Yeah, tried that yesterday - it's very hard to diagnose as I really can't seen any trigger, event or cause. I've raised a ticket with Ubiquiti to see if they can diagnose from logs.... puzzling. LAN is working great, so definitely something wifi related.
Presume that it's all Wi-Fi devices and not just a single one?
That will be fine. The heat should all go out the back and sides anyway. Because the NVRs plug in at the back, I tend to just sit sit them on the bottom of the rack and route the camera cables through a brush strip or similar down the back of everything else.
Excellent, thanks for the pointers. Sounds an ideal way of dealing with the NVR and cables. Appreciate it.
Well that's quite disappointing. I'm not doing anything particularly complex right now, everything is just on a flat network. Internet speed is 500Mbps down so it's reasonably fast but it ain't gigabit fast.
No, the unifi controller is what it says on the tin. Its where you make all your configuration choices and it 'controls' the devices, it can be run on basically anything including certain Ubiquiti devices (like the express), a PC, a Pi, in a docker container, within a VM or even in the cloud. You don't need to run it 24/7, you can just use the phone app but you loose out on some of the features such as logging and stats.
)No, the unifi controller is what it says on the tin. Its where you make all your configuration choices and it 'controls' the devices, it can be run on basically anything including certain Ubiquiti devices (like the express), a PC, a Pi, in a docker container, within a VM or even in the cloud. You don't need to run it 24/7, you can just use the phone app but you loose out on some of the features such as logging and stats.
The express isn't a bad device per say, its just entry level, you've got a router, access point and controller all in one device for £130. In premium network gear world, that isn't a lot of money and you ultimately get what you pay for.
Your plan to use an express and a single access point isn't necessarily a bad idea and will work (you'd still need to power the second AP as the express doesn't have PoE so you'd need an injector or PoE switch), what is not clear is what you are ultimately looking to achieve over and above your current set up.
What's not working for you on your existing setup? (by the way, wanting new nerd toys to play with is more than an acceptable reason
I'd definitely suggest doing some more research before spending any money, for example, the access points have specific use cases. The 'disks' are designed to be ceiling mounted, the 'mesh' devices are omni directional and inwall devices are meant to be mounted on/in a plasterboard wall. We would need to know where you plan to place the AP before making a recommendation.
I've got a fairly modern 4 bedroom house which is approximately 132m2, a single access point (U6 Pro in my case) located on the landing ceiling (the middle of the house) provides good coverage in every room (500+mb). I later added 2 more access points to cover the drive and back garden as coverage outside was pretty bad/non-existent. The former is in the detached garage and the latter is mounted on the outside wall of the house, all are hardwired back to the loft where they are powered by a PoE switch.
Fortunately where the internet comes into the house is right next to a gutter downpipe so while the cable up to the loft is ran externally, its not visible. I did have to trench an Ethernet cable out to the garage though.
To be honest, the lack of ceiling mount is mostly the need to run a new cable up through the walls into the loft and back out again. Same for the wall mount ones, I thought I'd be able to get one and just leave the cable dangling out of the bottom but it looks like it has to be fed into the back and so I'd have to drill holes in walls and feed new cables etc. I'm not doing that.
Sound of guns cocking all over the internet.The X20s I have now are absolutely fine, I get full internet speed right across the house, and even get decent signal out to the Tesla on the drive. I'm not looking to get a full professional setup or anything like that so I think "entry level" is still OK for my use case. I've just been having a look at a couple of YouTube vids of the software interface and it looks like it's opening up quite a few opportunities. Things like: VLANs (I can do a separate IoT on the X20s but get no control over routing etc), logging and stats as you mention; actually being able to configure things in the web interface (you have to use the phone app on the X20); a few more firewall options; and yes there's a bit of "oooo shiny new nerd things" in there too
My WiFi setup probably pains most people - the router/main node is sat the in very corner of the house where the ONT is (where both the fibre for it and the Virgin Media presentation are) on the middle shelf of a TV stand, and then a CAT6 runs outside around the house to the very opposite corner of the house upstairs, where the other node is sat on my PC desk. The house is a 3-bed detached, but it's a new-ish build so only around 95-100m2 or something like that. I will not ceiling mount any APs, wall-mounts might be a bit of a hard sell with my wife-to-be, and a big attraction of the X20s in the first place was that they look inconspicuous just sat on a shelf/desk
It looks like most of the "cheaper" AP options in the UniFi lineup don't really seem to offer the same "dump it on the desk" kind of look, except maybe the U6-Mesh and that's £170+ - this is way more than I'm comfortable spending. I was kinda intending to maybe get the U6-Lite and just sit it upside down on the desk (don't shoot me!)
I have a U6 Pro “upside down” on a 3D printed stand in a small understairs cupboard. It provides excellent WiFi coverage all over my large-ish five bedroom house.
Hadn't considered this - looks like there's a few stands available in a few places online that can take some U6 and make them as though the were wall mounted, which I guess could work quite well as it'd then be "pointing out" of that corner of the house and should be OK on coverage. It's not a large house, 2 APs is probably overkill anyway
Hadn't considered this - looks like there's a few stands available in a few places online that can take some U6 and make them as though the were wall mounted, which I guess could work quite well as it'd then be "pointing out" of that corner of the house and should be OK on coverage. It's not a large house, 2 APs is probably overkill anyway
