Ubiquiti U6-LITE UniFi 6 Lite Access Point

I already have a unifi dream router which makes setting this up very easy. It doesn't come with a POE injector, but I had a spare POE port so it was plug and play. The device popped up in the unifi console straight away and has worked flawlessly since plugging in. I did have some issues originally with a switch not passing all VLAN's properly but that wasn't a unifi issue.The signal strength is great. I live in a 3 bed semi and now have 2 access points, both upstairs in opposite corners of the house and I get consistent signal all around the house and garden with no issues. 2 lite's is better than one LR in my opinion as i can keep the power low and have no blackspots. With one AP I was always struggling behind the solid brick chimney and external walls, with 2 I cover both sides.Speed wise I haven't had any issues. I use the Wifiman app to check coverage and with this one i always get at least 300mbps download around the house which is fine for me. my ping is typically around 15ms to a test server or 3-6ms to the router with BT fibre internet. So its about double the ping for hardwired connections which is fantastic for wifi.It comes with a ceiling mount and fixings but no cables.Overall its a very robust product and I havne't had any issues. I waited a while and got one for £105. Great value for money when used with a unifi gateway, although I use them at work and can be setup individually if needed and works just as well.

I have the Unifi Dream Machine as my primary router, and it has a good range, but my building walls have a metal mesh in them that means Wi-Fi signals degrade quickly. To get around this for a couple of Wi-Fi cameras I needed an access point. With Wi-Fi6 being the newest standard, I decided to get the U6 lite AP. Adding it to my UDM was easy - just cable it in (I use an ethernet backhaul for stability) and the AP is detected by the UDM, giving you the option to adopt it in the web interface. In less than 10 minutes I had it added to my network and the firmware updated.As anyone with a Unifi network will know, the management of the network is excellent. The AP is controlled through the UDM Network app, with nothing else needing to be configured unless the available Wi-Fi networks is different to the rest of the network.I do have a couple of niggles with it though. The first is the AP no longer comes with a POE injector to power it. If you don't have a POE switch, you will need to purchase an injector to power it. The other is the blue ring on it. The only options are on or off. I would prefer a dim ring too, along with the ability to schedule when the ring is on and off. These are minor issues for me though (I had a POE injector available already) but are things to consider and be aware of.

I live in a long, narrow house (about 16x3.8m) that has been extended twice. There are two structural walls between the front and back of the house and it has some flint in the walls as it's a seaside location, all of which has made wifi from a single router infeasible. For years I have been dealing with powerline adapters and struggling to reach 30 megabit of my 110 megabit connection, which is frustrating as my pc is at the rear of the house.I also had two routers running openwrt at each end of the house, each with different SSIDs so I could differentiate, because keeping them the same across both ends would cause issues with clients clinging to the wrong access point as you walk front to back. There was subsequently a huge deadzone in the middle of the house where I had to use mobile internet if I wanted any.I bought two of these with a mind to buy a third if I needed it. To get the controller software running I used docker on my raspberry pi by searching "github ryansch/docker-unifi-rpi" but there are download links for other platforms available on unifi's website too. I added the controller and the ap that was connected to the router first, set up my wifi network names, then plugged the other access point in at the other end of the house and added it and it just... worked! I didn't need to configure the mesh myself, when left alone for a while it just did it itself, astonishing.A little bit of testing showed that having the disks pointing at each other provided the best connectivity, so one is mounted on the front wall pointing at the back of the house, the other on the back wall pointing at the front.I now get the full speed of my internet at the back of the house, the wifi deadzone in the middle has been banished and I get wifi everywhere seamlessly. I have even plugged my PC directly in to the access point to get connected back to the front of the house, and it's an incomparably better experience with 5-hour long pings showing 0.4% packet loss to computers at the front of the house and consistent 2ms ping times, compared to my powerline previously getting a very jittery 5-20ms average. I really don't think I could be happier with the end result.

I purchased one of these to connect to my UDM Pro and Switch. AP powers up via the PoE port on the switch and can be adopted straight away in the Unifi console. The signal strength is great and connection speeds are fantastic. You do need to ensure your devices are compatible with WiFi 6 to get the most out of these APs, but they are fully backwards compatible to b/g/n/ac. I was unsure between the Lite and the Pro, but these Lite's really are fantastic and more than good enough for any home user.

Really easy to initally setup and get working. Some silly default settings in the ubiquity software stop devices from using 2.4G and this can cause certain devices like ring door bells, older firesticks from joining the network. Once you figure out where all these settings are hidden the system works really well.