INSTANTLY IMPROVE Ubiquiti Unifi WIFI SPEED with Channel Width

[@algauthier]

I found this very easy to follow and it had immediate and significant results. For reference in case it's helpful for others, I have three Acs in a fairly long 4 bedroom house. One at the front, one in the middle and one at the end of the house. Before changing the channel width from 40 to 80, I was seeing just about 100mbps. Afterwards I was seeing speeds of around 500mbps on a 1gbps connection. Excellent

[@home.network.solutions]

Hi thanks for sharing and thanks for watching the video!

[@saeed072003]

Thank you. I've been trying to do this for a while, but I couldn't do it until after watching this video.❤

[@home.network.solutions]

No worries. Glad it helped and thanks for watching 🙏

[@VeniceTrader]

Excellent. Worked for me. Thanks a lot.

[@home.network.solutions]

Great! Thanks for watching.

[@Kevin_Yuda_]

Great video. I’ve updated the channel width but my speeds haven’t changed. I’m next to my u-6 in-wall AP and with gig internet I am hitting ~94. Switching to a different router gets be will over 400 so I am lost as to why my speeds are so awful.

[@home.network.solutions]

94 Mbps sounds like you have it connected to a 100Mbps switch, or there is a cable fault. Does it say FE next to the connection?

[@stoyantenchev9135]

Hi, thank you for your videos. I've watched your comparison video and got a bit scared of getting the Ubiquity. I'm getting it for my home use and it will be the only wifi extender. I am not sure whether the settings which you showed are accessible to everyone or whether you need a controler (I think I've heard you mentioned that in a previous video).

[@home.network.solutions]

Hi, thanks for watching 🙂 You can change the channel width in standalone mode (without a controller) so don’t worry. Unifi is a good choice you’ve nothing to worry about!

[@MartinSmithoektoe]

Does this work for 2.4ghz channel as well?

[@home.network.solutions]

There are less channels on 2.4ghz so the chance of interference is higher. I would suggest trial and error to see if it works for you as it will depend on the RF environment.

[@treyrutter8128]

curious as to scaleability. say I have 30 access points in a two story 30,000 square foot building would interference be higher if I set all access points to 80. would I get faster speeds if I lowered the channel width?

[@home.network.solutions]

It depends on many factors. Distance between APs, construction of the building, other types of interference, power settings of the APs etc. The risk of interference is increased but you can potentially get better speeds, if you need the additional speed it maybe worth trying. It is simple enough to reverse if I doesn’t work for you.

[@mauromandibola1187]

Sorry but what you say is only true if you have few clients. Generally, however, improvements are achieved by doing just the opposite, i.e. by decreasing the frequencies and decreasing interference between channels which leads to an increase in speed.

[@home.network.solutions]

I respectfully disagree. I agree that using a wider channel width of 2.4 is normally not a good idea and 160Mhz on 5Ghz is much more likely to be problematic. However on a well planned deployment of APs there is generally very few occasions that we don’t see better performance from 80Mhz. However each deployment will differ as the environment will be different with different building materials and rf interference etc. I’m not sure what you mean by it’s only true if you have few clients, that seems to be unrelated to channel width and interference. Maybe I’m missing something?

[@4-11Sound]

My UAP-AC-Pro does the opposite it drops from 250down to about 25-30 down...every time. I have 1Gbit service into the house. Speed tests to my gateway show 1.12G down to their...so it's clearly my AP.

[@home.network.solutions]

Try changing the channels. Sounds like interference.

[@HafizHariadi]

Why my ubiquity app can show 40 or 80 waduh channel.. Only 20

[@home.network.solutions]

They are probably older models. Thanks for watching.