Morning all
Im very overdue a local network rebuild at home so as its been a while im after advice
Current setup
VM 1gb/s router, wifi switched off ( its bugged firmware needs a factory reset to get it back on) This is at one end of the house in my box room / study
Old TPlink router only runs 5ghz no 6/6e support. This is in the middle of the house with a cat6e link, I get approx 100mb/s in most areas of the building
Usage
Couple of laptops, max of 3 tvs. PS5 2 pixel 8a's and my daughters fire kids tablet. Main PC and Linux NAS server are hardwired back to the Superhub
Long term goals
Move to at least 2.5gb/s for hardwired links
WiFi 7 with 6ghz support, may as well if Im doing it, possibly 2 APs rather than one to spread out over the area a bit better
Implement sufficiant parental controls, daughter is currently only 5 but if Im rebuilding I may as well plan hard for the future, I already have her tablet locked down but id like something centralised so I can control multiple devices, a plus would be with some level of VPN support baked in
Pricing
Lets be honest as little as possible to cover the bases. I dont need Enterprise grade firewalling and management with 99.999% uptime and failover, I dont have or need 10gb fibre links this is for 2 adult and 1 child in an average sized 3 bed semi, I dont have Cameras, doorbells and Voip phone systems to worry about.
Ive been looking at ubiquity and thinking maybe a Dream router 7 and a u7 pro? Or am I better off spending the extra and going for a cloud gateway max, a couple of u7's and a POE switch / injectors? Although price really starts to ramp up doing that but I do understand the benifits of versatility having seperate boxes to do dedicated jobs allowing easierr expansion later on, I hear this can become a bit of a gatweay drug for the unifi product stack
Whats the unifi parental controls / content filtering like?
Im very overdue a local network rebuild at home so as its been a while im after advice
Current setup
VM 1gb/s router, wifi switched off ( its bugged firmware needs a factory reset to get it back on) This is at one end of the house in my box room / study
Old TPlink router only runs 5ghz no 6/6e support. This is in the middle of the house with a cat6e link, I get approx 100mb/s in most areas of the building
Usage
Couple of laptops, max of 3 tvs. PS5 2 pixel 8a's and my daughters fire kids tablet. Main PC and Linux NAS server are hardwired back to the Superhub
Long term goals
Move to at least 2.5gb/s for hardwired links
WiFi 7 with 6ghz support, may as well if Im doing it, possibly 2 APs rather than one to spread out over the area a bit better
Implement sufficiant parental controls, daughter is currently only 5 but if Im rebuilding I may as well plan hard for the future, I already have her tablet locked down but id like something centralised so I can control multiple devices, a plus would be with some level of VPN support baked in
Pricing
Lets be honest as little as possible to cover the bases. I dont need Enterprise grade firewalling and management with 99.999% uptime and failover, I dont have or need 10gb fibre links this is for 2 adult and 1 child in an average sized 3 bed semi, I dont have Cameras, doorbells and Voip phone systems to worry about.
Ive been looking at ubiquity and thinking maybe a Dream router 7 and a u7 pro? Or am I better off spending the extra and going for a cloud gateway max, a couple of u7's and a POE switch / injectors? Although price really starts to ramp up doing that but I do understand the benifits of versatility having seperate boxes to do dedicated jobs allowing easierr expansion later on, I hear this can become a bit of a gatweay drug for the unifi product stack
Whats the unifi parental controls / content filtering like?
