Home Wifi - Any Recommendations

[talksr]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has some medium-high and high spec recommendations for home wifi?

 

I have a 2 bed new house which luckily has ethernet in both bedrooms, lounge and all routes back to the cupboard where the phone goes into. I have one of the new BT hubs but it has wifi turned off and I am currently using Apple Airports. They are starting to struggle, so was looking to replace these with something better.

 

I am unable to use my PS4 on the wifi, as the signal is so laggy, but the PS5 I have is hardwired in so works fine.

 

Can anyone recommend some good Wifi APs to replace my Airports? I don't need any bridging as I am lucky to have ethernet to each room.

 

Would be very grateful of any recommendations. My broadband is around 20mbps down and 7.5up. Just me living there but lots of devices, iPads, gaming systems etc.

 

I had wondered about ubiquity but the APs are designed ideally to go on the wall or ceiling. My network ports are all low to the floor near the plug sockets so it wouldn't look very pretty to mount the APs on the wall.

[FN-GM]

 

I had wondered about ubiquity but the APs are designed ideally to go on the wall or ceiling. My network ports are all low to the floor near the plug sockets so it wouldn't look very pretty to mount the APs on the wall.

 

They do make some access points that sit on tables etc.

 

https://store.ui.com/products/unifi-flexhd

 

Truth be told I use a ceiling mounted access point (AC Pro) but hidden it behind a cupboard. still works great.

Edited April 22, 2021 by FN-GM

[Norphy]

Something like this?

 

https://www.ebuyer.com/901173-hpe-aruba-instant-on-series-ap11d-access-point-r2x16a

[msi_school]

In a two bedroom new build you might find one decent AP in the centre of the house is enough.

 

I live in a two bedroom victorian terrace and I have coverage all over the house with one Unifi AC-Lite sat on a desk upstairs with the power turned down. The plan was to install two correctly on the ceiling in the centre of each floor but I put the first one in as a stop gap and as the coverage was sufficient I never added more or did the ceiling mounting. I do live by myself so at max I probably only have a phone a tablet and a couple of laptops connected.

 

If I were you I would look at either of the suggestions above but just try one centrally and see how it performs before buying more.

[5tu]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has some medium-high and high spec recommendations for home wifi?

 

I have a 2 bed new house which luckily has ethernet in both bedrooms, lounge and all routes back to the cupboard where the phone goes into. I have one of the new BT hubs but it has wifi turned off and I am currently using Apple Airports. They are starting to struggle, so was looking to replace these with something better.

 

I am unable to use my PS4 on the wifi, as the signal is so laggy, but the PS5 I have is hardwired in so works fine.

 

Can anyone recommend some good Wifi APs to replace my Airports? I don't need any bridging as I am lucky to have ethernet to each room.

 

Would be very grateful of any recommendations. My broadband is around 20mbps down and 7.5up. Just me living there but lots of devices, iPads, gaming systems etc.

 

I had wondered about ubiquity but the APs are designed ideally to go on the wall or ceiling. My network ports are all low to the floor near the plug sockets so it wouldn't look very pretty to mount the APs on the wall.

 

You could go for a mesh WiFi option that supports wired backhaul like the ASUS ZenWiFi AX (XT8) - https://www.asus.com/Networking-IoT-Servers/Whole-Home-Mesh-WiFi-System/ZenWiFi-WiFi-Systems/ASUS-ZenWiFi-AX-XT8-/

[psydii]

Set it and forget it: BT Complete Wifi.

 

If you have kids then the Orbi kits with the ethernet backhaul option also offer content filtering via Circle.

Edited April 22, 2021 by psydii

[bald_pig]

I use Ruckus here, nothing but the best for me

[paulkerton]

I have AVM's Fritz Box kit. Only a small place, so I don't need a repeater, but I've heard nothing but good things about their mesh setup.

 

https://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritz-mesh-set/

[MatthewL]

Unifi AP, one UAP-AC-Pro would centrally would cover the house fine, I am in a 50's semi and its solid and does me.