Jacob Tan jacobtyq

UniFi AP Buyers Guide

(updated May 2025)

The APs in this list are ordered from highest to lowest performance. However, unless you have a very high number of devices you likely do NOT need to buy the most expensive, highest performance AP. You can also check Ebay for deals, especially on older equipment.

All APs in this list support both wired backhaul and mesh modes. However, wired connections are strongly recommended for better performance and reliability.

Number of spatial streams are listed in order of 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz.

Good Choices:

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

[LINUX] Factorio Headless Server Guide

So, with credit to the Factorio wiki and cbednarski's helpful gist, I managed to eventually setup a Factorio headless server. Although, I thought the process could be nailed down/simplified to be a bit more 'tutorialised' and also to document how I got it all working for my future records.

The specific distro/version I'm using for this guide being Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS. Although, that shouldn't matter, as long as your distro supports systemd (just for this guide, not a Factorio headless requirement, although most distros use it as standard now). The version of Factorio I shall be using is 0.14.20, although should work for any version of Factorio 0.14.12 and higher.

Just a note to newcomers: If there are any issues with the installation steps, people in the comments are doing a good job

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	function link_stree {
	ln -s /Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/stree /usr/local/bin/
	}

	function install {
	link_stree
	}