Nope, it's been perfectly fine and we've had some pretty hot days. Might be different when we get to the summer and we have 30+ degrees but I know plenty of others using kit in their loft without issue.
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Just bite the bullet and mount it on the landing ceiling.
APs are white, pretty much pure brilliant white. Ceilings should be white (non-white ceilings are for total heathens).
You really don’t notice it is there, it should be well out of your sight line unless you live in a ‘hobbit home’.
Another way to put it, no one regularly looks up at their smoke alarm and things, ‘that’s really ugly I wish it wasn’t there’.
Just turn the stupidly bright blue LED off once it’s adopted, that thing will light up your landing at night.
I’ve got the following in my loft:
UCG-Fibre
U-NVR
Switch lite 16 POE
PC based NAS
8kw Solar inverter
Yes it gets hot up there but don’t forget these devices are designed to be used in countries far hotter than the U.K. I do have a couple of low RPM PC fans blowing across my rack, mainly there to ensure the air is circulating over the passive devices more than anything else but yes otherwise it’s fine.
The UCG Fibre is new but a lot of it has been up there for years and historically didn’t have the fans on it.
That thing must be cooking up there, i've heard they run pretty hot even just on a ceiling. According to the specs, they are rated upto 40c ambient, it's gotta be more than that in the loft on summer days.
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Ive never checked the exact temperature but when in there last summer, it was cooler than the house oddly. I'll be sure to measure this summer on a hot day.
Interesting as I had a u6 pro on the loft and noticed next to no degradation across the upstairs either on the ceiling or behind it. The U7 Pro and now Pro Max are better, but thats more to do with the 6Hz for outright speed and the U7 Pro Max just being stupid powerful and fast. Getting better coverage downstairs even with my daft faraday cage under floor insulation upstairs.
That's why I left my U7 Pro in the loft, The plan was to eventually move it to the ceiling once I was happy with it but my 6Ghz band already sits at a really good signal level all through the house. Which again makes me believe my house is of poor quality.
Paper?It could just mean it was built with good light weight/density materials
On another note, Do we think we will ever see a small form factor NVR?
I don't really have a use for the UNVR and 4 drives.
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Anybody using a U6-Pro, just curious what speeds y'all get 80-wide
Code:
iperf3 -t 20 -c 192.168.0.5 -u -b 200M -P 4 -i 20 --get-server-output
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[SUM] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.86 GBytes 800 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/1381218 (0%) sender
[SUM] 0.00-20.01 sec 1.86 GBytes 799 Mbits/sec 0.059 ms 259/1381207 (0.019%) receiver
iperf3 -t 20 -c 192.168.0.5 -u -b 800M -P 1 -i 20 --get-server-output
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.86 GBytes 800 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/1381171 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.01 sec 1.74 GBytes 745 Mbits/sec 0.025 ms 94097/1381117 (6.8%) receiver
iperf3 -t 20 -c 192.168.0.5 -u -b 200M -P 4 -i 20 -R
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[SUM] 0.00-20.03 sec 1.87 GBytes 800 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/1382989 (0%) sender
[SUM] 0.00-20.02 sec 1.86 GBytes 800 Mbits/sec 0.079 ms 0/1382525 (0%) receiver
iperf3 -t 20 -c 192.168.0.5 -u -b 800M -P 1 -i 20 -R
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.86 GBytes 800 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/1381541 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 1.66 GBytes 714 Mbits/sec 0.016 ms 147551/1380693 (11%) receiverI've got a Fibre but once you go past the 2TB size of drive, It becomes stupidly expensive for NVME drives.
Spec sheet says its limited to 2TB drive, not sure if that is a hard limit though.