you run a general purpose SSID with 5 and 6GHz bands enabled, and then run a 2.4-only SSID for old crap that doesn't work with anything modern. There's no reason for your main Wi-Fi network to have 2.4GHz enabled, if you find yourself needing it for coverage then add an AP.

 

[ChrisD.]

Best advice I can offer is that you run a general purpose SSID with 5 and 6GHz bands enabled, and then run a 2.4-only SSID for old crap that doesn't work with anything modern. There's no reason for your main Wi-Fi network to have 2.4GHz enabled, if you find yourself needing it for coverage then add an AP.

Agreed, exactly how I have it.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Sorry i missed this, Yes the Flex-HDs are rated for outdoors too. I thought that Wifi 7 was super early as I only have a handful of wifi 6 capable devices, nothing with wifi 7 to my knowledge. Happy to go cutting edge, but I'd also seen that maybe the U7 Pro antenna configuration was worse than the U6 Pro? Is it the U6 Pro or U7 pro I should be looking at for best overall AP, or are there others I should explore?

Wifi 7 can combine all bands (2.4ghz, 5ghz and 6ghz) for incredible speeds over WiFi so once you do get WiFi 7 devices, it will be a noticeable upgrade. 2x2 WiFi is fine for home use, particularly when you have multiple hard wired access points so you are spreading the load already.

With the 6 Pro and the 7 Pro basically being the same price, I'm not sure why you'd buy the 6 in 2025 unless you had a really specific and abnormal use case.