Hello, I want to cover about one acre of my property but I’m struggling to find a relatively cheap wifi 6 access point for outdoors with an external antenna port. I’m looking at these eap650-outdoor units from tp link but I’m suspicious of the internal antenna design. Thank you all!

  • fireduck@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have 6 acres, of which I cover about a third. Outdoors, I’ve been using these (Unifi AC Mesh):
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAAWOGO

    I don’t use the mesh feature, I have them hard wired and use PoE to power them. Works well because they are waterproof (enough) and I can stick them on any tree or post that I can get an ethernet cable to. And I run cables just straight on the ground if it doesn’t cross any paths I care about.

    The units you found look pretty similar. A vertical bar you can stick on a tree. I’d roll with it.

    • VettedBot@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

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  • Handsome_ketchup@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Do you need WiFi 6 or do you just want it because it’s the latest? If you want to cover a lot of area, going with 2.4 GHz may be your best bet as the attenuation will be less severe at distance.