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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 dorfsmay »

uean wrote: post #48

I've taken over deployments of UniFi gear and do not have nice things to say about them. We typically deal in the Aerohive and Meraki world and I find the Ubiquiti zero-handoff to be terrible (I see real-world handoff times of up to 8 seconds in some cases) auto channel selection inneffective, band-steering implementation completely broken, and then just some basic lack of features of things that, to be fair, I would…

> We typically deal in the Aerohive and Meraki world

But the aren't in the same price category, are they?

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

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Post by kiallmacinnes »

jagermo wrote: post #195
myrandomcomment wrote: post #103

So I have posted this before as there has been a ton of Ubiquiti threads. 3 story house, 1 AP AC Pro per floor 1 AP AC Pro in the detached office 1 Switch 16 POE in the house 1 Switch 16 POE in the office - 2 x Cat6a between switches in a LAG 1 Security Gateway 3P 1 Cloud Key I upgraded all the firmware on the complete system as I was typing this message using their app for the iPad. Run a FreeNAS Mini in the office…

any specific reason you went for the Pro and not the LR?

Don't buy the LRs (Long Range versions for those not familiar with the Ubnt naming) unless plan on a low density+large+wide open space (e.g. an auditorium where only staff have wifi access).

The trick to GREAT wifi coverage is to turn the power down on each access point as low as you can, and have as many APs as you can. Wifi is a two way street, e.g. even if your AP can blast a signal through 5x 10ft thick walls, it won't matter in the slightest, since your phone or laptop etc won't be able to do the same.

In fact - that's a lie :) It will matter, it will hurt the end user experience. The phone etc will see a "strong" signal, select it, but outbound packet loss will be terrible.

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

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Post by edblarney »

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…

This is ridiculous.

The amount of 'space' taken up by residential dwellings is very small.

Australia is massive and empty, and it always will be.

If you want to live in bigger home, move to Canada, Texas or Australia where the geographic reality is very different.

Or frankly - anywhere in East Germany outside of the city and you'll find yourself with equally ample, and cheap space.

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

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Post by Klathmon »

madeofpalk wrote: post #149
spiderfarmer wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It seems like it's no big deal depending on where you live.

I could move a few hours away and get a 3-story 500sq meter house for about as much as it would cost me to own my condo where I do live.

It's all about location, and in places like australia or america where there is space galore in some places, it's not unsurprising that people build bigger (especially when it doesn't really cost all that much more comparatively)

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

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Post by robotmay »

mahyarm wrote: post #98

I don't understand why he needed the expensive PoE switches although. He could of used cat 6, consumer non-PoE switches & standard $15 PoE injectors close to the switches themselves. He wouldn't get the fancy interface for the switches, but he would of had similar wireless and wifi performance. Or does Ubiquity require you to use their switches for anything to work properly?

Their UniFi stuff runs on 24v PoE, rather than the standard 48v, so it requires either one of their switches or a compatible injector. Their cameras, oddly, do support standard PoE, however.

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

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Post by dorfsmay »

I like Ubiquiti and use them at home (switch and APs), they are the best at their price point in my opinion. They can't compare with expensive professional gear, and I'm OK with that, but what bothers me about them are weird bugs that makes you wonder about how much testing they do outside a few default cases.

They fixed the most problematic one, but I gave up and work around the other one.

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

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Post by annnnd »

lmm wrote: post #171
ianal_uanal wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 communica…

Well, he probably meant WTFPL License [0] - it's difficult to violate that one. :)

[0] http://www.wtfpl.net/

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

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Post by Klathmon »

lmns wrote: post #188
JshWright wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you upgrade to LEDE before they have released anything?

They release snapshots which are already quite stable in my experience. OpenWRT is practically a dead project, so you shouldn't expect security updates anymore. The last openwrt-security-announce mail is from march.

I just recently shot myself in the foot with LEDE.

I decided to use a snapshot as it's the only thing with support for my router.

Got it setup and working nicely, it looks great, works great, no bugs, perfect!

Then a week or so later I needed to install a package, only to find that their package manager only ever has the most recent version of each package, and there is no way to upgrade without wiping and reinstalling. And by this point the kernel had updated, so I couldn't install any kernel modules without bumping the kernel first.

So now i'm stuck on a branch that I can't install packages on, I don't really have the time to pull down all the configs and reformat, and i can't update or install anything at all.

It's kind of my own fault for not reading and fully understanding the docs before starting, but it still sucks.

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

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Post by teilo »

Ambroos wrote: post #174
lobster_johnson wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Even better, get their CloudKey. It's a fully embedded controller, POE, and is only about $70. Painless.

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

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Post by jdbernard »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #182
teddyh wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is a free society one the laws of which you can’t break? No, that’s called anarchy . A free society can have laws, and a free license can have conditions.

A free society is one where people don't have restrictions. And guess what GPL has.

So in your view of a free society I should be free from restrictions on killing other people?
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