UniFi UAP-AC-Pro vs TP-Link EAP225 - Speed test results

Surprising review between UniFi's UAP-AC-Pro and TP-Link's EAP225. At less than half the retail price, the EAP225 totally outperforms the UAP-AC-Pro.

[DRC-]

That secondary port is a pass-through for daisy chaining on the UAP

[lostd]

Hi, the iperf tests were helpful, but I noticed some misinformation which bothered me enough to comment.

a. The 1350 mbps is an aggregation of bandwidth across the 2 bands, a device with 3x3 capable 2.4g(on wifi n) wifi can connect at 450mbps, similarly a device capable of 2x2 on 5ghz (on wifi ac) can do 866mbps. Add them together, and then round up to call it 1350. No wireless device will simultaneously be able to connect at 1350mbps link speed.

b. The other lan port on the unifi is a lan pass through, for daisy chaining other network devices. It's not a 2 port ingress.

[SheriefElHamalawy]

I think you're confused about the WIFI speed and how it's calculated, WIFI speeds are always calculated as half-duplex speed.. so 1000Mbs in wifi is actually equal to 500Mbs download. second is that 1700Mbs is the aggregate BW between 2.5GHz and 5GHz. so if the 5GHz has 1300Mbs, theoretically speaking you can get around 650Mbs of download.. which is less than a Gigabit

[duiliobeojoneneto]

On The ubiquiti appliance, I have at home I noticed bandwidth difference when radio's configuration regarding transmit Power is set to auto vs high while siting Just below it, this might be the reason of the difference seem on this benchmark

[Arocksum]

Interesting video, and results. Did you search for other sources (youtube/reddit) relating the same kind of results between these two ?

[kleberferreira]

Awesome job James! Very helpful. What about the coverage? Have you ever tested?

[repatch]

FWIW, advertising 1350 doesn't mean you EVER will be able to get there. Even sitting right beside the AP, without any single interferring network in range, the overhead of WIFI alone will ensure you'll never be able to saturate a gigabit link.

For APs with multiple 5GHz radios (often advertised as 1750 or whatever) they can certain saturate a gigabit link, and for those LAGing up a couple ports would potentially make sense.

[tecgeetech]

nice job. what is the name of the program you are running the test on?

[Pianolisapark]

Beautiful share my friend! Fantastic video, amazing work.
Like #25!
Have a wonderful weekend to you!

[vonBatFilms]

have you done a concurrent session test?

[drozenski]

The cap of 300Mbps on the UB product is more indicative of your device using the 2.4Ghz band rather than the 5ghz band. When making your vides can you please show your settings of each controller and settings on your test device.

I was shown this video by someone complaining our UB products were too slow. During my investigation i found them consistently connecting to 2.4Ghz rather than 5ghz. I am able to test internally over our setup consistently at 700-900Mbps on a single device.

[madanjain]

Misuse of an item does not make it usable for mass people