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mattyg · 11 Jan 2017 at 15:41

I've just ordered a Ubiquiti US-8-150W UniFi 8-Port Cloud Managed Gigabit PoE+ Switch and a Synology DS916 for media and CCTV. A couple of HIKVISION turrets for starters and I'll build from there.

I Have some Cat6 left over from my rewire so i'll be using that for the CCTV

R0Z4G · 11 Jan 2017 at 17:31

Hi guys,

Looking at getting one of the these and was going to go for the ubiquiti-unifi-ap-pro but it says only 2.4ghz and not 5ghz but would this matter? as my broadband is only up to 300mb up and down anyway...
next question can I just plug into my fibre router and set everything else up within the access point ?

the-evaluator · 11 Jan 2017 at 17:35

Is that one of the older square access points? They're old technology, get one of the newer round ones. They're 2.4 & 5Ghz.

DIABLO · 11 Jan 2017 at 20:03

R0Z4G said:
Hi guys,

Looking at getting one of the these and was going to go for the ubiquiti-unifi-ap-pro but it says only 2.4ghz and not 5ghz but would this matter? as my broadband is only up to 300mb up and down anyway...
next question can I just plug into my fibre router and set everything else up within the access point ?

Well you need the controller software installed on a computer for initial setup of the AP though i believe you can also do with the mobile app though i have never tried that.

mattyg · 11 Jan 2017 at 20:35

If you buy from broadband buyer. They'll set it all up so its just plug and play

ChrisD. · 12 Jan 2017 at 08:42

Any POE switches less than £120?

the-evaluator · 12 Jan 2017 at 08:44

I few weeks ago I discovered a nice feature of the Ubnt switches - when you do a firmware upgrade they don't power cycle the PoE ports. Very useful as I have a Raspberry Pi powered by PoE and forgot to shut it down before doing a firmware upgrade on the switch.

Rainmaker · 12 Jan 2017 at 10:16

ChrisD. said:
Any POE switches less than £120?

I did a lot of looking around for the exact same, and ended up with a TP-LINK TL-SG1008P (unmanaged, 8 port with 4 ports being PoE) for £48 delivered. Unfortunately OcUK's range is very limited, but head up towards the rainforest and you'll find what you're after.

There were one or two (very slightly) cheaper ones, including a Netgear iirc, but the TP-Link had the edge for me. It's a nice unit, all metal, compact and light and sits perfectly on my APU2C4 PfSense firewall box. Worked perfectly with my AC PRO ever since.

ChrisD. · 12 Jan 2017 at 10:21

Will it power the AP-AC Pro? I think it's POE+ it needs.

Rainmaker · 12 Jan 2017 at 10:49

ChrisD. said:
Will it power the AP-AC Pro? I think it's POE+ it needs.

Rainmaker said:
Worked perfectly with my AC PRO ever since.

It does support it, yes. A little bargain for the price really, ours has been flawless.

ChrisD. · 12 Jan 2017 at 10:54

Didn't see that, serves me right for skim reading!

stoofa · 12 Jan 2017 at 11:53

What is the Watt requirement for the devices?
I'm currently using the POE injector, however I also thought about possibly using a small 5 port switch that provides POE instead.
Issue being the 5 port only offers 20w.
I can get a 5 port POE that offers 60w - issue is it's twice the price (almost).

ChrisD. · 12 Jan 2017 at 12:00

It needs POE+, which is 25W IIRC.

Specs state 48V, 0.5A which = 24W.

stoofa · 12 Jan 2017 at 12:03

OK, cheers.
There goes my cheap option

Ta

bledd · 12 Jan 2017 at 13:04

Mine is currently using 4w. This is the ap ac pro

stoofa · 12 Jan 2017 at 16:22

I have an AP AC LR
I'm potentially going to be adding a second device, possibly a Lite.

I was looking at the Netgear GS105PE which offers 2 POE ports from the 5.
However:

"2 (Two) 802.11af Power over Ethernet pass-through ports, maximum budget 20W"

I'm assuming that wouldn't be up to task?
Would it power a single device?

Rizo-UK · 12 Jan 2017 at 17:01

shine said:
I replaced my network with a USG, Unfi Switch, AP-AC Pro and Cloud Key. WiFi is much faster and stable.

Very happy, wish I had done this a while ago.

Ive done the same, made the switch from Draytek 2860 and AP-900 to a USG PRO 4, Unifi US-16 POE Switch and a AC PRO LR alongside a cloud key and a Pi running pi-hole. Everything seem super responsive and stable thus far. Only time will tell.

DIABLO · 12 Jan 2017 at 18:07

stoofa said:
I have an AP AC LR
I'm potentially going to be adding a second device, possibly a Lite.

I was looking at the Netgear GS105PE which offers 2 POE ports from the 5.
However:

"2 (Two) 802.11af Power over Ethernet pass-through ports, maximum budget 20W"

I'm assuming that wouldn't be up to task?
Would it power a single device?

The Lite and LR as it stands right now are only compatible with ubiquitis proprietary 24v passive POE if you plugged the APs into that switch and turned on the POE they would most probably burn out. Ubiquiti are phasing out passive POE though so sometime soon the new stock LR and Lites will be will be passive and "af" compatible.

Data sheet for AP's https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFi_AC_APs_DS.pdf

bledd · 12 Jan 2017 at 18:28

Yup, for now you can use inline poe reducers, they take it from 48 to 24v

lmfy2k · 12 Jan 2017 at 20:42

setup my Edge Router Lite just now

was very straight forward, had to be reboot my SuperHub (modem mode) for it to get an IP

port forwarding working fine too.

ive left the firewall rules as they are (from using the basic setup wizard), this secure out of the box yes?

will sort out of the openvpn config on the weekend.

i know have two R7000 in AP mode around the house but will maybe upgrade to Ubiquiti soon.

i have a NAS so wanted uPNP on, i assume i just set it from Eth1 (int) to Eth0 (ext) ?

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