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pcfarrar said:
Go for the UAP AC LR, the range is much better.
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Have you, or anyone, actually tried a UAP-AC-LITE and a UAP-AC-LR in exactly the same location for comparison?

It'd be nice to see something beyond the anecdotal 'it covers my entire house'. FWIW (not a lot) a single UAP-AC-LITE covers my entire house.
 
bremen1874 said:
Have you, or anyone, actually tried a UAP-AC-LITE and a UAP-AC-LR in exactly the same location for comparison?
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Yes we have loads of them at work, most of the different types. The UAP-AC-LR was quite a bit better for range than the lite when we tested them. With the price difference being so low there really isn't much point buying the lite.
 
It's not as good/powerful as the ER-L.

If you don't like command line or an easy wizard, steer clear of their routers. They are not plug and play.
 
bremen1874 said:
Have you, or anyone, actually tried a UAP-AC-LITE and a UAP-AC-LR in exactly the same location for comparison?

It'd be nice to see something beyond the anecdotal 'it covers my entire house'. FWIW (not a lot) a single UAP-AC-LITE covers my entire house.
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I can only speak for the previous generation of UAP and UAP-LR, the LR whilst having a larger range, you can only really utilitse this if your device is capable of a large range too. We found if you've got a lot of APs in one area, the LR is more prone to causing overlapping issues.

We have 300 Unifi APs on site.
 
bledd said:
I can only speak for the previous generation of UAP and UAP-LR, the LR whilst having a larger range, you can only really utilitse this if your device is capable of a large range too. We found if you've got a lot of APs in one area, the LR is more prone to causing overlapping issues.

We have 300 Unifi APs on site.
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Yes the older LR models required hardware support in the client device and TBH weren't very good. However the new AC LR doesn't and has a high gain fractal antenna that gives significant benefits, especially to mobiles etc. We have lots of overlapping AC LR's without issue. We replaced all the UAP-LR's at our head office with AC LR's a few months ago.
 
Hmm I'm looking at getting Ubiquiti stuff for our new house.

I'm going to get an Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Pro, and am looking for a ~12 port switch that can supply 48V passive PoE. However all the Ubiquiti switches seem to be 24V. Does that mean I need to cable up and use both ethernet ports on the Pro to give it enough juice? Or are the switches configurable to deliver 48V over one port?

Nvm, the ToughSwitch 8-Port PoE does 48V passive. Odd that the basic UniFi switch doesn't? Or are they pitching the PoE types at the more enterprise level hardware?
 
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The Unifi Switches (8, 16, 24 port) can do both 24V and 48V

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-16-150w/

AF/AT/24V auto sensing means it picks whichever one is correct for the device that you connect up to it.

Same goes for the EdgeSwitch

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch/



I'd be tempted by the Unifi as you get the pretty graphs etc :)


The SFP ports aren't shared with Ethernet ports, so you could get some cheap modules and fibre patch leads from here http://www.fs.com/ , then trunk them up to another switch if you have one.
 
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Aye the Unifi 8 port switch doesn't have that though, its jsut 24V, and says maximum deliverable via PoE is 34.2W, so wouldn't power the APs?

Anyway the ToughPro 8 switch looks good to me and its not too expensive.
 
Anyone else having problems with Edgerouter WebUI widgets in Firefox on 1.9.0?

Looks like there's a certificate chain problem of some description.
 
platypus said:
Aye the Unifi 8 port switch doesn't have that though, its jsut 24V, and says maximum deliverable via PoE is 34.2W, so wouldn't power the APs?

Anyway the ToughPro 8 switch looks good to me and its not too expensive.
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https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-8-150w/

The Pro models of APs have this psu.. 48V, 0.5A, which means 24W MAX

Just checked my switch at home, it's a Meraki switch, but powering a Ubiquiti AP-AC-Pro, the AP is currently using between 3.7W - 8W of power.
 
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Oh right, in that case the ToughSwitch edges it on price. Techwise the Unifi 8 seems a little more advanced; hence its ~£30 more. Also not available from 4gon who seem decently priced for the other kit.
 
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If it's just 1x AP, you could just use the power brick that comes with it and save buying an expensive switch.

The power brick would sit next to your router, and it injects power into an ethernet cable.



The brick has 2x ethernet ports. One comes from your router, the other goes to the AP.

It becomes worth it to get a switch for neatness if you had say 3 or more APs with cameras etc.
 
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