Got my Ubiquiti Wi-Fi setup started; goal is to cover the whole house, and [hopefully] use wireless mesh to get reasonably reliable Wi-Fi out to my workshop building which is about 60 feet away from the house.
I'm using 2- Ubiquiti U6-Pro (installed at opposite ends of the house; one as far to the side as I could get to the shop building), and 1 U6-LR to go in the shop building itself.
I got these from work as they purchased them to have me setup Wi-Fi for them (which I did). But their cranky retired IT guy who maintains the network/server essentially refused to incorporate them into network/router, and instead bought a Netgear Orbi AX mesh system with 3 satellites. I watched the Ubiquiti equipment (that was mounted and basically brand new) collect dust for about 3 months, until I finally asked what they wanted for them. $300 for all three; SOLD!
This prompted me to fix all the ethernet wiring in my home. The builders in 2007 (before I bought the house of course) put CAT5a cable in nearly every room, but they all landed at the telephone box outside the house. Most were used as analog phone (2-wires) terminated at a phone jack somewhere inside the house, but strangely others were wired to a mix of CAT3 and CAT5 jacks (all were 8P8C connectors) using only two wires and the other side dead ended at the telephone box outside. Craziest thing I've ever seen. I pulled all the wires inside the house (attached garage) and mounted an 8-port POE+ switch to connect all the inside jacks together, and tossed all the old phone jacks and replaced with ethernet jacks.
Mounted the two inside Ubiquiti access points, had to get into the attic to run cable so the one in the bedroom has no exposed wiring. Still waiting on another POE switch for the bedroom, and a POE+ injector for the U6-LR that's going in the shop. I haven't mounted that one because I want to experiment with placement.
If the Wifi-mesh to the shop idea (in lieu of running underground cable) doesn't work out, I'm going to try an ethernet powerline adapter and see if that does the trick. Nowhere near a finished project, still have some wiring to clean up, probably install a raceway of some sort in the attached garage to hide all the exposed wiring.
I'm using 2- Ubiquiti U6-Pro (installed at opposite ends of the house; one as far to the side as I could get to the shop building), and 1 U6-LR to go in the shop building itself.
I got these from work as they purchased them to have me setup Wi-Fi for them (which I did). But their cranky retired IT guy who maintains the network/server essentially refused to incorporate them into network/router, and instead bought a Netgear Orbi AX mesh system with 3 satellites. I watched the Ubiquiti equipment (that was mounted and basically brand new) collect dust for about 3 months, until I finally asked what they wanted for them. $300 for all three; SOLD!
This prompted me to fix all the ethernet wiring in my home. The builders in 2007 (before I bought the house of course) put CAT5a cable in nearly every room, but they all landed at the telephone box outside the house. Most were used as analog phone (2-wires) terminated at a phone jack somewhere inside the house, but strangely others were wired to a mix of CAT3 and CAT5 jacks (all were 8P8C connectors) using only two wires and the other side dead ended at the telephone box outside. Craziest thing I've ever seen. I pulled all the wires inside the house (attached garage) and mounted an 8-port POE+ switch to connect all the inside jacks together, and tossed all the old phone jacks and replaced with ethernet jacks.
Mounted the two inside Ubiquiti access points, had to get into the attic to run cable so the one in the bedroom has no exposed wiring. Still waiting on another POE switch for the bedroom, and a POE+ injector for the U6-LR that's going in the shop. I haven't mounted that one because I want to experiment with placement.
If the Wifi-mesh to the shop idea (in lieu of running underground cable) doesn't work out, I'm going to try an ethernet powerline adapter and see if that does the trick. Nowhere near a finished project, still have some wiring to clean up, probably install a raceway of some sort in the attached garage to hide all the exposed wiring.
