Guys I just got Unifi today and I have some questions, hope you can help:

Ok so at the start I switched on a laptop just after installation on ground floor (my house has 2.5 stories). It was very slow, but it worked.

At the same time I switched on a laptop on the top floor (so approximately the same distance away from the router as the previous laptop, because the router is on the middle floor). It was also very slow.

Now the people told me it is like this, it takes some time to stabilise. Soon after, the laptop on the ground floor was working fine, not 100% stable, but downloading fast, surfing ok. It sort of disconnected (not sure why) for a while but came back on.

On the other hand, the laptop on the top floor had an erratic connection. It would be very, very slow at surfing, and for downloads it would get fast initial speeds, then die (0 KBps) after a few sec/mins. After a while, though, it managed to stabilise and get good speeds (seeing 3MB and hitting 4, 5, 6MB).

However, right now, it is super slow at browsing (not tried downloading again). Reception bar fluctuates between 2 and 3 and 4 (mostly 2, sometimes 3). How slow? Took me more than a few refreshes and a lot of hassle and delay to load this lowyat forum text webpage! Most pages timeout.

My questions are:

1. Is this normal for a new Unifi user (i.e. will this go away shortly/eventually)?

2. Why is one laptop working great while the other is suffering terribly right now despite being usable earlier in the evening, though both are equally far from the router (moreover, the laptop I am having problems with is newer)?

Not torrent, normal HTTP downloads. I suppose this means it's the same as web-browsing, except downloads can sometimes utilise multiple threads.

Yet to try both laptops in the same place, or the better-working one in the not-so-good one's location. I will have to.

Sucks that it won't improve - I didn't really think it would, seeing as the internet (after a short while) was great downstarirs (already getting 3-6MBps down or up anyway).

The only problem is the connection is often bad upstairs. Never had problems with this laptop's wifi (using different broadband service until now, working good with wifi), and never had problems from my location (upstairs).

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Added on April 17, 2011, 1:20 amOh yeah and I don't like Speedtest.net because to me it isn't realistic. Not only does it give falsely high speeds (unrealistic unachievable speeds that are sometimes more than double/triple/quadruple the average download speeds, and greater than maximum observed download speed), it gives vastly different values each time. It can give x, 2x, 3x, 0.5x etc.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by LightningFist: Apr 17 2011, 01:20 AM