Ubiquiti U7-LR UniFi WiFi - any good for providing good internet coverage over 3 storeys?

[Simon92]

Hi

I live in a three storey town house and am planning to install Full Fibre Openreach Broadband. ISP will be SKY.

I am keen to get the best WiFi coverage that I can across all three floors but am conscious that it will be particularly important to have an ethernet wired connection to my Smart TV and SKY puck. I have had a local specialist check my scenario out and hard wiring to the puck and TV looks as though it will be feasible. The one TV we will have will be on the ground floor(front room). The full fibre connection will come into the house at the ground floor at the rear of the house(in the backroom immediately next to the front room which has the tv). Fibre will come overhead from a pole behind the house.

Getting the internet to the rest of the house is required for the use of PCs, laptops and phones. Neither my wife nor I are gamers - children have fled the nest.

Installation of Ubiquiti U7-LR UniFi WiFi ( https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/53854-ubiquiti-u7-lr/ ) is being suggested to me in order get the internet service we want throughout the rest of the house. On the face of it it sounds like a good system - a Dual Radio system wired to each floor from which to then provide wifi. The proposals be suggested to me also include hard wiring directly to a PC on the first floor and a PC on the second floor.

I am not familiar with Ubiquiti at all and it is not a name/product I recognise.

I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has used/is using this system(or similar). Will it provide consistent TV? And good for extending the broadband I shall be paying for?  Grateful also for any wider thoughts on what is being put to me.

Many thanks.

[JimM1]

@Simon92 Many different mesh systems available and as your installation company are specking the use of such, taking care of all the needed wiring, they are the ones to ask!! But it is good Equipment.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Simon92 wrote:

I am not familiar with Ubiquiti at all and it is not a name/product I recognise.

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Ubiquiti is well known in the prosumer, small business, charity and education sectors: it has the distinct advantage of not requiring annually renewed licences for hardware use.

In a previous career I installed and administered a network of over 100 Unifi switches, access points and cameras, all running from their onsite cloud controller.

[Chrisee]

@Simon92 I have no direct experience of the system you mention other than Ubquiti kit whole quite good can be fiddly to configure. In theory  any 3 unit whole home wifi mesh set up should work in a 3 story home but nobody will give you a guarantee of performance as a lot depends on ends on the type of construcyion of the property. A three storey Victorian villa with solid internal walls being far more difficult than a new build timber frzmed property. 

There is a huge rznge of suitable kit around ranging widely in cost. WiFi7 kit being more expensive than WiFi6 and wiFi 5 kit is cheaper again. Given watching TV never needs more than 50Mb/s with stability being the prime consideration your proposed use of Ethernet is sensible. My own TP-Link Deco 4 system which is WiFi5 and costs under £100 for a 3 unit set up which gives me over 100Mb/s in every room in my 3 level home and 500Mb/s in my main living area which is more than sufficent for casual and business use. It would be faster if I hard wired the satellite units as you say you propose. I have 3 Sky Stream pucks and a Glass TV networked using WiFi all of which work well.

One thought is whether you intend to totally replace the Sky hub which while posdiblecadds a layer of complexity and means you losecthe digital phone line or runnthe WiFi kit in access point modecto simply replace the Sky hub's wifi which is my approach.