Ubiquiti Mini Rack
The Ubiquiti Mini Rack is a 6U open-frame rolling rack designed for UniFi equipment. The build quality is excellent—smooth-rolling wheels, sturdy frame, toolless mounting for UniFi gear—and it’s genuinely useful for staging and organizing equipment before deployment. But 6U is an awkward size that gets cramped fast once you account for a switch, gateway, and power distribution, and the open mobile design creates an aesthetic problem: cables running to a rack on wheels look perpetually temporary. My gear ultimately ended up in a wall-mounted rack that looked intentional rather than improvised. The Mini Rack remains a good workbench on wheels for assembly and configuration, just not where I wanted my network infrastructure to live long-term.
Ubiquiti U6 Long Range Access Point
The Ubiquiti U6 Long Range
access point makes a bold claim right in its name. After deploying a single ceiling-mounted unit in a 4,000 square foot two-story home, that claim holds up—complete coverage across both floors with no dead spots, handling approximately fifty devices without complaint. Previous access points produced spotty coverage in corners and struggled through walls; those problems simply don’t exist with this unit. The UniFi integration is seamless, roaming between multiple APs is invisible to connected devices, and WiFi 6 efficiency keeps everything stable even when the household is actively streaming, video conferencing, and transferring files simultaneously. Just don’t mount it on your bedroom ceiling—the blue status LED is bright enough to disturb sleep.
