re: Any Wireless Pros in here?

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Had to tinker around with the bandwidth and channels.

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Ubiquiti takes some tinkering to maximize benchmarks. It's enterprise stuff, though. A lot of consumer routers can give you better single-client line-of-sight benchmarks, but you'll get much better general daily use results (immeasurable) with it than your run of the mill stuff out there, though.

I have a pair of AC Pro APs. I think when I really tinker and have a single live device with a single network, I'll get as good as 600mbps (I pay for a gig up and down and consistently benchmark >950mbps on my hardwired clients).
I don't do it that way though. I have some smart lights that default back to wireless g and slow everything down, so they're on their own SSID now. When using that one, I typically get about 60mbps each way. But it essentially doesn't behave any different than if I'm at much higher speeds when talking about normal cell phone/tablet use. I'm sure downloading large files, you would notice a difference.
But one thing I learned from the subreddit and forums is that driving yourself crazy over benchmarks won't prove a whole lot. The things work well and are very powerful APs. Worry about numbers if your performance is bad. Use their band scanner and such if it is.