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Check out the review of one of the fastest 6E radios: https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/li... The highest throughput they can get is still short of 2.5G even when combining all three bands, and that's in controlled laboratory conditions. In the real world you'll get much less.

10G wired ethernet is significantly more expensive and power hungry. The extra heat and expense aren't worth it for something you'll never use in the real world.

Faster wifi means more people get more data in the same space, even if the individual uplinks are less than the max throughout of the connection. The air is just a single big shared wire.

And then as mentioned this max speed is pretty theoretical of the raw PHY, it's not necessarily the true raw count of bytes you care about being transmitted in your probably less than perfect space.

If you need high throughput, they and other vendors sell that.

There are tons of 10gbps PoE switches on the market.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

So while I agree with a lot of other comment you will highly unlikely push the 2.5Gbps Ethernet in real world scenario. I would still have love to see it come with 5Gbps Ethernet. Which to be fair still hasn't gotten enough attention.

Managing (somewhat reluctantly) wifi in a multi tenant office building was frustrating because of all of the competing traffic, I’m just guessing that higher speeds means move overall traffic across the spectrum in noncoordinated environments.

I'm assuming that this speed is its ability to transfer between 2 wifi connected devices in optimal conditions and not transferring files from a NAS to a wifi receiver.

How'd you come to 36 Gbps?

2.4: 688 Mbps 5: 2882 Mbps 6: 5765 Mbps

That only comes to 9.3 Gbps, and if you ever get half that in goodput you're having a hell of a good day. I wouldn't expect higher speed interfaces on such a low end (albeit modern) AP.

I also have an ER4 the old UI a bit kludgey but they did revamp it a few years ago. I rarely connect to it and instead use UNMS to manage/monitor it (along with some other sites/devices).

These days, I just go with the UDM-Pro SE's and if I need more than 8 PoE ports, I add on a Unifi switch via SFP. You can do pretty much everything these days in Unifi, no need for EdgeMax (well, VLANs is about as exotic as my installs get).

I don't really know why I would need anything newer.

The difference was night and day. The guest networks actually worked. They had uptimes of over a year without issue.

Sadly only _some_ Unifi AP models are supported by OpenWRT. Check before you buy. I use GL.inet stuff where possible now.

No buggy software required.

I don't see any reason to believe this new access point won't support standalone, so I just ordered one to replace an older access point (an Amplifi Alien that was in Bridge Mode).

The access point should do nothing except convert between wired and wireless, which is all I ask. I have a separate, wired-only router.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639363

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/scqlg3/what_happe...