re: Looking to replace my Samsung SmartThings Mesh Routers

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I really love my Unifi In-wall APs and their regular APs I have had now for 5 years.

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I have 4 in wall Unifi APs and AC lite that are going on 7 years now without issue including gateway router and couple switches. I don't think I ever had an Netgear/Asus wifi router last more than 3 years before issues would start.

I've thought about upgrading but what's the point. As someone else mentioned earlier, peak throughput doesn't really matter if you're just using wifi for streaming. Anything that I need serious bandwidth I hardwire.

Also using 80 or 160MHz channel widths to achieve the higher throughputs, makes your signal that much more susceptible to interference. Where I live, the spectrum is very crowded by residential and I'm only a few miles away from Lockheed/Dobbins ARB.

So I stick to 40MHz channels and have no issues with buffering, dropouts etc.