Done with Consumer WiFi solutions...

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Josh

Yep, I work in the industry. Seen it too many times where unifi customers swap out their gear within two years for something from a reputable vendor.

It's downright criminal that in the US that E-rate funds are spent on that garbage in schools. The buyers remorse is almost instant.....

I'm not in the industry so I don't know the details like you would, but I was saying that Unifi/AmpliFi was adapted enterprise stuff (ie: Pro-sumer). I wasn't thinking it was true enterprise grade stuff for huge applications. I think it's good someone in the know like yourself is clarifying that it shouldn't be deployed in anything more than as a premium option in smaller applications.

I wouldn't doubt you for a second if you said that Unifi/AmpliFi stuff didn't hold a candle to true enterprise grade stuff. I'm basically saying that Unifi and AmpliFi is closer to enterprise grade stuff than consumer grade stuff in household deployments. It's also designed to be used by someone who kinda understands networking and mucks around with it, but not a full on network IT consultant calibre level understanding.

I feel like your comment about Unifi vs (true) Enterprise grade is the same one I have for Unifi/AmpliFi vs consumer grade.

[Josh]

Understood, there's just an annoying youtube/reddit cult following when it comes to unifi who think that its suitable for any environment.

Proper enterprise grade gear actually doesn't work great in houses when it comes to wireless as they have a smaller coverage area for larger deployments, to both reduce co-channel interference and be able properly handle all wireless devices on the network (design for capacity). A unifi AP will actually have more coverage, again good for homes, not so much for a business.

Unifi also under sizes their processors in their AP, to get the maximum speeds, they need to have some of their options turned off (deep packet inspection etc). They also don't follow standards (their AP's aren't wifi alliance certified) and their passive POE switches were known to catastrophically fail and fry all of your downstream equipment (servers/storage/camera's).

Again, fine for a home as they tend not to have complex networks nor require much segmentation. I'll give it to them that they have a nice dashboard.

[EldrickOnIce]

Maybe someone here can explain to me
Comcast customer until they doubled my monthly cost, when promo expired. Through my hardwired mesh setup I got 1 GB wired speeds and 750+ wireless speeds throughout the home. Switched back to T-Mobile 5g home internet and bought a Waveform 4x4 mimo antenna to boost signal speeds. I am getting a strong 750+ Mbps over mesh wifi but only ~150 Mbps over wired connection. This makes no sense to me. This is using exactly the same cabling as previous.

TLDR: Why would I have low hardwired speeds on mesh but good wireless speeds?

[ken0042]

150 is a bit of an odd number. I've seen it before when you get speeds just under 100 and that ends up being due to something failing over from GB to 100MB speeds. The 16 port switch I have in my house for some reason had a number of ports fail over to 100.

[indes]

I just finished drywalling my basement and only ran 1 cat 6 from my UDM SE to the office down there. Everything else will be wifi supplied by a U6 LR, hopefully I didn't #### myself over but since I went unifi my network has been rock solid and the wifi speeds are ~800mbs all around my house. We'll see if I have any regrets once its completely finished.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

Maybe someone here can explain to me
Comcast customer until they doubled my monthly cost, when promo expired. Through my hardwired mesh setup I got 1 GB wired speeds and 750+ wireless speeds throughout the home. Switched back to T-Mobile 5g home internet and bought a Waveform 4x4 mimo antenna to boost signal speeds. I am getting a strong 750+ Mbps over mesh wifi but only ~150 Mbps over wired connection. This makes no sense to me. This is using exactly the same cabling as previous.

TLDR: Why would I have low hardwired speeds on mesh but good wireless speeds?

I'd check to see if a wire got crimped. If wifi is good, then it's wired card/wired transmission, termination of wires and damaged wires that I'd investigate.

[Shazam]

Also make sure you didn't QoS something.