Ubiquiti Unifi Wifi6 Enterprise Accesspoint Wifi 6E Speed Testing on a Galaxy S22 Ultra

[@aznknightz17]

This is awesome to see irl device/testing popping up on yt since it been months since it was last announced. This give me hope as it'll be soon available for the rest to get in 2023...lol

[@ewicky]

6E (6GHz) isn't inherently any faster than 6 (5GHz) if used with the same settings. You can achieve the same speeds with 160MHz bandwidth mode on 5GHz. 6E (6GHz) just allows for many more non-overlapping channels, and may be cleaner airspace as well. That will prove most valuable in extremely dense, bandwidth intensive environments, like high-performance mesh nodes, sports stadiums, music festivals, airport concourses, etc.

[@NavinF]

In practice it's very difficult to keep a 160MHz channel alive without DFS forcing channel changes. Many wifi 5 clients don't even support 160MHz so you still have to upgrade to wifi 6E to get "up to 2400mbps" which is ~1.6gbps in practice as the video shows.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I do live about 5 miles from a military base, and their aircraft go over the house at low heights a few timea a day. That DFS is a possibility. I have to be careful flying my drone because I am so close to the 5 mile ring.

[@IAmZen_007]

Nice installation, but I don't understand this test. You have a PC connected to 10GB. Why not run an Iperf3 server on that PC and then do an internal speedtest on your S22 to test the throughput of the UI6 Enterpise. Can't you organize this?

[@mainelyhobbies]

I have another video in the works with iperf3. I had issues getting speeds with iperf3 above my internet speed tests lol. Real world, 95% of the traffic on my phone is internet and the other 5% streaming plex from that desktop so I consider this as a more real world test. It would be another story if I was maxing out my download speed in a speed test.

[@IAmZen_007]

@@mainelyhobbies I agree for the real world test, but I’m interested in the real WiFI throughput of the U6E on a LAN. Btw. where did you get the U6E, it’s always sold out. I (and other) have the impression that Ubiquiti annonce a product but 1 year later it’s still not there. Technology evolves fast.

[@mainelyhobbies]

@You Tube I did another round of perf3 testing last night this time using the P command to add parallel connections and it matches my speed test of 1.6 gigabits now. Im not sure if I should be happy with that or not where my phone is 2x2 and its broadcasting at 4x4 I think it is in line with being able max out the 2.5gb ethernet port on with multiple devices or a 4x4 device. Edit. Did some google searching. My 2x2 samsung s22 ultra should have a theoretical max of 2400 megabits with real world speeds factoring overhead of 2200 megabits but everywhere I see testing with the galaxy phones is more like 1800 max across other brand 6E routers . I am on occasion hitting mid 1600s so I am not too far off. Now... speed through walls is next to test. Its definitely not great there.

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@IAmZen_007 i followed the reddit group and saw mention of stock.

[@IAmZen_007]

@@mainelyhobbies I think you can be happy with this results since it’s faster then standard ethernet 👍

[@ThePirateGod]

Try getting a fiber sfp+ Gpon ONT from the isp to direct fiber straight into your UDM Pro works great on mine with lowering the ping.

[@themadman697]

Nice video. In case you are interested, I hosted OpenSpeedtest on my LAN and with my U6-Enterprise. I get about 1.8 Gbit (Down & UP) from my Galaxy Tab S8, I was able to max out 2.5 Gbit port on the AP when testing both my Galaxy Tab S8 and S21 Ultra at the same time. I already had a USW-Flex-XG so I used a TRENDnet 2.5G PoE+ Injector to power my AP. As my server is connected at 10 Gig and the AP at 2.5G I did have to enable flow control on my USW-Flex-XG otherwise I was getting low download speed.

[@mainelyhobbies]

Thanks I keep hearing about openspeedtest. I have a tab s7+ with wifi 6 so between the 2 I think it could saturate the 2.5gb port.

[@monohydrate2]

Thanks for making this video. I just bought three U6-Pro's and now I'm regretting it based on these crazy speeds. 6E is a massive upgrade.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I think the 2.5gb port on it is more important than the 6E band. Too bad ubiquiti has lagged on that part.

[@HPad2]

Can easily get 1700mbps over wifi locally to my home server without 6E on my S22 Ultra. Just using an Consumer ASUS AX11000 router

[@mainelyhobbies]

I actually found that I get faster speeds on wifi6 with my s22 ultra after testing that last night. I am getting in the 1600 range on wifi6 where 6e was around 1300 to 1500. Hopefully its just in need of optimization.

[@majorgear1021]

@@mainelyhobbies So the Unifi U6e AP doesn’t support 1Gbe ? Only 2.5 ?

[@mainelyhobbies]

It supports 1gb and 2.5gb ethernet. But if you are using a 1 gig port, it will be the bottleneck.

[@NamelessUnicorn]

In France, with my One Plus 10 pro and my isp provided mdem/router (which has wifi 6e) I get around 1800mbps down and 800 mbs up. Our isp provider (Orange) provides 2gig down internet speed.

[@tj87rich]

Most east coast Americans won't see those speeds for a long time.

[@aklem001]

Thanks for talking about the transceiver you bought. I just upgraded my ISP to 2 Gig, and the WAN was very poor (time outs, slow speeds, etc). I tried: Wiitek SFP+ to RJ45 Copper Modules, 10GBase-T Transceiver Compatible for Ubiquiti FLYPROFiber 10GBase-T SFP+ to RJ45 for Ubiquiti And both were unreliable. I'm now going to get the MikroTik S+RJ10 and try that

[@aklem001]

Update. The problem was something with my firewall and/or VLAN settings. The Unifi 10 Ggigabit transeciver worked fine. If you have a problem, it might be due to speed negotiation issues.

[@ps3customgamer]

I just got a 5g router it’s very fast and the bottleneck seems to be the gigabit port on the back, although I really like having fast internet I’d have been happy with 40 megabits if BT could work to a standard I wouldn’t be browsing to see how far I could push my internet connection.

[@pbrigham]

The only video so far in the internet that shows that Unify 6E AP is cable of more than 1GB speeds on wireless, however, only works in WEP3 forcing you to create a Wireless SSID only for WiFI E band devices, so is a no go for me. Thanks for sharing.

[@mainelyhobbies]

The WEP3 thing is a big deal. Some of the stuff I'm buying in 2023 STILL doesn't support it.. it just doesn't show up as an available network on these devices. We are going to be stuck needing 2 wifi networks for a decade at least.

[@manslayerdbzgt]

You would get better results though if the AP was pointing down cuz most of its Wi-Fi signal is going up to the ceiling

[@DavidCNavas]

I've got this 6E AP as well. I used iperf3 to test between a (wired) desktop system and a (wireless) laptop. I have a 2.5GbE POE switch connected to an SFP28 switch which connects to my desktop. I had to upgrade the wlan card in my laptop, upgrade to a later version of Windows10, and fight with Intel's broken versions to get the 6E connected. Maximum ten-thread iperf3 download (desktop->laptop) numbers are about 1.5Gbps. I see you mentioned similarly. Perhaps this is a limit for this AP? Sadly none of the Macs can hope to touch Wifi6, nevermind 6E, so I'd have to do a distributed test with a bunch of phones. Sorry, haven't done that yet. Single-threaded iperf3 numbers were considerably lower, but of course that could be the result of all kinds of issues. My recollection was that they were more like1/3/-1/2 of that rate. Reach is good. Line of sight across the house (10-12 meters?) is good for about 1Gbps The AP idle power is a tad over 11W. It seems to save power by reducing broadcast power in 6E. In practice, this means that the S/N will be lower at idle, and your PC will recommend connecting to the 5Ghz or 2.5Ghz. I advise against this -- I get far better download speeds everywhere in my house from 6 than 5. (That said, I haven't done much in the way of upload testing.) Even a few feet away the laptop doesn't give 6E full bars (this might also be because the antennas aren't optimized for 6E? -- this isn't a 6E native device!). In use, power goes up to 15W, and under load I've seen it hit 19W. The back of this unit is hot. It's small, heavy, and when used, quite warm, and not something I'd want to hold onto. I think I measured it around 50C or so. It won't burn your wall, but it's warm for sure.

[@mainelyhobbies]

Thanks for sharing your similar results. Mine is also very hot to the touch when in use.

[@MixPlays]

All apple silicon Macs are 802.11ax compatible.

[@DavidCNavas]

@@MixPlays Yes -- unfortunately both of my macs are from 2019, and one of them is running Mojave, which doesn't look like it has support for WPA3. Not all my equipment is quite as shiny as the new toys :)

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@MixPlays ax could mean wifi6 or wifi6E though. I am not aware of any apple laptops or phones with wifi 6E 6ghz support

[@MixPlays]

@@mainelyhobbies Yeah, I meant specifically Wifi 6 only for now

[@IcyFlameStudio]

Could you please link the SFP cable used in your UniFi POE Switch?

[@mainelyhobbies]

I had quality issues buying off amazon so all of my sfp cables are from ubiquiti now.

[@droy333]

Watching this on some blistering 35 mbit/s internet. Australia, so upside down our internet hasn't increased in speed since 2002.

[@Marzyxx]

Can get 1gig download still crap but better then 25MB down

[@DangalSon]

I have a few UAP-AC-PRO's and U6 pro's which seem to use the same mounting brackets. so swapping these over was fairly straight forward. Do you know if the U6-E will fit UAP-AC-PRO/U6-pro mounting bracket?

[@mainelyhobbies]

I am not sure. I only had AC lite and wifi6 lites before buying this giant one.

[@asadDON12345678910]

The hard wire test you did at the beginning. Is it straight from modem to your PC or from UDM pro?

[@mainelyhobbies]

That is with UDM pro in between

[@anjumsudozai3634]

Wow brilliant

[@scottcarez]

How often will you be 1 foot from your AP, these numbers look nice, but are not realistic for general use. My setup which lasted all of two days, gave me nice numbers with my phone laying right under the AP, but one room over speeds dropped to half, up a flight of stairs but still the equivalent of one room over and I was lucky to have a connection. This was with a Unifi6 Pro AP, and a Unifi6 In Wall. Same house with 2 eero 6 Pros and I have full bar coverage over the whole house. I wanted to like the Unifi system, the UDM Pro was nice, as was the PoE switch, but in the end I went back to the eero's.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I posted a new video after having this AP in place for a week with ~18 or so household devices attached. I walked around the house doing speed testing. I think the reason I stick with Unifi knowing it isn't the best for performance is just because of its upgradability and reliably. I can swap out or add an AP with ease as new tech comes out and they don't seem to offer any 10 gigabit switches for my wired desktops. Eero also doesn't advertise their products well - you go to their website and you can't even see a picture of the ports and back of the APs and they don't use common terminology.. like is the eero pro 6E even 4x4 like the unifi? Because I only see "Wi-Fi 6E Tri-band concurrent 2:2:2" mentioned.

[@pingpt]

What’s your radio settings on 5 and 6ghz bands?

[@cpufrost]

We just got these in. Replacing a bunch of Wave 2 HD units. Don't even have to swap the ceiling brackets out which is nice. Nice speed upgrade and surprised how fast WiFi 6E is even with weak signal. Cannot wait for iPhone 14 which is supposed to have 6E.

[@mainelyhobbies]

"Cannot wait for iPhone 14 which is supposed to have 6E." 😬

[@cpufrost]

@@mainelyhobbies I know, I wasn't expecting that!

[@IAmZen_007]

@@mainelyhobbies Why do you need 6e on a Iphone? I agree that it should be there …

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@IAmZen_007 i wouldn't say the need for 6e is speed related. Its more about clean spectrum for people in crowded areas. My wife just got a $500 dell laptop and it has wifo 6e 6.0ghz band capability. That makes 4 devices in my home now.

[@IAmZen_007]

@@mainelyhobbies I fully agree with you. The S22 has 6e and it’s fast. Even the new Ipad doesn’t have 6e only the Pro … Apple is not the innovative company anymore like they used to be. The new Iphone 14 doesn’t sell very good …

[@philly7644]

Thanks for the video, was thinking about upgrading mu ap's. Runngint the same switch setup as you, but with one improvment. Running the aggregation switch and the 24 switch in port aggregation so getting 2Gb insted off just 1Gb using both sfp ports.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I didnt know that was a thing. I thought it would just be a fall back if the DAC cable fails. Ill look into that and order another DAC if true, thanks!

[@perovic96]

Love Unify software and ecosystem, but really can’t those expensive AP’s at least match the WiFi performance or 30$ Xiaomi router? They need to boost throughput speeds

[@isaiahnolimits6814]

Bro, this blew away

[@KannonRomano]

Thanks for info on the mikrotik spf+ to rj45 I have the same problem with my unifi aggration switch I not able to get more then 300-400 on the download when I plug it into my 2.5G NIC

[@mainelyhobbies]

Thanks, it can turn into a money pit buying and trying various transceivers not knowing if they will work.

[@ismailsyahputra5324]

wow 👍

[@ecu8r]

Wow man I'm jealous of the speeds.

[@mainelyhobbies]

Im enjoying it while it lasts but I know it wont be forever. Its funny that now my hard drives are bottle necks when I download steam games or usenet files.

[@stanz55]

40/10 on fiber 😥

[@kosmasreth]

what ISP you have ?witch country ?

[@MikeEbrahimi]

What modem do you use and what is your ISP provider? thanks for the insights

[@mainelyhobbies]

Its fidium fiber so the "modem" is an ONT and it is adtran brand but no idea the model and its stuck down on my rack so I cant see that easily.

[@KaraAshleyThrace]

it's a Adtran 622V, I have same service.

[@ElTorro9449]

Why you need separate power adapter for Wifi6 AP?!? You have poe switch.

[@mainelyhobbies]

My PoE switch is 1 gigabit. This is running off the aggregate switch 10gig SFP converted to RJ45 so there is no PoE

[@mainelyhobbies]

Eventually ill have the 2.5gigabit poe ubiquiti switch but its not worth the money for 1 device.

[@mistermarkdavis]

Often you can get better bandwidth farther away from the AP compared to right next to it.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I had so many people say test this test that that I'm working on a follow-up video. I'll make sure to include range. Thanks

[@aklem001]

What about the WiFi from your desktop? Have tou tried difference channels? What about channel width?

[@mainelyhobbies]

Hey, not sure what you mean by wifi from my desktop. The desktop in this video is hard wired with a DAC cable. My other desktop has a OM4 fiber run because it was around 50 feet. For wifi 6E, I haven't tried other channels, I just have it on auto. I guess I assumed since I'm the only one in the neighborhood with a 6.0ghz band router that there would not be any interference, I hadn't heard of other common household items using that band.

[@aklem001]

@@mainelyhobbies Does you desktop have a wifi card that supports 6e? Are you at a 160MHz channel width

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@aklem001 the accesspoint is set at 160mhz. My desktop is jard wired at 10 gigabits and does not have a wireless card. The desktop test was a baseline of what the max interenet speed was at my home to show that the AP was NOT saturating theax download speed.

[@jolson5448]

Your phone isn't capable of 4x4 MIMO w/ 160MHZ channels which push well beyond what you're seeing.

[@xavi039]

Wow wish I could test it.....!

[@Simmymind360]

Geez I have 5ghz wifi and lucky to get 250 mbps any tips?

[@Kailan910]

for the u6 enterprise ap, it might be a better idea to just get a unifi switch enterprise poe instead.

[@mainelyhobbies]

Probably, its just so expensive when its the only device that will benefit.

[@pingpt]

on your aggregate switch, what is the speed the unifi controller tells you the port is at? 10G?

[@mainelyhobbies]

10gig. I think that is how tranceivers work anyway.

[@pingpt]

I tried that same transceiver but with a trendnet 2.5gbe poe injector, it works with auto negotiation (detects 10g), but the aggregation switch only negotiates 1 or 10g, or at least those are the only options available. I then tried on a unifi 24port pro switch (has 2 sfp+ in it) and I could force 2.5Gbe negotiation, however the AP then will not communicate as the link will go down. It will work with auto negotiation though. I don’t have wifi devices capable of doing more than 760mbits (iPhone 12 pro or MacBook Air M1), and there isn’t any wifi6E USB adapters on the market yet (that I know of) All this work to avoid spending 600€ (Europe) on that 8 port enterprise poe switch for the one single app. Just seems too much of an investment to get so little return

[@TazBo-wd2ig]

Why is there so much speed that lost. I have a 1GB lease line and a Unifi 6 LR. I’m standing right next to it only me connected and I can’t get past 500mb down. But why not matter what setting. My home broadband gets 500mb down on a cheap router. With a a 700mb connection.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I think it's just ubiquiti efficiency is bad. This AP should be maxing out the full 2.5gigabit hardline with multiple devices load testing and it doesn't even come close to advertised speeds.

[@TazBo-wd2ig]

@@mainelyhobbies honestly I give up. We have a coffee shop and we thought we would get a dream machine pro for our 1GB line and 2 x Unifi 6 LRs. We set them up with the usual 2ghz and 5GHZ channels and all the rest of the channels etc with power setting to low / medium ever combination you can think of but just doesn’t come close to the wired connection what a waste of money.

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@TazBo-wd2ig I have heard that you should always use max power on unifi products even if it seems like you shouldn't. It does have reliability going for it though... Mediocre performance but solid under heavy load.

[@ianhailey]

How much power does the AP use when idle?

[@KaraAshleyThrace]

I have same AP with a XG-6-POE and it reports 11-13watts.

[@KazmiCommunications]

How much users it will be support?

[@mainelyhobbies]

600 according to their specs.

[@pmkwiek]

Who is your isp

[@fpvmalta1757]

Use Wifiman and do a speed test vs your udm pro

[@zsi]

What configuration are you using to hit > 1 Gpbs over 6e? I have a Galaxy S21 Ultra, which supports 6e, yet the best I can get is 700 Mbps. That is with my placing my phone right next to the AP.

[@mainelyhobbies]

When you say configuration, what did you mean because when I read this I thought "my configuration is in the video" lol. I can plug this AP into a gig port on the UDM-Pro and get 940/940 without any other configutration beyond turning on the 6ghz band under WIFI. To go over a gigabit you need something like my setup with the unifi switch aggregate with a PoE+ injector or a Ubiquiti 2.5gb PoE+ switch which is expensive.

[@dereknoll]

Could you do a speed test using Wifi 6? I have a 24-port-Enterprise-POE switch and want to replace my currents APs with the Enterprise APs and have been curious of the speed with Wifi 6 and the 2.5gb port.

[@mainelyhobbies]

1088 down and 1001 up first try, 1370 down and 994 up the second time up on wifi6.

[@mainelyhobbies]

1531 down and 1040 up trying a 3rd time on wifi6. Not bad for wifi 6 at all! I wish ubiquiti would put these 2.5gb ports on their 4x4 wifi APs. Wifi 6E is actually slower than these wifi6 results im getting tonight.

[@dereknoll]

@@mainelyhobbies Those are amazing speeds on WiFi 6. Thanks so much for doing the WiFi 6 speed tests. Whenever I can find the Enterprise 6 AP in stock I am going to definitely order them!

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@dereknoll restocks seem to happen between 7 and 7:30am EST.

[@benjiebarker]

Is the ubiquiti pro 6 same sa enterprise 6?

[@mainelyhobbies]

No, the enterprise has the 6.0ghz band for wifi 6E and the pro does not. It also has a 2.5gb ethernet on the enterprise vs 1gig for the pro.

[@abhishekdutta2343]

I know I am asking a dum questions but what are you doing this much of bandwidth 10gig wow

[@mainelyhobbies]

Im paying for 1 gig but getting 4 to 6 gigabits so I don't NEED it, but im taking advantage of what was given. In my home the only time it matters is when I do camera card backups and move old premiere projects to my home storage server. I went 10gig in pieces so it wasnt too expensive. A $280 switch a couple $40 ebay 10gig NICs used off servers .. then the UDM-Pro router was a black friday sale just in time for my old cloud key setup to die.

[@abhishekdutta2343]

@@mainelyhobbies what is the cost of 1 gig net there ,here in India it cost almost 60 usd for 3.3TB

[@mainelyhobbies]

3.3TB? Its $70 USD for my internet which is typical. Before fiber was installed it was $115 a month for gigabit via cable internet.

[@Dy13yDx]

Love the background music vibe start at 2:37 can you please share the song name? btw love your content nice and clean.

[@vincenzolotito3130]

do you can play fortnite with this connection?

[@mainelyhobbies]

Counterstrike and TFC. It took 22ms on average off spectrum latency to get to a boston server so it helps a lot.

[@FuziionGravity]

Plug this AP into an enterprise switch with a 2.5Gb PoE+ port...

[@mainelyhobbies]

Some day, if I get more than 1 AP, but its big money where using my existing 10gig switch and a $25 PoE injector does the job. If I get another wifi 6E AP, I probably will.

[@elcolin_]

DAMNNN who's the ISP? I'm jelly. Stupid Comcast is the only choice in most of Denver, CO. Who lives there? Never heard of it. 40mbps UP is what I get (after 1200 down). Shame.

[@mainelyhobbies]

Fidium. Its only in a few states currently

[@themultichallengeteam1654]

why is he getting 5k download speed when im only getting 1,200 downlowd speed

[@KaraAshleyThrace]

Gotta Love Fidium being Cheap on their hardware. ;) Also, you are prob hitting limit of that speed test site. I've hit 8.2 Gpbs down, 2.4 up on, ironically, comcast speed test servers in NJ.

[@theunboxnetwork]

How much you pay for 10gb internet

[@mainelyhobbies]

$70/mo. Im paying for 1 gigabit fiber but im using my own 10 gig capable hardware. 99.5% of the ISPs customers either use the 1 gig capable router they supply or their own 1 gig router. The company doesnt have QoS turned on yet so anyone with 10 gigabit hardware has basically 8 gigabits available (max through the hubs they use) although its rare to see more than 6 gigs when I test. The ISP is new and just laid fiber across the city so eventually once the network has onboarded a ton of customers (because spectrum sucks) I am betting they turn QoS on and ill be back at a gig.

[@theunboxnetwork]

@@mainelyhobbies nice 👌 any buffetbloat

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@theunboxnetwork I dont know if it is a fair test because it seems like all the bufferbloat tests cap at 1 gigabit but it gave me an A+ www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=1b582f94-3bd3-4381-9147-224550418628

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@theunboxnetwork why did you stop making videos? Looks like you hit the requirement to monetize then stopped?

[@theunboxnetwork]

@@mainelyhobbies No money to by product for review, I don't know how to get free stuff, that's why lost the motivation.

[@SIOYGYG]

Your ISP is most likely stress testing their shiny new network which is probably why QoS isn't turned on.

[@xVertigo101]

Fidium fiber? Just got rolled out in front of home

[@mainelyhobbies]

Yup, you in chesterfield?

[@mainelyhobbies]

I said that because earlier today I saw a post on Fidium reddit about them installing in Chesterville, just double checked and yup it was you haha. It took 2 months from line install to scheduling installs in my area.

[@xVertigo101]

@@mainelyhobbies yup that's me. Chesterville. I too run Ubiquity gear. Udm pro Unvr Usw-24 poe gen2 Usw-8 lite poe x2 Usw-flex poe x2 Usw mini x3 Two EA devices U6 lite U6 lr U6 pro Uap-acm x2 Uap-acm pro

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@xVertigo101 nice. You are set for >1gb

[@xVertigo101]

I also plan on purchasing an aggregation switch with how much cheaper SFP dac cables are these days and SFP to copper.

[@Richard_GIS]

160Mhz Band width, check that setting

[@mainelyhobbies]

It is set to 160mhz, but isnt that 4x4 where my cell phone is 2x2 so its only using 80mhz? I havent seen a device or USB dongle with 4x4 wife 6E yet.

[@Richard_GIS]

@@mainelyhobbies no need for that, s22u can do 2x2 he160 1024quam that means 2.4Gbits, 1.2 GBit per antenna, theoretically there should be more speed, when i set my udm base to 160, i get 1.7 GBit, so you should check that in the networkspeed section of your phone when you select/edit your current wifi connection, if it does not say 2.4Gb, i suspect a false setting, check also the radius, i would not wonder if ubiquity is conservativ and the is not 160 set

[@mainelyhobbies]

@@Richard_GIS yeah im losing speed somewhere. Theoretical is 2.4 and actual should be I think 2.1. Im not up to play with it too much because my house depends on it. If it was a separate setup outside my main network I would get into it more.

[@Richard_GIS]

@@mainelyhobbies thy anyway for responding, have a nice day/night

[@ABUNDANCEandBEYONDATHLETE]

You said wifi 6 AP. Well your S22 Ultra's 6E chip doesn't mean anything if the AP doesn't have 6Ghz. Just confused me why you add the 6E in the title without 6Ghz AP. Also, speed test is external and depending on your available bandwidth then It could fluctuate. I would just do the iperf3 test through the wifi to a LAN connection in the future as a minimum. Thanks for sharing though 🙂

[@mainelyhobbies]

The model is called "wifi6 enterprise" it is a wifi 6E AP with the 6.0ghz band. Iperf3 nets the same results although more solid. The hard wired speed is 4x what the AP can do. Speedtest is probably more real world where 99% of the traffic is external.

[@cocosloan3748]

Now WiFi 7 is here I wonder how much more equipment you will buy 😂

[@mainelyhobbies]

Well, ubiquiti will be years behind, and I only swapped 1 of 5 access points in my house to 6E.

[@cocosloan3748]

@@mainelyhobbies Look at this video on YT "2022 TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Product Launch Event" amazing stuff. Sorry for joking-teasing you 👍

[@mainelyhobbies]

@cocosloan3748 i did see the tplink video. If it was any other brand Id be more enthusiastic, but every wireless TP link product I've owned as well as seen when I do on-site home and small business IT work has been garbage for reliability. I just won't own anything of theirs in the near future. Ill just wait it out for the slower unifi version lol

[@magicmanchloe]

Who is your isp?!!! That’s nuts that you can get 5GB when paying for 1gb!

[@mainelyhobbies]

Fidium

[@jasonleong7]

all these stress testing are for bragging rights. not for practical application imho. When number of users goes up, with multiple SSID/APs around the area all these testings seems pointless

[@mainelyhobbies]

I kept my other 6 APs on throughout my home with 70 wifi devices attached. I dont have neighbors close enough to matter. There was only one 6ghz capable device in my home at the time and the AP had a nest camera or 2 connected during testing on the other bands. It is pretty real world. Its in my living room now for a week and Im getting the same results.

[@BubbleMatrix82]

These tests are pointless as part of the speedtest slows down due to packet loss upstream which causes retries and packet processing per second upstream which your ISP hand-off likely cannot actually handle on a single thread (which speed tests generally are). So without factoring in ISP contributions to the overhead and the hardware's pps ability (example: a Dream Router cannot pps more than 700Mbps) this test does not control for all the variables to get a clean test.

[@MtnXfreeride]

So what you're saying is its a real world speed test haha

[@kwinzman]

If you are measuring wifi speeds and you start with an internet speed test that's an immediate red flag.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I would say the same thing in most cases except I have a 5+ gigabit internet connection, and it NEVER tests even close to below 2.5 gigabits when hard wired. I have a follow-up video showing how inaccurate wifiman is on the upload speed and even using iperf3 it was not consistently accurate. A wifi internet speed test when your connection can double what the 2.5 gigabit port on the access point can handle should not be considered a red flag. Its still a useful data point. You might find my newer video more useful where I put the AP in place, left it for a week without restarting it, and had many devices attached when testing various distances from the AP.

[@kwinzman]

@@mainelyhobbies I still think it's plain unnecessary complexity. You're introducing variables that you have no control over at the 3rd party testing server and your ISP and all routers between you and the test server. Yes, your 5+ Gbit internet connection should never bottleneck. But why take the risk? If you're testing the WiFi test the WiFi and not the WiFi and something else at the same time. Thanks for the followup though! I appreciate it!

[@mateyko555]

That is pathetic. I remember in denmark years ago on router from some consumer isp i hit like gigabit on samsung galaxy s7 in 5ghz!!!

[@mainelyhobbies]

As I do more testing like attempting speedtests with multiple phones and laptops at the same time it is surprising how poor it performs.

[@mateyko555]

​​@@mainelyhobbies in poland on funbox6 from Orange ISP on 160MHz you have 1.6Gbps easily on 5Ghz at 160MHz channel width and MIMO 4x4. Not to mention same device does pppoe for this 2Gbps fiber service. Did you make sure there is clear 160mhz of free spectrum?

[@neo217041]

Enable MSS Clmaping to 1452 and Jumbo Packets. This will increase your wireless speeds

[@mainelyhobbies]

I will look into this. I know jumbo frames is on already.

[@unclewho]

Mikrotik S+RJ10 is crap, hot, unstable and not compatible with most any of other brands.

[@mainelyhobbies]

I have 3 others of various other brands and they all run hot. I figured it was a RJ45 tranceiver thing. Same for the "not compatible with most other brands" usually on FS.com or other places you buy tranceivers you have to specify brand. I can get 9.4 gigabits sustained using them desktop to desktop so when you get it right, they do work.

[@pe51ter]

The music is really annoying.

[@forcerxp]

Dude, Ubiquiti is a joke.

[@mainelyhobbies]

What's better? Have a couple neighbors looking to spend a decent amount of money to get reliable signal through their houses now that they have fiber.

[@networkingdude]

@@mainelyhobbies There isn't anything better that doesn't have a subscription attached.

[@neo217041]

Need a cat 6a cable as well.

[@mainelyhobbies]

It is all cat 6a in my home