What a great review, I have honestly been having a hard time figuring out what to buy and this helps me to understand which I need. It isn't that obvious of what the difference is between lite, pro and max is!
6Ghz is not just about speed. I live near a military airbase so the DFS channels are always locked out. Today I see 83 SSIDs on channel 157 because everyone is trying to grab one of the 2 available 80Mhz channels. 6Ghz is wide open do to the lower adoption but also the MUCH reduced range.
The benefit of not having 6ghz is that there isn't any fan in the AP like there is with the Pro
Over a month ago I purchased a unifi Gateway Max and a U7 Pro Max. I have a 1605 sq foot house and an attached garage. My Pixel 6 has wifi 6e. With just the one access point my Pixel 6 shows over a 1 gig speed eerwhere except the garage and back porch. The garage gets over 800 meg and the back porch gets a little over 500 meg. I have frontier fiber with a 2gig setup.
I was wondering why no one makes reviews about Zyxel switches, APs and Firewalls instead or next to Unifi network equipment. I think they don’t get the deserved hype, however those are quite decent equipment as well. Probably it would bring some views for your channel as well 😊
Tempted by the In-Wall. £50 more for the Pro Wall with 6ghz band, but only has the one ethernet port! That extra port on the In-wall could be very useful.
Seen it, clicked it, liked it.
Just thinking whether an alternative would be to use the Express 7 as an access point instead of the wall. That gives you 2 ethernet ports and also access to 6GHz. No POE though. As ever so many different options from Unifi to do essentially the same thing.
The U7 lite will be perfect for a garage AP since I have Wi-Fi cameras on the back of the house.
For everyone asking why it doesn’t have 6ghz there is a u7 wall pro which does
I just bought the lite I wanted wifi7 and am only using the wifi for a tablet, cellphone, and printer. SO not much. but I use my tablet to stream tv at night so wanted good speed to keep it from buffering. its overkill but its only 99 dollars in u.s. and it works with my other unifi products so I keep it in the umbrella of unifi stuff
Fantastic vid
I don't understand their lineup anymore. On a U6 Pro I reach full Gbit speeds to an Intel AX201 Adapter, Up/Down.
Love your great content, and I'm sure this video is no exception, but when I heard "do not support 6Ghz frequency" I hit the like button and flipped to another vid. Unifi screwed the metaphorical pooch hard with this omission.
Would you be able to undertake a similar at home test for the u7 pro, u7 pro max and u7e? Trying to decide whether 2x pro/max would be better than 1x u7e. Thanks, great channel.
@NASCompares What chispet is in the U7 Lite? Qualcomm, Mediatek?
I would almost be OK with this if they had made the U7 Pro Wall with the same extra ports. Instead, I have to either choose to have a 6Ghz radio or have the extra ports, and that makes both of them inadequate for my setup needs. SMH...
I'm using a UniFi U7 Pro for about 8 months now and one thing totally bothers me. It gets hot. Really hot. It hurts when I lay my hand on it. I used a usb desktop-fan last summer to cool. Hopefully the U7 lite does better. Not for me but for every other customer. I would not buy it again.
So you can't set this up as a stand alone AP?
@Budley