The location, power settings, and additional configuration parameters of your AP’s are critical. Don’t expect to deploy a multi-AP network in your home, leave everything at the default settings, and have it work flawlessly. This includes accounting for neighboring networks, interference, the density of your APs, the number of your wireless clients and their idiosyncrasies in terms of wireless standards support. To get the best results, you will need to tune your wireless home network. Your network design is the greatest factor for poor wireless roaming. If you don’t use Unifi Protect, Sonos, IoT, or femtocell devices, some of these settings below may not be necessary for you. I use them in our home with a gigabit-speed Internet connection. Finally, I sunset the Sonos Boosts in favor of a Sonos networking architecture that leverages multiple Ethernet-connected Sonos Beams.įollowing are my recommended configuration changes for an optimized Ubiquiti UniFi home network. Additionally, we supplemented the aggregator switch in the networking rack with a PoE US‑16‑150W switch for POE devices like the Cloud Key Gen 2 and Unifi AP’s.
Update: since I first wrote this article, we have upgraded our Ubiquiti Cloud Key to the Cloud Key Gen 2 and our USG to the USG Pro 4.
If you have not already, be sure to read Part 1 This is Part 2 of my Ubiquiti Unifi Home Networking How To.