Binned UniFi!

More like sold them all but I’m no longer running the UAP-AC-Pro’s. As far as performance went, they worked fine, I had 3 in total, 1 in the loft space for the main house, 1 in the mancave and 1 out at the MIL’s who is on a UBNT wireless bridge for some free and easy coverage. I can’t really fault the UAP’s, the coverage was good and speeds were always plenty for what I needed.

Why Then?
I’ve fairly recently extended my house and needed to add another AP. For my work I use the very versatile Zyxel Nebula range and it just made sense to “hop” brand and move over. The Zyxel kit comapritively is slightly cheaper and I made the step over onto ax hardware being as I’ve gone Gig at home now as well.

Step in the Zyxel NWA50AX – The main reasons for using this AP are, primarily I work with this kit every day so why wouldn’t you? It’s WiFi6 capable so as devices are swapped out I can eek more performance out of the WiFi, they don’t require me to maintain a controller, Zyxel do all of this for you, the cost point on these is brilliant. I picked up 4 AP’s at a cost of £69 each and overall I have more coverage of the house and far better throughputs and finally the performance, my thorughput is noticabely higher now than it was running the old setup. This is likely in part due to now having 2 AP’s serviing the house rather than 1 but overall I’m very happy!

You can read a bit more about them here
https://www.zyxel.com/uk/en-gb/products/wireless/802-11ax-wifi-6-dual-radio-poe-access-point-nwa50ax

After a small break away…

I’m semi back. Not fully into the swing of things as I don’t thing the online gaming will ever reignite but the networky bit may evolve slightly into less Mikrotik, more variety and possibly some connectivity stuff as well.

Anyway… First update for a while, notable things to mention, PC has been upgraded to 12th Gen i7, laptop has changed now to an M1 Air and I’m moved away from the Ubiquiti wireless onto Zyxel Nebula.

Now that’s out of the way, living in the small out of city town I do, FTTP is due to be installed in 2 weeks. Fingers crossed it goes well (Openreach can go without issues sometimes).