Well, my UniFi has definitely been updated to 100mbps. Even my HyppTV is now Jumbo pack but not reflected at unifi.com.my yet. It's still TQ50 and Ruby pack there. Support tickets status are also unchanged.

A quick Speedtest.


Tested on iPhone 6s 5Ghz. AP: DLink DIR-868L. Router: RB2011UAS-2HnD.

Would be more plausible to have the router on one floor of the house and an AP on the other two floors of the house.
Depends on how soon an installer can go to your house.

I put my router on the second floor. Got satisfactory signal throughout the whole house currently even with the supplied ac1200 or previously d850 (not full bar but smooth ennough for streaming). Use to have a powerline but as my house 3phase speed is very slow.

Best is to wire Cat 6 cables to each floors. This solution is the best. Plus nowadays Cat 6 cable is cheap.

No, no effect on speed if you set up AP. Yes, AP is set up by connecting LAN cable from your main router to another router, which needs to be configured as an AP, or an AP exclusively.

See if there is a sticker somewhere or is it written somewhere on the router box or on the router.
3 phase speed is that your some areas in your house do not share the same wiring and are on different circuits. If that is the case, you won’t get full speed or nothing at all on your powerline because the data is transported on the electrical line.
No, people are using cat5e usually, but I would recommend cat6 for future proof purposes and it is better than cat5e.
Yes, AP function exactly like the main router. Yo can configure it yourself. It will be separate from the main router.

Sorry it is the 2nd level of three floor house. So in the middle.

Last time in trying to get the streaming going I tried to use powerline plug, but found out that this solution do not work well with 3 phase power supply.

So I buy D-850 to replace the original supplied D-615, I found out that this router (D-850) covers the whole house sufficiently. Then when Unifi upgraded my connection recently to 100MBps they gave me TP-Link C1200 which gives better wi-fi coverage for the whole house.

For your information we have about 10 devices connected most of time, and uses streaming youtube, kodi, spotify etc. constantly. During family gathering the amount of devices may double that. (D850 no problem, however has yet to test with C1200 <- only start using this with new firmware,not usable before that)

If it is three floors, one good router won’t cover the whole house, I would recommend using a few APs. It is standard installation if you are just on the 2nd floor, but will be more if you want to add cabling for the other two floors. I would recommend a high end router as your main router, and use a few good AP as well. I would recommend Ubiquiti.

I more inclined to suggest you invest on a good router. As from my experiments modifications is also as costly and messy.

I have to pay extra for  2nd level installation, if not mistaken about 10mtrs of extra cable. And our then secondary living room (with tv and Ps3) is there. so putting modem and router there sort of complement the fadget look.

my house also 3 phase power supply...powerline is no good

thinking of using cat6 cable to connect but won't be pretty so give up that idea

TM can do it for you, or you can get contracter to do it for you. As for you doing it yourself, it is possible, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing. I would avoid Ubiquiti then if you are not strong in IT. Just get an AP that is easy to configure. I would recommend the RT-AC1300UHP, which is a router, but can be configured as an AP. The transmission power will be sufficient for your needs, as it sounds like you have a big house.

It will be cheaper to get your general or electrical contractor instead of a network person to pull and conceal the cables. That’s what I did for my house. My renovation guy did all that and I connected the wall jacks and crimped the cables myself. Some of them might be hesitant, just tell them it’s like pulling telephone cables.

If you have enough network points, pepper the house with low power APs, Mikrotik has one for RM130. New ones might be even less. I find many low power APs to be better than one or two high power ones.

The most important is that you get a good core router.

signal is strong however the speed is ridiculously low when i used powerline, so i am using wireless adapter now on my desktop...the speed still way better than using powerline

you can always opt for cabling from modem / router to desktop on 2nd or 3rd floor...conceal it so it won't be that visible

You can do that as well bro. The 2 other router can be Asus brand as well, and I would recommend the Asus RT-N12HP, which is cheaper and not too bad, and it can work as an AP as well. See here: https://www.asus.com/my/Networking/RTN12HP/

You can buy your own cat6 cable and ask TM to pull the able to each AP, no problems. Not sure of the cost though, you will have to check with them. Or you can do as bro soonwai did. It's up to you.