Yeah they did, but a lot of distributors didn’t differentiate because the SKU was left unchanged. It was a problem that Ubiquiti could have foreseen and avoided but presumably they didn’t want to leave resellers with “old” stock that wouldn’t sell unless discounted.
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Yeah they did, but a lot of distributors didn’t differentiate because the SKU was left unchanged. It was a problem that Ubiquiti could have foreseen and avoided but presumably they didn’t want to leave resellers with “old” stock that wouldn’t sell unless discounted.
UAP-AC-M fitted, everything went smoothly with no hiccups. Controller found it and adopted it in no time
Range is pretty good too Whole garden is covered.
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Range is pretty good too Whole garden is covered.
images uploadI thought they were best set to 45 degrees ?
Mikrotik recommend the antennae be set at 90 degrees from one another - the infamous rabbit-ears!
From what I can see, the antennae are at 90 degrees, which is what I would also have done, except I would have put one standing straight up and the other lying flat down. My understanding is that it is more important for the 5GHz than the 2.4GHz, but I don’t know why.
From what I can see, the antennae are at 90 degrees, which is what I would also have done, except I would have put one standing straight up and the other lying flat down. My understanding is that it is more important for the 5GHz than the 2.4GHz, but I don’t know why.
It's also got a bigger conductor size as far as I can recall too, it's a bit like Cat6 conductor size.
There used to be an issue on an older firmware that caused Sonos not to work properly, it was a little like network isolation. The same issue caused chromecast to randomly not work too.
Chaps, what are the pros and cons with having a simple Guest wifi setup (just tick the Guest button on the controller) vs Guest Wifi via a VLAN ?
as far as i can see, if you want it via a VLAN, each hop of network switch needs to be a managed switch and VLANned correctly so there is a path from Access Point back to the Gateway.
for me, i have EdgeRouter and Unmanaged Switch Downstairs, a cable then run upstairs into a cupboard which has a Zyxel Managed PoE Switch where all Unifi APs and rest of house network terminates.
for me to get VLAN working, id have to replace the unmanaged switch by the EdgeRouter to one that supports VLANS yes?
as far as i can see, if you want it via a VLAN, each hop of network switch needs to be a managed switch and VLANned correctly so there is a path from Access Point back to the Gateway.
for me, i have EdgeRouter and Unmanaged Switch Downstairs, a cable then run upstairs into a cupboard which has a Zyxel Managed PoE Switch where all Unifi APs and rest of house network terminates.
for me to get VLAN working, id have to replace the unmanaged switch by the EdgeRouter to one that supports VLANS yes?
Not really any need for a guest network to be in a VLAN as the UniFi guest policy enables AP isolation (clients can't talk to each other) and there's powerful controls for allowing or denying access to different IP's or subnets.
VLANs are not really supported on dumb switches, but that's not to say it won't work... try it and see, it might do depending on the specific features and firmware of the switch. Or you could put everything on the switch in the same VLAN. Or it's an excuse to get a nice new Unifi switch
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Any thoughts on this setup? Is there a better way of doing things?
As it stands, my house is an L shape with the master socket sitting at the furthest point away from everything in the L (in the lounge). We are also extending soon so may need another AP which will hang off the Loft Switch and I may also add an AP for the garden, also off the loft switch.
Lounge
BT Modem feeding a USG.
Cloud Key off the USG.
Switch 8 off the USG
UAP Pro off the Switch 8
Loft
Switch 8 60W off the Switch 8 (Hardwired externally)
UAP Pro off the Switch 8 60W
As it stands, my house is an L shape with the master socket sitting at the furthest point away from everything in the L (in the lounge). We are also extending soon so may need another AP which will hang off the Loft Switch and I may also add an AP for the garden, also off the loft switch.
Lounge
BT Modem feeding a USG.
Cloud Key off the USG.
Switch 8 off the USG
UAP Pro off the Switch 8
Loft
Switch 8 60W off the Switch 8 (Hardwired externally)
UAP Pro off the Switch 8 60W
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Question for anyone:
I have one of these: https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-poe/
Which wifi access points can I plug into it?
Thanks!
I have one of these: https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-poe/
Which wifi access points can I plug into it?
Thanks!
They're passive 24V/48V PoE so will support only passive PoE and not proper 802.3af PoE.
You should be fine to use Ubiquiti's APs that support Passive PoE, so you're looking at either the UAP-AC-LITE, UAP-AC-LR and UAP-AC-PRO. Both the HD and EDU require either 802.3af or 802.3at PoE
The cloud key should be off the US-8-60W. You really only have 1 usable LAN port on the USG (although there are 2, you can’t use the second LAN port for the same network as the first. Other than that you should be fine.
Hi All,
I've got a USG, plugged into a Unifi PoE Switch, UAP AC Pro and a Cloudkey - all was working brilliantly plugged into a BT Openreach modem with DHCP connection on a TalkTalk FTTC Service.
I've just migrated over to Vodafone FTTC and their modem worked fine. They've given me a username and password, but setting my USG to PPPoE auth and throwing in the username and password hasn't seem to make it work - it just keeps saying the modem is disconnected.
I've seen I need to set the VLAN to 101... what else am I missing?
I've got a USG, plugged into a Unifi PoE Switch, UAP AC Pro and a Cloudkey - all was working brilliantly plugged into a BT Openreach modem with DHCP connection on a TalkTalk FTTC Service.
I've just migrated over to Vodafone FTTC and their modem worked fine. They've given me a username and password, but setting my USG to PPPoE auth and throwing in the username and password hasn't seem to make it work - it just keeps saying the modem is disconnected.
I've seen I need to set the VLAN to 101... what else am I missing?
