wifi router

[ReggieMar]

Thank you sa mga inputs

[oj88]

Sharing my WiFi story...

Through the years, I've gone through at least half a dozen different commodity and enterprise wireless routers and/or access points.... D-Link, Asus, TP-Link, Linksys, and Cisco.

We've had WiFi at home since about the early to mid 2000s, during the time when we first got our DSL connection. Back then, only my work laptop with its WiFi PCMCIA card was able to connect to it. All the rest, mostly just PCs, used a wired LAN connection.

But when the mobile revolution started (circa late 2000s to early 2010s), almost every family member started owning an Android or an iOS device. Not to mention WiFi-capable laptops. Aside from occasionally overheating or running out of RAM, necessitating a reboot, the D-Links served us well. Our WiFi client count has increased to around 15 devices.

To accommodate the increase in devices, I then bought used enterprise-grade Cisco Aironet 1230 series APs.... two of them. They worked for several years but since these are just 802.11a/b/g, newer WiFi clients couldn't take advantage of their built-in 802.11n performance. Also, even these APs were dropping connections when the number of connected clients went past 25. These were old generation APs, anyway, that were designed before mobility started to become a thing. During this time, we already have around 30+ wireless devices.

Finally, I upgraded again to Ubiquiti UniFi (UAP-AC-LR and UAP-AC-Pro) a few years back. I've never had a problem since. Even when I ventured into smart home devices and IoT earlier this year, which pushed our WiFi count in excess of 60 devices, the Ubiquitis didn't even break a sweat.

This screenshot I took just a few moments ago.


Now that we're on PLDT Fibr, it makes more sense to have a stable WiFi connection all around the house. I never liked the idea of WiFi repeaters or even powerline adapters. My philosophy now is that, if WiFi coverage is required in a certain area, it has to have an AP wired to it.

Anyway, I'm so satisfied with Ubiquiti that I'll probably run these to the ground before I replace them. And if you think they're expensive, they're actually not. If you buy them from Amazon and have somebody brought them here (if you don't have a courier), they're probably even cheaper than those "boutique" wireless routers from Asus, Netgear, Linksys, or D-Link.

[kisshmet]

tried replacing my antenna to a higher gain antenna but did not see any difference

if you have multi-storey structure and wish to extend wifi signal up to the upper floor you'll need not just use a higher gain antenna, but an AP with WDS (bridging capability)

most modem-routers from the service provider have internal antennas which broadast relatively weaker wifi signal. initially to boost the signal attach an AP with an external antenna to the ethernet port of service provider modem-router.

the signal from the AP can be further extended with another AP with bridging or WDS function

bridging works like a chain, each AP attached to the network links to the nearest AP to have a strong signal in every floor. when the link in between fails, the link further away from the root router lose internet connection

for a 3 storey with roof-deck set-up where the root router is located on the 3rd floor. i linked the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor then i linked the roof-deck to the 3rd floor

if the root router is located on the ground floor, ill link the 2nd floor AP to the root router, then the 3rd floor AP will be linked to the 2nd floor AP, then the roof-deck AP will be linked to the 3rd flr AP

ill always pick a bigger antenna device for high gain for a strong radio signal beause radio fade is the biggest drawback of a pure wireless network set-up

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[JohnM]

Finally, I upgraded again to Ubiquiti UniFi (UAP-AC-LR and UAP-AC-Pro) a few years back. I've never had a problem since. Even when I ventured into smart home devices and IoT earlier this year, which pushed our WiFi count in excess of 60 devices, the Ubiquitis didn't even break a sweat.

This screenshot I took just a few moments ago.


Now that we're on PLDT Fibr, it makes more sense to have a stable WiFi connection all around the house. I never liked the idea of WiFi repeaters or even powerline adapters. My philosophy now is that, if WiFi coverage is required in a certain area, it has to have an AP wired to it.

Anyway, I'm so satisfied with Ubiquiti that I'll probably run these to the ground before I replace them. And if you think they're expensive, they're actually not. If you buy them from Amazon and have somebody brought them here (if you don't have a courier), they're probably even cheaper than those "boutique" wireless routers from Asus, Netgear, Linksys, or D-Link.

Might spring for the UAP-AC-LR. I've been trying to decide between the boutique offerings you mentioned but I'll give this brother-of-EVE thingamajig a try.

JW Summit on Lazada is selling this for PHP5790. Pretty close to the USD101 it's going for on Amazon at current exchange rates.

[oj88]

Might spring for the UAP-AC-LR. I've been trying to decide between the boutique offerings you mentioned but I'll give this brother-of-EVE thingamajig a try.

JW Summit on Lazada is selling this for PHP5790. Pretty close to the USD101 it's going for on Amazon at current exchange rates.

That's a good buy. I guess the price has gone down quite a bit since I bought mine in 2016. Back then, the UAP-AC-Lite was selling locally for the price of the UAP-AC-LR on Amazon, including shipping.... it was a no-brainer choice.

[joaquim]

I have been using ubiquiti products as well. Matibay at malakas signal, medyo mahal sa umpisa at may learning curve but once set up ok na. But ang pinaka gusto sa ubiquiti is it can block youtube and facebook dito sa house :-)



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[chronicle]

^
Over the counter routers can also block yt and fb.

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[Walter]

WDS usually requires similar hardware (same brand, same router model) to work without a hitch.

The D-Link works well with the PLDT provided router ...

[oj88]

I stuck with Ubiquiti for what they are good at... WiFi.

VLANs are handled by a Cisco switch.

For UTM, I use Untangle HomePro.

[Woof]

if you have multi-storey structure and wish to extend wifi signal up to the upper floor you'll need not just use a higher gain antenna, but an AP with WDS (bridging capability)

most modem-routers from the service provider have internal antennas which broadast relatively weaker wifi signal. initially to boost the signal attach an AP with an external antenna to the ethernet port of service provider modem-router.

the signal from the AP can be further extended with another AP with bridging or WDS function

bridging works like a chain, each AP attached to the network links to the nearest AP to have a strong signal in every floor. when the link in between fails, the link further away from the root router lose internet connection

for a 3 storey with roof-deck set-up where the root router is located on the 3rd floor. i linked the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor then i linked the roof-deck to the 3rd floor

if the root router is located on the ground floor, ill link the 2nd floor AP to the root router, then the 3rd floor AP will be linked to the 2nd floor AP, then the roof-deck AP will be linked to the 3rd flr AP

ill always pick a bigger antenna device for high gain for a strong radio signal beause radio fade is the biggest drawback of a pure wireless network set-up

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That works but with each jump, you lose half the bandwidth so I wouldn't be surprised if the last link on your uppermost floor performs poorly. I only use WDS or repeaters at the ends of a network and never in between as a link to more nodes. For your setup just use powerline networking to leverage your home's wiring. It's cheaper and more reliable than wireless bridging. Less latency too!