Installed as a WAP in a townhouse to assist with coverage of upper floors. Fortunately the building was pre-wired with ethernet cable. I jumped one lead out from the router and ran it to the PoE (which is included, happily). Then I connected the PoE to the house wiring cat 6.
I'm served by Cox panoramic wifi with a wireless hub. PoE sends 24V over approximately 55 feet of cat 6 cable. That powers the system fine. Mounted on the ceiling of the 4th floor signal is still adequate at the ground floor, although not needed because the ISP router and hub are on the ground.
I got over 35 Mbps download and about 12 Mbps upload with that configuration and distance in the room with the AP.
I used the recommended app to set it up and install. There are a few videos out there to walk through.
It went very smoothly. Allow it to update and restart a few times. You should be fine. Otherwise you can use a PC to program it.
What I didn't know for sure and I'm confirming now for you is that the kit includes a PoE with AC cord. And, the AP works on dual bands which give you 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. They can be separated by SSID and passwords if you wanted to do so in the admin utilities.
I'll post an update or negative review if this thing doesn't keep up the good work. But I am very happy with the quality, ease of use, and performance right now.
This should cover all my needs, but if I needed to add another, I would get another Ubiquiti AP.
Updated to say that in a day things got better. Dell Inspirion 15 was getting 150 Mbps download, iPhone was getting 250+ Mbps, and Android phone clocking around 120.
Your results will be individual. But after mapping itself, the AP does great. Signal broadcast strength is less than the base Cox WiFi router (to be expected) but the AP hit all the hard to reach areas that I planned. Still considering adding a spot for the middle floors 😀
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