I'm looking at getting a new WAP for my home network. We're renting a house for the moment, it's about 1500 sq ft I think and it's a split-level. Has a fairly big yard, decent size garage with a boat parking area that I have a project I'm working on.
My previous WAP is an Engenius ECB350. After a shaky start and setting it up with regular reboots, it was totally solid for a few years. We had it in a 2800 sq ft house and it still gave good signal from the second floor across the house down in the walk-out basement.
I have a UAP-AC-Lite, but it's being a pain in the rear. My whole network is being that way at the moment, so I really just want a single stand-alone access point that will do the job. I'm currently comparing these:
-Linksys LAPAC1750 ($200)
-TP-Link AC1750 EAP245 ($90)
-TP-Link AC1900 EAP330 ($200)
-Engenius ECB1750 ($185)
I've had good luck with the Engenius, but a lot of people don't like them. The Linksys seems to get good reviews on range. TP-Link seems to work well, and the new EAP245 looks interesting for the price, but I'm not sure if the features of the EAP330 would be worth twice the costs.
Thoughts? Other ideas? Just stick with Ubiquiti because that's what everybody uses without question?
ETA: We currently only have a few devices. 3 phones, a couple of laptops and tablets. May add some IoT stuff in the future, but not an over-stressed network. Need 2-3 SSID for internal/guest connections. Currently using an ERL for the router, but will probably convert my old Sophos UTM box into a vanilla *BSD box for a router in the future.
My previous WAP is an Engenius ECB350. After a shaky start and setting it up with regular reboots, it was totally solid for a few years. We had it in a 2800 sq ft house and it still gave good signal from the second floor across the house down in the walk-out basement.
I have a UAP-AC-Lite, but it's being a pain in the rear. My whole network is being that way at the moment, so I really just want a single stand-alone access point that will do the job. I'm currently comparing these:
-Linksys LAPAC1750 ($200)
-TP-Link AC1750 EAP245 ($90)
-TP-Link AC1900 EAP330 ($200)
-Engenius ECB1750 ($185)
I've had good luck with the Engenius, but a lot of people don't like them. The Linksys seems to get good reviews on range. TP-Link seems to work well, and the new EAP245 looks interesting for the price, but I'm not sure if the features of the EAP330 would be worth twice the costs.
Thoughts? Other ideas? Just stick with Ubiquiti because that's what everybody uses without question?
ETA: We currently only have a few devices. 3 phones, a couple of laptops and tablets. May add some IoT stuff in the future, but not an over-stressed network. Need 2-3 SSID for internal/guest connections. Currently using an ERL for the router, but will probably convert my old Sophos UTM box into a vanilla *BSD box for a router in the future.