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robj20 · 23 Apr 2025 at 05:33

Caged said:
Two VDSL lines, it's like 2015 all over again.

Why is there a 24-port switch - the most pointless size of all the switches - and a little 8-port one hanging off it? Just supply a 48, I hate people sometimes.

I see that mentioned a few times 24 port being pointless. If it offers exactly what you need then it's cheaper than a 48 port.

visibleman · 23 Apr 2025 at 12:35

Caged said:
Why is there a 24-port switch - the most pointless size of all the switches - and a little 8-port one hanging off it? Just supply a 48, I hate people sometimes.

Caged's budget -

Vs. our budget -

Armageus · 23 Apr 2025 at 12:58

Caged said:
Two VDSL lines, it's like 2015 all over again.

Even in 2025 not everywhere has FTTP

Caged said:
Why is there a 24-port switch - the most pointless size of all the switches - and a little 8-port one hanging off it? Just supply a 48, I hate people sometimes.

Sometimes budget is tight, sometimes physical cabinet size is a limitation (we have cab at work that we had to have 1x 24 port switch and 1x 24 poe switch, simply because a 48 port PoE switch was too deep for the cabinet)

midweek · 23 Apr 2025 at 13:30

The 8 port looks like it's being used to physically isolate whatever equipment is going out via the Draytek rather than using VLANs on the 24 port.

ChrisD. · 23 Apr 2025 at 19:58

midweek said:
The 8 port looks like it's being used to physically isolate whatever equipment is going out via the Draytek rather than using VLANs on the 24 port.

Even if that's the case, there's so many other things wrong with the install overall from a security perspective.

alex24 · 23 Apr 2025 at 20:22

platypus said there were two others as well!

I don’t see the point in the small switch as the draytek has enough ports to connect those devices. Unless it’s PoE.

ChrisD. · 23 Apr 2025 at 20:25

For those with MM access, I'd just listed some UniFi goodies.

Armageus · 23 Apr 2025 at 20:27

ChrisD. said:
For those with MM access, I'd just listed some UniFi goodies.

Pointless sizes though

john_smith · 23 Apr 2025 at 20:27

midweek said:
The 8 port looks like it's being used to physically isolate whatever equipment is going out via the Draytek rather than using VLANs on the 24 port.

Yeah, Draytek into it, then out of it are 2 cables. 1 to the unifi switch, the other to the patch panel. Not sure why they are not using a 2nd port from the draytek.

ChrisD. · 23 Apr 2025 at 20:28

Armageus said:
Pointless sizes though

Have to be honest, when I saw the notification that you've quoted my post I thought it was going to be a slap on the wrist! :cry:

Armageus · 23 Apr 2025 at 21:52

ChrisD. said:
Have to be honest, when I saw the notification that you've quoted my post I thought it was going to be a slap on the wrist!

Don't make a habit of it

Avalon · 24 Apr 2025 at 11:46

That isn't the worst install I have seen by any stretch, but it smacks of whoever did it not giving a flying duck about what they were doing/why.

visibleman · 24 Apr 2025 at 12:07

john_smith said:
Yeah, Draytek into it, then out of it are 2 cables. 1 to the unifi switch, the other to the patch panel. Not sure why they are not using a 2nd port from the draytek.

Perhaps that feed from the smaller switch feeds another rack somewhere else via the patch panel :confused:

Tbh, i'm wondering what the reasoning behind the CheckPoint GW rather than utilising the second WAN on the 2865 with the 130/16* modem.
Good luck to @platypus sorting that mess though...

platypus · 24 Apr 2025 at 12:57

Yeah I'm going to have to go carefully. They charge a huge callout fee to fix stuff

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hooj · 24 Apr 2025 at 16:06

Finally some updates to QoS amongst other big improvements.

john_smith · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:03

Just upgraded my UDM SE to 9.1.119 and Critical Traffic Prioritization isnt showing. Am I missing something?

ChrisD. · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:15

john_smith said:
Just upgraded my UDM SE to 9.1.119 and Critical Traffic Prioritization isnt showing. Am I missing something?

What version of UniFi OS are you on? 9.1.119 is the Network Application version.

john_smith · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:17

john_smith said:
Just upgraded my UDM SE to 9.1.119 and Critical Traffic Prioritization isnt showing. Am I missing something?

At some point after update when you go into firewall, there's an update button. Do that and you get CTP. :-)

john_smith · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:19

ChrisD. said:
What version of UniFi OS are you on? 9.1.119 is the Network Application version.

Sorry, not sure what you mean or where I see the UniFi OS version. Upgrading to 9.1.xxx as per the video above brings the new features. I've sorted it now though, thanks.

ChrisD. · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:31

john_smith said:
Sorry, not sure what you mean or where I see the UniFi OS version.

The UDM-SE itself has a firmware version. https://community.ui.com/releases/U...s-4-1-22/05ec8e8b-a435-4132-a44d-23cb6eadbb79 looks to be the latest GA version. Then you have versions of Network Application, Protect etc. Sometimes for new features to work, you require both the console itself and Network Application to be on at least a specific version.

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