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Is 7 feet way from wifi access point (ceiling) to stereo risky for noise?

For my stereo system, I have 2 seperete power lines running to keep no noise in my system. It's important for me to have that black background in the sound. 

I want to get a Unifi router system with a wifi access point that mounts in the ceiling. The cieling type gives a donut type of signal through out the house. With the way my house is (kind of like a shoe box), my stereo is in the middle of the house. The wifi access point would also have to go near there... probably like 7 feet away. Is that risky in inducing noise into my stereo system? 

 

 

dman777
rmdmoore
184 posts
 

The only time I've had issues with noise from my Wi-Fi router was when it was too close to my phono stage. It has a step up transformer and that picked up the noise from my router. It only needed to be 5 feet or less away for it to be gone completely. You should be fine. 

tosnc
30 posts
 

I use the U6 Mesh access point sitting about 5 ft from my preamp and DAC and have no problems.  I don’t use tubes or a turntable and the connection to my amps are XLR. I doubt there would be a difference with the Wifi 7 AP you are considering. You will likely be fine. I use all unifi poe equipment including the switch in my equipment cabinet with no problems. The unifi equipment is very reliable and easy to configure. Great stuff. 

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kirkwallace
336 posts
 

at that distance it seems unlikely you will get any electro-magnetic interference in your audio equipment from the Ubiquity WiFi device in the ceiling.  I have the flex 2.5 switch hard wired to my Roon Nucleus One and my N200, and a Uni Extender is plugged in about 10 feet away.  Zero issues. 
(also, the Ubi units are so much better than the eero mesh devices that I have running our non-audio LAN.) 

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mswale
382 posts
 

Anything more then 1m should be fine. Ubiquity would be my first choice, but what you have is also very good. Much better over anything you get at BestBuy. 

Not sure, but most of these devices are POE powered, work best that way, get a good POE switch, power them that way. If not, if they are on another power circuit, don't think you need to spend money on a LPS. 

My streamer is also on WiFi, as I have not had the time to crawl under the house to run a 75ft cable. On my streamer, I purchased a remote antenna, that sits outside my audio rack. Don't think it changed anything to the sound, but I do get a much stronger signal at my streamer. Also that did not change anything, but we are into audio, thus can't leave anything alone. 

Also in IT, did consulting on putting WiFi into schools, churches, and concrete and steel manufacturing and maintenance plants. 

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