AmpliFi Alien

The three Wi-Fi mesh systems I am familiar with are plume, eero, and Amplifi Alien. Stay far away from Plume. Eero is fine, but doesn’t have the level of configuration I want. Alien is better, but dated, I’d expect them to update to Wi-Fi 7 soon. If setting up fresh, I’d go with Uniquiti’s commercia

I’m using an Express 7 in China that connects via WireGuard to a UCG-Ultra in Canada and a UDR-7 in Hong Kong. Both work very well with sustained speeds up to 300Mbps down and 30Mbps (limited by the local China upload speed) up. This is with 1Gbps+ bidirectional connections on the networks outside o

I've had my fair share of No Response issues within HomeKit and it mostly started when I got a a tp-link Deco router. (my first WiFi6 router) A lot of my devices did not like how the router managed the WiFi 6 standard especially on 2.4GHx band (if you turned that off and went with the older WiFi sta

I’m just going to chime in with my thoughts. For me it’s almost always on the 2.4 ghz. Can I say I’ve never seen it on the 5 ghz, I can’t say for sure, but I know I’ve never seen it on the 6 ghz (I only have 1 or two devices capable of using it). Outside of the house seems way worse. If I sit on my

I can assure you switching to unifi is no big deal anymore. I also upgraded my alien setup to 2 u7 pro wall access points, 2 unifi flex mini 2.5 switches and the cloud gateway max. Total cost not more than 2 Amplifi alien at retail and the upgrade for me was huge. 2.5G network everywhere and more th

Unless you need 6GHz Wi-Fi, you could go with an Amplifi alien or two with a mesh setup. But that's only Wi-Fi 6. It's still really good. For your gaming, though, I recommend connecting with ethernet.

Most consumer AIO single and mesh units will outperform a single UniFi AP. An Amplifi Alien is designed for someone who just wants to plug it in wherever. APs are designed for strategic placement.

I currently have two Amplifi Alien routers with one in bridge mode acting as a mesh node. Has a dedicated 6GHz backhaul connection to not eat into overall bandwidth from other devices. I have zero connectivity issues across maybe 30-40 devices connected. I always see a NAT of Open across other devic

I know this post is 2 years old. But after doing a ton of digging this is what helped me. I've been getting D BufferBloat scores and having the worst jitter/lag in CS2 that I've ever seen. Making it unplayable. Rubber banding like I've never seen before. I swore it was a problem with a CS2 update. N

Thanks! My Wi-Fi is pretty good since I upgraded to an AmpliFi Alien, it’s night and day difference. The thing is, I tried a ethernet, and for some reason, I get lower or very similar results to my Wi-Fi, and quite inconsistent which was surprising That’s another rabbit hole I’ll get into soon. Mayb