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[Yaayuh!]

WiFi 6 won't help with thick walls. If thick walls are a big issue then you'd want to switch down to 2.4GHz.

I suppose the question is, how much throughput do you NEED on WiFi?

 

[platypus]

Probably not the wifi 6 throughput .

I've struggled to find wifi 5 ac pros in stock though. Normally buy then from a uk ubiquiti distributor but no stock.

 

[Dave85]

I would not bother with the wifi 6 for that as suggested. Any issues running cable as you could always try get the in wall wifi points to each of the rooms negating the need for the signal to penetrate.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I ditched some truly rubbish HP 1910s recently and came close to breaking even

Just out of interest, how much did you get for them? Asking for... errm.. a friend.

Spoiler

 

[Mikey]

Now you mention it, I have a few Gen1 switches that I've kept for no good reason so now may well be the time to move them on.

Get them sold and it's the wild lol with a bit of extra margin

 

[platypus]

Aaaaaaaaand back on Fibre:

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I'm on a gigabit down/up package but this is the best I'm seeing out of the USG, so think my quest to replace it is going to step up a notch soon. I'm away all summer however so... coming back at the end of September I might look harder at the QNap Guardian as someone @WJA96 ? said they are refreshing later in the year.

Whats the UXG-Pro like? Trash?

 

[Turn]

@platypus Which ISP is that if you don't mind?

 

[Caged]

Going to guess Community Fibre

 

[Turn]

Going to guess Community Fibre

Yeah either that or Hyperoptic would be my guess

 

[ChrisD.]

Or City Fibre, there's a few symmetrical alt nets now.

 

[Caged]

Not in London though

 

[ChrisD.]

Not in London though

Where is London mentioned?

 

[Turn]

Where is London mentioned?

We're talking about low ping (0-1ms), you wouldn't really expect to get the lowest ping outside of London to London PoP's

 

[platypus]

@platypus Which ISP is that if you don't mind?

Cambridge fibre, local company that sprung up about three years ago. I have to say they are excellent (used them before we moved out of the centre of Cambridge, they’ve just recently completed fibre-ing up my village). The symmetrical speeds where added at no extra cost.

 

[ChrisD.]

We're talking about low ping (0-1ms), you wouldn't really expect to get the lowest ping outside of London to London PoP's

Unless it's with Cambridge fibre.

 

[RSR]

UDM-SE arrived today but its also being returned, as its suffering from the PPPoE single thread issue. No matter what settings you use, DPI on/off, IDS/IPS on off etc... It just doesn't go above 750/800Mb for me. I've also tested a number of firmware versions and it make zero difference for me.

However, I plug my UDM-Pro back in and it maxs out the connection straight away which makes zero sence as its running the same hardware.

So i am going back to my original plan of ordering a NetGate 6100, unless any one can recomend a SuperMicro solution that's in a 1U form factor and can do 10Gb. I've been testing pfSense in my lab and it also have zero issues maxing out the connection.

 

[ChrisD.]

SuperMicro and 1U is going to be loud.

 

[platypus]

At those prices you could look at the uxg-pro? If you want to stay unifi I mean. I'm sorely tempted by it, even if it is expensive.

 

[RSR]

At those prices you could look at the uxg-pro? If you want to stay unifi I mean. I'm sorely tempted by it, even if it is expensive.

The issue with that is it could have the same PPPoE issues as the UDM-SE.

Ive done a bit more tweaking on the UDM-Pro and I now have full line rate, with all the IPS/IDS features enabled on high. I'll test the SE over the weekend, as one last test before RMA'ing it but there is something broken with the SE as you can run a top on the cli and see the CPU use go through the roof the same doesn't happen on the UDM-Pro.

Just means I need another switch where the UDM is for some PoE.

 

[Yaayuh!]

SuperMicro and 1U is going to be loud.

Pardon?!