How to Optimize a Unifi WiFi Network
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In this video I will take you through all of the recommended settings to optimize your Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi setup so that you can get the best speed, reliability and performance from it to keep your Smart Home WiFi network running like a dream. We go through all of the recommended settings that I apply and setup with every Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi setup that I do and install and these are generally the most settings I found to work best for the majority of installs, of course with some individual tweaking!
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Hello sir I don't know if you're going to reply my question can I connect xr1000 to ubiquiti Edge without losing any speeds I'm having my net type in game moderated
Seems that they removed the old interface, is there any way to do the first setting in the new UI ?
I cannot thank you enough. I’ve been having a right nightmare with my wifi since I’d installed a second Unifi access point in my garden. But since following your video it’s worked absolutely flawlessly. Thank you so much.
Awesome, glad it worked! Thanks for the feedback!
The Hook Up just released a video with some great tips on how to improve WiFi in general for non-unifi ecosystems, check it out: czcams.com/video/UBtZMoqIwR4/video.html
Just adding this as was looking for WiFi AI for AGES to turn it off but it's been renamed to 'Channel Optimisation' (Settings > WiFi > Nightly Channel Optimisation). It took me so much googling to find so hoping this comment helps someone else out! Lewis, maybe you could pin this or add to the description? Thanks!
Just returned to this video as I stupidly fiddled with my wifi settings thinking I knew better! Just realised how many followers you have now. Great work!
Thanks for this! You helped me tweak my settings for my IoT ssid's that fixed some connections issues I've been having for quite some time. Things seem to be much more stable.
Excellent glad it worked!
I really want to compliment you on your organization of this script. Very well done and explained but still high level. You really hit on good moments where you want to focus the messaging vs. allow the user to make their own decisions along with just enough information to help them understand what to expect when they play with those settings.
Thank you so much, very much appreciate the feedback! 🙏
Great Video as always buddy.. clear, concise and to the point. sometimes that's all that you need.. and that's exactly why you are on my subscribed list. keep up the good work..
Thanks man! Too often I get caught up thinking I need to keep on doing more and more complex videos everytime but often people want simpler explanations
Awesome video and just what I needed. I'd done some of it across my UDM and the 3 AP's but some devices weren't connecting to the nearest AP choosing to connect to another one quite far from them. After following these steps clients are making the right choices about where to connect to. Great job!! Now all I need is for you to do the room-assistant video. I've got it all working across 6 Pi's apart from presence detection so looking forward to that one 😎
That's awesome, glad it was useful!
One day!!!
Thank you for this video. I will use these settings for all my setups now. Also used them on my own setup with udmpro and 4 AP Lite 6 aps.
Awesome, how they working out for you?
These setting changes specially the Fast Roaming setting I had enabled helped me fix an issue I was having with some IoT devices that had problems connecting or staying connected. Thank you very much for this.
Nice once, glad it was useful!
Great video and very good recommendations which are way more sensible than the usual “set to max bandwidth and highest power because thats best”! Your settings will work great in real world scenarios and focus on a stable and good throughput rather than how do I get the highest throughput rate in my speedtest. So thank you for putting this out.
Thanks! It's true, too often people think cranking everything to max is the key but can often be detrimental!
Appreciate you taking the time 🙏
Great video, straight to the point and no fuffing about... I'm subscribing
Boosted several of my fringe devices connection by 10% they are all 100%. now, thx...subbed.
So so helpful. Awesome video! Following long term now for sure
My man 🙌
Thank you very much, I have used your instructions and applied them on my network, it worked well
Glad you liked it!
That was amazing , it worked for me. Thank you and have a nice day
Thanks and you too! 🙌
This is a great general video. In the over 12 months since this was released, Unifi have done a fair few updates to the "New UI" and now you dont need to go to the legacy UI to disable optimisation and the power level and some other features can also be changed in the global WiFi settings instead of needing to do so individually. Other than that, this video is still very relevant and is a great starting place to start optimising your WiFi. 20MHz in 2.4 is not just best practice, but it is also good WiFi etiquette. Using 80MHz in 5GHz is acceptable, but using 160MHz would be considered being rude. 40MHz is usually plenty of bandwidth though.
Is it still relevant 2 years on? I have failed to find any wifi AI settings anywhere at all...
Thanks, it was easy to understand !!!!!!
Thank you very much. Will use these settings tomorrow morning.
Let me know how it goes!
GGMU :)
Great video Lewis, usefull all that the router acepts some configuration. Ill change a.couple of things I found interesting and im missing. Thanks
Excellent!
Also, worth a mention if using multiple APs on 2.4ghz- probably best to set them up on different channels per devices and minimise any 2.4ghz channels overlapping each other👍
learnt more from you in the last 20mins than I have of any other video thank you keep up the good work. where did you learn about unifi?
That makes me really happy, glad it was useful :) I'm a technical engineer and have used Unifi for quite a number of years now!
This was realy helpfull, Tanks!
thanks for the tips!
I've been having so many issues at work with Unifi APs and the wifi constantly dropping and APs randomly going offline. Saw a write up of similar changes to implement but your video does it so much better with a few extra tid bits the forum post didnt go over.
That's great, did it help? Thanks for the comment!
Thx for sharing
Great video, I am late to the party but I'm about to order a bunch of UniFi stuff so I can get rid of my Netgear consumer mesh (that'll do as a guest WiFi perhaps) we have a reasonably big house with lots of double-bricked walls so I'm going for a bunch of wired APs throughout with two external APs as well. The Unifi system seems solid and with your great advice and some planning I'm sure we will get better coverage. Great with PoE when installing, instead of heaps of adapters plugged in everywhere👍
We live in the Swedish countryside and the 4G (don't even mention 5G😊) connectivity is really bad so we rely on WiFi for phone calls too.
Thanks again for making me (and my house) smarter!
Looks like there might be some good tips here, but unfortunately recent updates to the UniFi controller software (v.7.1.66 as of this writing) have made your first two steps moot, as those settings have been removed from both the classic and new UI. Either that or they've been moved and so well hidden that they are impossible to find. Missing features are: 'Advanced' in the new UI - that section is simply not there, at all. It's gone. Under the classic UI the "Auto-optimize" option is likewise completely absent. So, no idea how to even see what the current state of those features is, let alone change them. Bummer.
fantastic video, great work
Thanks!
Thanks for this video. excellent.
Thanks for watching!
Great Video, I have been running unifi happily for many years, but the recent 5.x strain of firmware has caused me a ton of issues. Going to try your settings and see how they pan out, I do have around 150 wifi devices (mainly IoT) spread across 5 APs, so reasonably dense, then there is also the Hue Zigbee and Zigbee2mqtt networks both on 2.4ghz - would be great to see a video of how to optimise these to minimise interference :)
Keep up the good work, always enjoy your videos!
Thanks, glad you found the video useful! Unifi firmware is a nightmare haha!
Loved it! Would love to see your VLAN set up. That gets confusing to me for iot devices or devices that don't need internet access.
Thanks! I hope to tackle that at some point!
Thanks for the great Video can u also make video for separate SSID for Smart devices recommend settings .
Brilliant video....thank you.
Thanks Neil!
Thanks! I will try this on my school network. There's a lot of channel overlapping on the default settings
Wow! This video was awesome! I always love your very helpful video's regarding to Home Assistant, so I was happily surprised to see this one.
Finally a video from someone who understands, that home users of Unify have other requirements than business users.
I just moved from my USG to a UDM Pro. I have 4 AP's, 1x 16p-150w switch and some flex mini poe switches...(and got rid of the Unify cameras and replaced them with Reolink 🙈).
I tried some of your settings on one AP just now, and...my wifi speedtest result with Wifiman tripled! I wasn't even aware of band steering being 'off' ... Oops! So there you go! I changed the Transmit Power as well.
I will have your settings on all my AP's soon👍
It would be great to see another post about setting several SSID's for smarthome devices as well.
I want to implement that, but don't know how...just like creating/ having vlans ... Any chance to do this or forward me to useful documentation for home users?
Thanks again my friend, keep up the good work!
Thanks my friend, appreciate the support! I'm glad you found everything useful and sounds like you got a really good result there!
I hope to cover VLANs soon!
Thank you
Nice overview although I tend to do it slightly different for myself and our customers :-)
Cool! :)
Great Video. I have installed a unifi system with a BGW320-500 with Fiber for up to 1GB. On the wired side I am getting good speeds, but on the wireless I am not getting even close in some cases less than 100MB and in best cases maybe 130MB per second. I have set the att router to passthrough and I have a USG-3P, Unifi 24 port (non-POE+) switch, and 3 UAP-AC-Pro.
Thanks Jacob, did you try these tips?
Set your wireless to the higher transmit 80mhz on 5ghz. and test unless you have already.
Nice video, I would like to see a complete setup from the input router to the unifi ap.
Thanks Jose! Would love too...petition Ubiquiti to help make it happen! Haha!
This video is really helpful, thanks a lot! Do you recommend enabling WPA3 on Unifi AP?
Thanks! If it is possible to do so in your environment then sure, it provides extra security. Just make sure everything is compatible
I had a fun experience where some of my wifi light bulbs werent compatible with it and some were. The fun part is they were the same type and brand.
You are life savor
Glad I could help my friend!
Hi there thank you for this video . Very informative. Can you please advise what happens when we turn the wifi off from the app. Does it only disable it for devices or it actually becomes inactive ( so there are no radiations)?? We have a ubi unifi outside our room and want to turn if off at nite. Thanks in advance
thanks good video but the new version v7.3.83 of the management software is missing a few options you showed. Do you plan to do a new video tutorial about using the new software?
Great video - thanks. How would you feel about using Min. RSSI with these settings to improve roaming performance?
Only useful when you do a floor plan and you know very well about your AP ranges. Otherwise, you'll have clients constantly disconnecting or sticked to non-ideal APs.
I tried following this as much as possible, but the newer Unifi controller V7.1.68 and Cloud key firmware V1.1.19 appears to have eliminated some of the setting or changed the names. Wi-Fi was slower after following this instructional video. Overlapping channels in Mesh mode and auto power mode with nighttime channel optimization seems best for two APs but still slower than I expect. An updated video would be great.
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Anything based on the newer Intel AX201 Wifi 6 dips support 160mhz channel and thus can connect at 1.1-1.2 gbps on Nano HD APs.
Load of the stuff got changed in 7.x, makes must of this outdated
Should I use my U6 lite in a 1600 Sqft home with U6 LR?
Haven't noticed any wifi issues with my U6 Lr on my wall pointing west while my house isn't quite squared.
More of a cabin stretched lol
Nicely done, I might have a fiddle sometime. I'm generally OK with my setup, have 3 AP's. Something that did surprise me was the range/quality of signal if you fit one to the ceiling at one level, the signal above it is far better than expected. Structural Steel's don't help much though. Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, appreciate it! And yes they are somewhat directional
Great video! Learned a lot. Are you able to do a video on how to add an additional SSID?
Thanks! Sure I'll add it to the list!
Hi. Cab you help setting a dmz for improve the nat in consoles. Thank you
Thanks for thje information. My connections improved from using a wifi analyzer to find the best channels.
Unfortunately, I cannot get results from an RF scan on my Unifi Wireless AP LR. Any idea why that might be?
I run the scans over and over but nothing happens once it finishes.
It looks like on 7.1 the "Auto-Optimize" option is mssing in the legacy view (settings -> site). Any idea where to find this option?
Good video, but some of the things in the video are nowhere to be finded. Is it possible with an updated video in the future? 😉😉
Have a good day.
I have 6 AP’s (all different kinds: some LR, LITE, 6 PRO) and I was trying to implement some of the changes you are recommending but, I can not find most of the settings on controller version 7.0.25. I’m running the site through a second gen cloud key. Do you know if it has to do with a restriction in managing a network with the cloud key?
I don't recommend disabling meshing. As long as the ethernet cable is connected, meshing will not happen at all. However, if you have a sudden issue with cabling somewhere, the isolated part of network will be re-connected automatically through an AP-to-AP bridge, and keep the (degraded) network up & running!
From working with hundreds of unifi setups (clicked on this video mostly out of curiosity) It is my honest opinion to leave meshing off because it causes more problems in general than it solves and i only use it where absolutely necessary.
@@VRietySociety What kind of issue did you have? Just curious about what could happen. It just saved me from bad cabling once haha
Grate tips for tuning unify WIFI settings but how to disable to view my ssid password through in network.
curious in my area 2.4 channel 1 is open so that should be good but in 5 ghz 36-48 is occupied what happen to select 54-142 is completely empty no one in the a is using those channels would be good?? is there a specific number for the 5ghz would work or anyone of them
On a multi AP setup, what’s your thoughts on enabling minimum RSSI to help with roaming?
Not a good idea. I've played around with it. More trouble than anything. Clients decide when to roam anyway
Did I miss it or did you actually do a before and after speed and reliability test?
Followed this advice and manually set the channels based on what the graph said would be least noisy (11) and it just made everything worse. I think cleverer people than you or I worked on the auto features and it's a bit presumptuous to assume we know better, I suppose.
No, they really didn't 😂
You picked a bad channel. Monitor several times a day how channels are used, write them down, and then, select the convenient one. I did my explanation on another question, I'll paste it here: Auto-optimize can run on a regular basis, at that point you probably don't have the "normal environment". Let say that you auto-update at 9am, if in that moment your house is empty or no neighbours using wifi, auto optimize will work based on that, if the rest of the day is totally crowded or heavy used, your settings will be fucked up the rest of the day. Same applies on the opposite. You have to dig a little bit on this if you want the best air stats. Auto optimize is ok for those who can't or don't know how to do this.
@Everything Smart Home, Thank you for the awesome Video, I have been trying to get to disable auto-optimization on my new unifi UDM max dream pro, with a new interface, but when I go to the legacy interface, I am not able to see as many options as you see on your page under SITE. There are no advance options available or dropdown submenus. I am not sure what to do to get this to work. Can you please help
@Sunday_Motor_Club did you find the setting to disable auto-optimisation? I am experiencing the same issue 😕
@@gerardnorris9452 Yes, under Global AP settings change the channel width for 2.4 GHZ to 20MHZ and for 5GHZ change it to 40 MHZ, transmit power to low and medium accordingly. and you are all done.
@@maxsaint Many thanks. Greatly appreciated...
Hi there,
how does it work, if you have more then 1 ACP? ;; Ever ACP in other 2,4 GH CHANNELS an other 5GHZ CHANNELS (depens on what the RF Check tell me?) Or all in the same CHANNEL?
Regards
Hi! Why are you disabling Fast Roaming? This feature is really helpful if your device supports it and you moving between access points.
Did you get an answer on disabling Fast Roaming? I ran through the other settings but I'm a bit hesitant about this one since we move around the house with our devices.
i cant seem to find the airtime fairness setting its not under Enable meshing toggle can anyone help?
Where can I download this app for pc from? Because I only found the mobile app and I can’t do everything in it
Old ui seams to be missing one controller as of the latest release update
Hey. I don’t have the RF environment drop down?
2:47 i dont have site and can't find auto-optimize network I have the uck-g2 plus
something nobody talks about is having wifi/network speeds match ISP pipe. What's the use of supersonic speeds locally, when virtually all the traffic is for/from internet, bottlenecked by those speeds. you cant magically get faster/better performance on wifi, without a suitably large ISP pipe.
With 2 accesspoints, would you set the channel to be the same or different?
Seperate would be the way to go, use the site survey on each
I had the opposite experience.
"High performance devices (to 5GHz only)" was by far, far, far the most impactful setting to increase performance in a 3 floor house with thick walls and 6 APs.
So I was quite surprised that you recommend turning it off!
WiFi is very much a dark art, just because you get one set of results doesn't mean it will work the same for everyone, so that's why with some settings I suggest trying them and seeing how it works for you
@@EverythingSmartHome Thanks for the reply! For me it easily doubled the transfer speed and was much more effective than band steering setting. But fair enough, everyone can have different results.
Can you please still say the reason why you explicitly recommended that "High Performance" setting be turned off? Does it have any disadvantages turning it on?
OK, so on my Unifi Wifi network, my max download speed is 5.3mbps and my max upload is 1.21mbps, how can I speed up my DSL?
That is all I can get, either 5/1 DSL from ATT or Dial Up. So, how do I speed that up?
What application are you using to make these changes? My Unifi network application looks nothing like yours? Secondly, when I set up my access point (for the first time as I have never used Ubiquiti products before), I combined the 2.4 and 5Ghz names? How do I unmerge or split them please?
Did you follow the advice at the start for how to change to the new UI? I am using Unifi controller, which version are you on?
I wouldn't recommend splitting the networks, just hero them as one.
Faster internet or faster wifi?
Regarding band steering ... If anyone does the bellow you don't need it ..
If you create 2 sepat ssids .. you can create one 5ghz and one 2.4 ghz .. with this being said you make sure whatever is 5g goes to only the 5g one and the iot stay in the 2.4 ..
Also roaming is important if you have 2 AP's .. also having 2 AP's is flexible for maintanence anytime as everything will roam ...
Thanks for the video. I wanted to ask about smart home devices on separate SSID - does this impact the control from a mobile app on phone/tablet on the regular SSID?
What do you mean by control from a mobile app? Clients work on this on a radio level, apps 99% of the time don't know (or want to know) more than "has internet" or "is connected to data/wifi"
I switched my latest gen UDM Pro and UAP-LR for a single ASUS RT-AC86U. Fewer settings but way better performance. Even after tweaking the UDM Pro for a whole day I could not get above 500 Mbps throughput and the range was terrible (10-20 Mbps in the far side of the house). With the standard settings on the ASUS I got 580 Mpbs in the connecting room and 400 Mbps in the far side of the house.
If I had watched this video back then I may have been able to get decent throughput and range and have kept the UDM Pro. I just hoped it would have better default settings so I wouldn’t need an engineering degree to have decent WiFi.
Oh well, I saved some money and still have decent WiFi despite not being part of the Unifi family 😉
Glad you found something that works well for you! Unfortunately I could never go back to a normal consumer router, too lacking for me personally.
Interesting you bring this comparison up. I’m currently trying to tweak my new UDM Pro SE with 3 UniFi APs (U6-LR, U6 Lite and a U5-AP Pro) to try to eliminate my need for a second SSID that my Asus RT-AC86U puts out (it’s in AP mode after formerly being my router). The Asus delivers 730 mbps and my UniFi APs more like 250-425 mbps). I have them all nicely spaced out and each wired in a 3600 sq ft home. My internet plan is 1200 mbps, my modem supports 2.5 Gbps, and my UDM Pro SE says my wired connection is a tad over 1400 mbps (thanks for the generous provisioning, Comcast). Something in me just thinks the Asus gaming router won’t be beaten in sheer speed numbers, but I’d love to be proven wrong. I do love that it just performs without me tweaking settings, but I’m determined to figure out the ideal settings for my UniFi set-up.
Any suggestions on optimizing your shirt reduction configuration? 😍
😂😂
If I have multiple AP's (4 nano Hd) do they need to have same channels?
No I would do seperate channels, or run the site survey on each AP and choose the best channels from that. Hope that helps!
@@EverythingSmartHome Thank you. My result are 99,99,98,97% Experience. Used recommended channels, and switched them so all Ap's do not overlap. I wonder if there is a completely free channel (5,9,8) for example it gives only 65% experience. Why?
I have a nano HD and even within five feet of the AP I get less than 10 megabits per second downloads on an iPhone 13 Pro. Uploads are around 40 megabit. 5 GHz speeds are fine, but there’s also another problem - my iPhone and my other 5GHz capable devices will often drop to the 2.4 GHz network if they haven’t been used for awhile; for example I’ll set my iPhone down on the MagSafe charger and lock the screen, pick it up 15 minutes later, and bam - it’s on the 2.4 GHz network now. If I go into the settings on that device and turn the wifi off and back on again, oh what do you know - it connects back to the 5 GHz network! I would really love any advice or insight about this as it’s really annoying and I’m tearing my fkn hair out trying to figure out what is going on. I’ve tried changing the transmit power and channels and none of that makes any difference at all.
Sounds like you need a rf scan and proper layout planning. I think you might have multiple access points on the same channels and that's creating interference. Best to do an rf scan with an app like netspot or wifiman on an android and make sure channels are setup to avoid interference
@@ananamusly Muh dude, you can use the AP itself and perform an RF scan directly from unifi. It will tell you what the RF environment looks like. You can also set it to do nightly scans and automatically pick the best channels every night. I went through all this. Nothing worked to fix the issue.
I am running 6.6.71 and these settings are not easily found. I have tried reverting to classic settings and still cannot find these settings!!
Hey James, which settings cant you find? This video was shot on pretty much that version so they should be there.
Ubuiqiti should stop changing the layout every release though.
@@EverythingSmartHome I had problems changing the user interface but finally succeeded. I still cannot find the button to turn off meshing. I have three AP's all with ethernet . In addition, the RF Scan will not display results.
If I have 4 AP, then what is the best channel for 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz?
Check using the site survey tool!
Why do you go into specifics with certain settings and not others? Great info, just got a little lost with the newer settings names
Can you give an example?
@@EverythingSmartHome in respect to transmit power (pros/cons of high/mid/low). I get the overall aspect of noise interference, but can you explain (or point me in direction) the why/what that goes on? I may be delving a bit deep on your vid (really great info btw) but I am learning trial by error and am truly curious. 🙂
Ah, there is a few reasons for that, number 1 is that it can be very overwhelming for some people when you start to talk about those things when a lot of people just want a quick description and mostly they just want to know the settings, it can very easily turn this into a 30 or 40 minute video, but I understand some people like yourself want more information. The other reason is like I mentioned in the beginning that I am certainly not an expert at how wireless or radio frequencies work, networking yes but the specifics of radio transmission definitely not, so in my head I have an idea of how I THINK it works but it's probably not the best explanation and for all I know, could be wrong and so I wouldn't want to give out information that I'm not qualified to give out if that makes sense?
I get what you mean though for sure
@@EverythingSmartHome I totally understand. Do you have any avenues I can go down? Or maybe other SME’s by chance? Only asking because if you are this informative in non - SME matters then you must have some colleagues with invested knowledge 🙂😎 btw great channel
At 6:15, why do you say channels 1, 6, and 11 are the best? There are a couple further down in the list that visually show a lower utilization.
1 6 and 11 don't really allow for any overlap which is why they are the better ones to choose if possible
I think one of us is misinterpreting that chart. All channels overlap with other channels. 1, 6, and 11 don't overlap with each other, but that doesn't make them any better than 2 and 7, or 3 and 8, etc. In fact, 1 overlaps with 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Just little stupid question, I'm not profi in that, but 2.4G 20Hz and 5G 40Hz take speed to half. Maybe I do something wrong but my ul6 lite 5g 40Hz speed is 587 Mbps in 5g 80Hz jump to 1200Mbps.
That I just confuse rest setup is great.
Not a stupid question at all :) you are right that that it will limit the max throughput, but ask yourself if you are actually able to achieve more than 600mbps in real life anyways over WiFi? And if you are, can you get more than 1 meter away from the AP before it drops off?
But that's why I said in the video to experiment with 80mhz width :) hope that helps
@@EverythingSmartHome 😂 you actually catch me. I have edge of 550Mbps using mobile 5G with second connection phone line around together 500Mbps. But your point is obviously nothing what I do don't need and not use that speed 😂.
You are right. Thanks mate.
Why not just uncheck auto-optimize and auto-updates on original install of router? You should explain channel width and reasons why using wider causes more chances for interference =P otherwise decent.
Auto-optimize can run on a regular basis, at that point you probably don't have the "normal environment". Let say that you auto-update at 9am, if in that moment your house is empty or no neighbours using wifi, auto optimize will work based on that, if the rest of the day is totally crowded or heavy used, your settings will be fucked up the rest of the day. Same applies on the opposite. You have to dig a little bit on this if you want the best air stats. Auto optimize is ok for those who can't or don't know how to do this.
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Smart device (Iot) SSID shoudl also be (different) VLAN-backed. This will limit the network broadcast domain and keep these devices from poking around on the other networks. Great video otherwise!
Having 2.4 and 5 GHz mixed in the same SSID is a mistake when you understand how wifi works. Lazy setting we call it.
Modern clients know about same SSID on different bands and make a smart management. If you separate SSIDs, you will restrict devices to: a) a crowded band b) a distant band c) a bad performing band. People is too stupid to understand which devices should go on a 5Ghz band and which not, not to mention that roaming devices can change their need according to air stats. And as this is a entry level guide, makes sense to make this recommendation. Big brands also recommend this setting, as Apple even on their own products.
The wifi AI actually does know better than you doing it manually.. its goal is to improve your wireless score so it changes your power and channel settings automatically on a daily bases and considering environmental are constantly changing around i.e your neighbors wifi channels it switches you to the best unused channel or power settings so its not blasting everything causing interference. your manual "best settings" could be all undone the very next day due to neighbors changing their channels etc. in terms of the other settings youve covered them very well.
That's it's "goal" sure, I never disputed that, I just don't personally think it does a good job of achieving that from my experience. But that's OK, if you prefer it than that's all good my friend!
Thanks for the comment!
@@EverythingSmartHome should give it a go again sometime, the ones I’ve setup run at the default of 3am each morning. Appreciate it’s still in beta and ubiquiti beta item are usually very nightmarish to deploy into production but this one seems not to bad.
You are telling a lot of settings of how to improve but you never showed that you improved your wifi speed.
step 1: get rid of the unifi security gateway or udm
The new UI is horrible.
You can't get faster Internet unless you pay for it... Your title is clearly misleading. Wifi speed on your network and internet speed you pay for are not the same thing... Prat
Your kidding?! I had absolutely no idea, thanks for letting me know!
Can you please show me where my title says faster internet?
If you pay for 300mbps internet, but your Wifi is only capable of 100mbps before, but 400mbps after this, does that mean your internet is faster?
You played yourself.
I really can't stand to hear all of the inhales, it hurts my ears! :(
Ohh many misconceptions and lack of knowledge of what actually happens in the air.
Care to actually leave a useful comment where you share your expert knowledge?
I literally said at the very start "I am not an expert, I'm not a radio frequency engineer, these are just the settings I found to work for me"