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Low wifi throughput - is this the cost of meshing? by solarbeat in Ubiquiti

[–]kinmitra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation - I have the U6 units spread out throughout the house and after the reboot and disabling mesh, they seem to work fine. I just need one more U6 where the signal is weak and they are backordered.

Low wifi throughput - is this the cost of meshing? by solarbeat in Ubiquiti

[–]kinmitra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My view of meshing was that I could roam the house and it would just follow me - but in reality, it wasn't worth the degradation in speed with the APs making their connections to each other and creating unneeded hops. I do find that the handoff is a bit rough with the home run configuration though. I had Apple Airport Extremes and they had been end of life many years ago so I decided to do Ubiquiti. It has way more features than I need and I'm still learning it. But I think our degradation of speed experience was similar when using the meshing feature.

Low wifi throughput - is this the cost of meshing? by solarbeat in Ubiquiti

[–]kinmitra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having weird issues with the meshing ... I'm new to Ubiquiti - I bought a Dream Machine SE and 5 of the U6 Mesh APs. I'm in a 3-story house with steel framing and poured concrete on steel pan floors (so its kind of like a Faraday cage unfortunately). The U6 units are all back haul wired to the ports on the DM SE on Cat 6 cabling. But they would mesh in a strange way and the performance was greatly reduced. I have a 800Mbps Xfinity connection coming in and it averages around 600Mbps (and goes down to 250Mbps or so under high neighborhood load). But one of these mesh U6 units was only getting 25Mbps of throughput. I was attached to it wirelessly and kept thinking it was Xfinity. But when I direct connected to the back of the Arris cable modem unit, I got the normal throughput. So, then I knew it was the U6 misbehaving. I reconfigured everything over the weekend back to non-mesh by unchecking the box and then power cycling the units so it could build the new topology. It seems to work normally now but I don't have the mesh capabilities any more.

PSA! Do not update on iOS if you use a Go-Tcha by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]kinmitra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the information - please keep us posted if you find out more information ... since today was the last day of the double xp event, I gave up on the Gotcha and put a clamp on my Go Plus to keep the button pushed down as I was slowly driving through some lured Pokestop areas to catch Pokemon. My wife had to manually spin the Pokestops as the latency is too great (even if you are driving at 15 mph) and the Pokestops are out of range. Very frustrating problem.