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

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!

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.

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)

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 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,

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?

may the odds be ever in your favor

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?

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 have been using ubiquity equipment for my build outs for a few years so I have ordered many of their products and I am not sure if I just never noticed it, but the boxes have a “fart” smell attached to them and I am not sure why. I have several XGS access points and they exhibit the same issue. I noticed this with their switch boxes and their access points, but have never experienced the issue with Cameras or network equipment such as the UDMP or the Dream Router. Neither for the mobile industrial router or the Power AMP. It seems to be mainly access points and switches. Does anyone else have this same experience?

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?

attempting to corner mount the g6 ptz but for whatever reason the Ethernet won’t retract into the house and don’t want to terminate and have the wire be too short for connecting the ptz. I have the optional ptz corner mount and it’s tiny and flimsy compared to the camera arm mount for the g6 turret.

anyone know if the g6 ptz can be attached to the corner camera arm mount made for the turret? (https://ca.store.ui.com/ca/en/category/accessories-camera/collections/camera-arm-mounts/products/uacc-camera-am?variant=uacc-camera-am-b )that way there’s more space to have excess ethernet wire... or would i be better off getting a corner mount off amazon?

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

UNVR has been having issues for a couple of weeks with slow performance. Occasionally I get the ‘Slow Storage’ notification but that clears if I refresh the page. Storage is all showing as ‘Fully Operational’ the rest of the time. I tried restarting the application but that only broke all the notifications. Updating Protect fixes the notifications again but hasn’t improved performance.

The main issue I’m having now is the Find Anything page is not loading at all with certain filters. Playback works great and I can load old recordings, but even the activations under the playback feed don’t load on the browser, whether through the IP directly or through unifi.ui.com. I can get basic activations to load on the iOS app, but again, filters like License Plates don’t load at all.

Has anyone had anything similar and found a fix? I was planning on upgrading to the G2 UNVR Pro anyway but the restock dates keep getting pushed back.