 Down here for more systems we're going to talk about unify and comparing a few different access points and you know Some thoughts that you go into which one you should buy if you want to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems comm feel like to hire short projectors a hires button up at the top if you want to support this channel other ways There's some affiliate links down below to get your deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel and I put this together Which is copy pasted somewhat from the unify comparison shirt And they have a pretty nice list they made with all the comparison between all the different models maximum potential speed of the 5 gigahertz to 2.4 gigahertz radio what power supplies they use How many client associations they can support and you know these are all design considerations We're putting this in also some of these have outdoor indoor ratings And we have down here towards the bottom some of their specialty devices like the inwall Which I do have in here as well But they also have these ones that are like made to be exposed more directly to the weather So big variety of options that unify has I have a few of these in stock And I wanted to show the comparison charts between them now This this comparison some of the top information is all just pulled from unify so nothing special there I left the radio at default in the radio settings for these I bring this up because I wanted to compare all these the Same way with the same channel width. I know you can go faster by setting up wider wider channel widths on there But that's not what we did for this test. We just wanted to do The comparison of all these and see if there was a significant difference between this variety of models also Memo chains I listed them out here, but we're still doing this with a single device I did not have the means by which to connect. I don't know 200 devices and really see how it holds up to stress We have seen these and we have deployed these in real-world environments with many Users on them including some of these HDs. We've installed these in some of the larger venues They hold up really well like you know if I says but of course that's a much harder comparison to do I just wanted it to get kind of a baseline on here now testing methodologies I here is my unified controller and Besides leaving all the defaults on there the only things we did change from default. I went over here I did turn on fast roaming that was just a convenience to switch things back and forth And I've done that a few times and people said they've had problems with it Please note what it says right here fast roaming for modern devices with 802 11R Compatibility older devices may experience connectivity issues We've definitely run into that a whether or not you want to turn it on it's going to depend on if they have older devices Modern phones and 802 R's been around for a while, but fast roaming is a thing that does work well But you do have to have devices to support it Combined name and SSID this was a default. We did change as well this allows me to jump between the different networks and I can jump between the Network that we have here that we called testify and it adds the Suffix underscore 2.4 so I can easily tell my system here to switch between them now testing tools This is wave mod and I'm currently connected to a 2.4 gigahertz network and when we go here Select network. There's the testify network. There's a testify 2.4. This is how I would switch each one now the other Testing methodologies that I did for each device I unplugged it and set one right here the only one I said in an upright position was this in wall HD then Unplugged and plugged them in one by one this testing took a long time to do to kind of get these numbers But I made sure they were all in consistently the same spot And I put my laptop consistently in the same spot so I could get a baseline to see if there was any significant difference one room over When I did the initial test and it really wasn't too big of a deal when I moved these one room over The signal strength between them was fairly consistent. So we have right here roughly minor changes between any one of them on the five channel and Very little change between them on the 2.4 channel and like I said each one was plugged in individually The other ones were all turned off. So I was doing this at a one at a time setup. Also They were in the studio room here. There's one wall between them. So it's my says next room test averages There's some computers on the work benches and things like that but everything was kept in exactly the most consistent place possible to try to get a Really consistent average between them to make sure the testing was as consistent as possible as I keep saying here To make sure you understand that because what you're going to see next is the challenge I had with these and these numbers here for the speed Besides getting a little bit faster speed out of the UAP HD not much, but just a little bit faster I had a hard time doing the testing and let me explain So right now we see we have an excellent signal excellent signal strength And we're connected to this in wall HD and we're going to go around speed test here And we're seeing an even slower speed than when it was in the next room That's the first anomaly. I ran into was some of the really slow speeds and the in wall HD is One that this may come up with if you install these in a hotel and we have hotels and venues They're kind of cool except if you were to install them not lower But higher and someone had their laptop set like on a table or a desk that was close to it You actually get slower speeds if they're adjacent to it and a speed goes up as it's a little bit away Completely a non-issue for ones mounted to the ceiling, but Linus site is the best way to do it That's why these are popular for places like hotels where you have a lot of density in the room And you know running on the hallway means you have to pass through a wall putting them in the same room Well, now you don't have to pass through but if they get too close you get a little bit slower now Looking at the numbers here. This is where those challenges come in because let's move my arms around a little bit Actually, let's set this on the floor set it over there and So now with that on the floor, we're seeing 73 83 so we got it consistent 73. Let me put my arms out here Now we're at 52 And this is the same challenge I ran into with every one of them So these averages I put together are very much well averages and that speed comparison was the Challenging to do I let it run for about 10 minutes on each the 2.4 and the 5 To try to come up with those average numbers at the end and it averages it out with I perf when I was doing this But that really was a challenge So despite having a really consistent signal over here in wave mon between all the devices that Moving my arms around anything I would have to sit perfectly still to wait for the numbers to stabilize it really come up with the average and you can even see Me moving around still causes slight variations in here So that was where one of the big challenges was what was interesting though is as we went outside These started dropping and I found a spot and I haven't mapped out here in Google Maps now I had them same spot in the studio and put them on the table and I roughly dropped this little pin Where the studio table exists inside the building then we have a lobby So we've got two walls including a brick outside wall with both of these walls having a double drywall on them and a parking brick that I set my laptop on to do the test, so I was doing the 2.4 test out there the UAP ACLR lived up to its name of being long range I was able to get and it wasn't very good signal I didn't note the signal strength when I was out there It was kind of low, but I was able to get a consistent transfer out of it The interesting thing about these ones including the HD is the only other one that was kind of able to get working out there It would have a signal but once you started doing the transfer it was just start dropping down to zero So I was gonna put one on here But it would the more you test it the more it kept dropping So it really didn't stay connected the in wall HD dropped the nano dropped But the AC Pro Surprisingly was able to get a pretty consistent without dropping at all It would bounce between like six and four it kind of varied the UAP ACLR was really like a rock solid eight doing the transfer So I thought that was interesting that they were you know the ACLR does work even though it doesn't show a Substantially different amount of signal strength when it's only one room over when it was all the way out in a parking lot It was the most consistent Rock steady transfer and it's also interesting because there was very little variation when you get to the 2.4 Now when I stopped partway through the parking lot as well when I got to like the edge of connectivity before I got all The way of that brick all the numbers do become a little bit more consistent It's kind of interesting that you seem to have more variations when you're close than you do as you're further away But I managed just to weigh some of the works and the beam forming and the way the Wi-Fi interferes with and bounces off of different things When it's closer here. So that was a comparison test I did there is a like I said more exhaustive list that Unify has as far as all the use cases But this is also one of things I really want to highlight and we're gonna feel free to carry on and discuss this in our forums And if you have better insight, I'm more than welcome to do some more reading if you want to share some links to it But this is what we consistently run into when we test Wi-Fi No two scenarios are the same Wi-Fi is very hard to test Wi-Fi even moving my arms around Even though that's over there and I'm over here and if I put it on the other side We will see constant variations in the numbers This is the big challenge with Wi-Fi We'll put this all the way on the table over there and I'm on this side of it Let's see if those numbers vary still but this is just why Wi-Fi is not an easy There's no slam dunk answer of which one's the best or why my Wi-Fi may be having problems There's a lot of things going on. So putting on that side. We're Still more consistent, right? But let me lean back a little bit even though I'm on this side We watched it drop all the way 62 only put my hands on the keyboard We're at 94. Wow, my hands on the keyboard seem to make it better So cool hands on keyboard versus hands off keyboard We go down in speed So this is one of the big challenges in Wi-Fi and why it's When people ask us for help with it We're more than willing to help and with projects and planning on Wi-Fi Line of sight's the best But you can see the amount of interference and how tricky it is when you leave a fair day cage to get the Wi-Fi testing done So hopefully you found this insightful I'll leave links where you can you know pick and choose because there's plenty of other considerations Including density for when you're doing these deployments and things like that But there is no magic secret sauce for deploying Wi-Fi and just Figuring out what's in walls or what's going to interfere more or less But I will admit the one thing that I can't tell you out of this is that the Long-range model is exactly what they say it is so outside of that everything else was pretty consistent with all these and everything else just comes down to density and The other factors and of which one you need whether or not you need 4x4 memo 3x3 memo How many devices you're going to connect to it? Do you need those device fastest? And of course the ultimate answer is because this comes up. Should I connect my gaming system? This is a thing. I've had people message us about more than once No, don't connect your gaming system or Wi-Fi always hardline it and this is the reason why These latency problems and these moving around problems. 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