Sadly for me I only have access to either Virgin (which are terrible) of Openreach based FTTP and there are very few providers that don't use PPPoE (TalkTalk, Sky to name just two I know of) but they also don't offer the multi-gigabit speeds on Openreach. If I need mechanical drives in future could just get a UNVR (four drive bay one).
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I'm also tempted to switch to EE, I have two SIM cards with them and one would be £20 off. That gets me the 1.6 Gbps service for an effective £40.99 (not taking the annual price rises into account). That's pretty tempting, I'm paying Aquiss £55 a month for 900/100.
We do less cloud stuff at work so static IP is less of a requirement these days and I can work around it now UniFi supports DDNS to Cloudflare.
We do less cloud stuff at work so static IP is less of a requirement these days and I can work around it now UniFi supports DDNS to Cloudflare.
This is actually really cool. Only recently got into ubiquity and already have a few Sonos devices but they're atrocious and full of weird bugs and unreliable.
Same here, the static IP had me holding off on my order for a while but I decided to find a workaround.
In the end I took out a L2TP connection from A&A and then setup a Debian VM to connect to it, added a WireGuard server and then connected the UDM-SE to that via the WireGuard client, it can also be a Tailscale exit node if I am not an about and need the use of that static IP. Now I can set a policy in the unifi to do one of two things….
1. Route a device through that to benefit from the static IP or…..
2. Route a particular IP or range I visit through that WireGuard that has the A&A static IP.
None of anything I’d need a static IP for would benefit from the 1.6Gbps download anyway. For anything static incoming I can use Cloudflare DDNS (I do this using a docker container already) and also use Pangolin (similar to Cloudflare Tunnels).
That's the one thing I need to look into for my setup, I currently run Wireguard server on my CGF, and most of my devices are set to connect on-demand. But the UI only supports IPv4 for the server address (TBH I don't know if WG supports DNS names for endpoint). Cloudflare tunnels may help, but ultimately I'd like to be able to free room my home network when away from home.
Before, working from home, I worked with a lot of customer cloud deployments and for the level of access I had, they had strict IPv4 ACLs for public access so having a static IP was kinda essential, and I wasn't prepared to set up a cloud jump host. Now it's mainly Citrix endpoints I connect to in private cloud deployments, and they can be from any public IP.
DDNS takes care of my mates using my Plex server, so no other real requirement for a static IP.
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Very likely the wrong place to ask but as it’s Unifi - anyone got a G4 Doorbell Pro by any chance?
Yeh I have a POE one, so much better than my previous ring door bell.
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I’ve currently got a hardwired regular doorbell, the button is shot on it so I’ve been tempted to put something fancy in instead. I can’t run PoE to it so hoping someone has some experience of wiring it in that can maybe help. I’d rather not fry it by doing it wrong!
I did just this recently. Posted some summary in this thread.
I'm an idiot, turns out UniFi gateway Wireguard server does in fact support DNS name.
Think I'll be moving to EE. Less money, faster, and still decent support when I've had to ring them for mobile/SIM related issues in the past.
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The public IP address or Dynamic DNS hostname that is added to the configuration file and used by clients to connect to the server.
Use this option if the UniFi Gateway is behind NAT or is using a dynamically assigned IP address. Learn moreThink I'll be moving to EE. Less money, faster, and still decent support when I've had to ring them for mobile/SIM related issues in the past.
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Has anyone had issues with running a u6-lr in standalone mode?
Just upgrade to 1gig Internet with a virgin hub 5 router, I wasn't a fan of the unifi controller at all so I sold my ucg ultra, on my 350mb connection the u6-lr was flawless, full speed and minimal latency throughout the house (ceiling mounted on landing)
Have installed the hub5, put the lr in standalone but the performance is pants, if I connect to the hub 5 which is downstairs in a cupboard..I can get 440Mbps peak download on my steam deck when upstairs.
If I connect to the u6-lr, upstairs, right next to the AP so no walls or anything to impact, it hovers around 200Mbps. Sometimes on my phone using speed tests it's dropped to 15-20 with 26ms latency..
Any help.. I want a new router anyway but using Sam knows the hub speed is fine, it's an in home issue but I don't get why!
Reset it for the new hub, new ssid etc, no other changes in terms of the poe switch.
Edit just look in my app and I'm about 3m from the AP and the devices are connecting to the 2.4ghz band.. Excellent quality, if they move to 5ghz the signal goes to poor, eh! Disabled the 2.4ghz band and they connect to 5ghz, one device excellent one good, despite being close.. But still not great speeds
Just upgrade to 1gig Internet with a virgin hub 5 router, I wasn't a fan of the unifi controller at all so I sold my ucg ultra, on my 350mb connection the u6-lr was flawless, full speed and minimal latency throughout the house (ceiling mounted on landing)
Have installed the hub5, put the lr in standalone but the performance is pants, if I connect to the hub 5 which is downstairs in a cupboard..I can get 440Mbps peak download on my steam deck when upstairs.
If I connect to the u6-lr, upstairs, right next to the AP so no walls or anything to impact, it hovers around 200Mbps. Sometimes on my phone using speed tests it's dropped to 15-20 with 26ms latency..
Any help.. I want a new router anyway but using Sam knows the hub speed is fine, it's an in home issue but I don't get why!
Reset it for the new hub, new ssid etc, no other changes in terms of the poe switch.
Edit just look in my app and I'm about 3m from the AP and the devices are connecting to the 2.4ghz band.. Excellent quality, if they move to 5ghz the signal goes to poor, eh! Disabled the 2.4ghz band and they connect to 5ghz, one device excellent one good, despite being close.. But still not great speeds
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So think I've just been an idiot, disabled the WiFi on the hub5 and now on 800Mbps on samknows.com via the ap which is probably about as good as I'm gonna get on WiFi really. Tool!
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Do any of you run Plex with a Unas pro as your storage pool.
I've been looking at what is use to host my Plex server.
Something like this,
GMKtec Mini PC, M2 Pro Intel Core i7-1195G7 (Turbo 5.0 GHz) 512GB PCIE SSD 16GB DDR4 3200MHz,Desktop PC Computers WiFi 6/USB3.2/BT 5.2/DP/HDMI/RJ45 2.5G,Mini Computer
The 4 bays in my Asustor is starting to feel low, and it's starting to feel slow.
I just wonder what is replace the apps with for backup of our mobile phone photos.
I've been looking at what is use to host my Plex server.
Something like this,
GMKtec Mini PC, M2 Pro Intel Core i7-1195G7 (Turbo 5.0 GHz) 512GB PCIE SSD 16GB DDR4 3200MHz,Desktop PC Computers WiFi 6/USB3.2/BT 5.2/DP/HDMI/RJ45 2.5G,Mini Computer
The 4 bays in my Asustor is starting to feel low, and it's starting to feel slow.
I just wonder what is replace the apps with for backup of our mobile phone photos.
An N100 will do exactly the same job in terms of hardware transcoding as that for under £100 and run a full *arr suite. Plex smarter, not harder.
Looks to be about twice as fast as my current Celeron J4125 which does struggle sometimes with the odd film, seems to be when it's transcoding audio, or doing subtitles.
N305 might be a better more long term option.
The UNAS Pro seems great value when you account for 7 bays and 10gbe.
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It's more the backing up the mobile photos I need to sort a solution out for.
Audio and subtitles are about the only thing Plex uses the CPU to transcode, the N100 is roughly comparable to a 6th gen i5. In terms of photo’s, look to Immich.
Immich looks like I'd have to learn how to use Docker.
Are we expecting any more NASs from Unifi soon.
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