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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by trome »

tbrock wrote: post #2

Ubiquiti is the best. Their stuff rivals and even beats lots of the more expensive stuff at a fraction of the price. It's all very high quality but so cheap that you think they are joking when you see the price. Edge router: amazing Edge switch: amazing AC access points: amazing I've never tried any of the unifi stuff though.

Their AC APs are pretty power intensive, last time I tried them they were drawing well over 20 watts each, which would have required we replace our switches due to the power requirements.

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Post by Cieplak »

Does anyone know how to tell if a wifi device uses beam-forming versus omnidirectional microwave emissions? I imagine that beam-forming devices expose people to less microwave radiation (2.4 and 5 GHz).

Somewhat alarmist but an interesting perspective:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NEaPTu9oI

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Post by striking »

Cieplak wrote: post #22

Does anyone know how to tell if a wifi device uses beam-forming versus omnidirectional microwave emissions? I imagine that beam-forming devices expose people to less microwave radiation (2.4 and 5 GHz). Somewhat alarmist but an interesting perspective: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NEaPTu9oI

> Somewhat alarmist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave#Effects_on_health

Microwaves can't hurt you unless you focus the hell out of them, right at yourself. Even then, they can't make you experience the health effects that this handsome fellow was talking about (insomnia, really?). You might get buzzing in your ears if you're right next to a radar dish... and that's about it.

FCC guidelines on radio emissions are pretty strict. If people were baking themselves with their Wi-Fi routers, someone would've filed a lawsuit by now.

This is what's wrong with TED Talks, and with pop sci / pseudoscience in general. It's all excitement, no truth. See also, "power poses": http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Big-Ideas-Go-Bad/23854...

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by drewmol »

Long time HN listener, first time caller. I've used Ubiquiti products in multiple deployments over the last few years, in both business and residential environments. I have nothing but praise for their hardware quality as well as software features, stability and ease of use. This includes EdgeRouters, PoE switches and UniFi AP's (AC-LR and PRO models). Very satisfied customer, and with lots of experience and headaches involving various mgfs. configuration interfaces or hardware quirks, my only regret is not trying out Ubiquiti products sooner!

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Post by untog »

pbarnes_1 wrote: post #25

You can get basically this for multiples of $99 if you buy a bunch of Google Asus OnHub's on eBay and backhaul them over Ethernet with the latest firmware. It has no knobs what-so-ever, but it's as good as Ubiquiti for far less $.

IIRC OnHub devices are also compatible with the new Google WiFi devices.
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