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    Ubiquiti UCG Fiber with 3 x ASUS XT9 access points

    Ubiquiti has a reputation for building products that run hotter than people expect: that's a common theme across many of their products. They do not have a reputation for building products that fail, so apparently their thermal engineers know what they are doing. Personally I'd avoid putting a...
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    Ubiquiti ER-X vs ASUS EBG15 vs ???

    I used an EdgeRouter X for several years, and quite liked it ... but it is tough to recommend buying one in 2025. Ubiquiti has put next to zero effort into firmware maintenance for it for years now, and all the signs are that it will soon be EOL. Also, I recall the initial learning curve to...
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    WPA status - WiFi Security and WiFi7

    It'll work, but you're giving up most of the security benefit of WPA3 when you do that. (If there's a nearby hacker trying to break into your network, he'll just ignore the WPA3 option and try to crack the WPA2 passphrase.) Perhaps you don't care about that scenario. But if you do, best...
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    Secure home router.

    My take: security in the current world is less about which equipment you buy than about how faithful you are about installing software updates. You don't want equipment for which the manufacturer doesn't issue security updates promptly, but then it's on you to install those updates before...
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    Which router would you choose?

    Could be a matter of one or the other's antenna gain pattern better fitting where your clients happen to be. Nobody builds routers with perfectly isotropic signal in all directions, and there's often an intentional bias in certain directions.
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    Does a router always bond channels as listed in this table?

    I don't believe that's correct. AFAIK, the 5GHz/6GHz channel bonding hierarchy described in that wikipedia page is required by the wifi standards.
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    Does a router always bond channels as listed in this table?

    Right. My point is that wide channels in 2.4GHz are the wild west: everybody can choose their own random frequency range, and pretty much guarantee that they're overlapping with all their neighbors not just some neighbors. This doesn't matter if you're in the boonies with no visible...
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    Does a router always bond channels as listed in this table?

    @ColinTaylor is right, but it might also be worth noting that this applies for the 5GHz band. 6GHz has similar rules about ganging channels in a specific pattern, but 2.4GHz does not --- if you choose a 40MHz channel there, you just spill over onto adjacent channels in both directions. That's...
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    Ubiquiti UCG Fiber with 3 x ASUS XT9 access points

    Really not enough information here to offer good advice. What are you hoping to get from switching to UniFi? Easier configuration/management? Better monitoring? Better wifi performance? Depending on your goals, it might make more sense to replace the wifi end of things first and keep your...
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    Is Unifi worth the upgrade?

    You have to remember that UniFi's APs are designed to be used in multiples, perhaps even one-per-room, while consumer gear such as ASUS really tries to be one-per-household. (Yes, I'm familiar with AIMesh. Never worked that well for me.) That accounts for a number of differences, such as...
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    Is Unifi worth the upgrade?

    In fairness, UniFi have got plenty of software problems of their own. If you read their community forums you will see tons of complaints. But I compare that to the situation here, where mostly the people who are having trouble with ASUS gear are vocal. And you have to give some credit to UI...
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    Upgraded from GoCoax WF-803M to MA2500D - Not seeing faster speeds

    This sounds a lot like frustrations I had trying to get the advertised speeds out of "2.5G" MoCA adapters: speed as-advertised in one direction, but barely a tenth of that in the other, according to single-stream iperf3 tests. The last stuff I posted about it seems to have been in this thread...
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    List of MoCa 2.5 Devices [Updated 8/25/20]

    I can tell you that I have a pair of ScreenBeam ECB7250s, and a pair of ASUS MA-25s, and both of those carry VLAN traffic just fine. That GoCoax unit might be the same chipset as my ASUS boxes, but it's not guaranteed.
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    Cudy Switches; do they pass VLAN tags like tp-link do ?

    I think the conventional wisdom on that is "it depends". The manufacturers don't specify this behavior, so it might or might not do what you want. I wouldn't assume it's consistent across all switches from the same manufacturer. It's possible that it might even vary from one batch to the next...
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    Replacing Asus XT8 setup

    Makes sense. We tend to look down our noses at wireless backhaul around here, because its performance is worse than wired backhaul, but it can certainly be better than nothing. A well-placed third XT8 might alleviate your coverage problems quite a bit. (Wireless backhaul between two XT8s can...
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