[Back Order] Ubiquiti UniFi Access Point In-Wall UAP-IW-HD $249 (RRP $289) Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Access Point In-Wall HD
Model: UAP-IW-HD
In-Wall 802.11ac Wave2 MU-MIMO enterprise access point. Four ports are available for bridging – one of which offers PoE passthrough when the AP is powered by an 802.3at PoE+ switch.

I think this is a decent price for a recent WiFi 5 access point. Looking at putting a few through my house.

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  onggie on 13/01/2022 - 13:45

  +2

  There are WiFi 6 ones that were announced FYI.

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    83ams on 13/01/2022 - 13:47

    When is AU release?

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      harry56 on 13/01/2022 - 14:28

      The 6-lite not in wall one is out here. the Pro6 not in wall is supposed to be out in the USA this year sometime and i assume here too. Unsure about in wall ones

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        83ams on 13/01/2022 - 22:52

        Yup seen those, haven't seen an in wall WiFi 6 one yet.

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  Ozitravel on 13/01/2022 - 14:14

  I think this is fairly common price and not much of a bargain I am afraid.

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    83ams on 13/01/2022 - 14:15

    CCC has it equal as the lowest on Amazon. Not sure how low it has been in the past.

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  yahms on 13/01/2022 - 14:31

  +7

  i personally use the cheaper AC-Mesh model. its only wifi5 and it doesnt do wave2 fancy stuff, but its normal price is $150 so useful for giving good 5ghz coverage around the house by having some extra APs. i have 4 APs in a small house, overkill maybe but the overlap in frequencies is a consideration when your neighbours have strong 5ghz.

  To minimise overlap with each other, i have my 5ghz APs on different channels (40mhz width, i give up 80/160mhz speed for better reliability and more 'lanes'), but i have neighbours with 5ghz also.

  thing about 5ghz is there is waaayyy more bandwidth than 2.4, but the channels arent straight forward.. anything below ch100 can only transmit at a lower power, and you have probably seen reference the DFS channels? DFS are basically where the frequencies sit in the same frequency range that weather radars use. For an AP to use these channels it needs to listen out for radar and if detected, switch channel. Chances are most APs wont bother even trying, so you may find your APs and your neighbours APs are all trying to get the non DFS frequencies.

  A few months ago I moved a couple of my 5ghz APs to DFS ranges (left one on non-DFS incase some clients had compatibility issues), but it required some research—

  I wont rehash everything in the blog post below but if you check for weather frequencies in use in your area you can find the DFS channels which arent likely to clash and give yourself bandwidth that your neighbours probably arent using

  https://goughlui.com/2018/06/04/note-choosing-5ghz-wi-fi-cha…

  check here. set your address, 300km range, search 5-6ghz
  https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/assignment_range.search

  in my example, according to acma, BOM uses 5.625 around WA, and theres some allotment of 5.7ghz around too, but nothing below 5.625, so i just picked channels below that, ie 5.490 - 5.590. thats 100mhz right there, which is why i can sit a pair of 40mhz networks in channels 100-112

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    mainmast on 13/01/2022 - 15:41

    That is a lot of work to manually tune the setup. Does ubiquity still lack support of client roaming from one AP to another with a channel switch?

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      yahms on 13/01/2022 - 16:34

      +1

      hmm interesting point, are you talking about Zero Handoff specifically? which requires all APs on the same ch, or fast roaming like 802.11r etc which i beleive doesnt require same channel? ive been using ubiquiti for a few years and my clients hop across channels seemlessly including between 2.4 and 5ghz etc. I dont have fast roaming (802.11rkv maybe?) enabled, but modern clients seem to roam fine, maybe theres a dropped ping but things like zoom calls or phone calls over wifi dont seem to be affected when i go from my faraday cage shed to the opposite side of the house connected to a call the whole time. logs are full of messages saying things like : XYZ phone roams from EntUnit-ch1-ch100DFS to Tictac from channel 100 to channel 52 on SSID "pretty-fly-for-a-wifi" which correlate to how the devices move around the house. does that shed any light on it?

      yeh its some effort for sure. the easier option of course is to use non-DFS channels, or steer away from ubiquiti enterprise class gear in the first place lol. i only offer the info so people can assess for themselves :)

      In crowded environments doing the manual tuning, or at least understanding which DFS channels are likely to be free, may be less work than dealing with on going performance issues from overcrowding in the non-DFS space (or downtime from selecting DFS channels that are busy and having the AP move over)

      ta

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        mainmast on 13/01/2022 - 21:52

        I am not very familiar with ubiquity gear and problems with roaming is something that people often talk over the beers. It seems that you are manually trying to do the job of the wireless controller and this is why I asked.

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          yahms on 14/01/2022 - 00:29

          @mainmast: lol maybe i am. i dunno hey, it works for me - i just wanted to bring attention to the DFS wifi channels :)

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            mainmast on 14/01/2022 - 06:56

            @yahms: All good, you seem to enjoy tinkering with it and it all works :). Happy days

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  grjohnson on 13/01/2022 - 15:11

  I just bought a non-HD version to replace one that died.

  https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/265133052399 (I got mine for $137 with free delivery).

  I couldn't justify $250 for HD version.

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    whoistheg on 14/01/2022 - 10:43

    I have both.. the HD one has 4 port switch in the bottom and nonHD only has 2.. I use these behind my TV and cable up everything with ethernet..

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  davlloyd on 14/01/2022 - 11:24

  +1

  Be wary, ordered this through Amazon which arrived yesterday. Although the AP came in the correct packaging for the HD version, the actual hardware was the low end UAP-AC-IW model. The return process for Amazon is terrible as I was unable to do the replacement option so I now will only get a refund some time after they received the goods. So I am out of pocket for some time and I also have to go to the post office.

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    83ams on 14/01/2022 - 11:33

    Thanks for the heads up. Mine arrives tomorrow, will report back.

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    darkness on 17/01/2022 - 10:41

    This got me paranoid. I got three delivered on Saturday, but since the rest of my gear hadn't arrived, I didn't open it, until today. All three have four Ethernet ports. Is this enough to indicate that they are all the HD versions or do I need to power them up to confirm (don't have any PoE switches or injectors at the moment)?

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      svict4 on 17/01/2022 - 18:49

      Just check the product name on the box, @davlloyd was shipped UAP-AC-IW but the OZ post was for UAP-IW-HD