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Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by hocuspocus »

superxpro12 wrote: post #194
macNchz wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those do exist, they’re called cell signal boosters. Once upon a time, I believe, some American cell providers would give you one for free if you had bad signal at home, which mattered a lot more before phones all had wifi calling.

FWIW, MMS and SMS are still left in the dust in this situation, as I have this exact issue.

That shouldn't be the case. There's an extension to VoWiFi to support SMS over IP. With 2G and 3G going away it's not like your carrier has a choice anyway.

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Post by 9x39 »

metadat wrote: post #203
matthewfcarlson wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed retail is a good customer for this tech. But even after getting fiber personally, it gets cut a lot by landscaping crews. Most of the time it’s a residential line that takes a day to fix. But a few times it’s been a main line and it takes 3-4 days. Maybe I’m unusual but that’s been my experience

Why are landscaping crews cutting wires on poles in the sky?

Poles are common, but so are existing buried conduits and vaults which are often used if they exist.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by Etheryte »

What I really want to know is how much they paid to acquire ui.com and whether that investment is paying off in any measurable kind of way.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by NelsonMinar »

I wonder if this works any better than their Unifi LTE Backup. That was so bad I gave up on it after about a month. The biggest problem was the weird way the router handled routes meant that with the LTE on the network, even when it wasn't being used a bunch of router features were impaired. Like static routes.

Ubiquiti makes some good hardware but their software is full of terrible bugs.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by 9x39 »

seemaze wrote: post #174
johncolanduoni wrote: post #69

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For wireless, the prices aren’t much different from products with comparable feature sets/performance. For some niche combinations, they’re the only option that doesn’t force you way upmarket (Meraki, etc.). Most of the money they make is from small business and tiny WISPs, not HN boosters overdoing it on their home WiFi in what must be a bid to get their partner to divorce them. Their wired stuff is a total scam sin…

>HN boosters overdoing it on their home WiFi in what must be a bid to get their partner to divorce them.. Au contraire! I got tired of the refrain "are you messing with the network again?" in the evenings when the neighbors are all streaming Netflix and crowding the airwaves, so I installed several low power UI APs around the house and and popped my own DNS and devices to a separate VLAN. No more complaints :) I do w…

Unless UI spins up their own dns business, I have had good luck using nextdns.io at home to close that gap.

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Post by 9x39 »

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #133
jsheard wrote: post #119

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They have the form-over-function aspect too, in that they decided to keep the external design language consistent across the board no matter what. Which meant they couldn't improve the passive heat dissipation enough to keep up with newer network standards, and had to resort to putting fans in their WiFi APs to keep them from overheating.

And they make the whole claim of 'minimalism means easy to use for power users', which really means 'we'll keep messing with how the meshing in your house works so that you're unable to pin preferred routes between nodes - because without seeing your house we know better'.

Uplink priority doesn't work?

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by 9x39 »

ansgri wrote: post #23
dagmx wrote: post #4

The fallback support for UniFi setups will be awesome. I’m honestly tempted to get it for my house. My ISP downtime is pretty low but it does happen every once in a while, at the most inopportune times, which impedes working from home. Having a wireless backup would hopefully cover those downtimes

There are now quite a few options for wifi APs with cellular backup. I use TP-Link, and it's ok for the price, I guess, and supports adding OneMesh range extenders. The problem with this setup for me is that it doesn't work with uplink that sometimes becomes unstable yet nominally working, and in general LTE fallback triggers slowly. Are there any prosumer-friendly options for connection bundling, which can balance u…

Assuming you're talking about running like a UI router and doing multi-WAN uplinks from it, you can.

They support load balancing (e.g. 95% WAN1, 5% WAN2) and SLA monitoring (ping/packet loss/jitter) with some voting options on what triggers a swap.

I think pfsense has similar options for WAN balancing if you don't like UI for routing.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by jonplackett »

Orygin wrote: post #96
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

Even if my vision is okay, it still feels like a slap to the face. Can't take some time to make sure the most important part of the page is readable by all.

I specifically have issues with strong back lighting (genetic cataracts suck - I’m only in my 40s) so bright white page and light writing is super frustrating. Dark mode is my best friend.

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Post by aynyc »

9x39 wrote: post #240
aynyc wrote: post #201

My good friend is a network engineer and provider in NYC for decades now, pretty good one at that. Has anyone deployed UniFi in a computer centric professional environment? Just to be more specific a bit, computer centric professional environment means networks and computers are the primary way of getting job done. He hasn't seen any UniFi but his home is all UniFi.

Small businesses? Sure. I've seen Unifi networks with a few hundred MACs often enough. Enterprises? Thousands, tens of thousands of employees? Generally cost isn't prohibitive at the scale so bigger ecosystems with more support make way more sense. Even their enterprise switches aren't really equivalent to Cisco, Arista, Juniper, etc enterprise offerings. They're inching forward, though.

What kinda of small businesses? My friend does consulting and most of his business is on small (100-250 employees) size and sometimes small start up, typically in the office construction phase where he comes in and set up network infrastructure. He never seems anyone asking for UniFi, but again, might just because the cost? He feels UniFi is price competitive at that scale but no one wants it for some reason.

When he was with a larger company, cisco and juniper were the only options.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Post by 9x39 »

johncolanduoni wrote: post #59
yuvadam wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't recall their latest hardware is supported, but why would you want that anyway if you're not looking to go all in on their controller stack?

The controller is annoying and changes completely every 6 months, and for home I use basically none of its features beyond configuring the AP. Virtualy all the issues I’ve had with Unifi APs were controller bugs, telling the AP firmware to do stupid things when it could have done literally nothing. That said, I have some concerns that the OpenWRT AP firmware is not as optimized as the Unifi firmware is for that speci…

If you dislike their UI, not going to try to convince you, but it is part of the value of the system.

Have you looked at Mikrotik? They offer a more traditional autonomous OS w/o controllers and both a nice CLI and a powerful GUI tool.

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