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    iPhone on Omada APs

    Yeah, it sounds like you may be asking that upstairs AP to do too much. I'd focus first on getting the right power levels to serve the house well, and then see if you need to add equipment to serve the yard and garage. I second @degrub's thought of PtP wifi to extend your ethernet to the...
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    iPhone on Omada APs

    Oh ... it occurred to me to look up the tech specs for your APs, and I see there is a difference in max Tx power: EAP225: • FCC: ≤24 dBm(2.4 GHz) ≤22 dBm(5 GHz) EAP610: • FCC: <25 dBm (2.4 GHz) <25 dBm (5 GHz) Now I'm wondering if the "configuration difference" is that both sets of APs were...
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    iPhone on Omada APs

    Apple has a pretty detailed writeup about how their devices do roaming here. It's worth some study, but the takeaway points are that (1) an iDevice won't consider roaming until the signal from the AP it's connected to falls below a preset threshold, and (2) once it does consider roaming, that...
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    iPhone on Omada APs

    I'm wondering what's different in your configuration of the 610s vs the old 225s. The other replies already mentioned likely sources of problems, but those would apply just as much to the 225s if they were set up the same way (same power levels, with or without a central controller, etc).
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    Did I set up my home network correctly?

    Even more to the point: CPU speed is meaningless unless you first account for hardware acceleration paths. Most network gear in this class has circuitry that allows common packet-forwarding cases to be dealt with without ever hitting the CPU. As soon as a packet does have to be handled by the...
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    Did I set up my home network correctly?

    Yeah, given the layout you'd be significantly better off separating the router from your wireless AP(s), so you can locate the router where the ISP signal comes in. FWIW - I've been using UniFi APs for a bit under a year now, and I like them. However, in reading the UniFi community forums (a...
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    MoCa Packet Loss with TP-Link Equipment

    I get reliable 2.5G service from a pair of ScreenBeam ECB7250 units, but getting to that point was fairly frustrating. I've concluded that the ethernet chips in these things are not super compatible with all other equipment. I haven't seen any packet-loss problem, but what I do see with some...
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    Recommend me router for handling SQM on 1 Gbps Fiber

    +1 to that. I recently bought a Netgate 4200 and have been very pleased with it. I could probably have bought comparable no-name hardware for quite a bit less, but I'm happy to consider the difference as a contribution to keeping pfSense development going. Good software doesn't just appear...
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    What would be a better solution?

    One thing that I think you don't get with mix-n-match infrastructure is 802.11k/v roaming support from the APs. Now, client devices will certainly still roam from one AP to another without that, but the transitions might be a little glitchier without it. I've noticed slightly smoother roaming...
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    Real life utility of SoC speed and RAM size in routers

    Here's the thing: in most routers of this class, performance-critical stuff happens in custom chips and the data never passes through the CPU at all. So traditional specs like CPU clock rate and RAM size don't matter a bit, at least not for any case that the hardware acceleration logic can...
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    15W doesn't seem that incredible. I've got a TRENDnet TEG-S380 8x2.5G fanless which is spec'd at 12.4W max --- and there's a newer "2.0" version spec'd at 7.26W. It's unmanaged unfortunately, but a simple management CPU shouldn't add all that much to TDP, and surely the 2.0 chassis could do...
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    Need to Pick One of Two options for Wifi Extension: Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M or Asus AiMesh w/RT-AX1800S

    Cool, I wasn't aware of that. This looks like a good option for a single-manufacturer solution.
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    Need to Pick One of Two options for Wifi Extension: Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M or Asus AiMesh w/RT-AX1800S

    Ah! I'd not thought of the whats-powering-it difference, but I believe you're right that ASUS doesn't make any PoE-capable APs. So that might be a good reason to go with two different makes of AP, and just live with the extra configuration complexity. (Once it's set up, that won't really be a...
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    Need to Pick One of Two options for Wifi Extension: Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M or Asus AiMesh w/RT-AX1800S

    Welcome to the forums! Mix-n-match wifi setups aren't ideal. If you run two ASUS units, you can use AIMesh to configure them. If you run two Ubiquiti units, you can use one of Ubiquiti's controller solutions to configure them. If you've got one of each then you're stuck configuring and...
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    I don’t get how VLANs work with wireless APs!

    There is no scenario in which you can use VLANs for wireless clients without the router, switch if any, and the AP(s) knowing all about the VLANs. I think you are phrasing your problem the wrong way: what you apparently want is to have a single control point that will dole out the requisite...
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    I don’t get how VLANs work with wireless APs!

    By far the easiest thing is "assign a VLAN to each SSID". (You can have multiple SSIDs using one VLAN, but not vice versa.) There are some APs that will let you chop things up more finely. In the Omada and Ubiquiti product lines, there is a feature called PPSK that will let you assign wifi...
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    WiFi 7 APs: help me decide between EAP783 and the U7 Pro Max

    I just looked a tad more closely at the BE98-Pro's tech specs, and now I'm even more confused, because what those say is 1 x 10Gbps for WAN/LAN 1 x 2.5Gbps for WAN/LAN 1 x 10Gbps for LAN 3 x 2.5Gbps for LAN 1 x RJ45 10/100/1000Mbps for LAN 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1 1 x USB 2.0 There's still only two...
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    WiFi 7 APs: help me decide between EAP783 and the U7 Pro Max

    As @Tech9 suggested, you'd be better off getting a separate switch to handle those clients; it's unlikely that the ASUS actually has adequate switching fabric to drive all those ports at full speed. Even in dedicated switches, more than 2 10GbE ports is rather rare, and rarer yet for them not...
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    WiFi 7 APs: help me decide between EAP783 and the U7 Pro Max

    I'm amused to notice that Dong's top-rated switch is one I have (XGS1250-12). It's relegated to a secondary, lightly-loaded spot in my network, because what Dong doesn't mention is that its fan spins up annoyingly loudly as soon as you put more than a couple Gbps through it. I tell this story...
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    WiFi 7 APs: help me decide between EAP783 and the U7 Pro Max

    This is not a use-case. What's the current and foreseen speed of your internet service? How many wifi clients have you got, of what types (which ones even need high speed)? What wired network clients are there? Do you expect a lot of traffic between the wired and wifi machines, or is it all...
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