 Tom here for more systems and this is a U6 LR high performance access point Wi-Fi 6 access point from Unify. I've actually been testing them for the last couple of months but I haven't done a lot of videos on Unify 6 and essentially it's because well they're in short supply even here in October of 2021. We bought this a few months ago when they were like limit two per customer and now they're like limit four per customer. So progress has been made but they're still not easy to get our hands on like 300 of these to do a large scale deployment for me to really do that in-depth review. But I wanted to at least talk about it, talk about the testing process and how we look at reviews so you have a little bit of insight into these. Too long didn't watch, it's been working perfectly fine at my house. I'm bad about getting people to watch the entire T of my video but hey at least I saved you clicking out this far. 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I mean it even comes with a fancy metal backing plate and uh that I'm less a fan of but works but it does also have these cool clips right here that allow you to mount it to the drop ceiling type of rails but you didn't come here just to see exactly what's on the back sheets and marketing materials right? That's one of the reasons when I do my reviews they're often based on real world usage as much as I can as much as reasonable and real world usage has been very limited on these due to the fact that well like I said in the beginning of the video very limited amount of them are available. We have a lot of deployments we've done that are very large and different warehouses and different larger scale projects and those large scale projects give me better data sets. We really try to apply a scientific method we don't want to know how this performs at one location how does a bunch of these perform at a bunch of different locations what were the challenges what were some of the problems you run into and because of the limited availability I've kind of avoided doing some in-depth reviews on any of the Wi-Fi 6 so I wanted to make this video to one kind of mention that and two yes we have been testing them though but I'm not going to dive into speed tests. Christian Crosstalk Solutions I'll leave a link to his video down below did a series of speed tests on these devices now they're fast and they're Wi-Fi 6 one of the problems though and we've done a lot of testing internally I just don't bother publishing it because the numbers don't give a lot of meaning and let me get a little more in depth on that the problems we ran into where different phones had different speeds when we were doing the phone tests different laptops had different speeds when we were doing speed tests and things like moving a laptop over literally a foot sometimes would change the results. Wi-Fi is really tricky when it comes to getting absolutely consistent speed tests they're also not what most of our clients are looking for almost always people saying I want the utmost fastest and highest speed out of my Wi-Fi devices generally a home user request and I get that but unfortunately that is really not an easy thing to reproduce in a consistent basis when you talk about where to place it in your house I know where I put it in my house and it works really well working in my basement works all the way out in my yard but I can't guarantee it'll work in your yard the same way most of the business use cases we have from these are all about connectivity when I mentioned things like the warehouse project the client is sending kilobits of data not even megabits of data literally just kilobits of data across several tablets attached to high loads and they want the utmost connectivity now there's some obvious advantages of Wi-Fi 6 when it comes to higher density environments and I get all that but we have not been able to test any of the unified stuff at scale but I at least want to give an update and I've been using well not this one though this is we bought two of them because it was limit two I have one at my house that I've been using for several months and it's worked great and I've had no problems that a matter of fact I would definitely if you can get a hold of these say yeah this is worth buying worth putting one in at home but for the businesses asking for it it's just not been available for us to do we just had another project that we ended up using a different version the older version of them because it was the only thing they could get at the quantity they needed in the time frame that they wanted to get the project done they said later we'll upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 but honestly connectivity is still very adequate with the older models and the older models are much more readily available to buy a hundred of them for a project or even three or four hundred of them for some of the slightly bigger projects so my review of it is yes it works yes it works well we haven't had any issues we haven't had any problems with it we as in me and my family that's I know a very limited data set and any of the consulting we've done related to Unify we haven't had too many people bringing up issues with it I haven't seen the DHCP bug come up with these models but we do a lot of PF Sense and it never came up with the other models with PF Sense PF Sense and DHCP if you look up something like Sonic Wall Unify access points to DHCP you'll find a lot of problems we hardly run into that many Sonic Walls except for one project of the client insisted on using Sonic Walls and they ran into the DHCP problem with some of the models static IPs where the temporary fix until firmware updates were available back to the Unify 6 I like these devices I think Unify has done a good job with them Unify has done a overall good job with their access points and switches if you're curious about their routing equipment I'll leave a link to my Unify Dream Machine a USU video I did recently talking about some of the shortcomings those products have when it comes to routing but still think they're good for home users but this right here if you are looking for a good Wi-Fi unit I do like these now if you've not at all heard of Unify before right now and you're just looking for a good Wi-Fi 6 device please be warned you do need to run to get the most out of these the Unify software to find networking controller which you can host yourself or buy a Unify Cloud Key or run a Unify Dream Machine to connect to these and that sometimes is a challenge for people looking for a standalone device they don't think they should have to run software but this is one of the things that gets tricky to recommend because I get it you don't want to set up the Unify software find network controllers to run a single access point in your house but that is the way these are kind of designed to work to get the most out of them now one other thing I'll mention is I do have a mix in my house because I have in wall in my office the in wall is not Wi-Fi 6 it's the older in wall model HD and I don't have any roaming issues because I know that was a question of people have messaged me and I just wanted to throw it out there and clarify that do you seem to work fine in a mixed environment now granted my environment at home is pretty limited it's laptops a handful of the kids laptops to do school work and uh google chromecasts in order to watch different services and some of those are complex some of that's youtube and yes plex is on the same network as the google chromecast because getting them on different networks becomes even for me something I don't feel like dealing with right now back over to these do I think they're a goodbye yes do I think I will review them in the future when they become much more available yes I'll dive more into it and be able to give you that more in-depth answer you're looking for but I'm not going to bother running speed test like I said I think Chris from crosstalk solution did a good job on that and he even comments on some of the challenges of figuring out exactly where some of the problems may lie and of course they're always with the equipment he tested and maybe different than the results you have with the equipment you test so that's my quick review of the unify u6 l r the long range does seem to hold up to being long range telling you the distance it works through my walls won't give you better insight on whether or not they'll work through your walls so you kind of have to buy one and maybe if you have to buy one more or even still put a couple of those less expensive outdoor access points outside um which I was thought I was going to have to do and didn't um but they should roam fine between them uh using these devices right here all right and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of this video if you 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