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I've just added a third AP to increase coverage in the garage and on the drive, I had a black spot which meant it was annoying checking Google maps before starting a journey, having poor signal and not loading. I had 2 x LR already, just added a Lite at the front of the garage, as far away from the others as possible.

Really love these things.
 
I hate the controller software so much.

Installed a Unifi Poe switch over the last day or so and decided to reformat the RPi that had the controller software on.

Reset all devices and “adopted” the devices but the software is not having it. In the end I had to change IPs and muck around when in reality it should have been auto-discovering :o
 
Mine is all set up and working, used a Pi for the controller after having problems getting it working on Docker on my Synology.

Shame I only have the switch as I'm missing a lot of the stats (Router is doing wireless so no need for an AP), but I do fancy a USG now for the DPI stuff.
 
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EVH said:
I hate the controller software so much.

Installed a Unifi Poe switch over the last day or so and decided to reformat the RPi that had the controller software on.

Reset all devices and “adopted” the devices but the software is not having it. In the end I had to change IPs and muck around when in reality it should have been auto-discovering :o
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Interesting. I migrated controllers this morning (different IP's etc) and it was fine. Did you restore a backup to your new controller from the old?
 
DiscoDave said:
Interesting. I migrated controllers this morning (different IP's etc) and it was fine. Did you restore a backup to your new controller from the old?
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No. N00b mistake, but I thought it would be the chance for a fresh start.

I believe the issue was that a newly reset Unifi device defaults to 192.168.1.x and I run 10.0.0.x, so with the controller being on IP 10.0.0.3 I had to fiddle around with different subnet masks before it would adopt.
 
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Have had mine setup for just under a week and have to say everything works excellent, I have 95% + signal (both2.4 & 5Ghz channels) all around the house, Setup was easy ... my only problem was the first USG arrived DOA.

Streaming from plex, Amazon & Netflix stutter free.

Has anyone managed to get the USG to respond to ICMP for thinkbroadband? ... have searched the Ubiquiti forums but none have worked

cheers.
 
Rensin said:
Have had mine setup for just under a week and have to say everything works excellent, I have 95% + signal (both2.4 & 5Ghz channels) all around the house, Setup was easy ... my only problem was the first USG arrived DOA.

Streaming from plex, Amazon & Netflix stutter free.

Has anyone managed to get the USG to respond to ICMP for thinkbroadband? ... have searched the Ubiquiti forums but none have worked

cheers.
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Firewall, WAN input, create accept icmp rule should do it.
 
Anyone had issues with Sonos? I’ve just started using a US-24 with a USG and AC-Lites and can’t get my Sonos play 1 to find the WiFi network? Seems to work fine over Ethernet but that isn’t ideal for where I want to place it.
 
Initially, yes. Loads. Sometimes the Sonos wouldn't find a wireless network but when it did it would often lose connectivity.

The trick was to create a 2.4Ghz network for the Sonos devices to use. Create a new wifi network then to set it to 2.4GHz only go to Devices, select the AP and go to config and WLANs. In the 5GHz section click the pencil next to the new network and untick the 'enabled on this AP' box. Repeat for each AP. Connect the Sonos to that new network.

I did that about a year ago and have had zero problems since.
 
Steveocee said:
Firewall, WAN input, create accept icmp rule should do it.
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WAN local, not WAN input.
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I just plugged it into the ethernet over xmas and it solved all the issues. I'll have a go changing the wifi at somepoint.

One strange issue I've been having is that all devices, both wired and wireless seem to be very slow at connecting/reconnecting. For example on booting the PC it can take 30secs to a min for the network connection to initialise and get access to the internet. Iphones also seem to have the same issue, when unlocked it can take 20 secs or so for the wifi to establish.

Anyone else had anything similar? I'm running it DHCP with only my server on a static IP.
 
Hi

I am thinking about wireless networking solutions and whether I should add a second Ubiquiti AP next to my existing AP, and run in uplink mode to improve wireless performance at the back of my house...

If I do this, can the 'uplink' AP (The one connected to the router) still act as an AP, or does its sole purpose become to serve a wireless signal to the Island APs, without offering connectivity itself?

Thanks
 
It'll still act as an AP.

I found the performance of wireless uplinked APs to be hideous though. I put an AP-AC-Lite into the kitchen to improve coverage in the garden but the throughput was awful. My Sky box connected to the AC-Lite and on demand stuff was unusable. I powered off the AC-Lite and the once connected back to one of AC-LR's the Sky box worked fine.
 
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It'll still act as an AP.

I found the performance of wireless uplinked APs to be hideous though. I put an AP-AC-Lite into the kitchen to improve coverage in the garden but the throughput was awful. My Sky box connected to the AC-Lite and on demand stuff was unusable. I powered off the AC-Lite and the once connected back to one of AC-LR's the Sky box worked fine.
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Thanks.

Really? That is very disappointing. I was hoping this would solve my signal blackspot woes :(
 
Hi All,

Sorry to be posting this here as well but I thought this might be a good place as there seem to be many Unifi hardware owners here.

I have my eye on the Unifi AC Pro but have also come across the TP-Link RE650 which is a wifi extender but can be used as an access point connected with an Ethernet cable directly to my router. http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5508_RE650.html#overview

Would someone be kind enough to tell me if the RE650 is better spec'd than the AC Pro on paper?

Here is a direct link to the RE650's specification page http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-5508_RE650.html#specifications

The RE650 has a 880MHz Dual-Core CPU as well as Beamforming MU-MIMO technology and is faster on the 5GHz band at 1733Mbps.

I can't seem to find any information on the specs for the AC Pro regarding CPU information.

I would be very grateful for any help you can provide.

Kind regards
Antonio.
 
I can only go on my own experience, but yeah, it was awful. Maybe uplinking to the same model of AP would have been better, I didn't test moving an AC-LR to the kitchen and linking that to the other AC-LR.

You;d be better getting a powerline connection in place than use wireless uplink. That's what I did until I could get the fibre run installed.
 
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