Upgraded the homelab’s 10gb switch to the UniFi EnterpriseXG. Not only do I have more 10gb ports now, I also have far fewer SFP+ modules in use, and the switches are all matchy matchy.
Also, I swear the whole rig has less latency now. I can’t prove it, but it sure feels snappier.
@chad That reminds me of a trip to our data centre. They were doing a rack refresh and had a lot of old racks. My boss went straight to the manager and said, can I take one home, it will be ideal for my garage.
@Wtangofoxtrot Yeah, that switch is a little under powered though, at least in its current design. If you check some of my testing, I am not sure if that would make a difference with their current architecture.
#Ubiquity's #UniFi system has been expensive, true. But that's been one of the best purchases I've made in years. It's easy to use, looks nice and just works stable as a rock... 😍
Both my wife and I have a #LEGO set with a light kit hooked up to our #gaming#PC's. So that when our PC's are on the light kit in the hooked up set is on. Due to the motherboard during #WoL the #USB ports those sets are hooked into are always supplying power. As a result they would always be turned on. So used #nodered with information from a #ESP presence sensor, and information from the #unifi#switch the PC's are connected to to determine if they are on. When they are off the NIC speed is
#Ubiquiti never ceases to amaze me with how simple yet powerful it can be. I needed to route specific traffic from a specific device on the local network over a VPN. In #Unifi Dream Machine Pro, the VPN and routing setup was done in 5 minutes and very intuitively. 👌
@sesivany I started with UniFi Security Gateway and then switched to second hand UniFi Security Gateway Pro. It was probably outdated even by then. To workaround this issue I have an RaspberryPi in the rack that handles VPN for me. It's slightly more complicated solution but good enough.
Why multicast enhancements cause wired devices to sometimes not see WiFi devices:
“Because when a wireless device roams, it will no longer receive multicasts on the new AP until the next time it subscribes.
Multicast enhancement blocks multicast traffic from being transmitted on APs with no multicast subscribers. (…) losing things like MDNS updates, in some cases for many minutes.”
@jimmyb On Apple stuff make sure to turn off the private addressing option. Otherwise they use made-up MAC addresses that aren’t even identifiable as belonging to an Apple device. Could account for some or all of it.
Just deployed two new #Ubiquiti#unifi#U7-Pro access points to my home network to replace a #UAP-AC-LR and a #UAP-FlexHD. So far they seem to be working well.
I'm doing wireless mesh between the AP connected to the router and the AP in the back of the house. The connection isn't amazing (only getting 70mbps down from the meshed AP) but that's better than before.
These new AP are quite a bit bigger and heavier than my old ones.
I'll keep the old APs around for a little bit to make sure this setup is stable. Maybe I'll use the FlexHD as a third AP to help mesh better between the front and back of the house? We'll see.
If I owned this place, of course I would have Ethernet cables to all of the APs. Alas, I only rent.
@douglasvb I"ve got one of those in my house, I like them a lot, however -- like a lot of equipment -- the software requires login, Windows, and the internet to set up. There's probably a local option. I like the Ubiquiti hardware a lot better than the EnGenius I am trying out here at my temporary residence.
I just can’t run things normally… Just updated my #UniFi Network app on the #DreamMachinePro gateway to release candidate version 8.1.113. Everything has to be running slightly unstable, otherwise it’s getting boring…😂
Sooooo... I just couldn't wait and ordered the rest of my new #UniFi home network. Dream Machine Pro will be joined by USW-Lite-8-PoE switch and 2 U6+ access points...🤡
The router was a breeze to set up and it actually took more time to deal with the media center cabling mess than to configure the thing. Hoping the rest will be as easy.
@ssamulczyk they do make it ridiculously easy to add new gear assuming it’s not out of stock. I have the UDMP, 16- and 8- PoE switches, a 5- switch powered by PoE, and some cameras and they all just work.
@disser I know it should, unless it will ship with some ancient OS version, just like my UDMP (it was 1.something, had to update it in stages, like 4-5 times). I'm just venting my excitement... :bulbasaurroll:
#UniFi#DreamMachinePro is one expensive toy, but I’m mostly happy with how it works. The setup is very basic, as for a wife reason I couldn’t buy all of the toys at once… We will have to live with basic TP-Link AP setup for a month. Like animals…🤡😱
Had one issue with #Ikea#Tradfri gateway, not working well with vlan tagging but I’ve found a solution!😁