For the price, you won't do better than Ubiquiti. You almost definitely don't need the capacity of an AC network x3. If the main router with AC + 5ghz is getting the majority of the use, I would go with these.

Bonus: if you buy a PoE adapter, they don't even need to be powered by a wall adapter. Just the ethernet port will do it. Possibly impractical for you, though.

Also, 5GHz is really only significantly (and it's debatable) better when you have line of sight to the router. If range and stability are what you want, 2.4GHz is your band.

ETA- PoE looks to come with the AP and isn't purchased separately.

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Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 2/2/15 at 11:46 am to Hopeful Doc

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Bonus: if you buy a PoE adapter, they don't even need to be powered by a wall adapter. Just the ethernet port will do it. Possibly impractical for you, though

my wife's dad is a network guy and is going to come over to the house with his 'box o cat 5e' and the right tools.

is cat6 or PoE worth it? if i dont do that i'll need to run power to the ubiquiti thingie right?

what do you need to do 'poe'?

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5GHz is really only significantly (and it's debatable) better when you have line of sight to the router. If range and stability are what you want, 2.4GHz is your band.

i'm confused why my laptop runs like shite on 2.4 and scream on 5. its definitely an 'n' card (its 5+ years old) and when signal drops, it jumps to the 2.4ghz network and then its slow as hell.

i know the range is way shorter but could this slow-down also be due to interference from our neighbors?

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