It operates one network on the 2.4GHz frequency band with a 3×3 radio (three spatial streams in each direction) offering throughput of up to 450Mbps. The router is different than any mesh router we’ve seen before-and not just because it’s a cube.
The two-station Orbi beat the three-node Amplifi HD across the board, but it costs $50 more than either the Linksys or Ubiquiti systems. A two-node Velop system costs slightly more (street price, that is) than a three-node Amplifi, but it performed better in my home. And both the Velop’s and the Orbi’s mesh nodes support wired backhaul today, if you consider that an important feature (it is if you have lots of ethernet drops in your house, as uncommon as that might be). On the other hand, both the Linksys Velop and the Netgear Orbi delivered even higher performance than the Amplifi. Amplifi HD is attractive from a cost perspective, with a three-node system priced at $50 less than Netgear’s hub-and-satellite offering and $150 less than a three-node Linksys Velop. The mesh network it builds provides good coverage with three nodes-in fact, two nodes would probably be sufficient to cover my 2800-square-foot home. It’s easy to set up and its companion app is very easy to use. Is Ubiquiti’s Amplifi one of them? On the upside, it’s very attractive and-perhaps more importantly-it has a four-port switch. This is a good time to be in the market for a new Wi-Fi router because there are so many good products to choose from. If you want to know the ins and outs as to why we think this way, there are oodles of performance charts and an in-depth discussion of this router’s features and capabilities further down. We’ll put this review’s conclusion here, for those who just want to know our bottom-line opinion of the Amplifi HD. The Ubiquiti Amplifi HD has a helpful touchscreen display embedded in its face. There’s also a night mode setting that will turn the LED and the LCD off automatically. There’s a white LED around the bottom border of the router, but you can dim its brightness-or turn it off altogether-if you don’t like the effect.
There’s also a USB port on the back, but it’s currently dormant (the company says it has future plans for the port, but didn’t provide any hints as to what those might be). The router is an attractive 4-inch cube with a circular (2 inches in diameter) color LCD touchscreen on its face, and a gigabit WAN port and four-port gigabit switch in the back. It consists of a dual-band 802.11ac router that comes pre-paired with two 802.11ac mesh nodes (Ubiquiti calls them “meshpoints”). The Amplifi HD Mesh WiFi System ($349) is the latest router designed to earn placement out in the open, versus being hidden in the closet.
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