Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC PRO 802.11ac Scalable Enterprise Wi-Fi Access Point (UAP-AC-PRO-E-US) PoE Adapter Sold Separately

The best WiFi access point you can purchase for the price. Do not purchase this for your house unless you are really, really good with networking equipment and can follow instructions and read manuals and use Google to help you (for your first time). Besides this device you will need a POE injector or POE switch. They sell another model without the E at the end that does include a POE injector. You will also need a Unifi Cloud key or install the software onto a computer, preferrably one that is on 24x7 in order to manage the device. Requirements aside some things that you get with this device1. Rock solid stability. I've setup these units in very large warehouses and the great thing is I don't have to go back and ever reset any because they crash. They just work and work and work. I do try to make sure they get restarted if I see they have been on for over a year but they don't seem to crash.2. Ease of use of DFS 5 Ghz channels. If you are in a crowded apartment you may not have any open channels on the standard 5 Ghz bands. With these units you can use the other channels that you may see some people using if you run a WiFi scanner. There are some strict requirements that need to be met and these units will scan for radar signals if you do use those channels. But now that most consumer routers are coming with 5 Ghz channels the ability to use channels that no one else is on helps a lot with speeds when you are on the lower end of the signal strength range. Of course out in the middle of a large warehouse you may not see any other signals so this won't be necessary but I see crowded airspace for those that live in apartments all the time.3. Pretty slick looking if you can run the wires yourself. This looks like a cool smoke detector in my house as I ran the cables so it's in the ceiling. If you just have this by your router sitting on a shelf it probably won't look as nice.Downsides1. As mentioned - harder to setup and more time necessary to do the install. I'd recommend getting the cloud key for ease of installation but then you'll probably also just want to get a POE switch as well. Also - if your router sucks and crashes these units don't crash but of course if your consumer grade home router crashes your wireless won't work for Internet use. So you may also want to invest in a Unifi Security Gateway as well as those don't seem to crash. So a large expenditure of cash to get what you need to set this guy up properly and to have a stable environment for it.2. Kind of not meant to be sitting on a shelf. No problems with doing that but it would be like putting your smoke detector on a shelf. It's designed to be ceiling mounted so sticking it on a shelf it will still work but doesn't look right in my opinion. Some people may not want to run cables to their ceiling though, or I assume most people wouldn't want to.

These work great. Low-profile, easy adoption, and PoE power make these a breeze to install ans set up. The most difficult part is where you’re going to route the CAT 6 if you’re not doing mesh and a plug-in injector. We’re running three, one up- and the other down-stairs, the third in a detached shop space. Good coverage everywhere.

I can walk up and down the steps and into every room in the house and even out to the front or back porch and my ipad never has any glitches or slowdowns or pauses. That was absolutely not true with the WiFi router that came from my DSL provider. I exercise by walking around the house with my ipad. I include the staircase on our old house and other, lesser routers won't keep up with you the way the Ubiquiti does. I have usable signal on the front porch and back porch and nearly to the barn. I even have signal in the basement, two floors down from the device.Setup is easy and tons of people on the internet have helpful web pages on how to do it.It only seemed expensive when I debated buying it. Now that I have it in service and it does exactly what I bought it to do, it seems like money very well spent. Definitely worth the money. When I put WiFi in the barn, it will be Ubiquiti gear that goes in.Some WiFi devices have weaker radios than others. They will be able to "hear" the Ubiquiti, but lack the guts to talk back loud enough for it to hear them. My ipad lets me roam freely. My iphone, with less battery and perhaps less radio output on WiFi, cannot go quite as far. I can go up and down the stairs with the iphone - a very noticeable improvement - but not out on the porches. The laptops love the Ubiquiti, gaming is now enabled in every room of the house.

I am a Ubiquiti (UBNT) hound, I love almost all of their gear and this is about as perfectly simple and effective access point as you can ask for. I installed over twentyfive of these units around our campus and then bought two more on my own for home use. The signal they provide is extremely powerful and without issue.The only complaint I could levy is the need to use the management software to run them, but any enterprise class access point will require the same thing and frankly for the more advanced features its a necessity, so no stars off for that. A word of note though, it's best to run the software on a Linux box as the Windows client runs as an application not as a service meaning you'll need to restart it manually, or rig it for auto start after server restarts. As an aside to that note, they access points will retain any settings sent to them as long as they don't loose power themselves, meaning if the server is rebooted without restarting the management client the APs will continue to work until they them selves are restarted or power-cycled. (Update: You can now purchase a UBNT Cloud Key, which is the UniFi controller software on a small sub-$100 USD device that connects to any network jack.)A great access point, and perfect for small to medium business or serious home users who want the most out of their wireless without having to pay Cisco or HP prices.