wifi router

**WallyWest** · October 1st, 2018 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by jakewise

what is the brand and model of the router you replaced it with? your old router is the pldt fiber router?

WDS usually requires similar hardware (same brand, same router model) to work without a hitch.

**oj88** · October 1st, 2018 04:27 PM

Sharing my WiFi story...

Through the years, I've gone through at least half a dozen different commodity and enterprise wireless routers and/or access points.... D-Link, Asus, TP-Link, Linksys, and Cisco.

We've had WiFi at home since about the early to mid 2000s, during the time when we first got our DSL connection. Back then, only my work laptop with its WiFi PCMCIA card was able to connect to it. All the rest, mostly just PCs, used a wired LAN connection.

But when the mobile revolution started (circa late 2000s to early 2010s), almost every family member started owning an Android or an iOS device. Not to mention WiFi-capable laptops. Aside from occasionally overheating or running out of RAM, necessitating a reboot, the D-Links served us well. Our WiFi client count has increased to around 15 devices.

To accommodate the increase in devices, I then bought used enterprise-grade Cisco Aironet 1230 series APs.... two of them. They worked for several years but since these are just 802.11a/b/g, newer WiFi clients couldn't take advantage of their built-in 802.11n performance. Also, even these APs were dropping connections when the number of connected clients went past 25. These were old generation APs, anyway, that were designed before mobility started to become a thing. During this time, we already have around 30+ wireless devices.

Finally, I upgraded again to Ubiquiti UniFi (UAP-AC-LR and UAP-AC-Pro) a few years back. I've never had a problem since. Even when I ventured into smart home devices and IoT earlier this year, which pushed our WiFi count in excess of 60 devices, the Ubiquitis didn't even break a sweat.

This screenshot I took just a few moments ago.

Now that we're on PLDT Fibr, it makes more sense to have a stable WiFi connection all around the house. I never liked the idea of WiFi repeaters or even powerline adapters. My philosophy now is that, if WiFi coverage is required in a certain area, it has to have an AP wired to it.

Anyway, I'm so satisfied with Ubiquiti that I'll probably run these to the ground before I replace them. And if you think they're expensive, they're actually not. If you buy them from Amazon and have somebody brought them here (if you don't have a courier), they're probably even cheaper than those "boutique" wireless routers from Asus, Netgear, Linksys, or D-Link.

**JohnM** · October 2nd, 2018 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by oj88

Finally, I upgraded again to Ubiquiti UniFi (UAP-AC-LR and UAP-AC-Pro) a few years back. I've never had a problem since. Even when I ventured into smart home devices and IoT earlier this year, which pushed our WiFi count in excess of 60 devices, the Ubiquitis didn't even break a sweat.

This screenshot I took just a few moments ago.

Now that we're on PLDT Fibr, it makes more sense to have a stable WiFi connection all around the house. I never liked the idea of WiFi repeaters or even powerline adapters. My philosophy now is that, if WiFi coverage is required in a certain area, it has to have an AP wired to it.

Anyway, I'm so satisfied with Ubiquiti that I'll probably run these to the ground before I replace them. And if you think they're expensive, they're actually not. If you buy them from Amazon and have somebody brought them here (if you don't have a courier), they're probably even cheaper than those "boutique" wireless routers from Asus, Netgear, Linksys, or D-Link.

Might spring for the UAP-AC-LR. I've been trying to decide between the boutique offerings you mentioned but I'll give this brother-of-EVE thingamajig a try.

JW Summit on Lazada is selling this for PHP5790. Pretty close to the USD101 it's going for on Amazon at current exchange rates.

**oj88** · October 2nd, 2018 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by JohnM

Might spring for the UAP-AC-LR. I've been trying to decide between the boutique offerings you mentioned but I'll give this brother-of-EVE thingamajig a try.

JW Summit on Lazada is selling this for PHP5790. Pretty close to the USD101 it's going for on Amazon at current exchange rates.

That's a good buy. I guess the price has gone down quite a bit since I bought mine in 2016. Back then, the UAP-AC-Lite was selling locally for the price of the UAP-AC-LR on Amazon, including shipping.... it was a no-brainer choice.