The one-stop shop for wireless — design, deploy, troubleshoot, buy. Vendor-neutral engineering guidance, measured deployment stories, and the gear we would actually specify — with a soft spot for what Ubiquiti has done to the price of good networking.
What changed this week in spectrum, standards and vendor-land — each item flagged by how much it should affect your plans.
Client support for 6 GHz is no longer the blocker in a modern estate. Access point placement is — and most organisations refreshing to Wi-Fi 6E are reusing positions surveyed for 5 GHz.
Multi-link operation is delivering the latency consistency it promised. The controllers in front of it, configured the way they were for Wi-Fi 5, are actively undoing the benefit.
Ubiquiti ships fast. That is why the software is good, and why production estates should not be on the newest release.
Standard Power operation unlocks 6 GHz outdoors and with external antennas. It also brings a coordination workstream that most RFPs currently treat as a checkbox.
Access points are the visible cost. The 802.3bt power budget, the multi-gigabit uplinks and — in older buildings — the recabling are where the money actually goes.
Real deployments with the numbers attached — what was measured before, what was changed, and what it measured afterwards.
A firm that had already doubled its access point count to fix slow Wi-Fi. The problem was not coverage — it was 80 MHz channels, DFS switched off, and every radio at maximum power.
Handheld scanners timing out at shift change in a 19,000 m² distribution centre. The original design was sound — it had simply been surveyed and signed off before any stock arrived.
900 pupils arriving on the same Monday with two devices each. The Wi-Fi had failed in the first week for three consecutive years. The fix was mostly not about Wi-Fi.
Tested picks across enterprise, prosumer and home. We tell you what each one is bad at too.
Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 with a 2.5 GbE uplink, running on standard 802.3at power. The access point most small businesses should buy, and the reason is software as much as radio.
Best for: The default Wi-Fi 7 access point for most UniFi builds
A compact gateway running the full UniFi Network controller with enough routing throughput for a gigabit connection. For most people this is where a UniFi build should start.
Best for: Most homes and small offices — the default UniFi starting point
Twenty-four PoE ports with multi-gigabit on some of them and a serious power budget. The switch a Wi-Fi 7 deployment actually needs underneath it.
Best for: A floor of Wi-Fi 7 access points with room for cameras
Rack-mounted gateway with integrated switching, a drive bay for UniFi Protect, and the routing throughput to sit in front of a real business connection.
Best for: Businesses that need rack mounting, higher throughput and camera storage
Every Wi-Fi problem is a spectrum problem wearing a disguise.
One page covering every band Wi-Fi uses — 2.4, 5, 6 and 60 GHz — what each is good for, how much usable spectrum you really get, and where the regulatory landmines are.
DFS roughly triples your 5 GHz channel budget and occasionally drops every client on an AP. A decision framework, plus how to test your site before committing.
How the 6 GHz power classes actually constrain a design, what AFC does, why your 6 GHz SSID is invisible, and the coverage penalty nobody puts on the data sheet.
Field notes, teardowns and the occasional rant about captive portals.
UniFi ships configured for a first-time user with one access point. That is the right default and the wrong configuration for almost every multi-AP network.
The most common response to a Wi-Fi complaint is to add another access point. In a congested environment that is the one change guaranteed to make things worse.
A 5 GHz design that just about worked will have visible holes at 6 GHz. Here is why, and what to change in your survey methodology.
Conferences, trade shows and training worth the flight.
The European edition of WLPC. Smaller than Phoenix and correspondingly easier to have real conversations at. Strong on design, survey practice and troubleshooting. Verify dates and location on the official site.
📍 Prague, Czech Republic · 3–5 Nov 2026 · Paid
Where 802.11 is actually written. Attending is a significant commitment, but the meeting documents are public and reading the 802.11bn (Ultra High Reliability) submissions is the fastest route to understanding what comes after Wi-Fi 7.
📍 Rotating, Global · 8–13 Nov 2026 · Registration fee; documents publicly available
Europe's largest AV and systems integration show. Relevant to wireless engineers supporting corporate installation, digital signage networks and venue connectivity.
📍 Barcelona, Spain · 2–5 Feb 2027 · Free with registration code, otherwise paid
The independent, practitioner-run conference the Wi-Fi engineering community actually attends. Deep technical sessions, hands-on deep dives and the highest signal-to-noise ratio of any wireless event. Verify dates on the official site.
📍 Phoenix, USA · 22–26 Feb 2027 · Paid — deep-dive tracks extra
Long-form, citable references for design reviews, RFPs and budget approval.
A phased framework for moving an enterprise estate to 6 GHz-primary operation, covering AP density modelling, the LPI power ceiling, AFC where standard power is required, client readiness assessment and a staged cutover that does not strand legacy devices.
A step-by-step method for sizing wireless networks from application demand rather than floor area, including realistic per-AP throughput figures, airtime budgeting, and worked examples for open-plan offices, lecture theatres and warehouses.
A reference architecture for enterprise wireless security covering WPA3 migration, 802.1X with certificate validation enforcement, per-device PSK for IoT, segmentation policy and the operational controls that make the design hold.
One email a fortnight: new case studies, spectrum-policy changes, and the gear worth your budget.