Ubiquiti Switches
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@wrx7m said:
I just purchased my ERX and an AP-AC-LR for home. It was troublesome to setup at first until I realized that eth0 was meant for WAN (I was trying to setup eth1) Once I got that, everything fell into place and I am super happy so far. Got zoneedit for DDNS setup and the AP is using the POE passthrough. This setup blows my old Asus RN66U out of the water. And it is cheaper.
Why the LR? those are nothing but marketing. You gain no real benefits from it as the increased transmit power does jack to help the device in your hand transmit BACK at a long range.
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@JaredBusch said:
@wrx7m said:
I just purchased my ERX and an AP-AC-LR for home. It was troublesome to setup at first until I realized that eth0 was meant for WAN (I was trying to setup eth1) Once I got that, everything fell into place and I am super happy so far. Got zoneedit for DDNS setup and the AP is using the POE passthrough. This setup blows my old Asus RN66U out of the water. And it is cheaper.
Why the LR? those are nothing but marketing. You gain no real benefits from it as the increased transmit power does jack to help the device in your hand transmit BACK at a long range.
- Better signal quality (less noise / effected by noise)
- Less packet loss
- faster TX speed
- better reflection / bounce
- coffee mug warms up faster when sitting on it
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@MattSpeller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@wrx7m said:
I just purchased my ERX and an AP-AC-LR for home. It was troublesome to setup at first until I realized that eth0 was meant for WAN (I was trying to setup eth1) Once I got that, everything fell into place and I am super happy so far. Got zoneedit for DDNS setup and the AP is using the POE passthrough. This setup blows my old Asus RN66U out of the water. And it is cheaper.
Why the LR? those are nothing but marketing. You gain no real benefits from it as the increased transmit power does jack to help the device in your hand transmit BACK at a long range.
- Better signal quality (less noise / effected by noise)
- Less packet loss
- faster TX speed
- better reflection / bounce
- coffee mug warms up faster when sitting on it
I will admit that my response is based on the specs comparing the UAP and UAP_LR not the new AC models. The UAP and UAP-LR were the same thing simply with more TX power on the UAP-LR
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@JaredBusch said:
@MattSpeller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@wrx7m said:
I just purchased my ERX and an AP-AC-LR for home. It was troublesome to setup at first until I realized that eth0 was meant for WAN (I was trying to setup eth1) Once I got that, everything fell into place and I am super happy so far. Got zoneedit for DDNS setup and the AP is using the POE passthrough. This setup blows my old Asus RN66U out of the water. And it is cheaper.
Why the LR? those are nothing but marketing. You gain no real benefits from it as the increased transmit power does jack to help the device in your hand transmit BACK at a long range.
- Better signal quality (less noise / effected by noise)
- Less packet loss
- faster TX speed
- better reflection / bounce
- coffee mug warms up faster when sitting on it
I will admit that my response is based on the specs comparing the UAP and UAP_LR not the new AC models. The UAP and UAP-LR were the same thing simply with more TX power on the UAP-LR
To be fair you're right to be sceptical, just pumping more juice through the radio will actually make things worse lots of the time. I'm making the assumption that they were designed to handle it. I don't think that is an unreasonable one.
Also - yeah it really is just upping the TX power, I forget the exact specs but it was ~30% or better IIRC
If someone wanted to hack their firmware I'd bet you could take a normal one and bump it to get an LR one.
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@MattSpeller @JaredBusch In all honesty, I got the LR because it was the one that was in stock and was only a few bucks more. Is it that much better in terms of signal range? Probably not, but I was really tired of my old setup and I am happy with this one.
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@wrx7m said:
@MattSpeller @JaredBusch In all honesty, I got the LR because it was the one that was in stock and was only a few bucks more. Is it that much better in terms of signal range? Probably not, but I was really tired of my old setup and I am happy with this one.
I did the same thing... needed one next day and that was the only one from Prime available at the time.
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@brianlittlejohn Yeah these things are in short supply. The ERX is $10-$15 more than MSRP, IF you can find it in stock.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@wrx7m said:
@MattSpeller @JaredBusch In all honesty, I got the LR because it was the one that was in stock and was only a few bucks more. Is it that much better in terms of signal range? Probably not, but I was really tired of my old setup and I am happy with this one.
I did the same thing... needed one next day and that was the only one from Prime available at the time.
We seem to have them up here no problem
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Last week, when I checked, there were varying ETA dates for amazon, newegg (US) and other sites I checked.
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@MattSpeller said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@wrx7m said:
@MattSpeller @JaredBusch In all honesty, I got the LR because it was the one that was in stock and was only a few bucks more. Is it that much better in terms of signal range? Probably not, but I was really tired of my old setup and I am happy with this one.
I did the same thing... needed one next day and that was the only one from Prime available at the time.
We seem to have them up here no problem
I needed it back in June, NewEgg had them in stock then, but I have had issues getting stuff next day from them, so I went with what I could get from Amazon Prime.
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Newegg is good to southern California. Unless it comes from TN or another warehouse, even the ghetto shipping option will get here next day. As far as I can tell, you won't know which warehouse until after it ships.
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@wrx7m said:
Newegg is good to southern California. Unless it comes from TN or another warehouse, even the ghetto shipping option will get here next day. As far as I can tell, you won't know which warehouse until after it ships.
If I was ordering it earlier in the day, I may would have risked it... but it was 3:00pm and needed it the next day. I was at a satellite office and they failed to tell me they were having wifi issues before I went out there.
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@brianlittlejohn When in doubt, prime overnight.
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Just ordered one for internal use for a bit. Going to use it in anger and see how it holds up
If it does not, well return to sender.
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It arrived. Works out of the box nicely.
Just upgrading firmware now.
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VOIP does not work out of the box at all
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@Breffni-Potter said:
VOIP does not work out of the box at all
Really bad call quality issues.VoIP doesn't work with Ubiquiti? We use these all of the time never seen an issue.
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@scottalanmiller said:
VoIP doesn't work with Ubiquiti? We use these all of the time never seen an issue.
Gone from a dumb netgear Gigabit switch 8 port to the Ubiquiti 24 port lite.
Swapped back to the netgear, things are fine. The Ubiquiti is doing something odd.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
VOIP does not work out of the box at all
Really bad call quality issues.VoIP doesn't work with Ubiquiti? We use these all of the time never seen an issue.
Not out of the box it doesn't. We had to set them up to work well.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
VOIP does not work out of the box at all
Really bad call quality issues.VoIP doesn't work with Ubiquiti? We use these all of the time never seen an issue.
Not out of the box it doesn't. We had to set them up to work well.
Oh? what kinds of changes?
