Ubiquiti NetworksUniFi AC Lite Wireless Access Point - 802.11 B/A/G/n/AC (UAPACLITEUS) - Pack of 2

Shortly after purchasing these Wifi access points a software update from Ubiquiti starting phoning home and sharing my data without my consent. With no option to opt out Ubiquiti's handling of this was a PR nightmare that you can read elsewhere. As a result I ended up flashing these with OpenWRT. With OpenWRT they are great access points, completely open source, and I get a web interface on each router without the need of the management software. For a home setup this works better for me. The features on OpenWRT while were not as easy to setup were definitely more powerful and once set up I would not run anything else on these access points. I wanted to like Ubiquiti but they simply made that impossible. With OpenWRT I get mesh, roaming, VLAN's and they all work great with pfSense and a couple managed switches.

My housemate said " Holyshit!" when I upgraded to these and he saw the difference in throughput over his Netgear failbox "router". I did match these with a ubiquiti edgerouter4. Used to get about 5mb/s with the Netgear ... Typical speed tests with these has been around 58mb/s ... Those are real world speeds, not theoretical max getting 930 from a wired pc.Anyone who thinks WiFi gets anywhere near wired speeds is a buffoon.Setup is can be simple ... Because of the neccessary, "WLC lite" zoftware. This software must be run on a wired computer at least once to configure the ap's after configured you will only need it if you want to monitor or change something If you have a USG you can integrate it all into one interface.

After jumping from router to router to router (used as APs), I think I finally found one I will stick with for a long time.These APs require controller software be installed, preferably on a computer that will be on 24/7. I chose a Raspberry Pi (yes, you can!). There are some great tutorials out there for setting up Unifi software on Pis, which doesn't take more than about 10-15 minutes including download times if everything goes as smoothly as it did for me. I started with a fresh SD card image of NOOBS, installed Raspbian and all updates, then installed the Unifi controller software. Then I went to the controller's webpage on my network from my Windows computer and both APs were found without any issues.The software is about as extensive as you can get for business or home use. There are things in there I am not even familiar with, and I have been in the computer field for 20 years. Just think ultimate flexibility and configuration options. If you want to know if these APs can do something, the answer is probably "yes". Just do your research first.My last modem/AP was a Netgear Nighthawk model, which cannot handle more than 32 devices on each band. This was causing issues for me. My home now has rock-solid, fast, reliable connections from all of my devices and I now have more insights into how my network and each device is operating than I ever could have hoped for.I am super happy with this purchase.UPDATE: I was so happy with these APs, I also bought the  Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG)  for my new firewall so everything is integrated in the Pi's controller software. Now I can see which devices are using which kind of data and a lot more. Highly recommended. Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG)

I went from a cable provider router/ap combo to 2 indoor and one outdoor APs by ubiquiti. No more dead spots, no more stalling on TVs, etc. They are all running off of POE back to a POE switch even though you can do wifi mesh if you want. The only "downside" is with the controller running on my server, I have too much info available to me now. Before, the wifi was either working or it wasn't. Now I can see which AP has what connected to it, how much channel interference there is, what is using the most bandwidth..the amount of info you can see is never ending....to the point that I spend way too much time tinkering with settings and obsessing over device handoffs and 5mhz vs 2.4mhz and what device is connected to what I think is the wrong AP. These things are miles and miles above and beyond normal consumer grade routers and access points.

These solved the problem with dead spots in my house. Far exceeded expectations! They were very easy to set up and our devices switch between them as they're moved through the house.A couple things I learned: they can be used with a non-Ubiquiti wireless router, but the router should be set up on a different SSID than the Ubiquiti units. Also, the units work just fine without a controller running all the time, at least they do with just a couple of them in a house.