Fast Wifi is possible! I have declared my Ubiquiti experiment a success! I am consistently measuring internet speeds over 100 MB/s with the lowest I’ve seen around 40 MB/s. This is a huge upgrade from seeing 5-8 MB/s regularly with the highest being around 15 MB/s (see [my previous post][1] for more details on the diagnosis of my old system). In this post, I want to document my installatin process because it was a bit of a doozy....
Introduction I ran into the ever common problem of slow WiFi recently. In this post I want to detail the experiments I ran and what I gleaned from the results. Setting the Stage First I’ll describe the setup I have for my home wifi network and the problems I was experiencing. Symptoms: No problem streaming Netflix Trouble loading web pages occasionally I had a weird set of problems in that I typically could stream episodes of shows on Netflix without any huge problems, but sometimes loading sites would be unbearably slow....