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Re:Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability by eltoozero on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:14AM (#14750249)
Not expensive, a single UAP-AC-PRO is maybe $125, add a mikrotik hEx RB750GL and you're golden.

The 802.11N Unifi gear is <$200 for a three-pack and works of MikroTik passive PoE like the RB260, 5-port gigabit PoE with an SFP cage.

MikroTik and Unifi is an unbeatable performance/price combo for individuals, large homes and business scaling up to medium sized and multi-site deployments.

With those prices and features you can affordably dog-food the setup and support your friends and family.

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Re:Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability by mediocrejoker on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:09AM (#14750469)
This is more or less the exact setup I'm using (Ubiquiti AP and RB750). I've only had it for a few months but neither have required rebooting once they were set up and the performance is good enough to make my 150 Mbps connection the bottleneck.

I also enjoy the level of control that comes with having separate devices for cable modem / router / wifi AP, for example being able to ssh into the router to configure things like port forwarding.

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Re:Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability by exelius on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:19PM (#14756269)
I went with a full Ubiquiti setup (USG + CloudKey + UAP-AC-PROs) because yeah. Spent more than I should have, but the USG is actually a great dual-wan router. Already had a PoE switch for the APs though.
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