Anyone here use Unifi gear

BaronSmoggie

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Thinking about getting started with it to replace my older network setup. Looking at the Dream Router and U6 long range to start with. Will replace a mesh Wifi6 Asus Zenwifi setup with a NetGear nighthawk switch. Trying to keep it simple.
 
Yeah, I've got the Unifi USG, CloudKey 1, 3 8 port routers, a lite WIFI Access point (not WIFI 6) and one of the in wall WIFI access points. I switched from a Netgear Nighthawk... the WIFI on the Unifi stuff isn't as fast but i didn't go for the top end access points. Its pretty decent, i love the management app and the things you can do with it. particularly the visual network map.

I would have gone with the Dream machine first if i hadn't bought it bit by bit!
 
I want the U6 long range, then I can dump one in the middle of the house and be done with it. I quite like they are PoE so If I do need to dream machine in the future, I can run it all PoE which is a brucie bonus. I just recently got 1GB fibre to the house, so I need to put some better management around it.
 
I want the U6 long range, then I can dump one in the middle of the house and be done with it. I quite like they are PoE so If I do need to dream machine in the future, I can run it all PoE which is a brucie bonus. I just recently got 1GB fibre to the house, so I need to put some better management around it.
Ive got a unifi U6 lr it works great good speed everywhere just be warned the LR dish is big the size of a 10 inch pizza. I prefer a single dish to having mesh boxes dotted around the house. I hluse a fanless mini pc as a router with pf sense on. I think the unifi router kit is really expensive for what it is. It's definitely a bit of a cult going down the full unifi route a bit like buying apple products undoubtedly good but overpriced
 
Ive got a unifi U6 lr it works great good speed everywhere just be warned the LR dish is big the size of a 10 inch pizza. I prefer a single dish to having mesh boxes dotted around the house. I hluse a fanless mini pc as a router with pf sense on. I think the unifi router kit is really expensive for what it is. It's definitely a bit of a cult going down the full unifi route a bit like buying apple products undoubtedly good but overpriced
Thanks for the info, didn't realise it was quite so big, but I'll handle having a single unit, which eventually will be ceiling mounted once I figure out how to route power and cabling to it !!

I priced up the equivalent Meraki gear, and wow, its a lot more expensive. A mate has spent a good chunk of cash on Unifi, and I have to say, his setup is very impressive. I don't mind spending a bit to improve my home setup and also have a bit of a geekathon with it. :giggle:
 
Thanks for the info, didn't realise it was quite so big, but I'll handle having a single unit, which eventually will be ceiling mounted once I figure out how to route power and cabling to it !!

I priced up the equivalent Meraki gear, and wow, its a lot more expensive. A mate has spent a good chunk of cash on Unifi, and I have to say, his setup is very impressive. I don't mind spending a bit to improve my home setup and also have a bit of a geekathon with it. :giggle:
You don't need power as it's power over Ethernet if you have a Poe switch which I am sure the unfi ones will be. the mounting kit looks extremely well made although I haven't mounted mine yet.I am intending on cabling back out the side of the house cable tie to the drain pipe and through the soffit vents
into the attic with an outdoor rated cat 6e
cable.Once in the attic I will mount to the landing ceiling. It will look fine once mounted just like a fire alam you won't notice it. you can disable the blue ring light as well
 
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It's excellent, I'd highly recommend it but you will need to do your research and understand how to configure it. You could spend hours working on it and tweaking it if you wanted.

I'd be wary of the LR APs - in most circumstances you'd be better with 2 regular APs rather than 1 LR AP and as others have said the LR APs are rather large. I'd spend my money on the U6 Pro APs.

Ideally I'd recommend full stack with a UDR or a UDM SE as they have PoE ports that you can use to feed both power and data to the AP over 1 cable keeping things neat. If you don't want to do that you can get PoE injectors which take an ethernet input and a power input and combine them to send them both over 1 cable.

I've got a larger 1920s property and I run 3 APs within the house and 1 in the garage to give good coverage everywhere. I use hundreds of them at work too and they've never let me down.
 
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Ive got a unifi U6 lr it works great good speed everywhere just be warned the LR dish is big the size of a 10 inch pizza. I prefer a single dish to having mesh boxes dotted around the house. I hluse a fanless mini pc as a router with pf sense on. I think the unifi router kit is really expensive for what it is. It's definitely a bit of a cult going down the full unifi route a bit like buying apple products undoubtedly good but overpriced
Unifi are cheap! Compare them to other products with the same feature set and they're massively cheaper - there's actually a lot of snobbery in the industry against using Unifi.

They're definitely not the Apple of the networking world - for that look at Meraki.
 
Unifi are cheap! Compare them to other products with the same feature set and they're massively cheaper - there's actually a lot of snobbery in the industry against using Unifi.

They're definitely not the Apple of the networking world - for that look at Meraki.
Guess it depends what you're comparing it to. Compared to consumer level kit, they're expensive but they're also streets ahead in quality and performance. Compared to enterprise kit they're really good value and hold their own.
 
Guess it depends what you're comparing it to. Compared to consumer level kit, they're expensive but they're also streets ahead in quality and performance. Compared to enterprise kit they're really good value and hold their own.
It's not consumer level kit so comparing it to those entry level items isn't useful. Comparing it to Apple also isn't accurate in the slightest - it's the complete opposite of Apple.
 
It's not consumer level kit so comparing it to those entry level items isn't useful. Comparing it to Apple also isn't accurate in the slightest - it's the complete opposite of Apple.
No, it isn't, but it's price point makes enterprise tech a little more accessible to them though.
 
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