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Re: UniFi U7 Pro

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Post by florbo »

strongpigeon wrote: post #6

I’m curious about the 2.5 Gbps interface, which isn’t even half the theoretical max of a single connection (~5.6 Gbps) and far from the theoretical AP Max (~36 Gbps). I guess they don’t have any PoE 10Gbps switches. Edit: Turns out they do have one. [0] [0] https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

Well, given how disappointing the rest of their AP lineup performs in real world scenarios (from my anecdotal experience, ofc), it won't need more than 2.5 GbE. Probably barely exceeds 1 Gbps.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#32

Post by doublepg23 »

mikepurvis wrote: post #8
blindriver wrote: post #2

As a Unifi home user, they don't even have a reasonable WIFI 6E product, so there's little chance I'm going to early adopt anything like WIFI 7 from them.

As another Unifi home user I've seen little reason to move beyond the 802.11n offerings.

What kind of performance do you get? I have little reason to move to 6/6E from Wifi 5/ac Wave 2 but surely N is a little long in the tooth?

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#33

Post by mtillman »

hales wrote: post #23
genmud wrote: post #5

I wish they would get their shit together and have software that isn't buggy / riddled with security issues. Their march to a cloud dependent offering is so disappointing.

I gave up on their controller software and rolled out OpenWRT to the Unifi AP AC lites at my previous job. I didn't try managing them centrally (there were only 5 of them) so I don't know if there are any good options for that. The difference was night and day. The guest networks actually worked. They had uptimes of over a year without issue. Sadly only _some_ Unifi AP models are supported by OpenWRT. Check before yo…

It's kind of strange for me that the most secure out of the box wifi router I could find was made in China by a Hong Kong based company. The new one comes with 2 2.5 slots fwiw.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#34

Post by colechristensen »

theshrike79 wrote: post #3

Wait, we're at WiFi 7 already? I missed the WiFi 6 boat then =) Still running a 5+ year old UAP AC Pro and haven't found it limiting in the least. Do people really need insane WiFi speeds?

I have a local streaming server with ripped bluerays and such and a truenas fileserver and I do ML things (downloaded a 32 GB model yesterday), so more speed is always helpful, especially in a crowded wifi apartment building.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#35

Post by Aurornis »

strongpigeon wrote: post #6

I’m curious about the 2.5 Gbps interface, which isn’t even half the theoretical max of a single connection (~5.6 Gbps) and far from the theoretical AP Max (~36 Gbps). I guess they don’t have any PoE 10Gbps switches. Edit: Turns out they do have one. [0] [0] https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

You never get close to the theoretical maximum throughput of modern WiFi radios.

Check out the review of one of the fastest 6E radios: https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/li... The highest throughput they can get is still short of 2.5G even when combining all three bands, and that's in controlled laboratory conditions. In the real world you'll get much less.

10G wired ethernet is significantly more expensive and power hungry. The extra heat and expense aren't worth it for something you'll never use in the real world.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#36

Post by evilmonkey19 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #3

Wait, we're at WiFi 7 already? I missed the WiFi 6 boat then =) Still running a 5+ year old UAP AC Pro and haven't found it limiting in the least. Do people really need insane WiFi speeds?

Literally, the default router from the operator and it works flawlessly at home. It has several years that model, it works with HFC and literally has WiFi6. To me it looks the same model as 10 years ago. Why should i change it? I'm with you.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#37

Post by jmacd »

DrAwdeOccarim wrote: post #17
amluto wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their system is not particularly dependent on the cloud right now. I do wish they had a modern cloud key that didn’t run as absurdly hot at the gen 2.

I’ve had two die and then I read using an SSD helps a lot with the heat issue. Replaced the HDD with an SSD and temp is a cool 45C now down from high 50’s with HDD. YMMV but figured I’d add my anecdotal experience.

I am going to need to do that then. Mine runs hot. I have it perched up to try to get it some cooling airflow.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

#38

Post by mtillman »

genmud wrote: post #5

I wish they would get their shit together and have software that isn't buggy / riddled with security issues. Their march to a cloud dependent offering is so disappointing.

Ubiquity and Synology both give me the same feels when it comes to security. They focus on usability to be sure. Perhaps related, their new lighting system on the pro level routers is really slick and I wish I had it 20 years ago when I found myself in data centers on the regular.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

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Post by strongpigeon »

florbo wrote: post #31
strongpigeon wrote: post #6

I’m curious about the 2.5 Gbps interface, which isn’t even half the theoretical max of a single connection (~5.6 Gbps) and far from the theoretical AP Max (~36 Gbps). I guess they don’t have any PoE 10Gbps switches. Edit: Turns out they do have one. [0] [0] https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

Well, given how disappointing the rest of their AP lineup performs in real world scenarios (from my anecdotal experience, ofc), it won't need more than 2.5 GbE. Probably barely exceeds 1 Gbps.

I'm pulling ~600 Mbps with their WiFi 6 offering. Feels like with enough clients on WiFi 7 it shouldn't be that hard to saturate 2.5 GbE.

Re: UniFi U7 Pro

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Post by treffer »

hales wrote: post #23
genmud wrote: post #5

I wish they would get their shit together and have software that isn't buggy / riddled with security issues. Their march to a cloud dependent offering is so disappointing.

I gave up on their controller software and rolled out OpenWRT to the Unifi AP AC lites at my previous job. I didn't try managing them centrally (there were only 5 of them) so I don't know if there are any good options for that. The difference was night and day. The guest networks actually worked. They had uptimes of over a year without issue. Sadly only _some_ Unifi AP models are supported by OpenWRT. Check before yo…

I simply use imagebuilder and bake custom scripts in. Then whenever I can I flash the new configs.

That's my way to manage a few openwrt devices

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