▲ 55 ▼ What access points do you use? (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments I'm thinking about upgrading my W-Fi and I was curious what wireless access points (WAP) people are using. I'm currently using a Netgear R7800 running OpenWRT.
[–] randombullet@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Unifi U6 Mesh. Love the form factor permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Warning about Unifi and mesh. I've done mesh using AC Pro, U6 Pro, AC LR. Any combination produces significant latency spikes that I couldn't resolve no matter what. Support forums have reports of this problem too without an obvious solution. Maybe the U6 Mesh doesn't suffer from this. Or maybe you haven't noticed because you don't have a sensitive workload. Either way, based on my anecdote, I'd caution against doing mesh with Unifi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] randombullet@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) You know, I've always attributed it to wifi shenanigans. Never crossed my mind that it was a hardware fault. Thankfully in my household I have a rule, if it's not handheld, it's s wired. So thankful we don't have much issues with it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago My guess is it's software, since some of these devices have different SoCs. Wasn't a huge problem. If I remember correctly, the latency was going into tens of ms but not hundreds of ms under load. That was significantly worse than an equivalent R7800 bridge (OpenWrt WDS) where latency increases insignificantly, but it isn't bad enough to notice in most applications but things like FPS games. VoIP doesn't like latency spikes but I think it needs hundreds of ms to appear as an audible problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Warning about Unifi and mesh. I've done mesh using AC Pro, U6 Pro, AC LR. Any combination produces significant latency spikes that I couldn't resolve no matter what. Support forums have reports of this problem too without an obvious solution. Maybe the U6 Mesh doesn't suffer from this. Or maybe you haven't noticed because you don't have a sensitive workload. Either way, based on my anecdote, I'd caution against doing mesh with Unifi. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] randombullet@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) You know, I've always attributed it to wifi shenanigans. Never crossed my mind that it was a hardware fault. Thankfully in my household I have a rule, if it's not handheld, it's s wired. So thankful we don't have much issues with it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago My guess is it's software, since some of these devices have different SoCs. Wasn't a huge problem. If I remember correctly, the latency was going into tens of ms but not hundreds of ms under load. That was significantly worse than an equivalent R7800 bridge (OpenWrt WDS) where latency increases insignificantly, but it isn't bad enough to notice in most applications but things like FPS games. VoIP doesn't like latency spikes but I think it needs hundreds of ms to appear as an audible problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] randombullet@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) You know, I've always attributed it to wifi shenanigans. Never crossed my mind that it was a hardware fault. Thankfully in my household I have a rule, if it's not handheld, it's s wired. So thankful we don't have much issues with it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago My guess is it's software, since some of these devices have different SoCs. Wasn't a huge problem. If I remember correctly, the latency was going into tens of ms but not hundreds of ms under load. That was significantly worse than an equivalent R7800 bridge (OpenWrt WDS) where latency increases insignificantly, but it isn't bad enough to notice in most applications but things like FPS games. VoIP doesn't like latency spikes but I think it needs hundreds of ms to appear as an audible problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago My guess is it's software, since some of these devices have different SoCs. Wasn't a huge problem. If I remember correctly, the latency was going into tens of ms but not hundreds of ms under load. That was significantly worse than an equivalent R7800 bridge (OpenWrt WDS) where latency increases insignificantly, but it isn't bad enough to notice in most applications but things like FPS games. VoIP doesn't like latency spikes but I think it needs hundreds of ms to appear as an audible problem. permalink fedilink source parent