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I've just managed to snag a U6 LR for £110 so will likely swap out the ac-lite with that and sell my two boxed Ac-LR shortly.
Can anyone recommend a POE switch from the range. I have 14 hard wired connections around the house so would be ideal to have them fed into a new switch too.
 
ChrisD. said:
UDM/UDM SE would allow multiple WAN in load balance or failover (which is pretty seamless), and you can define policy routes for certain traffic to use a specific WAN or VPN tunnel.
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I took a look at the higher end stuff, but see no reason to invest in the high end unifi gear, dual WAN would be opnsense. The Express was to be a simple "just works" setup. I may still end up going for one when released, but patience got the better of me yesterday so I setup opnsense on a spare box with a WAX610 I was not using!
 
It would be nice if Unifi gear let you do something like adding an additional WAN via a VLAN tag so that whether you can have failover or not isn't limited by the interface physically existing on the hardware.
 
Anyone know where or when (showing as coming soon) I can pick up a Unifi Express in the UK?

EDIT: HAHA, should have used the search function!
 
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IanAG said:
I took a look at the higher end stuff, but see no reason to invest in the high end unifi gear, dual WAN would be opnsense. The Express was to be a simple "just works" setup. I may still end up going for one when released, but patience got the better of me yesterday so I setup opnsense on a spare box with a WAX610 I was not using!
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Fair enough, I just thought I'd mention it in case you weren't aware. I used to have dual WAN however luckily VM in my area is decent so I ceased the FTTP.
 
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Does anyone know when the usw-pro-max-24-poe is available in the uk?
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If you really want/need one right now they are available on the Irish store with a Schuko plug secure lead. You can use the switch just the same in the UK either by cutting off the Schuko plug and fitting a UK type G plug or just use a standard IEC 13 lead (kettle lead).
 
Couple of questions that hopefully someone knows the answer to. I’ve recently been upgraded from Virgin’s 500Mbps service (that was giving me 565Mbps down/ 62Mb up) to the 1.1Gbps service (VOLT benefit). The uplink from my Virgin hub (in modem mode) is still connected to the 1Gbps WAN RJ45 port of my UDM Pro.

Rather than upgrade to the SE, is it possible to use the secondary SFP WAN port as a 2.5GbE WAN without a primary WAN connected at all? I’ve read conflicting information elsewhere that states it doesn’t work without a primary WAN connected.

Secondly, is it worth me upgrading my V1 USW-24-POE? Other than gaining AR (and losing some PoE capacity in both ports and wattage), is there much point? The rest of my network is still 1 Gbps, and my APs are only WiFi 5 (more than happy with this, 90% of our devices wouldn’t have any benefit from WiFi 6). It would also be quite expensive to replace all 6 APs!

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paradigm said:
Rather than upgrade to the SE, is it possible to use the secondary SFP WAN port as a 2.5GbE WAN without a primary WAN connected at all? I’ve read conflicting information elsewhere that states it doesn’t work without a primary WAN connected.
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You can override the WAN ports, and make the SFP+ cage as the primary on the SE. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same with the UDM Pro.

As for the switch, if it's working fine then no need to replace it IMO.

Nice rack. Where did you get the patch leads from?
 
ChrisD. said:
You can override the WAN ports, and make the SFP+ cage as the primary on the SE. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do the same with the UDM Pro.

As for the switch, if it's working fine then no need to replace it IMO.

Nice rack. Where did you get the patch leads from?
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Thanks, I guess the next time everyone is out I’ll have a go at switching the port over to the SFP WAN.

As for the patch leads, I crimped them myself, 10cm (or shorter) patch cables are hard to come by in the colours I wanted for visualising the VLAN/network segments. So I simply bought some 5m CAT6 in various colours and crimped them by hand. The boots that sit inside the RJ45 ends make them look far closer to professionally moulded cables.
 
SupraWez said:
What patch panels are those, look nice.

Very tidy install.
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The official Unifi panels, with generic black keystones (plus a single red one for WAN port), and black keystone blanks for the un-needed ports. Obviously I could have got away with a single patch panel, but I didn’t want any cabling crossing a rack unit (this is why the uplink from UDM to switch passes through the top patch panel, even though it doesn’t *need* to).
 
paradigm said:
Couple of questions that hopefully someone knows the answer to. I’ve recently been upgraded from Virgin’s 500Mbps service (that was giving me 565Mbps down/ 62Mb up) to the 1.1Gbps service (VOLT benefit). The uplink from my Virgin hub (in modem mode) is still connected to the 1Gbps WAN RJ45 port of my UDM Pro.

Rather than upgrade to the SE, is it possible to use the secondary SFP WAN port as a 2.5GbE WAN without a primary WAN connected at all? I’ve read conflicting information elsewhere that states it doesn’t work without a primary WAN connected.

Secondly, is it worth me upgrading my V1 USW-24-POE? Other than gaining AR (and losing some PoE capacity in both ports and wattage), is there much point? The rest of my network is still 1 Gbps, and my APs are only WiFi 5 (more than happy with this, 90% of our devices wouldn’t have any benefit from WiFi 6). It would also be quite expensive to replace all 6 APs!
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The SFP+ port can only run at 1GbE or 10GbE so you can put an SFP+ to RJ45 adapter in the slot and it will accept a 10GbE connection but can your modem spoof a 10GbE link? I doubt it. So you could spend £500 minus whatever you get for your UDM Pro but will you REALLY be able to tell the difference between 1100 and 1000Mbps. Maybe, maybe not. Personally I would just leave it as-is.
 
paradigm said:
I crimped them myself, 10cm (or shorter) patch cables are hard to come by in the colours I wanted for visualising the VLAN/network segments. So I simply bought some 5m CAT6 in various colours and crimped them by hand. The boots that sit inside the RJ45 ends make them look far closer to professionally moulded cables.
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Respect! That consistency of cable length on handmade cables is extraordinary.
 
WJA96 said:
Respect! That consistency of cable length on handmade cables is extraordinary.
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Thank you! I’ve (un?) fortunately been crimping cables for around 20 years, so probably quite adept at it by now! Still had to take my time and be quite precise with measurements, de-sheathing and cutting though! They aren’t perfect by any stretch, but close enough that they look matched from a few feet away!
 
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