Recent content by tgl

A lot of people have seen weird throughput asymmetries with 2.5G MoCA adapters. My own adventures with that are chronicled in this thread, along with some other peoples'. AFAICT it comes down to these MoCA devices being really sensitive to the buffering behavior of the immediately-connected...

It's not silly to choose a single-vendor solution when you are installing multiple APs. You will not get great roaming behavior unless the APs provide 802.11k/v roaming support, and as @degrub said, that is not going to happen across APs from different vendors. But @Tech9 is also correct that...

You sure about that? My recollection of discussions on community.ui.com is that pretty much all of the older gateway models (UDM series) have this issue. The newer ones with multiple 2.5G ports might be better, but I have no experience with them. We're just speculating though, since OP didn't...

Plug it into the switch. Most UniFi gateways are mainly designed to shove bits between the WAN port(s) and the primary LAN port(s). If there are lower-speed LAN ports, they are an afterthought that typically doesn't have great performance. Commonly, there's only a 1Gbps connection from that...

In theory, if you duplicate the SSID and password, clients can't tell the difference. But you may need to duplicate more, in particular make sure that the same security level (WPA level) is used. I've noticed that Apple clients will not think that WPA2 and WPA3 networks are the same even when...

Yeah ... I've got wifi 6E APs, and my performance-critical clients are 6E, and I have nothing that speaks wifi 7. I won't think about upgrading my APs until I have at least a couple of 7-capable clients, and that seems some ways off. By then, wifi 8 may be the new hotness, and even if I go for...

The conventional wisdom on the Ubiquiti forums has always been to avoid auto power and auto channel. Auto power has generally equated to "high", which you seldom want in a multi-AP setup, because it tends to fool clients into hanging onto a far-away AP instead of roaming to a nearer one. Auto...

I know zip about D-Link, sorry. However, if it can do VLANs at all then it should be easy to split it into two (or more) logically-isolated switches, if that's enough to solve your problem. There should be a VLAN configuration panel that allows you to assign one VLAN number as "untagged" on...

My own setup has a pfSense router (Netgate), UniFi APs, and Cisco switches in between. So I've pretty much failed at the single-point-of-network-configuration task, but I'm enough of a geek that it doesn't bother me. I use pfSense because I have fairly complicated routing+firewall requirements...

Yeah, I wouldn't mix wifi systems. One of the main selling points for either UniFi or Omada is single point of configuration. If you have a mishmash of APs, you're giving that up in return for not much. Also, I believe that you won't get 802.11k/v roaming support except from APs that are...

I have that exact switch (or at least, what Zyxel was selling under that name three years ago --- possibly there have been hardware revisions since). It's a perfectly-fine basic managed switch; it can do VLAN support, but it has no PoE output. However, I don't think it's enough for isolating...

Yeah, depending on how hard you're pushing the system, you may not really notice any difference. But the original post did ask about "ideal" setup, and I don't think you can argue that all APs on same channel is ideal.

[ scratches head... ] Makes no sense at all. Should be largely the same hardware as the u7 pro saucer AP. And I've not seen any traffic on Ubiquiti's own forums suggesting that there's a major performance difference. Grasping at straws: UI's saucer APs are typically made to have max signal...

Just to eliminate the obvious ... all these APs were running the same firmware version, right?

Huh. Per UI's tech specs, the radios in the u7 pro wall and u7 pro are the same. Antenna configuration obviously not, but that shouldn't make such a huge difference. Now I wonder if your u7 pro was defective.