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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    In case anybody is curious, some info about my own UniFi setup: I decided to buy into UniFi just about a year ago, after downsizing from a house into a condo in a high-rise and realizing that the wifi gear I had was unsuited for the new environment. The 2.4GHz band is just about saturated...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    You can definitely use non-UniFi switches -- I do -- but unmanaged switches won't reliably carry VLANs, which means you can't make a VLAN-isolated guest SSID or IoT-only SSID. So you might wanna upgrade that switch later, but it's not something you have to have on day one.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    New "official" releases typically every month or two, IME. More details here. Another thing to know that's much different from Asus practice is that anybody can sign up to get access to "Early Access" (ie, beta, or sometimes it's more like alpha) testing releases. I've had good luck running...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    UI's spec sheets often omit things you'd like to know. I don't think any of them talk about fans. If you want to be sure, I'd ask on the community.ui.com forums and get an answer from somebody who owns one of what you are interested in. Plenty of helpful people over there.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yeah ... one of the cool things about UniFi is that they manage to support largely the same feature set across their whole range of devices. Wireless backhaul -- check (modulo having to share the radio). Multiple SSIDs -- check. VLANs -- check. And so on. Performance varies, and of course...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yup, pretty much. None of the UniFi APs are what I would call designed for mesh, because while they can do wireless backhaul, it's not what they are designed for and they're not very good at it. None of them offer a dedicated backhaul radio. If you cannot run wires to everyplace you need an...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    I'd not be in a hurry to buy the U7 series just yet. There's an awful lot of complaints in UI's forums leading to the conclusion that they're still getting the bugs out of that hardware and its firmware. The U6 series is far more solid (and no fans). Maybe in a year things will be different.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yeah, the online store also puts "cloud gateways" and "gateways" under different headings, just like I said above for the tech specs page.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    To each his own, but if you choose the Gateway Max you still need to bring a controller in one of the other ways I mentioned. If you're looking for low-hassle, the integrated cloud gateways are attractive.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yes, that is a gateway, not a cloud gateway. The cloud gateways are the ones with built-in controller. Not the world's most transparent naming, for sure. It might help to look at UI's tech specs page, where these boxes are classified into "UniFi Cloud Gateways" (router, controller, and in...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Hmm, are you sure you're reading the right item description? That would be accurate for one of their router-only gateways ("unifi network server" is the DIY-hosted application I mentioned). The boxes with built-in controller software do not need an external manager, and AFAIK can't be managed...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Right. Whichever controller solution you use, you access the controller using a web browser. That's an internet connection if you use the Ubiquiti-hosted solution, otherwise a connection to a local machine. (I confess I'm not totally clear how this works with the hosted-on-your-own-hardware...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    No, not quite. You have to create an account on their website to download software updates (same account you use to post to their community forums, btw). You do not have to open up your network to remote access as long as you are using one of the methods to run the controller software locally.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Correct on both points. No, a Cloud Key is one of these things: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cloud-keys-gateways/collections/pro-uck-g2/products/uck-g2-ssd?variant=uck-g2-ssd It's a box that just runs UniFi's controller applications, and in this incarnation also provides some...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    BTW, if you didn't find it already, there's a lively Ubiquiti-specific web forum over at https://community.ui.com/
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    Omnidirectional WAP

    Ah, I misunderstood @degrub 's question. But as long as we're asking, it would also be good to know how large an area the existing APs are being asked to cover and what their Tx power levels are set to. Perhaps "replace the APs one-for-one" isn't the right answer at all.
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    Omnidirectional WAP

    "U6 Mesh" is the model number, see https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/wifi/u6-mesh. That seems like a good choice if the OP wants to stay in the UniFi ecosystem.
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    Say NO to ASUS

    How much do you care about performance with the APs that will require wireless backhaul? If the answer is "a lot", then you're going to need devices that have a separate radio dedicated to backhaul, and that limits your options. (You're also going to need two clear radio channels, one for the...
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    Say NO to ASUS

    FWIW, I've also landed on UniFi after experience with other makes (Netgear, Asus, Zyxel) and am pretty pleased with it. I'm only using their APs though; have not bought into UniFi routers or switches. Zyxel's APs are okay too, but UniFi provides more options for controlling the APs than Zyxel...
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    wifi for a two-floor house, ethernet backhaul

    The trouble with ASUS for this use-case is that they don't sell APs per se. They sell all-in-one routers, which are an AP plus a lot more hardware. So if you need four or more APs you're going to be paying for a lot more hardware than you need. You need to look into product lines that include...
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