UniFi Enterprise WiFi System AP Long Range UBIQUITI NETWORKS QA UAP-LR

I recently tried to extend my WiFi range at home. My first attempt failed. I had used a WiFi repeater that takes the wireless signal and boosts it up. The device I used had only about a 35' range. I returned it and decided to do some deeper research. I found many internet articles saying that trying to boost the wireless signal by taking that already weak wireless and processing it again was a bad way to accomplish the overall goal. I have to admit the ability to just plug in a little box and you were done was nice and easy and if I had a small house that just needed a little help it probably would have been the solution. In my case I wanted coverage outside. My previous setup used 2 Belkin routers set up as access points which worked well but were only wireless G and they were failing after a long time of use. My research all pointed me in the same direction. The wired access point was the way to go. For me this was easy as I already had the wires run to the locations I wanted them. With that I decided to purchase the UniFi Long Range AP. The first thing that surprised me was the size when I received it. Yes, I realize the dimensions are listed but wasn't a spec I focused on. They looked like small smoke detectors but they are more like a small dinner plate. Not a problem just an observation. My first task was finding the correct wire back at the main router. I love the fact that the AP gets it's power through the Cat5 cable. This will enable me to easily ceiling mount it and not have to worry about finding a power source in the attic. You will need to know which cable goes to it. No problem if you are running a new line. In my case it was one of 15 Cat5 cables coming to a 16 port switch. To id the cable quickly I noted which channels had no activity lights and then connected my laptop to the wire where I intended to connect the AP. I returned to the switch and found the channel that was now lit up and connected that wire to the power injector from the AP and reconnected to the switch. I now plugged the other end into the AP and the nice ring of light illuminated letting me know it was working. Setting it up was easy using the built in GUI. The only negative I would say is that I get a security warning from my browser when I connect to it. I could not find a solution to this but have not contacted their tech support either. Once in the configuration was very easy. Now that it connected after feeding in all the appropriate passwords I set out to test the range. I was immediately impressed. At 35' outside through a wall I had nearly a full strength signal and all the way at the back of my property at 80' away I still had a solid signal about half way on my strength meter between 2 and 3 bars. I now have no dead zones. We spend a lot of time outdoors and use Wifi to control music and lights so this has solved any problem areas. I would absolutely recommend this product. Compared to some of the choices out there the price is also very reasonable. I found no need to connect a second unit as I previously had since the coverage is excellent.

I have used a multitude of consumer wifi access points, most recently the Motorola AP that is part of the AT&T UVerse router. I have a 4500 sq ft home and had many, many dead spots of coverage. Reliability with TP Link, Motorola and various others has been an issue. Streaming video apps regularly crashed/paused/reset with my old wifi. The UniFi LR-AP was a significant change to both signal strength and reliability. I have it installed upstairs, upside down sitting on a window sill (so about the worst temporary installation possible), yet still receive 2 bars of coverage on all perimeters of my property, well outside the house. Inside the house, all rooms have 3 bars. I'm pretty sure that I will get 1-2 bars of coverage from my neighbors house when I get it installed correctly in the ceiling with PoE. (UPDATE: I now have the AP installed via structured, in wall cabling in the center of the house on the ceiling facing down. My worst performing client registers signal strength of 37%/87Mbps on 802.11n indoors. Outdoor coverage is easily to the road at around 75ft). Streaming video apps such as Netflix, Amazon etc all work flawlessly with the new improved coverage & I have experienced zero dropouts or resets on any of these from my portable devices. I have not tested the Apple TV, Amazon Fire HD devices, as these are all on ethernet. Airplay to the Apple TV has been much improved with Ubiquit wifi. File transfers over wifi from my Macbook Air typically run at 80Mbps or more and the Mac will usually be on 144Mbps 802.11n throughout the house. Its nice to have the ability to move video files about the network and not have to go running for an ethernet cable all the time! The physical kit comes with a proprietary PoE adapter that runs at a weird voltage. This was not on the main product page, so I will have to return the incompatible one that I purchased separately. It comes with a ceiling mounting plate. You really need to have structured cabling in your roof cavity to install this nicely on your ceiling. I installed a new Cat-5 back to my central cabling setup and patched it through to an RJ45 where I have a UPS, the PoE injector and an Intel NUC server to run the UniFi software. The UniFi controller software needed significant install work. This is not for your average home user, as it is a LOT of effort to get setup a PC / Mac / Server that is always on to run the software. I elected to use an Intel NUC micro computer with 2GB SDRAM and 4GB SSD storage using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. By default, the UniFi software consumes at least 8GB of disk space with the included database. Looking through the online community, there are various posts that reveal how to get MongoDB to install on very small disks like my Intel NUC. Linux users need to do 3 things - (1) Setup UniFi MongoDB with --smallfiles option (2) Remove unnecessary init.d MongoDB instance and (3) add a script to delete old log files so your disk will not crash when it runs out of space. Its much easier if you just have a 16GB partition, then it works without any tweaks. On the bright side, there are some very helpful setup commands for a single line script to install the Linux controller on the support forum. The UniFi software is extremely easy to use (once installed) and it takes 30 seconds or less to setup your access points. The auto discovery works well & it discovered my new AP in a few seconds. It has a great feature to setup Guest WLAN access via a captive portal (just like Starbucks). The advantage of this is that your guest WiFi has a crude firewall to prevent access to any devices on the LAN. By default the system blocks guest access to 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x (RFC 1918 private network ranges), but you can edit these to suit your needs. It's nice to know you can offer wifi to guest users and not have them hack into all of your home systems. You can't trust the baby sitter not to be an uber hacker! The UniFi web client requires flash player, so may not work correctly on all mobile devices, especially iPhone. It works fine on all Mac/PC browsers. It will work on mobile devices without flash, but the main screen comes up with errors. I use this will WPA PSK enabled client devices all using 802.11B/G. All of the devices reconnected to UniFi without a hitch as soon as the new AP came online. Specifically, it works with Nest thermostat, RainMachine, Amazon Fire TV, Apple Airport Express, iPhone 5 & 5S, iPad. In fact, streaming on iPad was dramatically improved and I no longer have Netflix dropouts that were very noticeable with the AT&T UVerse router wifi. Overall, bit error rates are dramatically down since using this AP. Would thoroughly recommend for anyone that simply wants the best coverage at an amazing price. UPDATE #1 My nest thermostat started dropping wifi every 37 minutes after a recent auto upgrade. I went to Unifi & discovered there was new AP software available. Clicked the upgrade button & now my Nest is happy again. Really awesome device support! UPDATE #2 My Nest thermostat issue recurred with Nest software upgrade 4.4.3 where Nest have made the thermostat wifi go to sleep periodically. Turns out that Ubiquiti is rock solid. I have also re-installed my AP into the ceiling, adding about 45M of Cat-5E cabling through the walls and celing back to my wiring closet. The included PoE adapter seems to work, but now I get up to 4 errors per day where the controller loses connectivity to the AP. Likely issues with my Cat-5E cabling skills vs a problem with my AP. Coverage has improved tremendously by placing it on the ceiling in the highest site in my home. It looks great when installed on a ceiling, like a green UFO. I have had various Internet connectivity issues of late and it certainly is fantastic to have the UniFi AP manager. It is simple to log in remotely and check that all is well at home on the wifi front. Especially helpful as it logs all connectivity requests, current utilization for each client as well as signal strength. Perfect to satisfy the wife when the shiny new wifi network is being blamed for an internet problem.

buon prodotto professionale al prezzo di un fai da te, molte impostazioni possibili Pro prezzo facilità di installazione (se si scarica il software giusto altrimenti si fatica 2 giorni e poi chiami un tecnico) copertura segnale Contro non viene dato nessun cd con il software proprietario il long range in italia non funziona per via dei limiti di esposizione che limita alle stesse prestazione di un normal range sicuramente consigliato

Works great, easy install, and fair price!

This item replaces a TP Link TL-WA901ND which degraded. Just a few comments about this Ubiquiti Unifi LR AP as there are plenty of other reviews. 1 - Coverage is genuinely very good in my modern town house. I don't have it on full power. 2 - The product was up and running in minutes and performance was/is great. I have serious channel crowding issues and this appears to overcome them. 3 - As it's power over ethernet, you need 2 x cat5e cables - one from switch to PoE injector unit and another from PoE unit to the access point. 4 - You'll need to download the configuration software from the Ubuquiti site to set the thing up. For the MAC, you'll need to over-ride protection to install the package. 5 - It's not like a router, there's no web server running on the unit - the downloaded software will discover the device if you're on the same layer 2 network and then you configure it via a local web page. 6 - There are a huge number of features - I'm using just a few (multi SSID with VLANs). The software is designed for management of multiple access points if you need to expand. Lots of metrics about connectivity can be gathered etc. Works well with my family of four, with circa 8 devices connected at any given time. Glad I purchased it.

vous en avez marre des routeurs /etendeurs wifi qui fonctionne mal ? compliqué et surtout sans portée ? et sans débit ? Si comme moi vous avez essayé netgear, dlink etc.. et payé le prix fort pour être moyennement satisfait, achetez Ubiquiti ! Je connaissais pas du tout cette marque avant J'en avais marre d'avoir un réseau wifi pourri chez moi avec des débits faibles et une portée indécente (et pourtant j ai pris le haut de gamme de netgear et autre marque) Je reçois ce matin cette drôle de box. Je branche ca fonctionne en 5 mn. Et la c est autre chose, un autre univers. Le wifi porte vraiment ! avec des débits très importants interface web très très pro, on peut créer plusieurs réseau wifi facilement : privé, invité, enfants On peut même mettre un système de "tickets" comme dans les hôtels Je conseille fortement surtout que le prix est moindre que les produits dits grands publics ! Attention 2 remarques importantes: - ce produit est connecté en cable réseau, il faut donc avoir un cable réseau qui arrive dans la pièce où vous voulez le disposer Il est alimenté par le cable réseau (en POE) si votre switch ou box n est pas POE pas de souci un adapteur est fourni (rien que ca, c est déjà 30e !) - l'interface web est superbe et complète MAIS en anglais donc il faut maitriser un minimum la langue de shakespear

This device truly brings enterprise/professional grade wifi to your home. In a layman's terms, connectivity (the biggest problem in basic home wifi's) is rock solid. I placed this device around the center of my home, wall mounted to a book shelf and in an 1800 sq feet apartment, even the farthest corners have 75%+ signal strength. The AP uses the DHCP from your DSL/cable router so all your devices remain on a single IP range (making media server sharing/file sharing a breeze). Excellent speed with minimal packet loss and the best part is you can use the controller software to track usage/monitor access and get a complete download of everything happening on your network. Just 2 days into use this device is already a life changer. Tested with ipad/iphone/android phones/chromecast/ps3/macbook/laptop with windows. Every single device is connecting and running flawlessly. Highly recommended!