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

I bought this as a WiFi upgrade in my 1800 sq ft house and wasn't impressed. Sure, I get incredibly high speeds around the device, but move 30 feet away and the signal drops off quickly. Outdoors, where my 3-year-old TP-Link router provides adequate coverage, I have to wave my phone in the air and hope the connection doesn't drop. Yes, it is connected to my gigabit switch. Yes, I installed a controller and used a non-overlapping WiFi channel. No, 2.4GHz is not crowded. Yes, I installed it…

EDIT: As of June 2020, the Unifi controller supports MongoDB 3.6, which is supported upstream. Unifi hotspots are pretty good from a hardware perspective. They almost rival the best performing consumer Wi-Fi hotspots on the market. They have a really weird antenna pattern so they need to test placement a little more to get good coverage. The biggest issue with them is the controller software (which is a huge benefit when setting up and monitoring multiple of them). If you want to control your…

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

Currently 1 is in use, another one will be added later. 1 AP covers my whole house with 2100 SF, but for my outdoor cameras it's better to use 2 evenly distributed with lower power settings. It integrates well with Unifi. Delivery is slow. Every time I make a change, it takes time to prepare, and sometimes I have to do a hard reset after changing the settings. I use 3 SSIDs with no problems. By default, SSIDs 2.4 and 5.8 are created, but you can disable one or the other for each SSID if you…

Update 12/07/18 – Ubiquiti is great at releasing new firmware every few days with tons of bug fixes in each version. Since version 4.0 this access point has been very reliable and I can confidently recommend it to anyone looking for a top quality access point in a compact form factor. There are still a few quirks and limitations associated with edge case features like wireless uplink, but the basic hotspot functionality works great and all my wireless devices now connect and stay connected with