AmpliFi HD WiFi Router

Took a UTR recently and finally had the chance to deeply test it while traveling. Overall, I'm a bit disappointed with the experience so far. At the airport, connecting to the public Wi-Fi was frustrating. The captive portal didn't work correctly through the UTR. I had to connect directly with my phone first, copy the captive portal URL, then manually paste it while connected through the UTR. The router reported a "Success" page, but there was no internet access afterward until I used the original captive portal link. At the hotel, things were easier since there was no captive portal. However, I still experienced occasional disconnects despite staying in the same location, very close to the hotel's access point. Another thing I noticed is that the device gets surprisingly hot after a few hours of use, but that's kinda expected. I can't comment on battery life yet because I'm powering it from a large power bank that is also charging my laptop and phone. Is this a typical experience with the UTR, or am I just missing something on the public wifi authentification? I'm using the UniFi App via an iPhone 15 pro.

I’ve read some mixed reviews on this device, but I had to try it for myself. I was amazed at how seamless adoption was, and how easy it is to setup the WAN and optional VPN. As far as wan options, I’ve tested wireless uplink via guest WiFi, mobile hotspot, and usb tethered hotspot so far. The speeds are adequate for remote work… usually around 100mbit down & 50mbit up, mostly due to uplink limitations, I think. I’m looking forward to stress testing this on my home network that has multi gig up/down to see if it can pull more. I also tested Teleport and WireGuard. WireGuard has been very stable maintaining a session nearly 30 hours without disruption since my initial setup. I tried Teleport VPN first. While set up and establishing a connection was easier, it did reconnect several times in a short period for some reason. WireGuard seems to have slightly higher throughputs and lower latency as well. As someone who travels a lot, uses public and guest networks, and needs LAN access to home resources — the Travel Router has really simplified and secured my connectivity while away from home. The housing is plastic and seems a bit fragile, but Ubiquiti put a lot of thought into the slim, sleek and practical design, all the way down to spring actuated RJ45 terminals that open up when a cable is inserted. Looking forward to seeing how reliable this thing is moving forward. Thought it was worth sharing my experience and opinions so far, for anyone considering the purchase.

I was having major issues with my SONOS S1 system on my shiny, new Ubiquiti wifi. Creating groups of rooms and I couldn't stream more than 1 song before it lost sync and stopped. What I traced down in the end was not a SONOS problem but rather a really unstable Unifi WiFi network. Computers/phones would stop during streaming. Ring doorbell would reset and send me messages for activity when there was none. I read that SONOS was tricky on Ubiquiti so I started there. When the kids would complain the wifi dropped I would laugh - this is all brand new gear it CANT be the wifi! Until it happened to me a few times. I spent a lot of time online reading / watching videos and working with Ubiquiti Support (awesome by the way) and found 2 things that cleaned up my wifi experience. I recommend using a command line tool called fping to ping multiple IP addresses at one time from 1 computer. fping logs stats for uptime and you can ping each AP and one IoT device connected to each AP to figure out what things are dropping - clients or infrastructure. In my case it was the APs. I also setup a computer to grab the SIEM logs from the UDMP using syslog-ng and then I could check log events with my fping failures to try and correlate what was happening. A little Wireshark thrown in for good measure.  My system UDMP -> USW Pro XG10 -> 4x U7 Pro + 1 U7 Outdoor.  I have an SSID just for SONOS and its 2.4 GHz only and separate VLAN and all my S1 devices are on WIFI not sonos-net.  I have a 100+ smart devices most 2.4GHz and running on their own SSID.  This makes a lot of multicast/broadcast traffic from all my clients.  I started here: [https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/27384925962647-Managing-Broadcast-Traffic-with-UniFi](https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/27384925962647-Managing-Broadcast-Traffic-with-UniFi) [https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/30266615758743-Resolving-Wi-Fi-Performance-Issues-Due-to-High-Airtime-Utilization](https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/30266615758743-Resolving-Wi-Fi-Performance-Issues-Due-to-High-Airtime-Utilization) In the end, two things finally cleaned up my 60-90 second Wifi outages: 1. Set Storm Control for Multicast and Broadcast limits to 1000 pkts/s. This is for each port on the USW Pro XG10 with an AP connected. You have to enable ADVANCED features to find this. This fixed a LOT of my problems, but not all.  2. In the same ADVANCED features, I set Link Speed from "automatically negotiate" to "2.5Gbps FDX". My U7 pros are 2.5 Gbps according to spec but I was getting a lot of errors for my APs operating at a slower link speed due to power or cabling issues. It doesn't say what that slower link speed actually is! It's all new CAT6 and runs fine at 10 Gbps with other devices so I didnt think the cables were an issue. I ignored these errors for weeks. When I set it to fixed 2.5 Gbps speed from auto negotiate, my network drops stopped all together. Based on speed tests, it's running over 1 Gbps for sure. I also have been running the latest betas firmware (auto-updating) for my APs and switches since engaging Ubiquiti Support. All this was worked out on the 8.5.18 FW for the U7Pro / Outdoor and 7.4.1 on the USW Pro XG10 . And yes, the SONOS S1 is working fine now. Hope that helps someone else.

Not sure about specific settings and tuning as I run mostly Ubiquiti wifi hardware, however when it comes to the general idea of what you're talking about overall, I'm pretty sure you're wildly overthinking it. 95% of people aren't remotely aware of how their wifi works, and as you said, just leave the BGW320 or whatever ISP provided modem router/combo unit they are provided in place. 80% of those people will never run a speed test, and 75% of those people never use wifi for anything bandwidth intensive enough to notice interference. You're a chill dude for not wanting your nicer wifi hardware to drown out others, but I seriously wouldn't worry about it.

DO NOT BUY WAVLINK!!! It likely Chinese malware/spyware. If you have a device, I strongly recommend considering replacement — changing the password won’t protect you. I discovered this personally when I bought a ubiquiti router that does traffic analysis. It showed GBs going out between my wavlink WiFi access point and a single Chinese IP. Continuously. Even after I reset the device, disconnected everything, and changed the password. Turns out I wasn’t the only one to notice this: https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/ It feels like a failure of our system that our retailers are still even selling this stuff.