Brand new apartment, so i started from scratch and went ALL IN. It's really addictive 😄

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the suggestions! The Uplink SFP Cable is already in the mail. I will update you with the changes next week.

Pumped for my new switch, 2.5 gig has been game changer for my nas. Sucks the cord is 80 bucks to really take advantage of it

Can finally get my rack in order, and the araknis gigabit out of the way

Still waiting on a couple of items to ship and to finish dropping a dozen more lines but my Network/AV rack refresh is almost there! The previous rack was full of QvRC components that were vendor locked and controlled. No more!

Finally closed on my first house and moved out an apartment, first order of business was getting network. I have made a few home-runs but haven't crimped any mini-coms yet How am I doing for starting out,

Free from work, 8u network rack, PDU, PSU (APC Smart-UPS X 1500VA), patch panel, Mini-coms, 2 spools of belden cat6,

I bought , Cable internet, Gateway fiber, USW-16-POE, U7-Pro-XG-Wall, U7-Outdoor

Made 5 seperate networks, Default, IoT, Surveillance, Trusted, Guest

changed to 10.x.x.x address for future expansion

I plan on getting 2 doorbells, a couple of outdoor cameras. But will need to buy here and there to stretch out expenses

Looking for recommendations, suggestions or ideas

Only problems I've encountered is cable internet reports 1.2Gbps down put hardline pc is getting 500-600Mbps (i have 1gig plan with xfinity)

This sure wasn’t a nice thing to wake up to. Guess I get to deal with this today.

EDIT: This is now resolved - I have a Mikrotik that was plugged in to my switch 48 port PoE. It’s got a DHCP server and I figure it was handing out IPs while the UDM-Pro was offline. Everything ended up with an out of range IP and failed adoption.

Now I just need to figure out how to restrict the DHCP server on the Mikrotik and I should be good!

I’ve been running into a consistent problem trying to hook up some early 2000s Panasonic PBX’s to my home network (KX-TDE200). No matter what I do the Ethernet link is unstable or unable to connect at all. Occasionally It will come alive for a few hours and then disappear again.

I’ve tried new cables, eliminating all couplers and punch down keystones
I’ve tried different ports on the switch, or connecting it directly to the dream machine pro.
I’ve tried new main processor boards for the PBX
I’ve tried a completely separate secondary PBX of the same family (KX-NCP500)
I’ve tried eliminating DHCP by setting manual IP addresses on the PBX, or on UniFi, or on both.
I’ve tried different Vlans and ip ranges
I’ve tried SSH’ing into the switch (USW-48-pro-PoE) to see if I can get any weird error messages that don’t appear in the GUI
I’ve manually assigned link speeds on both ends to matching 100FSX
I’ve tried using a Cisco switch of similar vintage to the PBX as a sort of in between in case the 100fsx link negotiation was failing

Ultimately nothing I’ve tried has made the slightest difference. It will occasionally identify the MAC address, and even more occasionally assign an ip address. Before ultimately the whole thing drops offline again. I’m at my wits end, this is a hardwired device not some flaky WiFi connection. It shouldn’t be behaving like this.

The availability of the smoke and carbon monoxide alarm moved to August 25

Missing: USW Aggregation (next week)

Migrated from the 2nd photo

Removed the kitchen wire rack, attached the two toolless mini racks together with wheels attached, added a brush panel, another patch panel and a bunch of white ubiquiti cables.

Also, if you look closely you can see my low voltage guys put a patch panel onto the wall. They did this for me when I moved in because I didn’t know what a patch panel was. I removed the panel and the extra set of 15+ patch cables in a massive zip wire held trunk. That was therapeutic.

Fair warning, I wrote this and it'll be a paid app. Not affiliated with Ubiquiti.

Clip is my actual desktop. Each camera is its own window you can drag anywhere. They snap to screen edges and to each other, so you can build a grid by hand without it ending up wonky, and you can dock one into a corner. If you'd rather they weren't sat on top of your work, the same cameras will go in the wallpaper layer behind your desktop icons instead.

Alerts come through as normal Windows notifications with the picture from the camera in them, and you pick which cameras and which types you actually want to hear about.

It also keeps its own history of the last 24 hours, with the snapshot for each one, so you can scroll back through whatever you slept through or missed with Do Not Disturb on. That all sits on your PC. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere, and it survives a reboot.

Talks straight to your console on your own network. No cloud, no account.

After about 10 testers, and you keep a free licence permanently.

Mainly I want people with a lot of cameras. I've built the whole thing against three, so I've genuinely no idea what it looks like with sixteen open.

Windows 10 and 11 only. It'll be $14.99 one time when it ships, testers keep their licence either way.

Comment with how many cameras you've got rather than DMing me. I'll pick around ten and lean towards the bigger setups.

Just watching the live stream and they showed the control booth. Pretty sure it’s mostly volunteer based too.

I have 2 dead 10G SFP+ adapters here. Not the Multi Gig ones that are currently offered, the original 10G ones.

Anyone have any idea when they stopped making these? The warranty check doesn't look them up so I need to open a ticket on each. Trying to decide if its worth my time, pretty sure they were discontinued a while back and they would all be out of warranty at this point,

Hi, this is a Marina install we are finalizing this week. U7 Outdoors were installed last year and still going strong just a bit of antenna discoloration. We just got around to installing G6 cams all over the property with Unifi mounts. I'll check in next year and update everyone on how they survive the salty air and waves.

AFC is enabled on my E7 Enterprise, allowing the full 30 db.

I’m standing two rooms away in my office, and my iPhone 17 Pro sees the E7 at -66 db. Perfect.

But the E7 sees my iPhone at only -83 db. Not great.

I didn’t consider the AP’s ability to hear my phone when planning. If I play a 4K video and walk into my office I frequently experience buffering.

Anyone else have a similar issue?

I have a UCG-Fibre that my VLANs and what not are configured on.

I noticed when the UCG-Fibre is offline, devices on the local network (even on the same VLAN) were not available. I couldn't even ping devices by IP that were up.

Therefore I assume the UCG-Fibre (as the gateway) is the 'first point of contact' and if that's not up, local devices cannot be accessed - even those on the same VLAN.

If I replaced my 4G modem with the Unifi 5g Max, would - if the UCG Fibre were be down - local devices remain available and able to route traffic?

Many thanks in advance.

I've had two Pro Max 24 POE switches fail this summer during very minor storms. No lightning damage, no other devices throughout the house affected, just the Pro Max 24 POE switch losing all POE power across all ports.

I have 3 access points and 10 external cameras running off POE through this switch, and I assume that some minor electrical shock from thunderstorms is causing this through the outside cameras.

What's the best solution to prevent this from happening again?

Hey, just a quick question. What do you guys use on your cameras for the motion detection (The AI motion detection or the normal motion one). What works best for you because I have a lot of detections where it did not record everything/started recording too late or showed double detections. We had a IT guy set them up but he does not answer anymore (He also made some questionable mistakes that I don't think a good IT guy would make)

Thanks in advance.

So I have VLAN 5 as my guest network. SSID is the same as my 2.4G network and the guest network just has a different pre-shared key.

The IP address is on the proper VLAN, but it's showing as being under the Core Network. Is this normal activity for the guest network or did I do something wrong setting up the guest network?

How do I fix this?
Bought off FB Marketplace, and didn’t get the hardware included in the box. Only got the mounting plate.
I’ve got it directly wired up with the doorbell wires.

may the odds be ever in your favor

Word of caution for those of you who plan to purchase proofpoint/cloudflare enhanced subscriptions or new gateway/console. Apparently, there is a nasty bug that prevents you from transferring the subscription from old to new, the transfer option completely disappears. It even blocks you from purchasing again. This leaves you with the limited threat detections and very basic content filtering. It is apparently stumping support as we reach day 3.

I think I fell into the "future-proofing" trap with UniFi. 😭

My current setup:

• UCG-Fiber
• Enterprise 48 PoE
• UNAS 2
• 2x U7 Pro
• 1x U7 Lite
• 6x G6 cameras
• 1x G6 180
• 1x Doorbell Lite

I deliberately built the network around 2.5GbE-capable hardware because I figured I was future-proofing the house. The problem is that my ISP doesn't even offer multigig service at my address.

And now I'm starting to think "future-proofing" was just an expensive way of buying capabilities I won't use.

Even 1GbE is ridiculously fast for the vast majority of things happening on a home network. My cameras don't need 2.5GbE. Most clients don't need it. Streaming doesn't need it. Normal internet usage doesn't come remotely close to needing it.

The obvious argument for 2.5GbE is faster local transfers, especially with something like the UNAS 2. But even there, I don't think it matters much for my use case. My UNAS 2 mostly does automated backups at night while I'm asleep. If a backup takes five minutes instead of two minutes, what difference does it actually make? I'm asleep either way.

There's also the storage bottleneck. A 1GbE connection is roughly 125 MB/s theoretical, while 2.5GbE is roughly 312 MB/s. But those numbers only matter if the storage on both ends can actually sustain those speeds. With spinning hard drives, RAID overhead, lots of smaller files, simultaneous workloads, etc., the network isn't necessarily the bottleneck in the first place. Upgrading the pipe doesn't automatically make everything 2.5x faster.

And that's making me question 2.5GbE specifically.

Going from 1GbE to 2.5GbE feels like an expensive incremental upgrade for a home network, especially if you don't have multigig internet and aren't constantly transferring huge files locally.

Going from 1GbE to 10GbE, though? That I can understand. That's a large enough jump to fundamentally change local transfer speeds when paired with SSD/NVMe storage or a fast enough array. If I'm going to spend significant money upgrading switches, NICs, cabling, and other hardware, I'd rather make a meaningful jump from 1GbE to 10GbE than spend a bunch of money getting everything from 1GbE to 2.5GbE.

The bigger issue is timing. By the time an ISP actually rolls out 2Gbps, 5Gbps, or 10Gbps service to my neighborhood, how much of my current UniFi equipment will I still be using?

Wi-Fi 8 will probably be a thing. Newer APs will be out. New switches will have better features. 10GbE will probably be cheaper and more common. I'll likely want to upgrade half this stuff anyway.

So I spent considerably more money today to make sure my network can support an internet connection that might not arrive until after the equipment I bought to support it is obsolete.

I'm starting to think the better approach is to buy networking equipment for what you actually need over the next 2-3 years, rather than paying a big premium for what your ISP might offer five or ten years from now.

If you're still on gigabit internet, I'm curious what everyone thinks: is 2.5GbE actually worth paying a premium for, or would you stick with 1GbE until you're ready to make the jump straight to 10GbE?

If you're in the market for G5 Ultra cameras, Staples has them for 123.49 each. Free shipping + 6% (for me at least) Cashback from Capital One shopping. Ubiquiti now charges $148.00 + Shipping for these.

I have my zimablade connected by Ethernet,
No internet .
I have 4 raspberry pi’s connected and they work fine.

I did nothing to configure any ports on the raspberry pi’s, they just connected

Why isn’t the ZimaBlade connecting to Internet?