The access point is now connected.
How to mount ubiquiti access point in attic.
Ubiquiti s unifi line of products offers their enterprise level high performance wifi products including their unifi access points known as uaps.
Ubiquiti offers a wide range of access points but in this article i will focus on the most used access points for home networks and small medium sized businesses.
Plug power cable into a free socket.
If you wish to adopt the device into an existing unifi network controller see the device adoption article.
Plug the other end of the power cable into the access point.
To install and manage the unifi access point we need to download the controller.
See faqs below to learn the difference between using standalone and controller modes.
After you installed the software start the controller and hit launch a browser to manage a network or goto https localhost 8443 in your browser.
The ap is outdoor rated but he s concerned that the attic could get hottter than the maximum rated temperature 158 f.
Even though he lives in portland or he s not worried about the low temperature.
A co worker of mine bought a new ac pro and is interested in mounting it in his attic.
And even though wireless ac is currently the latest and greatest it s still in its infancy and i don t find it reliable enough yet to deploy.
Connect the access point.
Take the power cable and network cable for the access point.
Learn how to set up your unifi access point in standalone mode using the unifi network app without a unifi network controller.