Is it possible to have too many RAMPs?
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Currently I have two HDs connected via Ethernet backhaul, and I’m looking to add a third which would also be wired.
Coverage is no problem throughout our house, except obviously dropping to 2.4GHz as you move away from the routers.
I’d like to have the third RAMP to blanket the house and outdoors in 5GHz but my question is can too many wired RAMPs end up overlapping too much and degrade the overall quality of the wifi signal or do they all work in harmony and balance each other out?
Thanks in advance.
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@Kuhrt-Wieneke You can create to much noise and cause issues with transitions if devices overlap to much. You will want to make sure they are spaced far enough apart for transitions to work properly and minimize interference.
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@Kuhrt-Wieneke I came across this over the weekend and it might have some relevance to what you are trying to do.
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@UI-JT thanks for this. So I guess the best way to judge would be if, for example, in one room/corner of the house devices only connect on 2.4? That would suggest that room would be a suitable placement for another wired RAMP?
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@Kuhrt-Wieneke That may be a good way to judge location.
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@Kuhrt-Wieneke If you have not tried out Ubiquiti's phone app "WiFiman" it is really helpful to see where your signal strength falls off and/or competes with another mesh point. I used it recently to figure out I had my 2 AmpliFi HD's (1 RAMP) a tic too close and were competing at near identical strength in one location.
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@mambro awesome thank you!
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@mambro I must point out that there is a HUGE difference in functionality between the iOS version and the Android version of WiFiman... with iOS being the LESS featured.
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@mambro yeah you’re right. I’m iOS and it doesn’t really seem to do much other than do speed tests and tell me what devices are on the network.