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It’s fine at the moment, but once you have to have the controller on the router - UDM/UDM Pro it’s going to either drive folks away from UniFi routers or you’ll have to move the controllers locally.
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It’s fine at the moment, but once you have to have the controller on the router - UDM/UDM Pro it’s going to either drive folks away from UniFi routers or you’ll have to move the controllers locally.
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In our use case we won't ever use UDM's or the like, just access points and switches. I get your point though.
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I have 2 x UAP-AC-LR units looking to get another to cover my garden but are the Nano HD units better for the money?
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The HD and SHD have the best range if any UniFi units but if you’re happy with the AC performance of your existing LR’s then they’re much cheaper, and the HD units definitely aren’t worth the price premium.
If it’s for outside then the AP-AC-Mesh is the best option.
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Finally got my G3 Pro IP Camera installed this weekend. CloudKey Gen2 Plus been installed for a while now waiting
Nice bit of kit, just works really.
It should do, considering the money they’re asking for the cameras!
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i tested using a varierty and now seems to be working better than the SH3. so no idea. maybe just needed time to settle.
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Out of interest, if i'm using an AP-Pro connected to a BT Homehub to increase range.
Do i need to configure the AP in a controller or should it just "work"?
Do i need to configure the AP in a controller or should it just "work"?
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Haven't set anything up at the moment. I just have an unused AP and am debating using that along with my homehub. I did reset the AP and then connect it to my switch and it powers on etc but not sure it's doing much!
Other options would be to use the homehub for the 5ghz and then use the AP-Pro for the 2.4ghz band. But not sure that's possible.
Other options would be to use the homehub for the 5ghz and then use the AP-Pro for the 2.4ghz band. But not sure that's possible.
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To answer your question explicitly, no, it won’t ‘just work’.
It must be set up through a controller.
As has been stated by several posters, you can now download the UniFi app to your smartphone and configure the Access Point from there. You will need to register for a Ubiquiti user name and also be aware that if you change smartphone you may have to factory reset their access point and start again, as, as has been mentioned, the phone becomes the controller and the Access Point is locked to the controller.
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Ok great, i did have an old cloud key/USG setup but found i got similar performance with just the BT homehub so moved it on and just kept one of the AP's.
Will get it configured today.
Cheers
Will get it configured today.
Cheers
Any one here have a UDM? I have an AP-LR and whilst it's many times better than my SH, there are still outer parts of the house that are a bit flaky. I fancied getting fully onboard with the Unifi ecosystem and to learn more about networking (another AP, possibly a USG and definitely a switch). However have just come across the UDM which seems to do everything.
Combing through the thread and just seen this which has made me ponder. Apart from the back kitchen* the WiFi in the house is pretty good. The easiest upgrade would be to simply add another AP in the kitchen to cover that and the garden. However I would like to hard wire my computer upstairs as whilst it manages to stream just fine from the HTPC downstairs, it can struggle at high bit rate 1080p and it's not even worth trying 4K
. The house is rented though so the wiring/trunking solution needs to be easy and easy to remove (back of living room, across the ceiling, a very short distance across the hallway ceiling, through the banisters and then under our bedroom door - the room is basically directly above). My DIY skills are pretty shoddy but I can learn. I would also like to hard wire the HTPC which sits right next to the AP-LR.
*I wonder if my wife's S10e has a weaker radio than my older Note 9 as her WiFi is a lot more flaky than mine in the kitchen.
Combing through the thread and just seen this which has made me ponder. Apart from the back kitchen* the WiFi in the house is pretty good. The easiest upgrade would be to simply add another AP in the kitchen to cover that and the garden. However I would like to hard wire my computer upstairs as whilst it manages to stream just fine from the HTPC downstairs, it can struggle at high bit rate 1080p and it's not even worth trying 4K
. The house is rented though so the wiring/trunking solution needs to be easy and easy to remove (back of living room, across the ceiling, a very short distance across the hallway ceiling, through the banisters and then under our bedroom door - the room is basically directly above). My DIY skills are pretty shoddy but I can learn. I would also like to hard wire the HTPC which sits right next to the AP-LR. *I wonder if my wife's S10e has a weaker radio than my older Note 9 as her WiFi is a lot more flaky than mine in the kitchen.
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If your rented the simplest solution would be to get another AP and set it up in mesh mode, sure it will not get full throughput but it will be fast enough for projecting your (assuming) FTTC out to the garden. Just make sure you site the second so in a strong signal area and not on the edge of the first APs range or the throughout will be really poor.
While I agree cables are the best solution, visible cables, particularly across things like ceilings will be ugly, seriously ugly. With the mesh you don’t have to worry about making changes to a property that isn’t yours.
I’d suggest getting a nanoHD and placing that as your core AP and putting the slower LR out on the mesh.
Edit: the nanoHD has a better 4x4 antena so it will not only give you more range than your current ap, it will have more throughout than the 2x2 antenna on your current AP. If you go down the mesh route it will do a better job as the primary ap as it will need to use WiFi as the backhaul and therefore you are better off using the fastest AP as the primary AP to avoid bottlenecks.
While I agree cables are the best solution, visible cables, particularly across things like ceilings will be ugly, seriously ugly. With the mesh you don’t have to worry about making changes to a property that isn’t yours.
I’d suggest getting a nanoHD and placing that as your core AP and putting the slower LR out on the mesh.
Edit: the nanoHD has a better 4x4 antena so it will not only give you more range than your current ap, it will have more throughout than the 2x2 antenna on your current AP. If you go down the mesh route it will do a better job as the primary ap as it will need to use WiFi as the backhaul and therefore you are better off using the fastest AP as the primary AP to avoid bottlenecks.
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The UDM is an all in one solution, WiFi access point, 4 port switch (no POE ports), router and Unifi controller in a small box. I have had mine since November and it has perfomed very well, I am currently running a custom beta firmware as the current UDM firmware 1.5.5 doesn't support wireless uplinks.
A new UDM SE model is going to be released soon, this I understand has an LCD/OLED screen and may have POE ports.
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The much discussed ‘black’ UDM isn’t even in the Early Access store yet. So any features it may or may not have are guessed at from FCC filings and from looking at an accidentally released picture of what might have been an Alien prototype. Outside of the Alpha programme participants, no-one really knows what’s coming through. The UDM was in the EA store for 7 months before it launched, so ‘soon’ may be a bit elastic.
And given the UDM is the thick end of £300 then a UDM with PoE is going to be another £100 at least, so it’s not going to be cheap.
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Any one here have a UDM? I have an AP-LR and whilst it's many times better than my SH, there are still outer parts of the house that are a bit flaky. I fancied getting fully onboard with the Unifi ecosystem and to learn more about networking (another AP, possibly a USG and definitely a switch). However have just come across the UDM which seems to do everything.
Combing through the thread and just seen this which has made me ponder. Apart from the back kitchen* the WiFi in the house is pretty good. The easiest upgrade would be to simply add another AP in the kitchen to cover that and the garden. However I would like to hard wire my computer upstairs as whilst it manages to stream just fine from the HTPC downstairs, it can struggle at high bit rate 1080p and it's not even worth trying 4K
*I wonder if my wife's S10e has a weaker radio than my older Note 9 as her WiFi is a lot more flaky than mine in the kitchen.
If it’s only 1 cable then running it along the skirting boards and around door frames is probably the tidiest and least destructive solution.
And most landlords don’t have a problem with people adding a feature to a property as long as they have the opportunity to give permission and it’s done professionally. Your landlord may even have an electrical contractor that could do the work for you.
It's definitely worth asking and the landlord's father is a handy man as he comes to fix any issues (so at the very least should know someone if he can't himself). I think I will still need a switch as I want to wire the HTPC as well but that's right next to all of the gear.