New House, New WiFi

Hi all. I’ve recently moved into a new house here in the UK, it’s a new-build home and thankfully the builder has installed CAT6 in almost every room. I had been looking at upgrading my existing ASUS Mesh system which has served me well over the last 6 years or so when I stumbled upon a YouTube review and installation of Alta labs. AP’s.

Obviously, I’d been looking at Unifi gear for a while, but the stock was proving difficult to find and also the price was not an easy pill to swallow.

As soon as I saw the offering from Atla Labs I was in, placed my order for 2 X AP6 and the upgrade has been amazing. Much better speed, fewer dropouts and of course some nice sleek APs compared to the black Asus routers I had running my old mesh. It’s a humble install, but it does what I need and I’m very happy with it. I’ve mounted my APs with spacers behind the mounting bracket to help with airflow/cooling as when I had them laid on a table for testing they seem to get very hot. I’ve included a few photos to show it all off :slight_smile:

The main network is mounted inside a cupboard which houses the underfloor heating manifold, consumer unit etc, I’ve mounted 1 of the AP’s inside this cupboard but it might move to the outside of it if/when I’m allowed. The other AP is in the spare bedroom and gives full coverage of the garden and garage,

Inside the cupboard (don’t judge me)



Spare room

Spacers

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Thanks for sharing and great install @NickW! :sunglasses:

Hi Nick,
congrats on the new house, great choice going with Alta Labs WAPs! You could easily find a cheap 6U rack enclosure it would look so much nicer housing/hiding all the equipment :slight_smile: Let me know if you have questions, I can send you a couple links to affordable but well designed enclosures :slight_smile:

I did think of this initially but the network cables and some power lines run behind that wall, I also didn’t think I had the equipment to justify a rack unit, but I can see how it would look nicer, as long as it doesn’t restrict access to the consumer unit then it could be nice!

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Just a quick update, following some recent purchases and a re cable!

Just a shame there isn’t enough room for a network cabinet!

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Pretty nice and clean installation! I really like to see other setup because the traditionnal setup is in a rack, so it’s pretty nice to see other setups to be more creative.

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Very simple and clean! Although I personally would’ve considered a different location being that close to PEX, but I get it. Sometimes you have to deal with the cards that were dealt. Are those outlets RCD protected?

Yeah, I had to do what I could with that space and it still needs to be functional as it has the vacuum cleaner and other stuff in there :slight_smile:

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Yes, they are are and that cupboard has a dedicated RCB too, which is handy if I need to do stuff on other sockets in the house

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Cant wait for this to launch https://forum.alta.inc/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6c2df4ef86b29abe932962e5da02ce2843736c56.jpeg and then I’ll get one of these too AD-TEK (Network-Cabs) 2U 19 inch Vertical Wall Mount Network Enclosure-Cabinet, White | Ad-Tek Products (Network-Cabs) and maybe that will be the end :slight_smile:

@Alta-Chase will they be available in white, please?