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Samueltastic said:
Bought a CGU of Facebook the other week to start my ubiquiti journey and love just how user friendly it is and the features it has to offer over my Vodafone supplied modem. Obviously I requested my pppoe details from Vodafone and fobbed off their box too.

I've just pulled the trigger on the switch pro 8 poe as I wanted the 2xPoe++ it has put to run a switch ultra I purchased too, in that garage with my security cameras on it. I know it's only 1gb ports but it's a small family set up and don't think I'd need higher speeds. The pro xg being nearly £500 too was a bit of a jump. Also bought a u6 plus so looking forward to playing with that.

How are people separating their vlans? Was thinking something like below
Security
Iot
Guest
Main
Kids

Do people put themselves in their own vlan like a admin vlan? Just not sure to keep the Mrs out of some things if something went south with her devices. Hope that doesn't sound too daft.
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I have two VLANs, one unrestricted with my CCTV on, NAS and main pc and phones.
Then an IOT one with everything else on it, no cross communication allowed set to family profile.
IOT has all access to the UDM blocked and other vlan gateways.
I then have a few things like BBC iPlayer and ticktok blocked for everyone.

Don't see the need to separate it off anymore than that.
 
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Hi, guys.

Can i use a "af PoE" injector (powering a NanoHD) with a basic PoE device (U7 Lite)? Wikipedia suggests yes, as it seems "af PoE" was just shortened to "PoE".
 
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I believe so. That would be Type 1. If it needs more power it would be Type 2, which I think UniFi calls PoE+ but I’m not an expert on this.

I would be more nervous if it was one of those passive PoE adapters that doesn’t negotiate first, but I think in the case of the nanoHD it should be the standardised Type 1.
 
What I will say is that the 2.4ghz on the U6 Pro doesn't seem as good as it did on the Asus AX86S.

We've got a small camera in the shed and with the U6 Pro set to 20mhz and low. It struggles to maintain a connection even though it's usually in the 70-75dbm-ish range. Tried changing to medium and high and it doesn't really make a difference.

Previously this was connected to the Asus fine and never had any connection issues etc.

The workaround at the minute is that I've re-enabled 2.4ghz on the AP that's closer (U6+) and it's connected to that.

Not a huge issue, but it would have been nice to not have 2.4 broadcasting on the U6+
 
Anyone using a Cloud Gateway Fibre with a FTTP PPPoE connection? (BT Fibre for example)

With Ubiquiti’s history of trash performance for PPPoE connections I’m keen to know if it’s finally been sorted now or not, especially when using IPS and QOS.
 
Spleen Sauce said:
Anyone using a Cloud Gateway Fibre with a FTTP PPPoE connection? (BT Fibre for example)

With Ubiquiti’s history of trash performance for PPPoE connections I’m keen to know if it’s finally been sorted now or not, especially when using IPS and QOS.
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Yep. Working perfectly with BT Full Fibre 900.

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Edit - I've actually got a UXG-Fiber rather than the UCG-Fiber. I don't think that makes an appreciable difference to your question though.
 
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I have a UCF and get very similar speeds to those above. I run IPS but not QoS as didn't need it for the usage I see. Its managing 6 devices, 3 AP (u7) and 3 switches.
 
I've finally entered the world of Ubiquiti by getting the Dream Router 7 just yesterday! I had been on the hunt to replace my aging Netgear router and ideally wanted an all-in-one solution, my place isn't big enough to warrant multiple access points.

After reading through a lot of this thread and various reviews I went for the UDR7 and safe to say I'm really pleased with it so far! So easy to setup and at the moment I'm using the 2.5GB wan port but may switch over to the SFP port as I want to in the near future get some sort of 4G/5G failover solution implemented.

Like above I'm with BT 900/115 set as a PPPoE connection with no issues.
 
Rendog said:
I've finally entered the world of Ubiquiti by getting the Dream Router 7 just yesterday! I had been on the hunt to replace my aging Netgear router and ideally wanted an all-in-one solution, my place isn't big enough to warrant multiple access points.

After reading through a lot of this thread and various reviews I went for the UDR7 and safe to say I'm really pleased with it so far! So easy to setup and at the moment I'm using the 2.5GB wan port but may switch over to the SFP port as I want to in the near future get some sort of 4G/5G failover solution implemented.

Like above I'm with BT 900/115 set as a PPPoE connection with no issues.
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So I returned the UDR7 because as soon as you try to do anything fancy with it (IPS or QOS) it absolutely nuked performance with PPPoE because apparently it doesn’t have hardware offloading. My connection dropped to around 400/70 with IPS enabled and even further with QOS enabled. I eventually got a response from Ubiquiti that agreed it was an issue and they were looking at software fix options. I wasn’t really willing to wait at the time.
 
Spleen Sauce said:
So I returned the UDR7 because as soon as you try to do anything fancy with it (IPS or QOS) it absolutely nuked performance with PPPoE because apparently it doesn’t have hardware offloading. My connection dropped to around 400/70 with IPS enabled and even further with QOS enabled. I eventually got a response from Ubiquiti that agreed it was an issue and they were looking at software fix options. I wasn’t really willing to wait at the time.
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Didn't someone say this was fixed not so long ago.

Do you really need IPS. I do use Smart Queues for my 300mb connection otherwise things like Steam hog it all and streaming and browsing suffers.
Wonder why they say best not to use above 300mb.
 
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robj20 said:
Didn't someone say this was fixed not so long ago.

Do you really need IPS. I do use Smart Queues for my 300mb connection otherwise things like Steam hog it all and streaming and browsing suffers.
Wonder why they say best not to use above 300mb.
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Smart queues is QOS so it’ll have the same issue.

It may be fixed now, lots of posts on the Ubiquiti forums seem to give mixed views.
 
robj20 said:
Is it, Smart Queues is in the Internet Section, QOS is in routing? They look very different settings.
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Yeah, consensus seems to be that it uses the QOS engine so ends up disabling hardware offload.

To be honest, none of it is really clear and Ubiquiti aren’t super forthcoming on it.
 
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