Review on Ubiquiti UniFi nanoHD 802.11ac Wave2 MU-MIMO Enterprise Access Point (Compact Version) UAP-NANOHD-US by John Twardowski

For wireless home communication in a complex one-story layout. Lots of brick walls. I have this Ubiquiti nanoHD on one end serving a small 2nd floor and most of the ground floor. NanoHD has fantastic bandwidth - as long as you can get a signal. Its range is clearly local, the bandwidth at 5 GHz is higher than the connection range even at a frequency of 2.4. I covered slower areas with LR serving the same SSIDs. If we were only concerned with connection security and range, I would definitely use all LRs! But we needed bandwidth where we normally use high usage devices (laptops, desktops) and nanoHD is indeed the best choice for that. Nano delivers the speed we negotiated - 500 Mbps to connected servers (on GigE on the same switch, with 600 Mbps negotiated WiFi) and 140 Mbps across the internet with 216 Mbps negotiated WiFi, and that with a nominal internet connection of 160 Mbit/s. However, if the distance gets a bit longer or there's a significant obstacle in the way, the LR will maintain a decent connection and the nanoHD will just drop out. The short version offers fantastic throughput and easy setup with Ubiquiti software. based on management tools. Overall, nanoHD is significantly faster than LR due to range (and higher price).