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What do the clients you're connecting have? Honestly I'd only be fussed about upgrading an office Wi-Fi network if it was currently Wi-Fi 5 or below, or a company was moving location/expanding/having building work done anyway. 400Mbps is plenty for a laptop to do a Zoom call in a little side room and for some phones to get emails. Going from Wi-Fi 6 APs that are 4x4 on 5GHz to Wi-Fi 7 ones that are 2x2 on 5Ghz and 6Ghz is a downgrade in most situations.
 
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The new build is only coming together now so I bought the U6 Pros thinking that they were tried and tested and pretty reliable and the 1gb backbone is still plenty. The office is build will cater for around 30 users, it runs onto a largeish metal working factory so usual Email, internet, windows updates etc, nothing strenuous, most devices on the shop floor will be ethernet but I'll have WiFi out there too for basic general use.
Just waiting for fibre to go in before I get the electricians to mount the APs, we've only been waiting since April for Openreach to find the site, add a post and connect in via the services trench we included.
 
robj20 said:
No. Id only take the newer design ones as well, but only in addition or to replace a faulty one. It's still early days for WiFi 7 and 6ghz.
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Yea there is only so much that new firmware and software updates can fix/implement so i'm happy to let these run for a few years minimum.
 
brendy said:
Yea there is only so much that new firmware and software updates can fix/implement so i'm happy to let these run for a few years minimum.
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Exactly, it's not even the speed of be interested in more the quality of life stuff.
Id like to see more decides shift from 2.4ghz to 5ghz first.
2.4ghz round here is so congested, doesn't help that ZigBee is the same frequency.
 
Av8 said:
Hi all, after some advice on a setup. I'm looking at getting away from Eero wifi, and looking at the Ubiquiti gear.

I live in a 2up 2 down, eventually wanting a doorbell using poe and 2 or 3 camera's. I have fibre internet, and have 2 Eero max (wifi7) one inside the house and one in a man cave bottom of garden.
Both Eero's are wired via an outdoor ethernet cable.

So I'm looking at going down the route of the Ubiquiti gear, I've looked more for ease (not too complicated hopefully) more than anything to go with the following.

Unifi Cloud Gateway Max, Unifi Switch Lite 16 port poe and 2 or 3 Unifi U7 access points. This is just as a start to then have the ability to add poe camera's doorbell etc at a later date. Obviously the gateway max for the recording/storage of the camera's/doorbell.

Would that work well as a replacement of the Eero's, also wanting to get away from Google doorbell and camera's I have now. Advice appreciated thanks.
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Id go for the ucg fiber over the max. Its not much more cash, and it a bit of a beast.

Careful with the 16 port poe, there isnt a lot of power budget on the poe, so check it will run all you need.

Im in a similar position.
 
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UniFi 5G Max Outdoor arrived this morning, so I'll get it tested out over the weekend.

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@RSR images not loading for me.

Got mine as well, chucked in my work SIM and did a test from my downstairs office:
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For a backup for working at home, perfectly fine. No doubt it'll improve hugely in the loft. Will put in a 30 day Voxi SIM into it for initial testing, then cancel it until there's an issue with. Vodafone and EE seem best around this area but apparently there's now standalone O2 5G SA in my area so may look into a bit more.

Not sure what the usual is for backup 5G broadband but I looked at the maths and it beats a fixed VM line.

Edit - big difference in the loft.

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Ive re-uploaded those images, so I think they should work now. I did order a load of PAYG sims to see what works best. If I go off my phone, EE is dog slow indoors.
 
The external 5G thing looks like a great product, a shame that it requires a UniFi gateway rather than having a level of functionality independent of that. An outdoor 5G router with (planned) eSIM support for £315 before the VAT is great, the ability to have it connect to a UniFi dashboard for remote management while passing through the IP from the 5G network to any firewall would make it perfect.
 
I assume there's a Quectel module or similar chucked in there with the antenna design being whatever that vendor recommended using, it would be quite difficult to mess the hardware up.
 
Just set mine up in the loft for now, with the following networks tested:

O2 - 5G
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O2 - 4G
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Vodafone - 4G
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EE - 4G
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A few notes:

You can read an SMS message, but you have to SSH to the device and review the "cat /var/log/messages"
You can't lock the device to 4G / 5G or remove some bands.
The fallover is pretty seamless, as you would expect


O2 here seems the quickest in terms of throughput, but it does seem to drop back to 4G now and again.
EE seems the best in terms of latency

I'll find out where each of the 5G masts is and see if I can improve things, as I did notice EE did go onto 5G briefly
 
I get over 400 Mbps consistently with my work SIM with Vodafone. I'm half tempted not to pay for a SIM and just put my work SIM in it if required, it's not like I need immediate failover and no one ever calls me on it.

RSR said:
You can read an SMS message, but you have to SSH to the device and review the "cat /var/log/messages"
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Just type in read-sms. :)
 
ChrisD. said:
I get over 400 Mbps consistently with my work SIM with Vodafone. I'm half tempted not to pay for a SIM and just put my work SIM in it if required, it's not like I need immediate failover and no one ever calls me on it.



Just type in read-sms. :)
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This is one of the joys of living out in the middle of nowhere :cry:

Oh, that makes life a bit easier, cheers.
 
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