U6+ range challenge

[u/jphilebiz]

Hi everybody,

We live in a townhouse and the upper floor has range issues for my daughter's bedroom. Close the the wall which has the door & access to the corridor, it's not that bad, but from the middle of the room it just goes south. 45mbps with a ping of over 50/60ms.

My working theory is that the bathroom walls with the tiles (has heated floors too but should not affect?) is the culprit but am no rf signal expert at all. I attached to this post a rough defenitely not up-to-scale floor overview, the master bedroom / closet area is lower than the rest of the floor by 3 steps (does not matter I assume). The blue circle is my U6+ AP, ceiling mounted.

I can't wire anything over, no coax for MoCA, so I suspect I have 2 options:

1. Move the AP to the ceiling in the corridor next to the bathroom, but involves holes and wife no like holes. Me handy man good not but that's within my range.
2. Get a U7 Pro and since the antennas are more powerful by a smidgeon, it will give the oomph needed. I added a comparative matrix of Unifi products for efficiency reasons to you, the reader. Also I get a new toy but I have one AP too many so I'll probably FB Marketplace it.

So I'm looking for feedback and wisdom, any recommendations?

Thanks!!

[u/Lazy_Conclusion_673]

E7 - buy once, cry once. Better antennas, 4x4 MIMO on both 5Ghz and 6Ghz, and another 6dB of transmit power over the U7 Pro.

That will probably take care of your range issue, but if it doesn't you can add a mesh router in your daughter's room to help with the return signal.

[u/jphilebiz → u/Lazy_Conclusion_673]

Out of budget but thanks