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Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by toast0 »

xyst wrote: post #15

Anybody go through the trouble of outfitting their entire home/condo with fiber? Probably overkill for residential but I am also thinking it might need to be shrouded in EMT conduit

Sounds like a lot of work (unless you've got easy access... my last house had a basement with access to wall cavities, you could just shove cables up and reach in from a wall plate to grab it or shove down from the room).

I've got some 10g at my current house, but it's over cat5e cause that was already in the walls. Also adding a few 2.5g with a 4x2.5g + 2xsfp+ 10g switch that goes into a 10g capable switch.

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by muppetman »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #19

FiberStore (fs.com) have offered vendor neutral and reprogrammable SFPs and other modules for years (they're also dramatically less expensive).

As does Flexoptixs (much better quality than fs.com in my experience)

https://www.flexoptix.net/en/fo-fb-5.html?option875=1

If you're buying at scale you can get a Flexoptixs box for free, long as you promise to write a review. At least, you used to be able to.

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by einsteinx2 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #33
phoronixrly wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better UI is stretching it a bit... Maybe for the amateur/enthusiast (homelab) market... I certainly don't need or want their rack augmented reality... 'feature'? fad? And their clunky web UI is both limiting and slowing me down. Thanks, I'm perfectly fine with a console and simple LEDs.

That’s their exact niche.

That and SMB’s. I’ve seen a lot of Ubiquity gear in small hotels, random small businesses, etc. Especially hotels, they seem to be super common (not big chains like Hilton or whatever but smaller boutique hotels).

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by nubinetwork »

mongol wrote: post #50
carlgreene wrote: post #3

This is not for me as I'm not a professional network engineer, but I do want to say that Ubiquiti has made home networking SO fun for me. Everything truly "Just Works." My setup is definitely more on the prosumer side, but it's been so build out and inspect my network with their tools.

Tangentially related: is Mikrotik as bad for wireless as some say? I want to like them, even though their equipment seems complex, I root for a company from the Baltics that have carved out a respectable niche. But they appear to struggle with wireless?

I haven't tried their CAP or HAP lines, but I'm happy with my RB4011. /shrug

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by radlad »

petepete wrote: post #22
carlgreene wrote: post #3

This is not for me as I'm not a professional network engineer, but I do want to say that Ubiquiti has made home networking SO fun for me. Everything truly "Just Works." My setup is definitely more on the prosumer side, but it's been so build out and inspect my network with their tools.

This is exactly how it is for me too. Everything truly "just worked" - except Sonos, but that's not a Unifi problem - they even have a dedicated page in their docs on how to set up Sonos systems, which I followed exactly, and it now works a treat.

I wish I could say that Unifi has just worked for me, but any time I add a new Unifi device to the network (say a new switch, or just recently a U6 range extender), my network gets incredibly unstable until I manually restart every UniFi device on the network, sometimes multiple times. (i.e. Some devices won't connect to WiFi due to DHCP IP configuration errors.) And that's after getting the device adopted, which generally takes multiple retries.

I've also had three instances where upon rebooting due to a power outage or a system update, my inbound firewall / port forwarding was just broken. UniFi simply did not pass packets to my server. Once again, a full reboot of every UniFi device on the network resolved it.

I really want to like UniFi, and I appreciate how much access I have to SSH in and figure out what's going on (and I did take tcpdumps and have a support case open), but it has definitely not been plug-and-play for me.

I'm using a UDR7, U7 Lite, a number of managed UniFi switches, and just recently added the U6 extender.

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by Sesse__ »

OliverGuy wrote: post #34
joelccr wrote: post #4

I love this. However, I'm very interested to see the maths on "offering up to 1000% savings compared to industry standards"

Cisco etc have truly insane pricing on optics, like $1000 for something generic that cost $20-50 from fs.com etc. The only difference is how it presents itself to the switch (ie, says its a Cisco optic), not actual difference in performance. Often Cisco/etc will refuse support cases if you aren't using their optics, if the switches/routers even work with them in the first case, which isn't a given as often they'll re…

> Often Cisco/etc will refuse support cases if you aren't using their optics, if the switches/routers even work with them in the first case, which isn't a given as often they'll refuse to work with non branded optics.

As others here have pointed out, Cisco reserves the right to do this but doesn't do it in practice. They don't even have a realistic chance to _detect_ a Cisco-programmed FS SFP, since it simply identifies the same as a genuine Cisco module.

If your case was directly related to the SFP (“I can't get a link on this fiber port”), then yes, they could probably refuse it. But if your case is about basically anything else on the switch, they won't care.

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by beala »

elevation wrote: post #40
ectospheno wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why my router isn’t ubiquiti. I like the switches and access points but my router will stay an OpenBSD box.

What do you use for OpenBSD hardware? Is it power hungry? Is it performant? I had a great stint with OpenBSD on an older Pentium 4 Dell tower a few years back. For basic firewall rules, I had line-rate performance on my NICs. But for a home network I'd love to have something more energy efficient.

I posted this in a sibling comment, but I can confirm Beelink's EQ14 [1] works well with OPNsense (FreeBSD based instead of OpenBSD). The dual NIC model uses the Intel KTI226-V chipset which has rock solid FreeBSD drivers.

[1] https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150?variant=...

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by strbean »

efitz wrote: post #10

Ubiquiti is awesome, but their IPv6 support leaves something to be desired. I have two ISPs, one with IPv6 (Starlink) and one without (Frontier). I want to use Frontier for all IPv4, with IPv4 failover to Starlink, and I want to use Starlink only for IPv6. UniFi networking won’t let you configure this, and I’m not going to SSH in to my UDM to manually set routes, that will be lost at next boot.

Not ideal, but can you add an init.d to do that?

Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by unit149 »

cturner wrote: post #39
runjake wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> TAC would more or less laugh at you and hang up if you sought support. This is common belief and even a dire warning when filing TAC tickets. However, unless the third-party SFP is the prime suspect, I have never experienced a TAC from any major networking vendor[1] refuse support, let alone "laugh and hang up," even metaphorically. It's good SOP to keep at least a couple SFPs for each networking manufacturer on th…

Before I comment, a disclaimer about my small scale. I am running probably three hundred SFP+s running and less than five years of experience with optics. I don't have stock tracking for the individual manufacturers, and the failure rate comments here are based on gut-feel only. (there will be other people here used to far larger scales) I bucket it into there being three options: genuine, clone, and good-clone. We h…

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Re: Ubiquiti SFP Wizard

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Post by kube-system »

aaronax wrote: post #51
elevation wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use for OpenBSD hardware? Is it power hungry? Is it performant? I had a great stint with OpenBSD on an older Pentium 4 Dell tower a few years back. For basic firewall rules, I had line-rate performance on my NICs. But for a home network I'd love to have something more energy efficient.

Search Amazon for "pfsense mini pc". (smile as you think about how this triggers that one pfsense guy!) Intel N100 or N150 processor, passive cooling, typically 5 1000GBASE-T or better ports, RAM and SSD included. Should be able to get one for ~$200.

There are good options there, but those white label mini PCs can be hardware quality roulette.

As much as I like opnsense, I choose Ubiquiti still when I need something cheap that I need to rely on.

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