r/UNIFI • u/Federal-Ad7806 • 13h ago
Wireless UTR-LR
Does put the LR in UTR. (Edit to add 2, below)
Haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but thought some of y’all might appreciate the pics. iPhone 17pro Max and business card for size comparison. Yes, it’s thicker than the UTR but still pocketable.
I love the little UTR but the range is very limiting for anything bigger than a hotel room. I’m usually in AirBnBs or camping. I was about to pick up a Swiss Army knife to boost the UTR or my Starlink Mini so this came out at the perfect time.
I’ll test it at my apartment building’s pool. We have wifi on the roof, but only inside and it won’t stretch to the loungers well enough to do any work. I hope this big antenna eliminates the need for me to put my Starlink on a neighboring lounger. Yeah, I work remote from a pool, or anywhere lol
Edit to add: the UI App lets me see and manage both UTRs. It seems to think which ever one I’m not actively connected to is new, but when I click on it/switch the configs are still live and saved. Makes me think the configuration lives on the UTR itself and not the gateway. TBD on if they both teleport at the same time.
Edit to add 2: I tested the LR on my apartment buildings rooftop pool area. I’m in a condensed downtown area. I connected the UTR-LR to a neighboring buildings open wifi (at least 50M from nearest AP). The UTR-LR was receiving the wifi at an excellent -56dbm while my iPhone was getting poor and slow -75 to -85 dbm.
The LRs network covered the entire outdoor pool area. Mostly line of sight. However, let’s say I was working remote and wanted to talk while walking around, I would’ve had plenty of range. I didn’t see any drop in signal quality until I went behind a concrete wall. It certainly covered more than I expected and much more than the base UTR.
The LR uplinked to the open WiFi with no hiccups. The overall experience has been seamless. I can’t speak too much to max speed. On the open WiFi I tested it looked like download was limited to 50mb/s (bottlenecked by the neighboring network) but upload was topping out around 100.