mikestecker · September 9, 2025 09:52 · Apr 15, 2022 · Apr 15, 2022 · Apr 15, 2022 · Jun 2, 2021
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 # optimising-unifi-performance
 
-> NOTE: Content below is written by Adrian Mace. [Click here](https://www.adrianmace.com/blog/optimising-unifi-performance/) for an updated version.
+> NOTE: Content below is written by [Adrian Mace](https://www.adrianmace.com). [Click here](https://www.adrianmace.com/blog/optimising-unifi-performance/) for an updated version.
 
 Below are the key settings that I apply on any unifi installation for optimal performance.
 

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 # optimising-unifi-performance
 
-> NOTE: Content below is taken from [Optimizing Unifi Performance](https://www.adrianmace.com/blog/optimising-unifi-performance/) by Adrian Mace
+> NOTE: Content below is written by Adrian Mace. [Click here](https://www.adrianmace.com/blog/optimising-unifi-performance/) for an updated version.
 
 Below are the key settings that I apply on any unifi installation for optimal performance.
 

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 # optimising-unifi-performance
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+> NOTE: Content below is taken from [Optimizing Unifi Performance](https://www.adrianmace.com/blog/optimising-unifi-performance/) by Adrian Mace
+
 Below are the key settings that I apply on any unifi installation for optimal performance.
 
 ## Settings

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+# optimising-unifi-performance
+Below are the key settings that I apply on any unifi installation for optimal performance.
+
+## Settings
+### Settings > Site
+- Ensure `Enable Advanced Features` is enabled  
+This allows you to follow along with the guide in it's entirety.
+
+- Ensure `Automatically Optimise Network and WiFi performance` is disabled  
+These settings will do a better job.
+
+### Settings > Wireless Networks > YOUR-NETWORK-HERE > Edit
+- Ensure `Fast Roaming` is disabled  
+It creates a lot more 'noise' on the dashboard in the form of anomalies when you have more than one access point within a home environment, and is useless if you only have a single one.  
+At the time of writing it's also a BETA feature.
+
+- Ensure `Combine 2 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi Network Names into one` is enabled  
+With these optimised settings you'll see devices only using 2.4GHz if they either a) don't support 5GHz (thanks Google!) or b) are too far away to maintain a reliable connection.
+
+- Ensure `Connects high performance clients to 5 GHz only` is disabled  
+With these optimised settings you'll see devices always prefer 5GHz, and at the time of writing, the current method to detect 'high performance clients' is not reliable.
+
+- Ensure `DTIM Mode` default values is disabled  
+This is the interval in which the access point polls the devices to check if they're alive. For many Apple / iOS devices, this causes them to not sleep correctly which both causes anomalies on the dashboard and kills the device battery life.
+  - Set DTIM 2G Period to 3
+  - Set DTIM 5G Period to 3
+
+### Settings > Try New Settings > WiFi AI
+- Ensure `Enable WiFi AI` is disabled  
+This is a great feature, but I found it to be choosing channels that were DFS (radar in the area causes intermittent dropouts of your network) or just not selecting channels 1 / 6 / 11.
+
+## Devices
+### Devices > YOUR-ACCESS-POINT-HERE > Config > Radios
+- Ensure `Channel Width` is set to the following
+  - Radio 2G should be set to `HT20`
+  - Radio 5G should be set to `VHT80` or `VHT160` (HD series)  
+
+- Ensure `Transmit Power` is set to the following
+  - Radio 2G should be set to `Medium`
+  - Radio 5G should be set to `High`
+
+- Ensure `Channel` is set appropriately  
+Run a WiFi scanning utility and pick the least congested channel. This is outside the scope of this doc.
+
+### Devices > YOUR-ACCESS-POINT-HERE > Config > Band Steering
+- Ensure `Band Steering` is set to Prefer 5G  
+This ensures that clients will connect on the 5GHz channel when available.
+
+### Devices > YOUR-ACCESS-POINT-HERE > Config > Airtime Fairness
+- Ensure `Airtime Fairness` is set to On  
+This ensures that the access point shares data between connected clients on a time division multiplexing basis, rather than the default which allows a certain amount of bandwidth to be transferred before moving on.  
+_In practice if this is not enabled, a small Raspberry Pi connected to a far-away AP at 54Mbps will drag every other connected device's effective bandwidth down to 54Mbps until the Pi is powered off or moved to a different AP._
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