4G Broadband Router Options

the-evaluator said:
There's different versions of the Gen1. I've got a US-24-AT-250W and it's 48v only.

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It was a freebie from Ubiquiti so may have been a different version to the norm but it was a bit of a surprise when it arrived as I had to get an INS-3AF-I-G to power my older AP-AC-LR.
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You can’t buy the 48V only Gen1 US-24-250W anymore. They produced a few in 2017 but changed their position fairly rapidly after a backlash from users with 24V equipment.
 
WJA96 said:
You can’t buy the 48V only Gen1 US-24-250W anymore. They produced a few in 2017 but changed their position fairly rapidly after a backlash from users with 24V equipment.
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Ah yes, I remember now. I got this as a freebie from them in late 2017 so I guess they had spares that they decided to give away rather than sell.
 
It’s a nightmare. If they’d just make something and stick to it. At least Mikrotik are 100% 24V passive. At the moment anyway!
 
WJA96 said:
OK, Some things about the 24-port PoE switch.

1. there are 2 versions. Gen 1 and Gen 2.
2. Gen 1 has all the ports live for PoE and Gen 2 has only 16 of the 24 live for a PoE.
3. Gen 1 can power 24V Mikrotik equipment. Gen 2 is 48V only.
4. Gen 1 sounds live a vacuum cleaner unless you swap the fans out for 40mm Noctuas.

So unless you desperately need 24 ports. I’d get the Gen 1 16 port (US-16-150W). It’s a great switch. 24/48V power and all 16 ports live for PoE.
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when you say Gen 1 can power the Mikrotik, can I take an ethernet from the Mikrotik and the other end into the Gen 1/Gen 2 and power the Gen 1/2 from the mains?
 
I’d also like to get rid of my Mikrotik access point completely, as my current setup is an RJ45 from the outdoor antenna to the access point...can I remove the RJ45 from the Mikrotik and eventually plug it directly into the Unifi PoE switch?

just want to know my best option in doing this as I’ll have my Unifi AP AC Pro as an access point instead?
 
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NM30 said:
when you say Gen 1 can power the Mikrotik, can I take an ethernet from the Mikrotik and the other end into the Gen 1/Gen 2 and power the Gen 1/2 from the mains?
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OK, assuming you buy a Gen 1 switch (and ONLY a Gen 1 switch) then you can set it to supply 24V Passive PoE. You can then plug one device per port and it should all just work fine.

Ignore that - the Mikrotiks can take 48V as well as 24V so any 48V PoE switch will power everything.
 
NM30 said:
I’d also like to get rid of my Mikrotik access point completely, as my current setup is an RJ45 from the outdoor antenna to the access point...can I remove the RJ45 from the Mikrotik and eventually plug it directly into the Unifi PoE switch?
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Yes, each device would have it's own cable back to the switch. The LHG will be your router as it is now.
 
Let me just check the LHG can definitely be powered from a 48V Gen 2 switch and I’ll come back to you. If you want quiet then has to be a Gen 2.
 
I know, but I’ll be beggared if I’m going to suggest you spend money on something I don’t KNOW works.

What I’ll also try is to power an LHG over 48V then see if that will pass that PoE power on like it does the 24V passive. I don’t think that will work, but I’ll give it a go.
 
OK. The good news is that the LHG powered up off a Gen 2 switch and it successfully passed data and 48V PoE through the second Ethernet port and I was able to power up a UAP-6-IW so if it will power that it will definitely power an AP-AC-Pro.

The bad news is that the ports on the LHG are 100Mbps so that will limit anything powered or slaved off it to 100Mbps.

And to finish off on more good news, that won’t matter because you’ll be powering it off a USW-24-PoE Gen2 switch. So everything will be 1 GbE apart from the LHG. And will do what you want it to do.

https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/usw-24-poe
 
WJA96 said:
OK. The good news is that the LHG powered up off a Gen 2 switch and it successfully passed data and 48V PoE through the second Ethernet port and I was able to power up a UAP-6-IW so if it will power that it will definitely power an AP-AC-Pro.

The bad news is that the ports on the LHG are 100Mbps so that will limit anything powered or slaved off it to 100Mbps.

And to finish off on more good news, that won’t matter because you’ll be powering it off a USW-24-PoE Gen2 switch. So everything will be 1 GbE apart from the LHG. And will do what you want it to do.

https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/usw-24-poe
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how did you manage to test that, do you have the same LHG as mine?

Also I can see the power is 120W, is that shared between the 8 PoE ports so 15W for each port?
 
I'm in the warehouse... ;)

We have a couple of LHG LTE's and a rather more of the newer LHG LTE6 models. Only the modem is different. And you can even buy the new LTE6 modem and upgrade it.
 
NM30 said:
Also I can see the power is 120W, is that shared between the 8 PoE ports so 15W for each port?
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On the USW-24-PoE there are 16 PoE ports.

Each port can draw up to 32W and the maximum combined PoE output power is 95W. An access point or LHG will pull between 3 and 10W. A CCTV camera typically pulls about 2W unless it's a PTZ in which case they can be much higher. Some of the units with heaters and wipers are 25W. This unit will be plenty for most home requirements.
 
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