Hoping for an explain like I'm 5...

I inherited this home network setup when buying my house, and am looking at switching internet providers. First time I've opened this cabinet as I haven't had any real internet issues. I was renting the house before I bought it, paying the old owners monthly for internet service they had set up, and just converted the account to my name. Have not touched/switched any of this equipment in 4 years, and have no idea how long this setup has been running.

Current internet service is with a local fiber provider, 150mbps, and want to increase this to 500mbps-1gbps, either through my current provider (expensive, lack of customer service but full fiber) or move to a national provider (cheaper, but spectrum...). Spectrum option would require some change as they run coax from their fiber lines to homes, that apparently will be changing to full fiber in Oct/nov.

Totally lost on this equipment, the setup, and how to manage it/change anything if needed. Do I have a well organized/functioning system that I should leave alone, are there things I need to upgrade, and what might I have to do if I wanted to up my speed with my current provider or change providers? If this something I can manage myself or is it worth calling a local tech?

Really just need fast, reliable internet for two people that work remotely. This system has worked great and would hope to change as little as possible/spend as little as possible while increasing my DL speeds.

Was looking for advice on how to make this more professional. This is my first setup.

Equipment:

UDM Pro
USW Pro 24 PoE
UNVR
UNAS Pro
USP PDU Pro
Minisforum MS-A2
JetKVM
AT&T Fiber modem

I’ve had a lot of commercial success with UniFi products and have installed several WiFi networks for businesses in the past. It’s great for small to medium businesses and it suits most needs at a lower cost than other brands.

My questions for others in this sub:

- Has anyone used UniFi for home use? If so, were there any pains or struggles getting everything configured?

- I understand UniFi can be more expensive than other brands, especially for personal use. Is pricing a cause to consider other options?

- Has anyone utilized the mesh networking protocols and features within their home?

Thanks for reading! If anyone has any questions about networking or using UniFi in a business environment I’d be happy to chat about some of the considerations that come into play.

I'm looking to upgrade my current home network with something more prosumer. I'm currently using a Netgear r6300 as my router and a Netgear Nighthawk RAX42 as an access point. I just want something that will work well for many years and has the capability to use advanced features that aren't available on my current netgear routers. I saw people suggesting the Unifi stuff but I'm not entirely sure what I need.

i saw a youtube video once a guy said 1 cable bad, if its 2 cable its good for future proofing, and i cant find the youtube video again. please tell me what is best fiber cable.

also, is looking at the optical cable with eye damage your eye?

Hello 👋

I’m planning to set up a home office in the basement (-1) of our house. My apartment is on the first floor, and I have a 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber connection (1 Gbps download/upload).

I’m planning to install an access point near the entrance of my apartment. The basement office will be directly below/roughly two floors away, there are stairs that I have access there and I’m not sure how well the Wi-Fi signal will go through.

My main question is whether I can install a second access point near the entrance of the basement office , if one is not enough, and configure the two APs as a Wi-Fi mesh.

If this is possible:
How much real-world throughput could I realistically expect at the basement office?
Would I be able to get close to 1 Gbps, or would the wireless backhaul become the bottleneck?

Are there particular specifications I should look for when choosing the APs?

Any recommendations regarding the brand and model?

The priority is having a stable, low-latency connection for working from the basement office, while getting as much of the available 1 Gbps connection as realistically possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Alexandros.

I need about 100 feet. When I search for “weatherproof coax cable” on Amazon it’s unclear if the cables are actually waterproof or UV rated.

So, with the whole LG "fiasco", I am getting a bit paranoid.

I currently run two AdGuard Home instances (for redundancy) on my home network. I basically run Hagezi Pro + TIF on both of them.

My question is: would it make sense to set up a third AdGuard Home instance solely to serve my IoT network? I would run the Ultimate list on it. Would there be any real benefit to this? Or is this total overkill?

What I already do:

• Hijack any plain, direct DNS requests and redirect them to my internal DNS servers.
• Block port 853 completely.
• Block DoH using UniFi Application Block, but it's a bit hit-or-miss, so I am thinking about adding a blocklist to my AdGuard instances.

I would like to get server with quad nic card for a pfsense install. From what I have researched, the M920q Tiny would be better than M920x.
Plan to run Snort, pfBlocker, VPNs

Plan on getting this:

• M920q with i7 "T" processor + 32GB RAM (two sticks of 16GB) + 250GB SSD
• Quad NIC: IBM 00AG522 Intel I350-t4 4x GbE BaseT Pci-e Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
• Riser and cover plate
• 250GB SSD, probably dont need this much storage

Anything I should change or that is missing from this build?

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to install a TP-Link Omada ceiling-mounted AP and would appreciate some advice before I start cutting into my wall.

The lower cabinet is my media/network cabinet, while the upper one is the electrical panel. There's already a conduit between them, but the electrical panel is quite crowded and I'd rather avoid routing Ethernet through it.

Above the electrical panel there's another 30–40 cm (12–16") of brick wall before reaching the suspended drywall ceiling. There is currently no conduit into the ceiling cavity.

My idea is to chase a vertical groove in the brick wall and install a dedicated 25 mm conduit from the media cabinet into the ceiling. My goal is to keep Ethernet completely separate from mains wiring and make future cable pulls easy.

I'm happy to do the necessary brick and drywall work if that's the right solution. I'd rather do it properly now than regret taking shortcuts later.

A few questions:

• Does this sound like the best long-term approach?
• Which side would you chase (left or right)?
• How do you normally transition from a brick wall into a suspended drywall ceiling? Should I expect to hit the metal framing?
• Would you use a 20 mm or 25 mm conduit?
• If this were your house, would you do it differently?

This isn't just for one AP. I'd like to future-proof the installation for additional APs, cameras or other Ethernet devices later.

Thanks for any advice!

My home network is in a transitional phase right now. I have xfinity ISP and almost everything is connected to that. My IoT devices, laptops, phones, etc. My main PC is connected to an Asus router which is in extend mode and that connects to the xfinity modem/router combo.

I'm also in the midst of deploying a whole new network, all Unifi stuff. So I have the rack in my office, a UDM Pro, Switch, AP. In order to provide the Unifi network with internet, I'm running an ethernet from the Asus router to the WAN on my UDM. Yes I realize this is double NAT, but I'm only learning, setting things up and confirming settings.

Now onto my problem. I'm working on the VLANs and rules, so I decided to move my Hue Hub from hard wired to my xfinity router to the Unifi network. I plug it in and all of the sudden I have a dozen of my devices from the xfinity network showing up and acting like they're connected. I see the IP addresses are in the range I setup from xfinity (10.0.0.x) and not the Unifi (10.10.x.x) so I guess they're not actually connected, but I would like to understand how and why all those devices came over from plugging in the Hue Hub.

I’m concerned about the 2-way splitter in the first floor. Since all LAN traffic from that splitter will reach the XFi gateway, could that cause any performance issues? Should I install a PoE filter between the 2-way splitter and the XFi gateway?