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Current setup serves 6 flats and beams the connection across a road to 2 further flats.

Now need to provide Internet access in the adjacent building which is a three storey large house so was thinking of 1 x U6 lite per floor.

Ideally want the APs to be POE powered.

Was thinking of switching on IDS/IPS but are they any good?

Also, might upgrade the CCTV so extra POE ports with sufficient power might be useful.
 
ivandrago said:
Was thinking of switching on IDS/IPS but are they any good?
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It depends if you think your computers on your network are infected with malware. If you don't have malware ridden PCs then they won't do anything except slow your router to a crawl. If you suspect you have something going on inside your network you can always turn it on for a couple of hours and see if it flags anything. The system used on the USG and UDM is known to give a reasonably high number of false positive reports, which is good because 'better safe than sorry' but bad because IPS will shout those false threats down until you investigate and release them.

Which could be a painful experience in a block of flats!
 
ivandrago said:
Pf Sense looks interesting but what's the learning curve like? Unifi used to be fairly deploy and forget until the past year or so with dodgy firmware.
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You can deploy the default configuration out of the box and it will be safe. Untangle is the same. A lot of people are going with OPNSense now as the developers of pfSense seem to have all gone a bit odd.
 
ivandrago said:
Pf Sense looks interesting but what's the learning curve like? Unifi used to be fairly deploy and forget until the past year or so with dodgy firmware.
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Lots of good content online too via Tom Lawerence etc. lots of wizard driven config and then lots of areas networking people can delv into.

I use Sophos XG home atm, but would also use any of the mentioned above.
 
ChrisD. said:
I’m mounting my Flex HD soon, it’s going to be high up, near to the roof of the n a standard two story house. I’ve read some people saying in this sort of situation it’s better to mount it upside down. Any truth in this?
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How did you get on with this? I'm just investigating solutions to a similar problem. I finally sorted the top of the garden, but now it turns out, the two U6-Pros I have indoors don't quite reach there. I've moved them around indoors as much as I can with existing cable runs but it's made no difference. I already have a switch in the loft, so my next option was to mount something outdoors and drop a cable from the soffit and it looks like the FlexHD/U6 Mesh are my best bet.
 
Depending on how big your garden is you might want to look at the UAP-AC-Mesh Pro as well. The FlexHD and U6-Mesh are watertight but coverage on the Omni’s isn’t as good as the panel antenna on the AC-Mesh Pro.
 
Have people used the UI design centre much for heat mapping etc?

I need to get my house floor plans done to import etc. how does it handle scale and multiple floors etc
 
Street said:
How did you get on with this? I'm just investigating solutions to a similar problem. I finally sorted the top of the garden, but now it turns out, the two U6-Pros I have indoors don't quite reach there. I've moved them around indoors as much as I can with existing cable runs but it's made no difference. I already have a switch in the loft, so my next option was to mount something outdoors and drop a cable from the soffit and it looks like the FlexHD/U6 Mesh are my best bet.
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No progress yet. I’m waiting on the ceiling mount, I couldn’t find a single one in stock, only triple packs. It’s on back order so no idea how long it will take.
 
WJA96 said:
Depending on how big your garden is you might want to look at the UAP-AC-Mesh Pro as well. The FlexHD and U6-Mesh are watertight but coverage on the Omni’s isn’t as good as the panel antenna on the AC-Mesh Pro.
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It's not massive, only about 35m from the back wall of the house to the top. I actually prefer the form factor of the AC-Mesh-Pro, it would look neater mounted on the wall, just a shame it isn't WiFi 6. However, I was trying to be cheap and potentially kill two birds with one stone as my 5GHz channels don't reach the garage too well and an omni on the back wall would be the closest to the garage so may help with that.
 
Quick question - looking to add a few UniFi6 Meshes around my garden after some advice in another thread.

I've got Netgear Orbis throughout the house providing WiFi.

Can I just plug these meshes in as an extra WiFi point or do I need some dedicated Ubiquiti router / hub?

Thanks!
 
The first one has to plugged into the router with an appropriate power source. The are set up from the UniFi app or a dedicated UniFi controller.

The system is designed to be massively expandable (100’s of access points in large buildings) so the first one you set up takes a bit if time. Every one you add after that ‘just works’ because the settings replicate out to each new access point you add.

If you are adding them in Mesh mode then the second and further access points just need power although given it’s safer, cheaper and easier to run PoE than 240V I would use the wired backhaul.
 
Trying to find anywhere which has the UniFi exter al mesh 6 or the Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Mesh Access Point in stock (ie any external one). All seem to be out of stock for ages.

Is there any issues going on with UniFi or is this just Brexit chaos continuing?
 
katie279 said:
Trying to find anywhere which has the UniFi exter al mesh 6 or the Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Mesh Access Point in stock (ie any external one). All seem to be out of stock for ages.

Is there any issues going on with UniFi or is this just Brexit chaos continuing?
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Nope, they’re just new and super-popular or old and super-popular. UniFi had supply issues well before Brexit. If you log onto the UniFi USA store or the UniFi EU store they’re both constantly sold out. Just put a reminder on the EU website and as soon as some come in they’ll send you an e-mail.
 
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