Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti home setups

[Chad Waters via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks to both Rich and Lee. You've cleared some things up. I can probably dip my toes in with 1 centralized AP to and see how it goes from there.

A lot of this is because 1) I am WFH until at least the EOY and 2) we are finally going to partially finish the basement for a rec room (video games/etc). 

It's time to build out or at least have a scalable plan for expansion.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 4:35 PM Lee H. Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote:

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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubiquiti home setups

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 6:10 PM Chad Waters via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can someone share with me their Ubiquiti network layout (off list if preferred)?
>> I am looking for a 2-3 AP layout, but I'm not sure what other hardware of
>> theirs I would need. Any build out on the web seems to be everything.

Chad,

I'm slowly re-doing my network after I moved to Maryland last year.  I dumped my various
OpenWRT based Wifi units and switched to Unifi.

I've got a Cisco 3750X POE switch for the house up-linked with a dual LC fiber LAG to
my rack.   So far just a single Unifi AP-AC Pro covers most of the house with a
few Ethernet drops for things like my office and Amazon fire stick.

I run the Unify controller as a plug-in (VM) on my FreeNAS storage box.  Seem to run
great there,  but the updates don't come out as often and the Ubuntu package.

I had problems with my Google Fi  phone rapidly switching between 2G and 5G networks, so
had to make them use separate SSSID's .   The mixed SSID worked originally , then broke for some reason.

The controller is really designed as a single GUI to control the AP's , switches, Security Gateway
and such, so many of the menu options don't do anything if you have only the AP.  It still
provides nice statistics and scanning/reporting of channel usage by other AP's in the area.

I think the mesh options can work great as long as you have both 2G and 5G radios in both units
so that backhaul traffic doesn't interfere with the main traffic.   

As some point I may try to add vLAN's for a IOT network and keep that traffic segregated but
so far I'm not heavly using IOT stuff.

My main Firwall/Router is pFSense VM running on ESXi  configured for IP4 via FIOS, and IP6 tunnel
from HE.

Good luck,

Lee


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