[plg]

Are these ceiling mounted APs suitable for a home environment where they would not be ceiling mounted? Like can I put it on a desk like I do my ancient Apple AirPort Time Capsule AP? PS the time capsule is sitting on a desk in our main floor living room and it covers basement, main floor, and all upstairs except 1 corner bedroom. It’s connected via Ethernet to a EdgeMax 4 router which has been mostly great though interface is kludgy. Some day the time capsule will give up the ghost though and then what?

[lsllc]

Yes, I've had one on the top of my shelves in my office for years. Only recommendation is use a shielded cable between the PoE injector and the unit -- keeps it safe during t-storms.

I also have an ER4 the old UI a bit kludgey but they did revamp it a few years ago. I rarely connect to it and instead use UNMS to manage/monitor it (along with some other sites/devices).

These days, I just go with the UDM-Pro SE's and if I need more than 8 PoE ports, I add on a Unifi switch via SFP. You can do pretty much everything these days in Unifi, no need for EdgeMax (well, VLANs is about as exotic as my installs get).

[orev]

Yes, you can place them facing up on a flat surface instead of on the ceiling.