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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    Sure ... so do Ubiquiti, Zyxel, and pretty much everybody else in the SMB game.
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    Please explain multiple APs, mesh, roaming, handoff, and broadcast frequencies

    "Mesh" is a marketing term with no solid technical meaning. IME what it usually means is a combination of wireless backhaul (i.e., only the central node has a wired connection) and single-point configuration (i.e., you do all management from the central node). The nodes might do something to...
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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    I think you're misreading it --- while there's certainly some transmission out the back of the device, it's typically 5 to 10dB weaker than out the front. (This ratio is basically what the "antenna gain" is on the spec sheets.) In my old house I had an AP mounted on the ceiling of the second...
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    AiMesh AX86U main + one XT8. Should I enable Roaming Assistant?

    Actually, the standard advice is to turn down the node's Tx power. If your network has multiple APs, clients will connect to any one they see with a suitably strong signal. That'd be fine except that max Tx power for an AP is typically way higher than max Tx power for a client, which means...
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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    Ah, I thought I remembered having posted a picture of how I have my U6-Ents mounted, and here it is (over on UI's community forum). There's more than one way to skin a cat.
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    Tabletop SMB APs?

    UniFi U6 Mesh, perhaps? I have no personal experience with that model, but I use and like the U6 Enterprise from the same line. BTW, just because it says "ceiling mount" doesn't mean you have to mount it on the ceiling. IME you could probably get away with just laying one of the UFO-shaped...
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Still ... for the case that we're talking about here, where multiple low-spec APs with a central router seems to be the ideal solution, buying multiple high-spec AIO units cannot be the cheapest answer from a theoretical standpoint. Maybe ASUS has enough volume and enough willingness to shave...
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    why have a domain name in a home LAN?

    After a bit of research, that might be slightly too harsh. Apple uses mDNS for this, which is a documented standard that you can find on other machines too. But it's not universally supported -- wikipedia says that Windows doesn't have full support before Windows 11, which I suppose means that...
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    why have a domain name in a home LAN?

    [ shrug... ] Might work with Windows-to-Windows or Mac-to-Mac using some proprietary protocol or other, but if you want it to work across multiple kinds of systems there had better be DNS support.
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    why have a domain name in a home LAN?

    Welcome! Hm. It seems like a good bet that "host" is finding your machine's A (ipv4) record fine and then having trouble trying to look up an AAAA (ipv6) record. So there is something wrong with the nameserver setup for the intermediate domain level dc1.example.com. You might see if "host...
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    why have a domain name in a home LAN?

    If you'd like to be able to connect to your devices by name not IP address, it's useful. Um ... you just do it. Assuming you own "coolbeans.com", then anything prefixed onto that belongs to you too. So for example "myprinter.coolbeans.com" is a valid DNS name that you could choose to assign...
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    The AIO units are what to buy if your place requires only one. As soon as you need more than one, it's not such an open-and-shut decision. The consumer-gear makers want you to buy multiple AIO units and use them in a "mesh". That's good for them: they get to sell more identical units, which...
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    Switching from Asus AIMesh

    The U6-Ents require PoE+. Currently I'm running them off Cisco switches that have some 2.5G PoE+ ports, but before that I was successfully using generic PoE+ injectors.
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Per discussion so far, no, your setup probably cannot use MU-MIMO. So the AP's multiple antennas are only useful for boosting the data transfer rate to a single client that is also equipped with multiple antennas (this case is called SU-MIMO). There are 3x3 clients, but they're rare.
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Yeah, that's what I said further down. Well, that's the question: do you need AX-aware clients to do MU-MIMO? The stuff I've found is pretty clear that a client needn't have more than one antenna to receive a stream in MU-MIMO, but not so clear on whether it needs other upgrades from 802.11n.
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    Lots of 2.4Ghz IoTs, will a 3x3 be better than 2x2?

    Hmm ... probably not, really. "IoT"-class clients are almost certainly non-MIMO or 1x1, so as far as single-client performance goes it's not going to make any difference whether the AP can handle more streams. In principle, a 2x2 AP can send to two different 1x1 clients concurrently, and a 3x3...
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    Slow speed from AX210 to Asus RT88U Pro

    Yeah ... rule of thumb is you can get about two-thirds of the PHY rate in sustained real-world throughput, so 1.5 to 1.7Gbps is just about what to expect. The rest of it goes to packet overhead and listen-before-talk rules.
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    Need Help with Home Network Setup Involving Ubiquiti Antennas and Tenda Router

    Hm, I know what a Nanostation M5 is, but what do you mean by an unspecified "antenna"? Antennas rarely do anything unless connected to a radio ;) Also, it's far from clear where you are seeing the problem. Do you have any devices directly wired to the main router, and if so are they seeing...
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    Switching from Asus AIMesh

    I'm currently using UniFi U6-Enterprise APs and a Netgate 4200 router running pfSense. Before the U6s I had Zyxel NWA210AX APs, which I liked, but I wanted to get some 6E-capable APs and Zyxel wasn't selling anything that fit my needs. I don't want to give the impression that UniFi is heaven...
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    Internal antenna router

    What are the interior walls made of?
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