Don’t Buy a WiFi Access Point Until You Watch This

In this video, I explain the different factors you should consider when buying a WiFi access point for your home. I also detail which ones are the most important. Check out some of my previous videos that are related to this one: To learn about Power Over Ethernet (PoE) and determine if you want to implement PoE for your access point, check out these videos:    • Power over Ethernet (PoE)   Wireless Access Points: What Are They and How Do They Work?:    • Wireless Access Points: What Are They and ...   How to Set Up a Wireless Access Point:    • How to Set Up a Wireless Access Point   WiFi Access Points vs WiFi Extenders: What's the Difference?    • WiFi Access Points vs WiFi Extenders: What...   Wireless Access Points vs WiFi Routers Explained!:    • Wireless Access Points vs WiFi Routers Exp...   For more content on similar topics, check out my YouTube channel:    / @network-from-home   If you would like to read about other ways to improve your home network, check out my blog: https://www.network-from-home.com 0:28 Speed and WiFi standard supported by the access point 4:26 Additional features of WiFi access points (power, MU-MIMO, and connections) 9:01 What are the most important factors when buying an access point? This post contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a commission should you choose to sign up for a program or make a purchase using my link. Here are some examples of access points from TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti that you might want to check out if you’re looking to buy an access point for your home network: TP-Link Omada EAP650 WiFi 6 Access Point: •Amazon: https://amzn.to/4qeRqwM •TP-Link (wireless access point without the power adapter): https://tplinksystemsinc.sjv.io/9L7nx5 TP-Link Omada EAP720 WiFi 7 Access Point: •Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jULCGS •TP-Link (wireless access point without the power adapter): https://tplinksystemsinc.pxf.io/19E2Q6 Ubiquiti U6+ WiFi 6 Access Point: https://amzn.to/49Siuvh Ubiquiti nanoHD WiFi 5 Access Point: https://amzn.to/45ZvgqE Ubiquiti U7-Pro WiFi 7 Access Point: https://amzn.to/4qE9aCm Equipment I used in this video: 🎥: https://amzn.to/43POu01 🎙️: https://amzn.to/4kU1SXU How to pick a WiFi access point for your home network When you're looking to buy a wireless access point, you'll have a lot of technical terms and jargon thrown at you. The good news is, you only really need to pay attention to a few of these terms to pick out an access point that's a good fit for your home network. Here are some of the factors you’ll see when looking at different access points: •Bandwidth supported: this is really important to pay attention to, because you need to make sure your access point can support both the internet speed provided by your internet plan and router. If your access point can’t support the speed provided to your home by your internet plan, it’ll serve as a bottleneck in your home network and slow down your internet experience •WiFi version supported: this is another important factor, because you’ll need to make sure your access point supports at least the same WiFi version as your router if you want your devices to be able to take advantage of all the WiFi features that your router provides •Manufacturer of the device: this is important because you want a device you can rely on. TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti (the Unifi line) are well-regarded for access points •How the device is powered: this isn’t really important, because at this point access points all have the option of being powered by a power adapter, or through Power over Ethernet (PoE). You’ll just need to pay attention to the version of PoE that the access point requires so you can make sure your PoE injector (or PoE switch) provides adequate power for it •MU-MIMO version supported: MU-MIMO indicates how efficiently your access point handles traffic from multiple devices at the same time. The MU-MIMO version goes hand-in-hand with the WiFi standard the access point supports, so as long as your access point supports at least the WiFi standard that your router does, you won’t have to worry about this •Supported devices: you don’t really need to pay attention to this feature, because all access points allow more than enough devices to connect to them Conclusion If you have any questions about access points and what you should pay attention to when buying them, please leave a comment below.