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    Looking for help with someone's WiFi project.

    I think the handwriting is on the wall for the UISP line, but they still have plenty of models for sale. I would not buy a UISP router today, because that's gear you want up-to-date software for. But point-to-point radios are pretty much set it up and forget it; barring a lightning strike or...
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    Looking for help with someone's WiFi project.

    What sort of throughput do you need? My first thought is that sharing a mobile-internet link is not a high-performance task. If you don't need more than a couple hundred Mbps throughput, the Ubiquiti products mentioned above are overkill (not to mention ridiculously expensive). However, there...
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    Switching Routers; do what first?

    Static WAN address is definitely an extra-cost option in FiOS. I'm not sure you can even get one with "residential" service; I had to sign up for "business" service to get mine.
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    Switching Routers; do what first?

    I would try that if the new router fails to obtain a DHCP lease immediately; it'll certainly take less time than calling customer service ;) My only recent personal experience with this was about a year ago, when I plugged in a new router and it Just Worked, no shenanigans at all. But I...
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    Switching Routers; do what first?

    There's a good deal of anecdotal evidence out there that this used to be a problem: if you swapped in a new router it would take awhile (hour or two) to issue it a DHCP lease, unless you called up customer service and got them to reset things on Verizon's side. As far as I have heard Verizon...
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    Switching Routers; do what first?

    Sure, it's probably fine already. But if it isn't, you could be in for a world of hurt. So it's worth double-checking, IMO.
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    Switching Routers; do what first?

    The thing that is actually likely to cause the longest service outage is not having the correct configuration in your new router before you do the cable-swapping part. Do everything you can to double-check the config before you bring it live. Especially make sure that the firewall rules are in...
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    Want to move away from Asus routers, Ubiquiti? advice needed

    Shrug ... it gets pretty darn warm on mine.
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    Want to move away from Asus routers, Ubiquiti? advice needed

    Perhaps, but I wouldn't recommend omitting the mounting plate in hopes of getting something closer to omnidirectional service. The mounting plate is also an important part of the thermal design of UniFi APs: it helps radiate away heat. They run hot enough anyway, you don't want to make that worse.
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    Speed Drops Through Switch on One Line

    "It's limited to 100Mbps" always makes me think first of faulty cables, but it seems like you eliminated that theory. I see that the TP-SG1005D advertises "green ethernet", which I assume means EEE (IEEE 802.3az). I have heard reports of that feature causing compatibility problems. You might...
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    Want to move away from Asus routers, Ubiquiti? advice needed

    I don't buy the idea that ceiling-mount APs are omnidirectional. Yeah, most models do pretty well at spreading the signal in front of them (dome side), but they are not made to serve clients behind them. Clients at exactly 90 degrees may or may not do okay. So if you can't actually put the...
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    Upgrading router for a rural multi-building wifi/wired network

    What @degrub said. The argument for fiber here is not to improve performance, it's to improve the odds that your equipment will still be alive after the next nearby lightning strike. Copper conducts surges, fiber doesn't.
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    Managed switch with https support?

    Can't speak to those exact models, but I have and like a Zyxel XGS1250-12 managed switch. It seems to me to be about the right level of complication for an advanced home user: it can do VLANs, and it can LAG ports together, and a couple other simple things, but there's not (for example) a...
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    Want to move away from Asus routers, Ubiquiti? advice needed

    Don't think so ... I don't have "Professional Installer" set, but I have access to custom Tx power settings. In older versions of the UniFi Network app, the Tx power options were presented in a drop-down menu where the Custom option was typically below the visible part of the menu, and it was...
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    Asus vs Unifi vs ?

    I think you need to think more carefully about what you're hoping to get out of this upgrade. Yeah, the RBR50 is a bit dated, but it won't help to update to spiffier newer wifi gear unless your wifi clients are pretty new. You didn't say what devices are on your wifi today, so it's hard to...
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