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Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by kortilla »

yapyap wrote: post #37

I gotta say, I hate it when companies use “xxx bits per second”, whether its Mega or Giga nobody uses bits per second and for the average consumer it’s very unclear that this differs from bytes. Having to explain to relatives and such that “yeah you actually have to divide that by 8” is a hassle and I get tricked by it subconsciously at times as well. 2 gbps meaning 250 megabytes per second is a SCAM. A marketing sha…

That’s not marketing related at all. It’s how network speeds have been measured long before ISPs were a business.

A byte per second is no more intuitive than a nibble per second or a bit per second. You might be used to byte as a power user because of storage, but I assure you that to regular people “256 gigabytes” is a meaningless number as well.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by johncolanduoni »

phoronixrly wrote: post #14

Can't wait for this to get OpenWrt support so I can buy it and the first thing I do to be to nuke the UBNT firmware.

Is OpenWRT on Unifi APs any good? I hadn’t heard of it before, and I couldn’t find any performance comparisons on a quick search. Ubiquiti has gone downhill on a lot of things the last 5 years or so, but their radio firmware has always been a step up (within their price range) for me. I wouldn’t mind ditching the Unifi controller software though.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by jonplackett »

I wish website designers would remember that not everyone can see great. This text is so fine and light and they’ve also disabled screen reader

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by johncolanduoni »

u8080 wrote: post #39
tucnak wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They said the same thing about 40G but hey, I've loved it for bridging the gap between my two (10G and 100G, respectively) Mikrotik switches. You can have a dozen Gigabit ports, as well as up to four true 10G devices on your aggregation switch, and neither would be bottlenecked by traffic to and from the backside. This has been a massive boon. However, when it comes to 2.5G, I struggle to find one good reason to use…

1x PCIE 3.0 has 8 Gbps raw speed - for 2.5Gbps duplex Ethernet you'll need 6~7 Gbps of raw link to CPU. For 5Gbps and higher, you'll need another PCIE line - and SOHO motherboards are usually already pretty tight on PCIE lanes. 10GbE will require 4x3.0 lanes

Are motherboards commonly using PCIe 3.0 for onboard peripherals these days? I wouldn’t expect it to save them much money, but my PCIe knowledge is constrained to the application layer - I know next to nothing about the PHY or associated costs.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by kkapelon »

tow21 wrote: post #35
kkapelon wrote: post #13

I am already doing what is shown in the video with Teltonika OTD500, fully unlocked and with esim support as well.

How does the Teltonika work out for you - I nearly bought it earlier this year but it doesn't have support for external antennae. I'm just on the edge of 5G coverage and I'm not sure I want to splash out on something which I can't tune for decent reception. Seems an odd omission for a ruggedised outside modem - the Unifi also seems to not support external antennae. (I'd also prefer a unifi version just so it fits in…

OTD500 is antenna + router in a single box. There is nothing else needed. I just put it outdoors with a POE cable. Originally, I used it as a backup, but now I have an unlimited SIM, so I use it as a second internet connection.

If you mean the standard routers (like the Rutx50), Teltonika itself sells external enclosures with antennas. https://www.teltonika-networks.com/products/accessories/ante...

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by kkapelon »

amelius wrote: post #29

These things are nice when they work but when they don't you're completely in the dark. Even figuring out how much GB is left on your simcard is a nightmare.

Simplest solution is to get an unlimited card. Problem solved.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by johncolanduoni »

yapyap wrote: post #37

I gotta say, I hate it when companies use “xxx bits per second”, whether its Mega or Giga nobody uses bits per second and for the average consumer it’s very unclear that this differs from bytes. Having to explain to relatives and such that “yeah you actually have to divide that by 8” is a hassle and I get tricked by it subconsciously at times as well. 2 gbps meaning 250 megabytes per second is a SCAM. A marketing sha…

If you really want to piss people off, use Gibibits - 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bits. The ratio between those and Gigabytes is ~7.451.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by nake89 »

jonplackett wrote: post #43

I wish website designers would remember that not everyone can see great. This text is so fine and light and they’ve also disabled screen reader

Firefox reader view gives me better contrast. Also the text to speech mode works in reader view.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by johncolanduoni »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #38
yapyap wrote: post #37

I gotta say, I hate it when companies use “xxx bits per second”, whether its Mega or Giga nobody uses bits per second and for the average consumer it’s very unclear that this differs from bytes. Having to explain to relatives and such that “yeah you actually have to divide that by 8” is a hassle and I get tricked by it subconsciously at times as well. 2 gbps meaning 250 megabytes per second is a SCAM. A marketing sha…

and how do you feel about HDD vendors (and Apple) using giga-/tera- for their strictly SI power-of-ten and not power-of-two meaning?

This ship sailed out of view a long time ago, the only GB you’ll see that is still base-2 is RAM. And that’s only because you literally can’t address physical RAM in non power-of-2 blocks in most architectures.
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