Ubiquiti Networks Networks UAP-AC-M-US UniFi AC Mesh Wide-Area In/Out Dual-Band Access Point (US Version)

I have a tech background and found this easy to setup. It might be a little harder for someone with no tech skills to get up and going and tweaked, but not too hard. I'm not sure my parents that are senior mac users would manage to set it up.I have their regular long range unit inside and this one mounted on the outside back of the house. 3,000 sqft on about 4/10th of an acre, I have very fast wifi on most of the property now. I may add one more up front and I will have 100% solid coverage on the entire lot at high speeds. Other than going out to the front curb -- furthest place from these access points, I get a good 20+ mbps everywhere (at the slowest), which for a phone is great for everything and often it's MUCH faster.I'm 20 feet from the access point now and my phone tested 144Mbps down. If I wanted speeds that fast at the far end of the house, I'd need one more unit inside, but not really any need for that now.If your in a congested suburban area with a larger house, I've found a multi access point setup is a necessity now if you need good wifi coverage.I'm on zoom daily and needed a rock solid connection and this has done it. Allows me to be everywhere except way up in the front of the yard and have a rock solid fast connection.Bottom line: get it if you have some tech skills and can manage to set it up and want great wifi coverage. Plan to have 2 units minimum if you have a larger home and potentially 3-4 if you have a very large home / congested area or need very very fast speeds on the whole property.

I wasn't too sure about this, 600 feet sounds excessive, but I went ahead and tried it out. Bought the antenna mount with it and put this on my (Abandoned by my old provider, not functional!) internet LOS dish on the top of my house. This was to get around the walls on my house which are up to 12 inches thick limestone block. This basically puts the AP at what I would consider the best possible placement for my property, and it works. However some things I noticed:1. being up so high and only needing to penetrate my roof (which is NOT rock.. of course) allows this thing to embarrass my existing Orbi setup. Almost anywhere in my house if this doesn't match the power of the Orbis.. it exceeds them. Ouch. That's money flushed I suppose. Will upgrade them eventually with more Ubiquiti.2. Yes it can.. reach at least 300 foot. With huge power. I've only found one area outside my house where the Orbis are generally (not all the time) beating this thing. Not a fair fight.. the Orbi has satellites!3. The software control is wonky. If I connect to the network that this thing is on, I can't see it and the software immediately stops receiving heartbeats from it, and despite it working fine it claims it is dead, and stops interfacing with it. I am guessing there is a system or setting I am missing that allows it to do this though.Overall I'd consider NOT buying this a mistake. It's not very expensive but it functions way out of the league by price. The control offered by it is great, and the power and coverage are second to none. I will be pairing this with a real AP controller sooner or later, and I have high expectations for it based on what I have.Edit: This thing just survived a 30 year snow storm, totally exposed on my rooftop in a 11 degree blizzard followed by a ice rain storm. (2021 is already trying to to 2020!) Still works, though it seems the sheltered Orbis are now outperforming it near to the house, which is a bummer. Also getting some drops on cameras out at the edges of my property. Still given all the other carnage of the storm the fact that it works at all is pretty amazing!

Granted said router was from late 2014 and not anything to write home about, but this Unifi AP gets me nearly more than double the speed even being in my bedroom 20+ft. away and around a corner!Workplace uses these at locations around the US, and they work very well for being under $100! Perfectly lightweight to have it mounted via a Command Strip up high, to get the best signal in the apartment. Super easy to set up via the mobile app (I know there's a controller, but seemed overkill for just one AP for home use).Been using it for about a month with an Edgerouter X with no issues, which is more than I can say for what it replaced!

We added this product to an existing Ubiquiti AP environment at our church to serve an outdoor location recently constructed. Wanted to use the same configuration/management capabilities of the Unifi network controller (self-hosted on a computer at the church).As others say, this is a good product and is working well. My comments relate to a few mechanical issues with the device that may be useful to understand:1) it can be tricky to get the Ethernet cable connected - just enough room to accomodate the cable connector "shell"2) there is a grommet to go around the cable to keep the unit waterproof but the grommet assumes the cable will be threaded through and then the RJ45 connector added. Instead, we cut the grommet to get it around the cable that already had the RJ453) the status light on the unit is not obvious at first glance (the light is inside with a "window"). And, if one is outside when the (white) light first comes on, it is very hard to see. Found the light by connecting temporarily inside where the light was less bright.4) once the device is inserted in its mounting bracket, it cannot be removed without removing the whole bracket from the wall (and then still a bit tricky to disconnect the "fingers" that connect it to the mount).On the plus side, there is a built-in level in the mount which is very helpful.I am glad I had a fair amount of technical background when using the Unifi network controller software.