Ubiquiti Amplifi 4-Ports Home Wi-Fi System AFI HD Wireless Router with 2 pin European plug

If ever there was anything that proves that you really do get what you pay for then this is it!Having 200meg Virgin broadband but being fed up with slow, unreliable WiFi around the house, despite having various access points installed (3 AP + the main router). I decided to research in to many mesh systems and having narrowed it down to the final 2 and speaking to an IT technician at my workplace. The decision was made to take the plunge and buy myself the AMPLIFI Home HD mesh system. Never spending so much on a router before, I was apprehensive but something had to be done to put an end to the constant family WiFi frustrations!So here we are 3 months in without a single complaint of drop out or slow speed. Absolute bliss!I have the main router in my lounge and to be fair, even before adding the 2 APs included in the kit, the WiFi coverage was solid and much better than my old setup. With an AP located in my back lounge this gives solid, fast WiFi everywhere in the garden as well! With the 2nd AP placed in a bedroom at the front of the house we now have amazing coverage everywhere around the house! To give you an idea of the size of the coverage area my home is a 4 bedroom with 3 downstairs reception rooms, kitchen and my loft is converted to an office. There’s 5 adults in the house with mobile phones, smart TVs, Xbox, PS5, so there’s always something being streamed and gaming taking place.Setup was very easy and the instructions were easy to follow, although I do have some knowledge of setting up networks. But shouldn’t be a problem for most people.So in conclusion. Yes, the £300+ price is more than some of the other available systems but in terms of overall value for money for the quality you get, I cannot recommend this enough!!!One thing you could try before opting for the full kit is to purchase the router first and see how your coverage is without the APs. Individual APs are available to purchase and you can then build up your system to suit your home/building. This works out slight more expensive but could save you money if you don’t need 2 APs.

I bought ubiquity as I was having problems with Sonos over tplink. I am in a period house with some areas that receive a bad signal or not at all. I needed a single mesh network rather than multiple ones where I would have to disconnect and reconnect in diff. rooms. This was recommended to me by a colleague and after doing the research, although people have objections about the look of the extenders, it is in summary the most powerful out there. The look of the main base unit is amazing though - has a clock , you can control the light and even though I care about the technology, I am impressed by the design.I bought the pack with the main router and the two extenders. I was told that the main router is very powerful and I may not need the extenders but I wanted to get this sorted so went for the bigger pack. It is true that the main unit just about covered the whole house (3 story) with no extenders. The dead spots where no longer dead. I added the extenders to make the signal more powerful.Something I was nervous about and could not find answers for easily and it’s worth covering here: I have a BT home hub I needed to connect this to and everything I had read before pointed to the fact that the BT home hub does not have a modem only configuration - and indeed it does not. This means it does not have a configuration where it only provides the internet and leaves the routing work to ubiquity. The BT home hub would also create its own network and route data around. On this basis I was fully expecting the setup to be complicated. I read lots of articles and forum replies before even trying, but setup was a breeze. It just works!So if you are happy to connect the main unit by cable to bt home hub, then you are sorted - it just works! If you want to be tidy you can switch off the wireless transmission on the bt home hub but you don’t have to. Ubiquity will create its own separate network.If you want to have a wireless connection between the main unit and your bt home hub then that’s when it gets complicated. There is an article out there that explains how but I have not tested as I did not want the hastle.From a cost perspective also note it’s possibly at the top of the range but whereas with other brands you may need base unit and extenders, this base unit is so powerful that it can be sufficient on its own and therefore a cost saving too.Enjoy! This is an excellent product - the most powerful but at the top of the range form a cost basis.

Being a Virgin Media customer and having a super fast 200 mbps line, I have never really been able to take advantage of the blistering download speeds unless I had a ethernet cable plugged in to the VM router. The Virgin Media hub, even though dual band running both 2.5 ghz and 5 ghz (our third VM hub to date) had constant connection issues with connecting to a sky box, various iPhones, Dell Laptops and Apple TV and a number of WiFi dead spots around the home.The Amplifi system is by no means cheap or what could be considered a budget / value product, however, after doing some serious research on YouTube / Google and asking some relevant questions on Amazon I decided it was time to bite the bullet and give it a serious try.The package arrived on time, and undamaged. Within about 20 mins of getting it out of the box, plugged in and set up we started to enjoy serious download speeds right across the house. Using a SPEEDTEST app on my iPhone it was immediately clear on just how good this set up is, regularly showing between 220 mbps - 225 mbps with the average at about 220 mbps. Through my Virgin Media Hub I would get at best 130 mbps with an average of about 90 mbps (if that).I would thoroughly recommend this product, It is amazingly fast, very reliable and extremely easy to set up. I would suggest to anyone who is using a standard Wifi router provided by Virgin Media (or other standard wifi router from their Broadband Supplier) to upgrade to a performance wifi router.Just as a note, the original Virgin Media hub had to stay is situ (the Amplifi system is not a modem), I changed the setting on the Virgin Media Hub to 'Modem Mode Only' which meant the Virgin Media hub no longer transmitted WiFi.