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Review on πŸ“‘ Superior Performance and Reliability: Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-PRO WiFi System by Lawrence Allison

Revainrating 5 out of 5

More live gear should be good.

I am currently using this and a DIY firewall/router (running PFSense) to replace the Apple Network Kit which failed under my workload. I really like the Ubiquiti UniFi range and plan to buy more to get better Wi-Fi coverage throughout my house and back to my writing shack. What I love about it is that I can have separate SSIDs (up to four) represented by the same access point, each routed to a different VLAN on my network. So I have a passwordless guest network routed through Tor on my Raspberry Pi, my own family network, and another network just for consumer electronics devices that need internet access but are not "trusted" on my home network. This is a pretty advanced network configuration for home use, but stuff like this is my livelihood too, so my home network is being redesigned. That aside, I'm very happy with how well this works and how gracefully it handles a full house of party guests all wanting to connect to my guest WiFi. More than 25 people with their mobile devices are connected to my wifi and also all the gadgets are already connected to my wifi and this hotspot handles that easily. My old Apple Airport Extreme would have crashed with much less stress. I also like the management software. It shows me who is connecting to my network through which access point and SSID and how much load they are putting on my network. It's really very professional. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Pros
  • Feels good
Cons
  • Mostly good, but...