*** Official Ubiquiti Discussion Thread ***

Proudarse said:
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.
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I'm yet to find a reange extender that isn't complete garbage. Usually they create an additional network with a slightly different name (often appended with 'ext' at the end) that you need to connect to. Rubbish.
 
the-evaluator said:
I'm yet to find a reange extender that isn't complete garbage. Usually they create an additional network with a slightly different name (often appended with 'ext' at the end) that you need to connect to. Rubbish.
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Thanks for your input, Evaluator, and I agree that range extenders can be hit and miss, but in this case the RE650 can be hard wired and used as an access point rather than a range extender which is what I'm interested in.

I'm trying to work out if the specs of the RE650 is better than the AC Pro.

Thanks again.
 
If you want good support, regular firmware and security updates then go with the Unifi and the AC-Pro. If MU-MIMO is what you really want then you have to compare the UAP-HD instead of the UAP-AC Pro, those retail at about £300 per access point.
 
Proudarse said:
Thanks for your input, Evaluator, and I agree that range extenders can be hit and miss, but in this case the RE650 can be hard wired and used as an access point rather than a range extender which is what I'm interested in.
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I've used several expensive hard wired extenders and in the end went to Unifi AC Pros and will never go back even if I only needed one AP (not sure if you're going for one AP in total or to add to a router's built in wifi?). The support, firmware updates and huge user base (more people finding obscure bugs) of the Unifi kit is a different world to the consumer brands.
 
Super Tigers said:
If you want good support, regular firmware and security updates then go with the Unifi and the AC-Pro. If MU-MIMO is what you really want then you have to compare the UAP-HD instead of the UAP-AC Pro, those retail at about £300 per access point.
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Simon42 said:
I've used several expensive hard wired extenders and in the end went to Unifi AC Pros and will never go back even if I only needed one AP (not sure if you're going for one AP in total or to add to a router's built in wifi?). The support, firmware updates and huge user base (more people finding obscure bugs) of the Unifi kit is a different world to the consumer brands.
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Ok, damn you people! I'm sold. I'm not sure how useful MU-MIMO really is so I'm not fussed about that at all. I am using the AC Pro upstairs and 5GHz band on my router downstairs both on the same SSID so it roams.

AC Pro ordered through Amazon. :D

Thank you Simon, Super and Evaluator for helping me make this decision. Happy holidays.
 
While cabling my home I tried uplink mode with two AC Pros and found it poor. It's great kit but not a dedicated mesh system with separate radios so you just seem to be impacting bandwidth too much.
 
As Unifi controller has now reached 5.7.12 release candidate stage, I decided to upgrade my Cloudkey from 5.6.29 to 5.7.12, all went smoothly as I expected. I have now enabled the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) on the controller and my USG, it seems to be working well and it picked up 5 alerts when I launched Transmission on my NAS. The only drawback and it is a big drawback, IPS limits the USG throughput to 85mb/s and the DPI doesn't work fully due to no hardware offload. My fibre connection is 250/30 mb/s, so I either have to sacrifice 66% of my bandwidth, buy a new USG Pro4 router or disable IPS.

What would you all do?
 
Super Tigers said:
What would you all do?
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I’m running the USG-8-XG and it runs IPS no problem, so I’m alright Jack...

Personally, I’d turn IPS off. It’s nice, but are you really about to be targeted by Black-hats? I rather doubt it, so just switch it off...
 
WJA96 said:
I’m running the USG-8-XG and it runs IPS no problem, so I’m alright Jack...

Personally, I’d turn IPS off. It’s nice, but are you really about to be targeted by Black-hats? I rather doubt it, so just switch it off...
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I would love to have an USG-8-XG in my network, but sadly it would be like running a Ferrari, in 1st gear, with the hand brake on and not being allowed to touch the throttle. :(


I am going to run IPS for a week and see what it shows up, and then probably turn it off.
 
I’d probably do something along those lines, enable it now and again to see what’s going on, maybe if you’re thinking anything funny is going on.

Keep looking at the Ubiquiti stuff more and more as currently back using a BT home hub for our fttc connection but I’m wanting to do some fun stuff with some other software that would benefit with using decent kit (I.e something that spits out useful logs via syslog, and some port mirroring for some IPS/traffic monitoring stuff I’ve got lying around).
 
Hi, Can I just buy 3 UAP-AC-Pros and plug them into my BT HomeHub 6? I'd like to make roaming seamless in my home ie. won't drop a Skype call during switchover and I'm wondering how I would configure them to do this. Would I just need to turn them on or should I set them both up separately but with the same SSID and password? Thanks very much for your help!

Hi, I'm wondering if I can plug a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PROs into my BT Homehub 6 and then have 2 other UAP-AC-PROs running standalone around the house to create a seamless wifi network at home? How would I achieve this - would it just be a case of setting the SSIDs the same on all the APs or are there settings I need to configure? Thanks very much!
 
The standalone UAP-PRO ACs would wirelessly uplink over 5GHZ to the UAP-ACs . Set SSID and passwords on all APs the same and your devices will roam between the access points. What size of area are you trying to cover?
 
Turn the wireless off on your homehub, plug all three into the router, load the controller software onto a PC and configure them all. You can probably leave everything on auto and the controller software will adopt and configure everything to seamlessly allow you to roam around using the same SSID and password.
 
Uplink mode is meant as a fallback if a network link gets severed between two switches. Uplink mode retains basic connectivity. It's not meant for day-to-day use.

Best option is to run a network cable to each access point. If you don't want to do that, then Unifi Mesh or Google Wifi is the way to go.

I'm not keen on the mesh idea personally.
 
I’m covering a 5000sqft house so think I will need it on 2.4g. I’ve been using TP link deco and it’s fine but not that powerful. I won’t be able to have the APs plugged into the router and was hoping to have them as standalone APs, one on each floor, using 240v mains PoE injectors to power them. Would this work? Thanks.
 
I'd look at Google Wifi, 2 or 3 points ought to do it. The main one will need to be connected to your router (and you disable your main router's wifi)
 
Is anyone else having problems with getting their Unifi controller to perform a backup? I'm using the latest versions of everything, so specifically 5.7.12 controller, 3.9.19.8123 on the UAP and USW devices and 4.4.17dev.5049824 on the USG.

The last automatic backup I have is dated 31/12/2017 @ 00:05. If I try to perform a manual backup it fails saying this:
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In server.log on the controller I get errors too:
Code: 
[2018-01-08 14:38:13,154] <webapi-196> ERROR system - Fail to create a backup for version '5.7.12'
[2018-01-08 14:38:13,155] <webapi-196> ERROR system - Info on backup error is...
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.ubnt.ace.C.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.ace.C.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.service.OoOO.o0oO.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.service.OoOO.A.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.service.OoOO.A$_Ooo.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.ace.api.int.super(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.service.OoOO.A.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.ace.api.J.o00000(Unknown Source)
        at com.ubnt.ace.api.ApiServlet.service(Unknown Source)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
        at com.ubnt.ace.view.AuthFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
        at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.handleNonCORS(CorsFilter.java:440)
        at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.doFilter(CorsFilter.java:177)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:110)
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:615)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:169)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:445)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1115)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:637)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

The VM (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on ESXi 6.0) has plenty of disc space and free RAM:

Code: 
root@unifi:/var/log/unifi:$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            981M     0  981M   0% /dev
tmpfs           201M   12M  189M   6% /run
/dev/sda1        48G   16G   30G  34% /
tmpfs          1001M     0 1001M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          1001M     0 1001M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          1001M     0 1001M   0% /run/user/1000
root@unifi:/var/log/unifi:$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           2000         759         322          11         918        1045
Swap:          2045           0        2045
root@unifi:/var/log/unifi:$

I was wondering if the problem was related to the SSL certificate. On 31st December I installed a valid SSL certificate. Everything else is working fine expect the backup. When I get the time I'll revert back to a self signed SSL certificate and see if that helps.

From some research it can be a problem with the backups getting too big. Mine are quite large, the most recent one was 77.8Mb but I can't even do a settings only backup. I've compacted the database which made next to no difference to the size.

As yet I haven't posted on the Ubnt forums but will do later today. Any ideas anyone?
 
bledd said:
I'd look at Google Wifi, 2 or 3 points ought to do it. The main one will need to be connected to your router (and you disable your main router's wifi)
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Google WiFi is pretty poor, the Ubiquiti solution AmpliFi is much better and well supported by them. They listen to what the customers want with regards to new features etc. unlike Google.
 
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