Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LITE UniFi AP AC LITE 802.11ac Gigabit Dual-Radio PoE

There are not enough good things I can say about these access points. It deserves more than 5 stars.I chose this AP over the Pro primarily due to the price. I would consider the Pro you need to insert the WAP along an existing network run or need a network run near where the WAP terminates. Otherwise, the performance of the 2x2 radio on the AP is more than sufficient for most installations where cost and a working WiFi network are the primary concern.I started with this access point about 3 years ago by installing 2 of these in my home. I went from a two mid-level TP-Link router/APs configured to be used as APs and I had nothing but issues for years, to using two of these APs with zero since switching. The only reason I ever have to power cycle these APs is to install a firmware update, or the power went out for an extended period of time. They are that rock solid / reliable / stable.At a previous job, after an unnecessary amount of pleading with my manager, I was permitted to install 3 of these APs in the office. We went from having constant issues with the WiFi and poor coverage, to no reported issues.For a side job, I installed 3 of these for a business that was very dependent on WiFi for the 30+ wireless devices they used for their operations throughout the day. The issues they had previously had with their 3 home-grade router/wireless devices went away overnight, dramatically simplified their network setup, and they have been very happy for 2+ years with no WiFi issues!Detecting a pattern yet? These WAPs are nothing short of amazing. They cost as much as a decent mid-level router/wireless device, but offer better coverage and many more features over a standard router/wireless combo. All without having to hack and install open source firmware. Ubiquiti regularly release firmware updates to improve performance, stability, and address security vulnerabilities. All firmware updates are provided free of charge, and do not require a monthly/yearly subscription like many vendors are doing these days. They also support their devices with firmware updates for many years. Even their "legacy" products still have current firmware updates as of March 2021. It's refreshing to see a company support their products, and in turn their customers, for many years without gouging them for support or forcing obsolescence by abandoning the software on perfectly good hardware.When the AP is installed on the ceiling or a wall, it looks like nothing more than another smoke detector if the status LED is turned off in the management settings, though I like to leave the status light on in most cases to know if the access point is powered on and working. I have also seen some "installations" where the AP is setting on a shelf, but this doesn't seem to affect performance much if at all.If there is a "con" to the UniFi line of products, it is that there is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to install and use the UniFi management portal software and configure the devices, but any network or systems administrator shouldn't have too much trouble getting everything up and running in a matter of an hour or two at most. It is best to install the software on a server that is always on. You may also consider installing the controller on a Raspberry Pi, or you can use the Cloud Key as the controller. Though the controller is not necessary to use the WAPs after they are configured, it is advisable to keep the controller running to quickly make configuration changes, and you get a large amount of visibility into the connected devices, signal levels, data sent/received and also provides logs that can be used to troubleshoot issues.I continue to preach the greatness of these access points, and all of Ubiquiti's products really, to anybody that will listen. The price to performance ratio is out of this world in my opinion, and you can easily spend 4 to 10 times the money on the big guys' equipment, and get very little more to show for the money besides the name, and maybe a few specialty features which all home and almost all small/medium business just don't need.

Between home, work, and friends this AP paired with EdgeRouter is my go-to network solution. UniFi (web) dashboard has some nice features and visibility as to what is connected, Not all that hard to set up, has a nice profile that works well for ceiling mount. In my view this is a really good Access Point and just about all I ever use.

Comes with a PoE injector, but no patch cables. If you don't have your own bin of patch cables already, this probably isn't the product for you anyway.Geek factor on the software, once you have it installed is about a 5 out of 10. Not hard to figure out if you're familiar with this kind of thing. Installing the software on a Mac is very easy. Installing on Windows is not. Most browsers in windows no longer allow Java to run cleanly and ubiquity control software needs that. I'm told it's great on Ubunto. My preferred flavor for standup boxes is CentOS and I haven't tried it there.Once running the software quickly find the device, offered to update the firmware and adopt it. That took less than five minutes. I told it the SSID and password I wanted to use and that was all that was strictly necessary.The software gives you great statistical data and a huge range of options, but all I wanted was a wireless access point and that was quickly configured.Honestly, I've had a harder time getting a cheap DLINK home wifi router configured than this thing -- and now that the first one is installed, setup of the additional ones I've ordered for coverage in other areas will be about 5 minutes each. It will take longer to open the box and plug in the cables than to have the new ones online.Brilliant product.

I am writing this review after having this wireless access point (WAP) for almost 5 years. I had gotten tired of consumer grade Wi-Fi routers, so I decided to try something made for the SoHo market and came across this WAP and the Ubiquiti ER-X router after doing research. I have had affordable and unaffordable Wi-Fi routers from various well-known name brands and had gotten tired of dropped signals and regularly rebooting them. Since having this WAP and the Ubiquiti ER-X router I have never had to reboot it outside of having an issue with my ISP. This setup was truly "set it and forget it."I live in a small one-bedroom condo with plenty of neighboring apartments and metal studs in the walls. The UAP AC Lite provided excellent coverage throughout my apartment and it had no problems with interference. Be aware that the unit is powered via an ethernet cable plugged into its only port but Ubiquiti provides a POE (Power Over Ethernet) adapter with this WAP. If your router doesn't have POE ports then you simply run an ethernet cable from the router to the POE adapter and then another cable from the adapter to the WAP. In my case, the ER-X router has compatible POE ports (one input and one output) so I daisy-chained my modem to the POE adapter to the router to the WAP... If this sounds a bit like mumbo-jumbo to you then it's probably because this is not consumer level equipment designed with ease in mind (although it really isn't that difficult to set up with help from YouTube).I am finally upgrading to Wi-Fi 6. I decided to stay with Ubiquiti and purchased the Unifi U6 Lite, which was one of the easiest decisions I've made thanks to the experience I had with the rock-solid performance of the UAP AC Lite over the past 4 1/2 years.