The Ubiquiti UniFi U6-LRis apowerful wireless Access Point leveraging advanced WiFi 6 technology to provide powerful wireless coverage to enterprise environments. Tip To control your Unifi Access Points you can also use a hosted Unifi Controller. This way you don’t need to buy additional hardware and worry about keeping your network up-to-date.

You can install them on walls, but then they won’t have the same coverage. The signal goes mostly sideways in a donut shape. We offer the best price for Ubiquiti U6LR UniFi WiFi 6 Long-Range, 5 GHz band 4x4 MU-MIMO, Four-stream WiFi 6 technology, 1.3 GHz dual-core processor Access Point | U6-LR in Dubai, UAE. Buy now with the best price! Speeds increase for both Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 with the number of MIMO spatial streams on client devices. Even though the UniFi 6 LR Access Point is equipped with 4×4 MIMO, maximum speeds to individual client devices will be determined by the MIMO capabilities of those client devices. A client device with 3×3 MIMO will deliver significantly greater speeds than one with 2×2 MIMO. However, many devices (such as modern mobile phones and laptops) only support 2×2 MIMO. While we discuss the measured throughput performance later in this review, it is important to point out that the maximum radio link speeds given in the tables above will translate to significantly lower actual throughputs, as explained in our article What Realistic Speeds Will I Get With Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6? Also, given that the UniFi 6 LR Access Point is connected to a network using Gigabit Ethernet then the maximum throughput achievable from the UniFi 6 LR is obviously the maximum throughput achievable through Gigabit Ethernet, which is about 940 Mbps, as described in our article What is a Good Signal Level or Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for Wi-Fi?When everything is working properly, then the LED will be solid blue and, before it’s adopted to the UniFi controller, it will be solid white. What’s very problematic is that Ubiquiti has advertised that the users would be able to set the color that they wanted (RGB), but they have removed that feature. I have no idea why because as I said, the single LED pales in comparison to the traditional array of LEDs anyway. Why not have some fun? I’ve seen this approach with lots of EnGenius access points, including the ECW230 and the latest WiFi 6E ECW336, and it works wonders for the heat management of compact access points. Ubiquiti still insists that their APs are suitable for outdoors, so there are no ventilation holes and you do get a silicone cover for the ports area, which means that the device will get hotter to the touch when it’s operational (due to the heat transfer), but there should be no risk of overheating. Ubiquiti U6-Pro Heat Management. With a weight of 800g, the UniFi 6 Long Range Access Point is much heavier than the nanoHD (300g) and feels much more substantial. Both devices support 160 MHz channels in the 5 GHz band and 4 x 4 MIMO. With its higher antenna gain, the Uni-Fi 6 Long Range device should provide better range. While Ubiquiti has not specified the processor or RAM in the nanoHD, the LR unit has a 2-core 1.35 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM, which we assume is improved since Wi-Fi 6 is computationally much more intensive than Wi-Fi 5. Monitoring the CPU and memory usage of the UniFi 6 LR has shown no sign of the device being underpowered, with plenty of performance in reserve. And, since the Ubiquiti U6-Pro supports 160MHz channel width, I tried to keep the interference to the minimum to see the maximum performance that the AP can reach. At closer range (5 feet), the QCN9024 is absolutely phenomenal, delivering an average of 934Mbps upstream and 625Mbps downstream. Ubiquiti U6-Pro vs Other WiFi 6 Access Points – 5GHz (80MHz) – 5 Feet – Upstream.

In any case, the performance on 2.4GHz radio should be similar to what we saw on the WiFi 5 Ubiquiti APs, hopefully. Besides OFDMA, there’s MU-MIMO which is only useful with compatible devices and I suppose their number has grown a bit over the last few years, at least in regards to smartphone or laptops. Lastly, there is the possibility to create a mesh network using multiple Ubiquiti access points (wireless Uplink), but will the U6-LR actually connect to nanoHD? And the answer is yes, these devices are compatible, so you can use them for this specific typology. Wireless Test (5GHz) Without the advantage of 4 spatial streams or Wi-Fi 6 enhancements, the U6-Lite falls behind. I couldn’t get my MacBook Pro to associate to a 40 MHz channel on any of these APs, so I excluded those results from this test. I believe Apple uses the “ fat channel intolerant” setting on their devices. As always, 5 GHz is the best option for speed, and 40 MHz channels on 2.4 GHz should be avoided in most situations. That’s all part of the promise: the “LR” stands for “long range”, and though you can’t see them, the U6-LR features downward-tilting internal aerials that aim to offer improved coverage. As for speeds, the 2.4GHz radio bandwidth is pegged at 600Mbits/sec, while the 5GHz radio supports a far faster 2,400Mbits/sec.For the Unifi 6 LR, we can see an almost 100% speed increase compared to the old long-range model. Testing your own network speed