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Yes most commenters on the reddit threat for unifi seem to think its rubbish as well. It may not be great but if I'm being honest it's enough for my home office and business but looking at it its just too expensive for what it is and as with anything unifi we've no idea when it will be released (?).
 
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ChrisD. said:
If it is 2.5 Gbps then that's crap if I'm being brutally honest. Enterprise has been well beyond 10 Gbps for some time now. It's a 'Pro' device and really should have 10 Gbps ports all round regardless of copper or SFP+.
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Its a hardware side-grade where they swap the 10GbE ports for PoE which is what most prosumer users always wanted. It also clears the way for the UXG-Pro which offers that 10GbE WAN port and routing for the ‘enterprise’ user. The UDM Pro SE is what the UDM Pro should have been from the outset. It’s a proper single device solution for the prosumer who wants 4-6 cameras and 2-4 access points with a built-in controller, built in HDD for surveillance recordings and a decently fast router. It’s just a shame the firmware/software is still so weak. Anyone who cares about single point of weakness will want the separate UniFi components so they’ll still sell all those UXG-Pros, switches and cloud keys.

I think it’s a good thing. That said, I still won’t be using any of them. Untangle running on a QNAP Guardian is this already, just with 16 PoE ports and 2 PCIe expansion ports for a 10/40/100Gbps adapter.

[Edit]The SFP+ WAN option is still 10GbE[/Edit]
 
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ChrisD. said:
You could avoid double NAT and create a /30 network between the USG and the Sky Hub and create a static route pointing at the Sky's LAN address on that network. Or get a separate modem and faff about with Sky's DHCP authentication nonsense. Or just use Sky's router. :)
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Quick update, turns out it was the DNS settings in the AT&T client that were wrong..

Thanks again for taking the time.
 
WJA96 said:
I think it’s a good thing. That said, I still won’t be using any of them. Untangle running on a QNAP Guardian is this already, just with 16 PoE ports and 2 PCIe expansion ports for a 10/40/100Gbps adapter.
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Yeah it's looking like a nice option, especially with all the unknowns about release dates for Unifi stuff.

Means I've got to learn how to use Untangle though :p.
 
ChrisD. said:
If it is 2.5 Gbps then that's crap if I'm being brutally honest. Enterprise has been well beyond 10 Gbps for some time now. It's a 'Pro' device and really should have 10 Gbps ports all round regardless of copper or SFP+.
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Given the price point on the unit, what other 10Gb "Pro" device can you buy with that level of performance?

Cisco / Juniper you will need to 10x the price maybe more.
 
RSR said:
Given the price point on the unit, what other 10Gb "Pro" device can you buy with that level of performance?

Cisco / Juniper you will need to 10x the price maybe more.
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That’s a valid point but they really shouldn’t be calling it ‘Pro’. It isn’t and as already said it’s even worse due to the limited software.
 
No UniFi products should have the 'pro' label on really, perhaps the APs would warrant it but that's about it. There's not an equivalent Cisco/Juniper product to the UDM so cost comparisons are pretty meaningless.
 
RSR said:
It looks like the UDM-P SE will support containers as well, this is going to be interesting.
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Is that Support containers? Or Support containers in a Ubiquiti fashion :p.

RSR said:
Given the price point on the unit, what other 10Gb "Pro" device can you buy with that level of performance?

Cisco / Juniper you will need to 10x the price maybe more.
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You're absolutely right of course, and for our home business/myself WFH the level of performance is entirely fine for (eventually) a 1Gbps fibre connection. The UXG Pro is still not available however, will the UDM Pro SE be any better?
 
Pro is just marketing, it doesn’t mean ‘for high end business/professional use’, it just means ‘better than the model below it’.

I think we just need to give up on the term ‘pro’ is for ‘professionals’, it’s a pretty tiresome conversation in Apple related threads these days :p
 
platypus said:
Is that Support containers? Or Support containers in a Ubiquiti fashion :p.

You're absolutely right of course, and for our home business/myself WFH the level of performance is entirely fine for (eventually) a 1Gbps fibre connection. The UXG Pro is still not available however, will the UDM Pro SE be any better?
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I don’t know if you saw that I edited my post. The UDM Pro SE retains the SFP+ LAN and WAN ports so it is still a 10GbE enabled device. It’s just the RJ45 10GbE WAN port that becomes a 2.5GbE WAN port. The hardware spec is pretty impressive really.
 
WJA96 said:
I don’t know if you saw that I edited my post. The UDM Pro SE retains the SFP+ LAN and WAN ports so it is still a 10GbE enabled device. It’s just the RJ45 10GbE WAN port that becomes a 2.5GbE WAN port. The hardware spec is pretty impressive really.
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Oh that is nice, ok that definitely makes it more than enough for my scenario then. But I need it to be available :D.

Sort of related - is there any hack to add non ubiquiti cameras to protect? I'm sort of stuck between really liking Unifi's networking stuff and wanting to move away from it (to something like the Guardian) but I prefer an all in one solution.

Oh gosh: https://github.com/keshavdv/unifi-cam-proxy
 
Quick question folks, I need to setup a replacement network in my house. We have a lot of devices between the kids etc (50+) and I was looking at the option of going for a UDM, FlexHD point in the kitchen (other side of house from the main BT Socket with the BT Modem) and then either run them in a mesh of buy a homeplug POE as the back haul.

I've had the BT WHole home System that ran well but started to struggle with the number of devices and I've also had an Asus AX92U which was good as a mesh network but the more recent software updates have meant its become very unstable, which isn't great when on Zoom calls etc. I don't have the option of running cat5/6 cables as 1 my wife would kill me and 2 she'd kill me, and ceiling mounting isn't an option for similar reasons.

Any thoughts?
 
Despite placing an extra AP in my kitchen that backs directly onto my Garden, I'm still getting poor speeds in the garden.

Is my best bet to put an access point mesh in the garden?
 
Have you checked the device isn’t still connected to the AP which is further away?

The risk with putting in a mesh is that they cut your speed in half because half the potential bandwidth is used for the backhaul.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Have you checked the device isn’t still connected to the AP which is further away?

The risk with putting in a mesh is that they cut your speed in half because half the potential bandwidth is used for the backhaul.
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Perhaps I’m confused, but why would the speed be cut in half? Is the AP Mesh actually operated as a mesh network? The site lists its power method as POE, so I assumed Mesh was just a confusing name
 
mikehhhhhhh said:
Perhaps I’m confused, but why would the speed be cut in half? Is the AP Mesh actually operated as a mesh network? The site lists its power method as POE, so I assumed Mesh was just a confusing name
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A mesh network uses a WiFi connection as its connection back to the network rather than ethernet. It cuts your bandwidth in half because half of the antenna are relaying the data stream back to the AP its connected to leaving half left to connect to the devices. That's a simplification but its effectively what happens, you basically turn a 4x4 AP into a 2x2 or a 2x2 AP into a 1x1.

In the age of 80mb FTTC it doesn't really cause too many problems but with 900mb FTTP coming on stream in more and more locations it really cuts your internet speed.
 
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