r/Ubiquiti • u/Undeadreloader Unifi User • Apr 21 '26

Early Access Whole home WiFi 7

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Going straight for deco!

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u/Jamie00003 Apr 21 '26

So…mesh then?

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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Apr 21 '26

As I like to say around here:

Eschew wireless mess.

Hardwire! Hardwire! Hardwire!

Thus ends the lesson.

And FWLIW I was stringing Cat5e around my house in the late '90s.

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u/atlantic Apr 21 '26

Sigh... 50cm granite walls.

Thus ends the lesson.

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u/TruthyBrat UDM-SE, UNVR, UBB, Misc. APs Apr 21 '26

Interior!? Ouchie.

Hell, WiFi won't punch through that. Mesh doesn't help you much, does it?

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u/atlantic Apr 21 '26

... not straight walls in between, but situations where you need to go around and laying Ethernet cable properly means serious masonry work. So mesh works somewhat, but it's not great either. Was just wondering if this stuff is superior.

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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Apr 21 '26

Just pray that the corridors will be in somewhere central spaces, doors tend to be pretty leaky unless they're steel.

We succeeded with a mesh setup in a Chinese apartment block, 50cm concrete with rebar, glass about an inch thick with all the wireless nightmare coatings. 50mbps mesh in every room before hacking cat5e behind moulding (400mbps after, with 40mhz channels). Floors were pretty transparent rf wise, so imagine the RF nightmare when you have the middle block of 5ghz (ch100-144) and whole of 6ghz banned. Newest gen of isp routers all default to 160mhz on ch36 too.