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Foh
The ui24 is a clean sounding unit but built in wifi is completely unreliable. Two for two gigs fell flat on it face even while standing on stage next to it,,had to strike the unit and hook up my console both times,not what i signed up for at 1000,00$.will try external router,but now is another 200.00 and you lose ethernet hard line,lost time and patience, will never trust this on live shows again
Almost all of us Ui12-16 users figured this out long ago. Connect the Ui via Ethernet cable to a reliable external dual-band router. I've been using my Ui16 with an old Netgear N600 (WNDR 34 1st Gen) for more than 18 months of more-than-weekly open mics and pro sound gigs without a hiccup. Used WNDRs are all over ebay at around $25, so I'm thinking of getting another one as a backup.
I've gone further and made several ways to mount the router where it has good line-of-sight. I found a pvc plastic-pipe coupler that, with a little trimming, is a perfect cradle to hold the WNDR upright, mounted one on the side of the big rollaround stacking tool box that I take to gigs, and epoxied a broken mic clip into another so it can go on top of a spare mic stand. That one also fits into a big spring clamp that can be used to mount it on a speaker tripod or satellite pole. A selection of Ethernet cables in various lengths (up to 100') set me back about $20, and an extender for the power-supply cable to the router was about $4.
The only issues I've encountered were once or twice when a powerful local wifi network hijacked my connection, but that's easily addressed with a channel change (and often simply selecting the Ui's wifi again). Use an app like wifi analyzer to check channels.
If you want hardwired Ethernet and an external router, simple. Just run a cable from one of the unused switch ports on the router to your computer. Remember, Ethernet-to-router connects to a switch port, not the yellow modem port, as one helpful helper did once. I put tape over the modem port after that incident.
I've even found that I can have devices logged into both the 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz bands at the same time, with each having complete control. Just starting to play around with having multiple tablets in front of me at the same time to minimize lateral scrolling and repetitive toggling between functions.