📶 Ubiquiti Unifi BeaconHD Access Point, UDM-B-US Review

The biggest problem with BeaconHD is that it uses the same channel for uplink AP communication as its downstream Wi-Fi clients. Performance would be much better if a separate channel was used instead. It took some experimentation to find a place for BeaconHD that actually improved our users' Wi-Fi experience instead of making it worse. The other problem is that it seems to restart daily. During these few minutes, the BeaconHD hotspot is unavailable. In addition to these shortcomings, we found…

I bought this to install next door for my family to destroy our internet. It's connected to a Unifi Nano Hotspot in my basement that's connected to a Dream Machine Pro. This thing is almost at its breaking point, but it still works well enough for grandma to stream on a fire stick and play games on her phone all day long! I was really surprised at how well it works through my concrete wall in the basement and through an ally in her house. This is connected to the main level of her home. The…

Another win for UniFi. Despite my excellent UniFi NanoHD hotspots, I had multiple WiFi dead zones on the second floor of my house due to the current sub-optimal placement. The ideal solution would be to move cat cables to a room with poor connectivity or install another access point nearby. Let's face it, sometimes you just don't feel like climbing into a hot attic and poking holes in the ceiling below. In my scenario, I have spray foam insulation in my attic so the electrical wiring isn't…

We bought these to complement our dream car to cover the inside and outside of a two story home of about 3,200 square feet. With the dream car and two of them, one on each floor at opposite ends of the house from the dream car, we get a 97%+ signal everywhere in our house, 96%+ in the garage and 70% in the middle. outside in our yard more than 100 meters. If you've managed to get Dream Machine working, that's no problem. A UniFi mesh system is more than a typical home Wi-Fi system, so adding it

The first device I got was DOA. OK, it happens. The second block worked, and after playing with its setting, everything worked for me. Approximately every 30 days the device stops working and the cloudkey (gen2) controller displays an "Adoption Failed" message. I used to have to factory reset the device, turn it off, restart the cloud key, tell the controller to forget the device, then ACCEPT AGAIN for it to work. It sucked, but it worked. Now I can't force him to accept no matter what. No…

I have many UNIFI products including Nano, Pro, Mesh and Mesh Pro. Mesh blocks require you to connect to your local network, enter the configuration, and select the option to work as MESH, which increases deployment time. The Beacon is ready to use, you literally plug it in, wait a few minutes and it will appear in your controller. Select, update and the rest is done automatically. Mesh per base unit is over 1GHz (reported, not actual) and download speeds on my iPhone 11 Pro are over 300Mbps…