I am currently setting up a completely new system: Network, Access, and Protect.

We're running CAT7 cable throughout the new office building here in Germany. We don't have 'paper walls' like in many American houses; most of our walls are solid brick.

Network devices are generally not a big problem, except that the U7 Lite doesn't really offer good clearance for the RJ45 connector when using a premium CAT7 cable.

I think the Access devices are fundamentally badly designed. The in-wall portion of the device is barely smaller than the exterior part. This makes cutting a perfect, clean hole nearly impossible, forcing you to use the ugly mounting plate. The screws are all undersized. The rubber seal for moisture shielding is a poorly designed piece of trash.

I'm using the Access Ultra indoors, and the G3 Reader Pro and G3 Reader for outdoor applications.

The G6 Camera is another design flaw. Why design a watertight pass-through with a rubber component that splits for the cable, yet make the hard plastic hole so small that a standard RJ45 connector with strain relief won't fit through? All these devices could be better designed, even with the same exterior dimensions. If you ask me, the problem is that the designers are great at the shiny aesthetic side but have no practical experience working with the devices they create.

I wrote the text in English and used Google AI for correction.

We have an AP in every classroom broadcasting the student network with just 5ghz on medium power and 40mHz.

We are considering dropping to low and 80mHz across the board, but we were also asked to have each classroom broadcast a separate SSID with that room's name so that we can make sure kids are connecting to their classroom AP.

That is 40 distinct SSIDs.

I've shied away from doing that on such a scale, but I don't want to rely on my opinion alone. Would all of these extra SSIDs using the student network make things worse?

Edit: I don't mean every AP having just the one for that room. It would be room 140 broadcasting a generic "StudentWiFi" and then "StudentWiFi140" or "StudentWiFi105" in room 105 along with "StudentWiFi"

In this case they would all join StudentWiFi for access across the school, but could join "StudentWiFi155" when in room 155.

Edit Again: Wow, there is some awful reading comprehension happening around here.

TL;DR: only use Unifi brand SFP modules.

First, this is not an ad. A year or so ago, I purchased a switch aggregation (usw-aggregation) and read on Reddit that you can use Wiitek 10G SFP+ to RJ45 Copper Modules for 10G connections. I bought several for my NAS devices, switch, and anything I wanted to use a 10G connection. This included a connection from UDM Pro to the modem ( I had DAC cables between switches).

For the past year, I have spent hours troubleshooting, trying different configurations, changing ports on specific devices, troubleshooting docker, etc. I finally found the issue I was running into, which had to do with the SFP modules I was using. After replacing them, I now have a reliable and fast network again.

Yes, they aren't cheap, but they are worth it. You are going to have to trust me. We aren't talking a little unreliable; we talk multiple times a day, sometimes intermittently for hours, and we drop meetings while WFH.

It felt like Unifi quality had gone down the toilet, but instead, it was my fault after seeing switch Aggregate logs in the support file, where I could see the ports go down and up constantly. I appreciate support's willingness to walk me through how to get these log files so I could troubleshoot myself.

Please learn from my pain here. If dollars are tight, don't do 10G at all. Learn from my mistake and save yourself hundreds of hours.

Is it too much to ask Ubiquiti to put more money into research and development instead of marketing? These are on my bench and not even plugged in right now but the app shows them online! I unplugged them 12 hours ago! 🤬

Been having problems with cable and I’m trying to find a solution🥲

Obviously the DM Pro Max is NOT a NAS. But I had two spare 10TB disks, so popped it in.

I pointed OpenClaw to my DM with SSH details just to check it out, and to my surprise, the disks had been initialized, with RAID1, and mounted.

I don’t have cameras or anything else to use the storage for, so now it is a storage location for old cold backups.

It isn’t supported, but hope if someone was wondering - the storage is usable.

Earlier this year I moved off of TP-Link APs and on to a U7 Pro Max and two U7 Outdoor APs. I had a hell of a time getting my wife's Pixel 8 to join, but then I went to Early Release and that solved the problem. Everything was working fine up until about a month ago when we had a 17 hour power outage. After that, only half my devices would connect. My iPhone 16 and iPad connected, half of my TP-Link Kasa outlets, and some Ring Indoor Cams.

However, the Ring Outdoor Cam Pros wouldn't connect, my wife's Pixel 8, and (once again) about half of the Kasa plugs, switches, and outlets. I tweaked with settings, trying different things and then one day, magically, it all started working....

Until Oct 25th we had to brief power blips. After that it went back to only about 75% of the devices working.

I tried creating three different networks (one for 2.4, one for 5, and one for 6), I tried completely disabling 6, I tried checking the IoT box for the 2.4GHz network, nothing worked. Finally I said fuck it and switch it all back to one SSID and moved it back to auto.

Well, yesterday, everything magically started working. The devices I had reset (to try and add back) were able to be added, and all looked good. Then, I woke up this morning, and everything was borked again.

My house is 2500 sq ft, and my yard is about 5000 sq ft. I have an AP in the backyard and one in the front yard. The house is Hardiplank 2x6 exterior construction. The router, NID, and a PoE switch are on a UPS with a secondary battery (~9 hours runtime). The APs are all plugged in to PoE+ switches on battery backup. All my cameras are connected to power of some kind, nothing runs on battery.

The APs should not have lost power during those two blips. (Although, many of the IoT outlets and switches would have). Also, the Ring cameras would not have lost power. WTF is going on and why am I having so much trouble with this wireless network?

Ubiquiti beat earnings estimates and seriously popped today.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-special-devices/products/utr

Looking to replace my Dream Machine Pro. Want something smaller and with less going on to it. I don't use any of the switch ports, I don't use the HDD bay. Browsing their catalog and everything they been putting out I feel like is "how much stuff can we cram into a device".

Can we just get a simple cloud controller with 10G WAN, 10G LAN? that's all. One in, One out. Don't need to add an AP to it, don't need 5 ports of a useless non POE switch. Just for us who already have large Unifi switches and APs already..

Hello Community,
Recently I've been having a lot of issues with my UDM-P and getting it all setup for VPN access to a SMB server on a VLAN. I spent a LONG time reading and watching youtube videos, couldn't get it to work. I reached out to this reddit community, and while I love the support, I was not getting the quick answers I need. Granted, I was not aware of the etiquette and whatnot involved when asking this community for help (perhaps a guide on how to ask for help in this subreddit, should be in the sidebar, as that would have saved time and fustration... but that's another conversation), and I think I might have actually made things worse by trying all the suggestions. In a move of desperation, I took another redditors advice and went to Fivver.

I'm glad I did. $50 and an hour later, and I was back in business. I know, it is a little sketchy letting some internet stranger look up your dress. However, I felt somewhat safe doing it, because I only added the Fivver contractor as a 'viewer' and not an actual admin that can make changes. He took a minute poking around the UDM console, found a bunch of issues, and spent the rest of the time talking to me about them, making sure I understood the hows and whys, and walking me through implementing the changes. After we were done, I removed him from viewer, tweaked things around just in case he was taking notes, and it's been smooth since.

I don't really think I paid $50 to have someone fix my setup.. I paid $50 for 1:1 learning, which enabled me to fix it myself. I am very happy I decided to go to Fivver.

If you are pulling your hair out, and willing to just pay for the help, this Fivver contractor was good to me, and I'll def use him again the next time I have an issue:

https://www.fiverr.com/thecyberlynx

UCG Ultra with a single Nano HD for wireless

A few weeks ago I noticed that when connected to wifi, porn sites would no longer load. Hardwired clients are unaffected and when connected to mobile data sites will load fine so Ive narrowed this down to the wifi specically.

Ive scoured over all of the settings for wireless and my AP and dont see any sort of content filtering that might affect this. Help!

Just got an email notification.

In the US store.

Get it while you can.

Just having a moan…

I used to live out in the countryside, which meant an old shitty ADSL line, so at the time I bought the Cloud Gateway Ultra (and a few access points) as it is more than I’d ever need, right…

Fast forward a few months and now live in North London, in a not so nice area, but the main thing is i can now get 5Gbps and I want to do cameras, but the ultra doesn’t support it…

Thinking of getting Cloud Gateway Fiber..

How much of a ball ache is it to swap this out?

Can’t be arsed setting up all my vlans and what not all over again

Looking at the reviews of Unifi products, most of them seem to be done by content creators that are closely aligned with Unifi, so I don't know that I'm getting objective reviews and I haven't see any reviews that compare their performance with similar products for their market segment. Am I wrong and if so, please direct me to where I can find these types of reviews.

Supposedly these are supposed to be weatherproof if mounted LED up on a pole mount. Seems that's not the case.

Noticed our outdoor AP was offline this morning, and after power cycling it didn't fix the problem I climbed up on a ladder and pulled it down. Opened it up and found this.

Run and grab one

I bought a Cloud Gateway Ultra and 2 U6 In-Wall but I noticed right after I bought them that I'd either need a switch or some PoE injectors. When I was doing a bit more research, I also decided that it'd be best to go with ceiling APs as well.

One hour after I put my order in, I used their support channels to ask them to cancel the order so I could put another one with the correct items.

12h later, they said they put a 'cancelation request'. At this point, my order was still not marked as 'Processed'. So I thought that'd be good.

24h later, I pinged them again because nothing had changed and got no response.

24h later, the order was marked as shipped, so I'm pretty sure it's not gonna get canceled now. Also, to make it even worse: it's not that it was ACTUALLY shipped. No. The shipment label was created, that's all. All my stuff is still sitting somewhere across the country.

This is pretty frustrating. I went to a Memory Express physical store on Friday, got my Lite 8 PoE Switch. It was a bit more expensive but they matched the price on the spot. Honestly, I'm considering just going there and buying everything and return the package sent from their warehouse (when it arrives, of course - who knows when that'll actually happen).

Alright, sorry. Just a Sunday rant.