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Would a U6-Mesh be ok to use in a garage? This is where the solar inverter is and whilst the dongle on it gets a signal in there, it’s marginal from the NanoHD in the house. There’s a dongle on each of the batteries as well but as these are lower down, they don’t seem to get any signal at all. Would probably change the NanoHD for a U6-Pro as well and mesh the two together.
 
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It should be okay, but if it's damp you may get oxidation issues. I'm not sure on your house layout, but a UAP-FlexHD on the house soffit to cover garden & garage may be an idea.
 
It’s very unlikely you would see any coverage improvement from going from Wave2 AC (HD units) to WiFi6 units.

Much better to get the U6-Mesh or any other external access point and drill a hole through the garage wall so the access point isn’t blocked by the wall and you can carry the signal into the garage that way.

Or, before someone else suggests it, run a cable.
 
Running a cable would be best, would agree with that. Unfortunately the garage is detached from the house, so wouldn’t be that easy. Although it might be possible to run a cable, as there is trunking already for the cables from the solar panels coming down the house to the inverter in the garage. Tbh, there only needs to be a slight improvement in coverage. It’s mostly so that the manufacturer of the inverter/batteries can remote in if there’s any issues. Apparently, that’s something that LuxPower (manufacturer of inverter) like solar installers to make available if possible. Only other reason would be for updates for my car and that’s infrequent (Ford’s SYNC 3). Extra coverage in the garden would be nice but not that essential.
 
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Running a cable would be best, would agree with that. Unfortunately the garage is detached from the house, so wouldn’t be that easy. Although it might be possible to run a cable, as there is trunking already for the cables from the solar panels coming down the house to the inverter in the garage. Tbh, there only needs to be a slight improvement in coverage. It’s mostly so that the manufacturer of the inverter/batteries can remote in if there’s any issues. Apparently, that’s something that LuxPower (manufacturer of inverter) like solar installers to make available if possible. Only other reason would be for updates for my car and that’s infrequent (Ford’s SYNC 3). Extra coverage in the garden would be nice but not that essential.
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If you do what @ChrisD. suggested then you’ll have all the coverage you’ll ever need. He posted pictures of his own install and it was extremely neat.
 
You can see the AP here near the Sky dish.

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And its relation to the garage. I won't be setting any Wi-Fi speed records in the garage, but it's enough for my Sonos Roam and YouTube vids, I even did a Zoom call in there when I was 'working from home' but actually laying some flooring.

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Speaking of Wi-Fi speeds, I need to sort my internal speeds out. I can get 600+ Mbps on my VM Hub 5 without issue, yet if I switch over to my UniFi SSID, I seem to be stuck around 200-300 Mbps. I need to set some time aside to work that out.
 
I'm not rushing due to price and the chasing out the porch wall to achieve said connection etc.. It is what I'd like though to replace a Ring Doorbell.
 
I got the regular G4 to replace my old Ring, happy with the move and no subscriptions to pay. I'm using home assistant to trigger the doorbell alter on my Alexa Show.
 
Hey guys,

Quick question - I've got an UDM Pro and looking to create a 10gbps network specifically between my NAS and two PCs (all in the same room).

What's the smartest way to achieve this - really want to increase photo/video transfer speeds.

Plan is to buy a ubiquiti switch that deals at 10gbps and connect the NAS to that and then to the two PCs.

If this seems sensible, can anyone advise on the best model to use for this?!
 
Probably a Flex 10Gb but you’ll not be able to plug anything else into it as it only has 4 10gb ports (just under £300 for the switch). You’ll need to add your own 10gb network cards if you don’t already have them.

After that you are into either the XG line (£1200 for 24 ports) or needing to swap over to SFP based products (again £££).

Do you need 10gb? 2.5gb is significantly cheaper to get into and some of your NICs may be 2.5gb ready already.
 
Super thank you - yes, they are a little silly priced, hence I figured keeping local to my 2 x workstations would be sensible.

re 2.5gbps - well I'd prefer to max out transfer speeds etc as much as possible (to save me then needing to upgrade again in a few years).

What's hard to ascertain is whether there'd be any bottlenecks for NAS/drive access anyway - plan to have a 4 drive NAS with SSD cache to help speed up the transfers, you got any sense of the difference I'd see between 2.5 and 10?
 
I’m not sure as I don’t have either but you’ll see a difference if your SSD’s and CPUs at both ends can handle it. I looked into it once and once I’d priced it up I stuck with 1gb :p

Due to SMB, I wouldn’t expect the full 10gb even if everything supported it.
 
I think I have reached the final form of the home UniFi install, as I removed a few enterprise switches and condensed them down.

I am tempted by an USW-EnterpriseXG-24 though :D

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