For a ceiling mout will you get a decent signal on the.
Should unifi aps be mounted on the walls or ceiling.
Forgive my ignorance on the question but is there a big difference on signal performance mounting on the wall vs the ceiling.
The aps are designed to be ceiling mounted but you can place them on a shelf or in a cupboard.
You end up losing a lot of signal that way.
This is not to say you won t get a signal if the ap is pointing right at you just that the best coverage will come from have it parallel to the ground.
I remember looking into this before and it s not advised to mount ceiling mount aps on the wall.
Physical access to the device played an important role too both for wiring and maintenance.
This is another thing that the manual is silent on.
The unifi controller app is both the system s great strength and strongest weakness depending on your skill with managing a complex wifi network and your desire to do so in the first place.
They work in both directions but if you re design is for optimum horizontal coverage they should be ceiling mounted.
I guess this depends somewhat on the directionality if any of the radio.
Thanks for any thoughts.
What are the pros and cons of the two options.
However for a few of our aps that are not intended to be mounted to a wall or a ceiling like the unifi mesh access points rather than the elevation going to 90 degrees the graph scale is expanded to 180 degrees.
I have one ap that is much easier to mount on the wall.
That s why wall mounting is terrible for these and ceiling mounting even on a slope will be better than wall mounted.
Wall mounted will provide better coverage above and below the ap.
We mounted a couple wap s in the ceiling the rest are wall mounted in plastic boxes.
Optimized for horizontal ceiling mounted orientation of ap 225.
For a home installation is there any difference between the two.
One of our 20 wap s had to be replaced shortly after deployment.