Best Wifi: Ep 1 - Ubiquiti Unifi nano HD review | Real Performance tests | can your wifi do this

In the new series we are looking for the best performing wifi that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Also it cannot have any expensive recurring subscriptions. We are only including consumer to prosumer level equipment and not the high end "enterprise" equipment (aka meraki, cisco, etc).

What people care about these days in good WIFI is:
(1) Performance
(2) Stability

With all the working from home and streaming needs during these times of the pandemic this has been a highly discussed topic and more in demand recently.

Today we start with the Ubiquiti Unifi nano HD access point. This is ONLY an access point and is not an all one one system as most would pickup in your tech store. I have been using this access point since it was first released and is really designed for high density environments, but we got one out for our tests since it provides a good value to performance ratio.

In the series we test local network connectivity through wifi using iperf, large file transfer test of 10 gb through scp, and for mesh units we test their mesh performance. bandwidth testing

Stay tuned for more episodes of the series.

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Product specs
Omni-directional 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi Access Point with 4x4 MU-MIMO technology. The price / performance leader in enterprise Wi-Fi.

The UniFi nanoHD is a compact 4x4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wave 2 dual-band access point with an aggregate radio rate of over 2 Gbps and supports over 200 concurrent users. Engineered to take advantage of 802.11ac Wave 2, the UniFi nanoHD provides powerful multi-user support in an elegant, nano-sized design.

Features:

Four-Stream 802.11ac Wave 2 Technology
Simultaneous Dual-Band Radios
Supports 200+ Concurrent Users
5 GHz Band 4x4 Multi-User MIMO with Radio Rate of 1.733 Gbps
2.4 GHz Band 2x2 MIMO with Radio Rate of 300 Mbps
Powered by Gigabit 802.3af PoE+
*PoE injector included only with single pack

[jeffm]

You can run just the AP and a controller running on a PC or get the cloud key. No need for the USG. I have all of it and I just use the Cloudkey and AP's with a Netgate SG-3100 firewall. I used the USG for a bit and found it worked well, but lacked featured compared to the SG-3100 (PFSense).

[YUTUBEADMIN]

Do you use the 160MHz bandwidth on 5Ghz or leave at the factory 80MHz