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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 ChuckMcM »

I was in a similar conversation with another friend about networking gear. We both have similar philosophies which are split networks, one guest and one private. The guest network gets things that want to phone home, the private network gets things which are supposed to be on the network, both networks have their outbound accesses logged. Firewall in the router, deep packet inspection with source/destination IPs to identify rogue (or hacked) devices, QoS limits on things that should never get the whole network to themselves.

It is way more complex than one would think it should be, except that we've seen time and time again how crappy network configurations screw up everything. It is also helpful to have historical data when complaining to the ISP. It is also amazing to see the guest network which has given out 60 leases, sure some of those are the phones of people who came over but a lot of them are things that want to be "online".

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

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Post by Johnny555 »

nodesocket wrote: post #8

Great write up, love all the details. Surprised that nobody is mentioning Cisco Meraki gear in the recent HN networking posts. My ideal (budgeted) setup is: - (1x) MX65 -- 12 GbE with 2 PoE+. PoE+ powers the access points. - (2x) MR33 -- 802.11ac Wave 2 powered via MX65.

Doesn't the MR33 cost around $400 each? You can get 3 Unifi AP Pro's for the cost of one MR33.

The MX65 costs around $600 -- a 24 port (all with PoE) Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch costs about half that much.

I think the reason Ubiquiti gets a lot of write-ups for home use is that it's priced reasonably for the quality. I've had an 8 node small office deployment running flawlessly for 3 years now.

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

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Post by voltagex_ »

nodesocket wrote: post #8

Great write up, love all the details. Surprised that nobody is mentioning Cisco Meraki gear in the recent HN networking posts. My ideal (budgeted) setup is: - (1x) MX65 -- 12 GbE with 2 PoE+. PoE+ powers the access points. - (2x) MR33 -- 802.11ac Wave 2 powered via MX65.

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

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

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Post by thaumaturgy »

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 units in that time, out of, I dunno, several dozens.

Their software is getting better and better too, and their security camera system is IMO way ahead of most of the competition in the same price range (with the exception of a network disconnection issue that has had us and Ubiquiti tech support tearing our hair out for weeks now).

I hate that their management software requires Java though, it can be fiddly and annoying to install and I think one of our techs finally set up a VM specifically for their management software.

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

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Post by nodesocket »

Johnny555 wrote: post #12
nodesocket wrote: post #8

Great write up, love all the details. Surprised that nobody is mentioning Cisco Meraki gear in the recent HN networking posts. My ideal (budgeted) setup is: - (1x) MX65 -- 12 GbE with 2 PoE+. PoE+ powers the access points. - (2x) MR33 -- 802.11ac Wave 2 powered via MX65.

Doesn't the MR33 cost around $400 each? You can get 3 Unifi AP Pro's for the cost of one MR33. The MX65 costs around $600 -- a 24 port (all with PoE) Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch costs about half that much. I think the reason Ubiquiti gets a lot of write-ups for home use is that it's priced reasonably for the quality. I've had an 8 node small office deployment running flawlessly for 3 years now.

Yes Meraki is absolutely more expensive.

  MX65 - $1,072 with 3 year enterprise subscription
https://www.amazon.com/Meraki-Branch-Security-Appliance-250M...

  MR33 - $646 each with 3 year enterprise subscription
https://www.rhinonetworks.com/product/device/meraki-mr33?gcl...
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