ZyXEL WiFi 6 AX1800 Wireless Gigabit Outdoor Access Point | IP55 Rated | Mesh, Seamless Roaming & MU-MIMO | WPA3-PSK Security | Cloud, App or Direct Management | PoE+ Injector Included | NWA55AXE

Real simple to setup and works great.

I live in a 4br, 5 person household. Every single one of us does some working from home and/or extensive gaming and there's an absurd number of IoT devices across the home, so a lineup of good, strong APs is a must. For $75, these step up to the plate and then some. Although their range/coverage isn't terribly impressive, the fact that I can afford 3 of these for the same price of a lot of WiFi 6 APs makes it an incredible deal. With 3 in our home, every room has strong WiFi coverage including the porch, so anyone can expect ~200mbps and stable ping pretty much anywhere.The only possible gripe I can have is the fact that the Nebula portal isn't super user friendly. While it does offer loads of awesome features, the GUI could use a little TLC and could be difficult to figure out if you didn't know what you're doing.I'm seriously considering buying some more for my warehouse. These little things are just so great. It beats the stuffing out of a mesh system IF you're wired for it.Attached is a screenshot of a speed test connected to the AP (on a fiber internet connection). Mind you, the nearest AP was ~30ft away and had 4 thick walls to travel through when the test was ran. I've had much more expensive APs do way worse in better conditions.Summary: Buy these things. You will probably need a few, but this is the best budget WiFi 6 AP. If your home or office is wired with Ethernet, this is a fantastic solution for solid, reliable coverage.

This is my second purchase of this model. I bought one earlier for my son's room. His room was blocked from getting wi-fi reliably due to the walls of his room being brick and the signal was horrible. I ended up hard wiring one portion of his room and added the AP so that his other devices could get Wi-Fi.recently, another part of the house has been having issues getting clear signals and I purchased this second AP and just finished the wiring necessary to get it integrated into the network. Second unit is working fine. I should provide that end of the house with the signal that has been needed. I may buy a 3rd and put it in the front room and then tie them all together to make a very well covered mesh network. I like the cloud focused management of the devices, that makes my life easier. Some of the really nice advanced features require a monthly subscription, but those level of features are ones that I am not looking to implement. If I were a business, yeah I think that they would be worth paying for. Even some of the lower end advanced features are worth paying a few bucks a month for. Read and educated yourself on the features and decide which ones are worth your money and which ones aren't.

The Quick Start Guide says connect to 1.1.1.1 for manual configuration which does not work. The User Guide correctly says connect to 192.168.1.2 for manual configuration. This is such a big difference that can make one to quickly quit attempting to make this AP work at all. The speed is throttled and cannot even reach half of my available bandwidth. My wired connection can do over 90mbps Up/Down, while this AP struggles at reaching 300 U/D. Initial test only went below 100 U/D but succeeding tests shows about 300 U/D. Is it caching test packets for this jump in succeeding tests? Whatever it is doing, it does not impress on speed and performance.

I purchased this AP after being frustrated with a cheaper model that was continually dropping 2.4GHz connections from my wifi enabled home automation devices. This AP has a compact and sleek look, no ungainly antennas, can be wall mounted or sit on a shelf or desktop. Setup was no problem - I used the local administration features (cloud is also available). Measured signal strength for 2.4Ghz is consistently 6-8db better than my prior AP. So far, rock solid!

I have two of these mounted outside. I also have two indoor models. Looking at how the outdoor devices are made, I expect them keep all the important bits dry in bad weather.I will find out this winter how they do in the cold.The devices can be configured locally or via the Nebula portal/app.I opted to configure these using the free version of the Nebula web portal, which is not very intuitive, but I got it figured out. The problem was that it wasn't obvious how to move the devices I added into the site I created. Otherwise, Nebula pretty easy to figure out by clicking around a bit.Understand that I am a network engineer and work on this type of equipment professionally, so others may find Nebula to be somewhat confusing. I feel that anyone who understands basic network and Wi-Fi terminology will have no issues setting these up.The Nebula app allows one to configure multiple SSIDs using different configurations and VLANs, as well as allowing centrally managed password changes and firmware upgrades. I don't like that the Nebula portal keeps nagging me to upgrade to the paid version. The free version provides all the functionality I need in a home installation, but you may want to use the paid version for a professional installation.The Wi-Fi coverage is excellent with these, even inside my son's and daughter's metal sided Ice Castle fish houses which are stored at my place when they aren't in use.I only have a 100 Mbps Internet connection at my rural location, so I cannot comment on the speed other than to say that I am getting my full Internet speed through these access points, even in the fish houses.These APs offer good performance and configurability at a price point far more appealing to home/small business users than the commercial hardware I work with professionally.I didn't utilize Zyxel's tech support, so I gave them average stars (3). Could be good or bad, I don't know.Overall, I'm pretty pleased with these and would recommend them to others.

I had 5 or so of the "U" brand overpriced AP's. Every time I needed to make an adjustment, UB had changed the interface, got locked out, etc. Generally a PIA. Switched to Zyxel, used the free version of Nebula, haven't looked back.

I have installed and tried multiple AP’s. These are easily the best for ease of deployment when you require more than one AP for coverage. I currently have 3 installed all wired back to a POE switch. To install first download the Nebula app. Once you have an account, all you do is add the AP by scanning the QR code.Set up your SSID and password. Once it has downloaded its updates and is online, you can scan your next AP. The app will automatically configure it to the same settings. In the picture (from the web based application) you can see that I have multiple SSID’s. I have it set up so that one of them is only 2.4. This helps with all the IOT in the house. When I add something I make sure my phone is on the 2.4 SSID so that it can find and communicate with the new device. In the second picture you can see Zancon Fuel2G covering all the channels from the 3 AP’s.