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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 lmm »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #168
infinite8s wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to copyright it. Anything you produce us automatically copyrighted. What people forget is that the GPL is a way to get around the default lack of distribution and replication rights in ordinary copyright.

Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).

People can and have violated the BSD license, so if you believe that free licenses are only those with no restrictions then the BSD license is not free either. The GPL conforms to all the popular consensus definitions of software freedom (the FSF's free software definition, the OSI's open source definition, and Debian's DFSG); if your concept of "free software" is different from all of those maybe you would communicate more effectively by using a different term.

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

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Post by lmm »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #161
lmm wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you don't. There's no point copyrighting something if you don't intend to enforce your copyright.

Well, both Copyright Holders and GPL Licensors want to enforce their license. But guess what. Piracy is a coin with two sides.. Thousands (millions?) of companies around the world use illegally obtained copies of software to make money. A dozen companies also violate the GPL. I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

> I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

Some people care less about whether the law has been violated and more about whether the source code has been made available.

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

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Post by Chris2048 »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #155
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…

Maybe he's building a spaceship, has a family of 10, throws big parties, or he just wants a big fucking house. Europeans have mansions. It's a continent famous for its castles! It just seems arrogant of you to criticize his decision to buy a large house without knowing anything about him. I live in a space not much larger than 2-3 walk in closets, and after a year of this shit, I wish I lived in a goddamn mcmansion.…

> It's a continent famous for its castles!

Because there are so few in the US, not because we all live in one...

Also, few people live in those castles.

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

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Post by Ambroos »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #95
thaumaturgy wrote: post #19

I'm happy to see Ubiquiti getting some exposure here and on Reddit and other places recently (and also a bit worried that this means they're about to start releasing garbage and/or get bought by Cisco, since that seems to be a phenomenon that happens). We've been installing and using their gear in deployments all over the place for over 5 years now and it always just works. I think we've had to replace two faulty uni…

The Java stuff caused problems at our office because the installer (on OS X) didn't even run. Not on any computer. It got stuck trying to discover the device, when in fact it was the Java app that didn't work properly. We had start that web server thing from the shell and then point a browser to it. Even then we (one of whom is a former Cisco engineer) had to struggle several hours just getting it to start a working…

I think the OS X thing is just offered to be nice, but their controller is effortless to install on Debian, even remotely.

I put our controller on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet with Debian 8. Took 10 minutes to set up back in January, has been working faultlessly ever since (even through automated updates).

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

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Post by kefka »

helper wrote: post #33
voltagex_ wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how the UI and firmware updates compare to Ubiquiti. Is it IOS or something else?

Meraki is completely cloud based. Firmware upgrades happen automatically although you have some options about when they get applied (and you get notification before hand). Having built a software platform that integrated with the big enterprise wifi vendors, I can comfortably say meraki's is the most intuitive and easiest to use.

> Meraki is completely cloud based.

So, you're happy with someone owning your devices and network, and you being said "renter" on your network? This is DRM of the worst kind: the logic is locked away behind their servers.

Nope nope, a flaming rake of fucks nope.

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

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Post by technofiend »

Based on Reddit threads and an immediate need due to hardware failure I tried the edge router. I have to say I like UI and it was painless to set up. There a plenty of sample configs to choose from and the community seems active and helpful.

Unfortunately, the internet being the hostile place it is, my edgerouter struggles to stay up for more than a couple of days before I have to power cycle the device.

There may be a fix based on packet filtering beyond a simple NAT ruleset I'm using but it wasn't really worth my time to fix a $60 device when another refurbished PC from Microcenter is twice that and will stay up for months. Move two NICs, a hard drive and done.

Still at some point I plan to set a bridge mode packet capture device between the edge router and cable modem to see what's knocking it over. But at least for a painless setup that my wife doesn't have to reboot the edge router didn't work out, which is too bad. I would otherwise recommend them on price alone.

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

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Post by kefka »

Cieplak wrote: post #22

Does anyone know how to tell if a wifi device uses beam-forming versus omnidirectional microwave emissions? I imagine that beam-forming devices expose people to less microwave radiation (2.4 and 5 GHz). Somewhat alarmist but an interesting perspective: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NEaPTu9oI

Microwaves are perfectly safe as long as the data is "0"s. The "1"'s can hurt you..

/snark

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

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Post by patrickk »

Chris2048 wrote: post #173
dajohnson89 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he's building a spaceship, has a family of 10, throws big parties, or he just wants a big fucking house. Europeans have mansions. It's a continent famous for its castles! It just seems arrogant of you to criticize his decision to buy a large house without knowing anything about him. I live in a space not much larger than 2-3 walk in closets, and after a year of this shit, I wish I lived in a goddamn mcmansion.…

> It's a continent famous for its castles! Because there are so few in the US, not because we all live in one... Also, few people live in those castles.

Not to mention, the only reason those castles are still standing was because they were (almost) the only buildings of their era that were solidly constructed. 99% of the population lived in hovels that no longer exist today.

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

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Post by feistypharit »

rb2k_ wrote: post #17

The only thing I'm slightly sad about with my ubiquiti setup is that the Edge Router PoE doesn't integrate with the controller. It's basically the same hardware as the security gateway, but no way to manage it :(

Truth is once you set it up, I stopped running the Java controller. I got the edge router because it's half the price. One thing I really dislike is it doesn't do DNS name injection for statically configured hosts. You can use Dnsmasq instead and make it work, but then you can't see the leases! I ended up using a raspberry pi to run pihole and do DNS.

This video had a good overview: https://youtu.be/XvWOx3PvYFM

The edge router is nice cuz it also has doing and great firewall. One annoying thing is there's no idiot protection... You can lock yourself out of the admin interface and only way to recover is restore factory defaults.

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

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Post by sheraz »

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…

Seems like you are moralizing about a guy's house when the topic is simply wifi-reliability.

Given who he is (the creator of https://haveibeenpwned.com/), I would just assume that he have over-provisioned his physical housing capacity in anticipation of a major event. :-)

Seriously, put down the proletariat pitchfork and lets talk about the content. Maybe this is just his warm-up for putting wifi on his superyacht!!!

edit: grammar

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