Found it, any news?
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Found it, any news?
Soldato
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A nice range to stock imo for home tech enthusiasts would be;
UniFi® AP AC LITE
UniFi® AP AC LR
UniFi® AP AC PRO
UniFi® AP AC HD
UniFi® Switch 24 (US-24)
UniFi® Switch 8-150W (US-8-150)
UniFi® Security Gateway
The single packs of WAP's come with a PoE injector so an individual could start off with that option and the non PoE 24/48 port switch or the 8 port PoE switch or replace their PoE injectors with the 8 port PoE switch at a later time. The 8 port PoE switch is nice as it suits all 3 flavours of PoE and thus all of the WAP's above.
The Unifi controller is used with the USG + what ever WAP's from above + appropriate switch(es) from above or below. You could also just start off with the WAP(s) though plus existing router / switch(es) and replace these over time if you want to see/control it all through the Unifi controller.
If you can add more SKU's then I'd also add;
UniFi® Switch 48 (US-48)
UniFi® Cloud Key
A nice range to stock imo for home tech enthusiasts would be;
UniFi® AP AC LITE
UniFi® AP AC LR
UniFi® AP AC PRO
UniFi® AP AC HD
UniFi® Switch 24 (US-24)
UniFi® Switch 8-150W (US-8-150)
UniFi® Security Gateway
The single packs of WAP's come with a PoE injector so an individual could start off with that option and the non PoE 24/48 port switch or the 8 port PoE switch or replace their PoE injectors with the 8 port PoE switch at a later time. The 8 port PoE switch is nice as it suits all 3 flavours of PoE and thus all of the WAP's above.
The Unifi controller is used with the USG + what ever WAP's from above + appropriate switch(es) from above or below. You could also just start off with the WAP(s) though plus existing router / switch(es) and replace these over time if you want to see/control it all through the Unifi controller.
If you can add more SKU's then I'd also add;
UniFi® Switch 48 (US-48)
UniFi® Cloud Key
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Soldato
I have to be honest, I'm not sure that OcUK could do justice to supporting these products. I suspect you'd need a specialist member of staff to do this stuff justice. Even a low salary is a huge chunk of profit margin to give up before you sell any kit. Before I bought mine I did some serious research and even then I was on the phone to the networking specialist supplier for almost 30 minutes going through the various options. And the specialist got it wrong and they had to take some parts back and swap them out. These are REALLY complex products. I've signed up for the Ubiquiti Broadband Routing and Switching Specialist (UBRSS) training and it's THREE FULL DAYS. That's a huge amount of training if you think about it. I'm really looking forward to it though.
Has anyone tried the Unifi 802.11ac Mesh AP external, I need to cover a building that's 12 metres from the house and is double skin breeze blocks but cabling to it is difficult so would prefer just to chuck one of these on the side of the house if possible to cover it?
Soldato
No, but I do have an AC Pro on the outside of the house under the eaves and that gives me an excellent signal in my garden shed (obviously wood isn't double skin breeze blocks). I was very worried about the weather resistance of the AC Pro but it's quite well protected by the roof and I suspect you wouldn't need to go to the expense of the Mesh AP External. The other possibility (staying within the Ubiquiti ecosystem) is a pair of IsoStation IS5 AC which I think are about double the cost as the Mesh AP External but will obviously guarantee a really good send/receive path. If that's a bit pricey then the cheapo alternative is a pair of MikroTik SXT Lite5 ac which should be about £110 for the pair.
Thanks, do you know if the isostation has seamless integration to the unifi controller, all the AP's I have at the moment are unifi?
Soldato
I don't believe so. The one I saw was just a transparent bridge. You plug the network in to either end and it works like a cable.
Having had a look, the Mesh AC external seems quite cheap. For some reason I thought it was the same price as the EDU model.
£100 for the dual band ac model which I think is very reasonable and because it's unifi the integration should be seamless.
I think I might just order it and see, I'm sure it will work based on the other unifi kit.
I'm currently looking into getting the Ubiquiti USG to replace my Asus RT-N16 running Tomato. I've already got three AP-Pro access points and running the controller software through a Raspberry Pi. Hopefully setup should be quite straightforward, initially all that will need setting up with it is port forwarding, IP reservation and a DHCP option for a TFTP server. Future plans with the setup will involve a PoE switch and various VLANs.
Edit; although reading around, setting up TFTP isn't an easy thing on these routers.
Edit; although reading around, setting up TFTP isn't an easy thing on these routers.
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Soldato
Have you thoroughly researched the USG? The IP reservations and DHCP are the no. 1 and no. 2 issues that people seem to be unhappy with on the Unifi forums. I think the USG is still early in its development phase. The whole DCHP subsystem is being rewritten but it's still quite a weak area. Definitely check out the USG development roadmap thread on the Unifi forums to make sure the features you need are actually implemented and work the way you need them to before you buy the router.
I've done a bit over the last week on the setup and read a few worrying stories, those are my biggest concerns. But as I mentioned earlier for now it's something I'm looking into getting. From what has been said on other forums there is a lot of additional features being launched with future controller updates and firmware's so I think I'll hold fire on it for now. Looking at my controller software and various online photos of it I wonder why they've made it so difficult to do something so simple that people take for granted on a simple router.
Soldato
Indeed
Indeed. Obviously it's a firewall as well as a router, but the actual functionality looks to be little better than a BT Homehub. The USP obviously is how easy it is to manage everything remotely. It just seems sometimes that I spent a lot of money to make a circle on the screen turn green. And it was a proper bar-steward to add to my existing system because it's not designed to be added to an existing system, it's designed to be the first thing added to a new system.
Indeed. Obviously it's a firewall as well as a router, but the actual functionality looks to be little better than a BT Homehub. The USP obviously is how easy it is to manage everything remotely. It just seems sometimes that I spent a lot of money to make a circle on the screen turn green. And it was a proper bar-steward to add to my existing system because it's not designed to be added to an existing system, it's designed to be the first thing added to a new system.
Don
I'm happy with my USG.
Currently to reserve an IP, you have to let the device get one first, then you change it to 'static' in the USG menu.
They are adding the traditional reserve by mac address that you'd be used to using.
Currently to reserve an IP, you have to let the device get one first, then you change it to 'static' in the USG menu.
They are adding the traditional reserve by mac address that you'd be used to using.
Soldato
It's not that you can't do it, it's just that on most other switches (e.g. Cisco) you can reserve that IP address ahead of time. And it's on the roadmap of course, so it is coming. Don't you ever feel that you're participating in a gigantic beta-test?
I don't mind the beta-test element because in many ways you can put a feature request in and you have a really high probably that it actually gets implanted. On the other hand, I do sometimes wonder when stuff doesn't work, does it not work because I'm doing it wrong or because it's buggy or just simply because it's not implemented yet.
From various sources found with the help of Google, there is meant to be a lot of these features included in the 5.6 controller. Whilst as decided it wont happen just yet, I do want to upgrade at some point, adding the USG and switches with the idea it can all be centrally managed through one interface. Reading round I'm also uncertain they will allow DHCP option 150 & 66 as that seems to be getting on as a slightly legacy system.
Soldato
Anyone looking to order a Beta Unifi Application Server Pro?
Soldato
I was hoping you'd tell me!