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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by madeofpalk »

samcrawford wrote: post #109
sargun wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So are the following: -Tesla -Eero -Pluot

Can you provide a reference to how eero is violating the GPL? A quick search did not reveal anything, and they have a page on their website that suggests they meet their obligations under it.

Just for reference's sake, here's their page https://eero.com/legal/open with the money quote

    You may also request a copy of the source by e-mailing
    legal@eero.com with "Source for eero device" in the subject line.
Note, GPL doesn't mandate code be put up on GitHub. It only requires that its reasonably available.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by spiderfarmer »

madeofpalk wrote: post #140
legulere wrote: post #139

As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Wifi won't be the only problems that are caused by such a waste of resources. How are those problems making your life better? Here DSL router/modems by AVM (Fritz!box) are really common and they do their job extraordinarily well for being consumer grade hardware. They also regularly get regular…

> As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Surely some Europeans live in large houses, right? He's living in a freestanding house in a more regional part of Australia. Travel into the city in Australia and you'll find smaller dwellings, like my 56sqm apartment :)

Still, Australian houses (on average) are 2 times the size of German houses:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/average-ho...

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by oxymoron »

legulere wrote: post #139

As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Wifi won't be the only problems that are caused by such a waste of resources. How are those problems making your life better? Here DSL router/modems by AVM (Fritz!box) are really common and they do their job extraordinarily well for being consumer grade hardware. They also regularly get regular…

As a European I've found that most ISP-provided residential gateways are crap, optimized mostly for convenient remote management by support staff. I used to switch them out for WRT54GL's, but these days I too prefer Ubiquiti gear. Even in a small apartment, it'll likely be the case that the best spot for your Access Point is somewhere entirely different than the most convenient spot for your router. In my case, I've got network cabling wired throughout my apartment which made it easy to put an Edgerouter lite in the wiring closet and an Unifi on the kitchen wall.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by [deleted] »

madeofpalk wrote: post #140
legulere wrote: post #139

As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Wifi won't be the only problems that are caused by such a waste of resources. How are those problems making your life better? Here DSL router/modems by AVM (Fritz!box) are really common and they do their job extraordinarily well for being consumer grade hardware. They also regularly get regular…

> As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Surely some Europeans live in large houses, right? He's living in a freestanding house in a more regional part of Australia. Travel into the city in Australia and you'll find smaller dwellings, like my 56sqm apartment :)

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Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by StavrosK »

legulere wrote: post #139

As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Wifi won't be the only problems that are caused by such a waste of resources. How are those problems making your life better? Here DSL router/modems by AVM (Fritz!box) are really common and they do their job extraordinarily well for being consumer grade hardware. They also regularly get regular…

Come on, 50sqm are barely enough for one person to live in. That said, yes, 70sqm is pretty okay, and 500 is just overkill. Our "fits a family of four comfortably" size is 200sqm, I can't imagine what one would do with more than doubling that. Cleaning would be a pain.

Also, software-wise, my Tomato-based router does everything described in the post, and I haven't had a single problem yet. It cost $100 (but it doesn't have as extensive WiFi coverage as 5 APs, of course).

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by eltoozero »

StavrosK wrote: post #145
legulere wrote: post #139

As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Wifi won't be the only problems that are caused by such a waste of resources. How are those problems making your life better? Here DSL router/modems by AVM (Fritz!box) are really common and they do their job extraordinarily well for being consumer grade hardware. They also regularly get regular…

Come on, 50sqm are barely enough for one person to live in. That said, yes, 70sqm is pretty okay, and 500 is just overkill. Our "fits a family of four comfortably" size is 200sqm, I can't imagine what one would do with more than doubling that. Cleaning would be a pain. Also, software-wise, my Tomato-based router does everything described in the post, and I haven't had a single problem yet. It cost $100 (but it doesn'…

Are you going to deploy/support Tomato for your customers/family?

Insert DD-WRT/OpenWRT here and then give up and get a MikroTik since you can actually eat your own dog food.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by eltoozero »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #102
PietdeVries wrote: post #91

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I have two of their products, and must say: when they work, they work awesome! Range is great, monitoring is great - just compliments. But a firmware upgrade on their access point caused quite a lot of trouble. And with only one access point I seemed to be the lucky one, others had more work fixing it. Some got bricked when trying to revert to the old firmware. Support forum should provide background information if r…

If you can afford it a Ruckus Wireless solutions has yet to disappoint me. Though the Brocade acquisition leaves a lot of questions on the table for their future.

Same goes for Meraki now that they're Cisco, who has a dendancy to ruin everything they touch.

UBNT for multi AP wifi, MikroTik for everything else.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by madeofpalk »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #142
madeofpalk wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a european I find this totally ridiculous. 500 square meter house? That's enough for an apartment building with 10 units. Surely some Europeans live in large houses, right? He's living in a freestanding house in a more regional part of Australia. Travel into the city in Australia and you'll find smaller dwellings, like my 56sqm apartment :)

Still, Australian houses (on average) are 2 times the size of German houses: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/average-ho...

You're right, now that I think about it 500sq is quite large. He does mention it's a three-story house (which is still quite large).

That's a great source though I never knew that Australia has the largest average home size. It's interesting considering Australia very large and very sparsely populated (on average), yet most people live in cities.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by zwily »

pokemongoaway wrote: post #96
zackelan wrote: post #68

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Yes, but the problem with Dockerizing the Ubiquiti controllers (or at least the Unifi one - I haven't attempted with the others) is that the Java app requires MongoDB, and chooses to spin it up as a child process and treat it as an embedded database. Unless you're careful with volume mounting, restarting the Docker container will lose all your wireless connection info, forcing you to reset the AP to defaults or resto…

Why can't we have docker store it on a mounted volume that it attaches at startup?

You can - you just have to remember to.
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