Fanman03

UniFi AP Buyers Guide

(updated March 2025)

The APs in this list are ordered from highest to lowest performance. However, unless you have an insane amount of devices you likely do NOT need to buy the most expensive, highest performance AP. You can also check Ebay for deals, especially on older equipment. In terms of best price-to-performance, the U6 Pro/Mesh/InWall series is the sweet spot in my opinion and is the best choice for most deployments.

All APs in this list support both wired backhaul and mesh modes. However, wired connections are strongly recommended for better performance and reliability.

Number of spatial streams are listed in order of 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz.

Good Choices:

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Transparent Netflix only region unblock with Asuswrt Merlin

Ad-free time!, UnoTelly etc. services provide a nice way to unblock regions for Netflix and others using their custom DNS servers.

But I don't want to direct all my DNS traffic to them and I'm too lazy to manually configure all my devices (phones, tablets, media center boxes etc.). So here's how to transparently unblock Netflix for all your devices using the [Asuswrt Merlin][merlin] firmware. It's a custom router firmware which can be used on the Asus RT-N66U router for example.

Prerequisites

Enable JFFS partition and SSH login from http://<ROUTER-IP>/Advanced_System_Content.asp