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I'd like someone to do a packet capture on the Unifi cellular devices, I assume they bring up a LAN interface as usual for management purposes and then the actual WAN traffic is tunnelled via GRE or something, in the same way that controller-based access points work.
 
U7 Pro XG replacement delivered. I won't get a chance until late tonight or tomorrow but please don't give me gyp this time :p.

Edit: :(. Still issues. The attic run I wanted to use, which uses a coupler, wanted to mesh so assume it's the coupler (even though it supports PoE+). I then switched another run without the coupler and it picked it up and wanted to adopt without meshing, result. But it then got stuck in a 'click to adopt' and 'click to resolve loop'. Tried this a few times and now it's been stuck on adopting for about 5 minutes. I'll leave out the attic run and place in the downstairs hallway - if it doesn't bork again.

Edit - accepted the SFP modules and my attic runs will not play ball. Installed in hallway, currently at 1Gb. I'll let that settle and see if the same cable (which previously worked) can get back on the aggregation switch.
 
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Need some advice and recommendations please

I’m looking to move over to the Ubiquiti ecosystem and want to upgrade my current WiFi setup so it’s fully future proof, with the intention of adding their camera and doorbell system later on.

At the moment I’ve got a very cluttered central cupboard that houses my Asus RT AX88U router, which has served me well. I haven’t connected all of the Ethernet ports around the house to it yet, but that’s something I’d like to sort as part of the upgrade. The space should fit a rack up to 560 mm wide.

WiFi coverage in my garage and the master bedroom above was pretty poor, so I added a Ubiquiti Unifi 6 Pro. I think it helps, but my phone doesn’t seem to roam to it properly, so I’m not sure if it’s working well as a mesh extender like I hoped. I’ve also got a Ubiquiti U7 Outdoor at the end of the garden which works fine, plus a few Flex Mini switches dotted around the house.

I’d really appreciate any advice on the best way to move fully into the Ubiquiti setup, what hardware I should be looking at, and how best to tidy everything up into a proper rack.

Just a little upgrade:

FYI, my rack is literally identicle to the newly announced Unifi 12U rack with the only difference being is that it doesn't come assembled which is very easy to do. https://amzn.to/4owWkE4

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UNAS Upgrade time :D

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Jealous, my rack isn't deep enough for it or id but one, probably going to end up with the 7 bay one.

What would happen if I put a switch between my ONT and connected both WAN ports to it, then WAN1 is my current ISP and WAN2 my new ISP would it work and as WAN1 drops off WAN2 would take over. I'm sure I'm missing something.
 
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Jealous, my rack isn't deep enough for it or id but one, probably going to end up with the 7 bay one.

It's going to be a little tight with my current Excel one, but I'll just offset the mounting brackets, and it will be fine. I am still waiting for the UK store to stock the deeper units, as the EU store won't ship to the UK. :(

The UNAS-Pro is still a solid little unit, to be honest. As a basic SMB/NFS share, it's hard to fault.

In terms of the ONT, it depends on your ISP, really. If it's just PPPoE, you can just create a VLAN and then present that same VLAN to the GW. If, for example, you have an ISP which uses VLAN 901, just create a Trunk on the ONT and then an Access port to VLAN on the GW side. Ive tried and tested both methods back when I was using PFsense, and it worked without issues.
 
It's going to be a little tight with my current Excel one, but I'll just offset the mounting brackets, and it will be fine. I am still waiting for the UK store to stock the deeper units, as the EU store won't ship to the UK. :(

The UNAS-Pro is still a solid little unit, to be honest. As a basic SMB/NFS share, it's hard to fault.

In terms of the ONT, it depends on your ISP, really. If it's just PPPoE, you can just create a VLAN and then present that same VLAN to the GW. If, for example, you have an ISP which uses VLAN 901, just create a Trunk on the ONT and then an Access port to VLAN on the GW side. Ive tried and tested both methods back when I was using PFsense, and it worked without issues.
Aquiss today Idnet tomorrow, both just pppoe with no vlan.
I thought of pulling the rails forward but then there would be no room for the patch cables.
 
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I'm not sure what your suggesting, I have VLANS on my internal network but not sure how to set up that to access two different ISPs.

I'd create 2 new PPPoE VLANs 991,992 for example, and name them PPPoE_1 and PPPoE_2. Then on the GW, which presents to the UDM / CWF patch 2 patch that into 2 ports, which are set up to use those VLANs

Unless I am missing something, which is more often than not the case. :D
 
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Aquiss today Idnet tomorrow, both just pppoe with no vlan.
Is the IDNet via City Fibre? If so I have a VLAN configured. IIRC it didn't work until I worked out how to configure that on my PFSense router. So much easy with the Ubiquiti software, I wish I'd switched before.
 
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