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What is the difference between a router with an internal switch and a router without?
I am trying to understand why I would choose an ER-X (Internal switch, yes, all ports) vs an ER-4 (Internal switch, no)
My understanding is both routers and switches can be used to connect multiple ...
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How to create a persistent cronjob on an Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X so its still there after a firmware update
We have tens of Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X's on active on customer locations. They among other things responsible for pinging an IP each minute. This is done by a cronjob (set with crontab -e) and works ...
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What are the benefits/trade-offs of enabling "Smart Queue Management" on ER-X?
I have an ER-X router from Ubiquiti. With COVID-19, both my girlfriend and I spend a lot of time on video calls. Would enabling "Smart Queue Management" (QoS) help with the quality of calls (...
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Home Networking Rj45 from switch to faceplate
I'm currently running network cable from a central switch to different areas of the house. One room has an RJ45 faceplate, every other cable is running between locations connected to rj45 connectors.
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Unifi pro switch without controller
We have a UniFi Switch Pro 48 PoE and we want to use it without a unifi controller but when we connect to the switch and change the configuration it is not saved, after a reboot the configuration is ...
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Can you bridge a basic mesh wifi (e.g. google wifi) system with a separate wireless bridge?
I currently have one house with a mesh Wi-Fi system (Google Wi-Fi). I am adding a back-house that is too far to reach with just mesh access points alone.
I would like to maintain the Google Wi-Fi ...
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Ubiquiti UniFi gives a specific client a link-local address (169.254..) but DHCP works for other clients
I have a weird problem. A single client in my home network keep getting a link-local address 169.254.., like 169.254.12.96.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address
https://community.ui.com/...
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Testing LAN network speed
I have my home wired with CAT 5e (which I understand can support gigabit ethernet) connected using the ubiquiti devices (1 UniFi Security Gateway 3P, 1 network switch 8-60W and 2 access points - UniFi ...
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I can't explain how this guest networking works in my scenario can someone help me out
I'm trying to understand why port forwarding doesn't work on a router at a remote office and I've uncovered something strange about how guest networking works that may indicate that I have not been ...
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Wireless site survey for AP placement
How do you do a wireless site survey to plan AP placement?
My understanding is that you set up the APs, measure the signal strength multiple times in every room, spaced by test resolution, and then ...
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ICMP DUP! packets (but only sometimes)
I have LibreNMS monitoring devices on my home network and it is logging duplicate ICMP packets on my network.
Of the 30+ nodes being monitored, a few (3-4) exhibit this behavior. I can reproduce it ...
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how to open ports (as opposed to forwarding them) on Ubiquiti Edgemax?
My computer has a VPN running, but I have an SSH tunnel forwarding traffic on port 8000 to its router (Ubiquiti Edgemax) through which I can route traffic in order to circumvent the VPN.
I have a ...
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Trying to create a subnet to connect to a network device and I cannot see the IP address in my "route print" list
I'm trying to set up a subnet to connect to a Ubiquiti networking device I need to configure. I can't connect to it. This is on Windows 10.
1 - I've changed my ethernet TCP/IPv4 properties to:
IP: 192....
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Can I connect the LAN of one PoE injector to a LAN port of another PoE injector?
I want to transfer Wi-Fi over Ethernet and then convert it to Wi-Fi again. The setup I have right now consists of using two Ubiquiti Nanostation Loco M2 (Loco M2s) one as a station and the other as an ...
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Unifi Dream Machine, UK use, dsl
First, I feel I have to say, I'm very new to Networking. I've used my ISP provided router for years and I'm only now looking into ways to improve my Wifi signal, network security etc.
So, I'm thinking ...
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Get device info and connected stations on AirOS 10 device (Ubiquiti airFibre)
I am using an airFibre 60xR which is an AirOS 10 device and I am trying to get the device information and connected stations using the various suggested commands but none is working correctly.
On an ...
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WiFi Clients connected to same AP can't connect to each other
I have a UniFi DreamMachine Pro in my home network.
One access point is connected to it directly via a ethernet cable.
Also I have split networks (VLANs) for my home devices, guests, IoT etc.
I ...
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Can I use a 24v passive PoE-Injector to power my EAP650 which supports 48v passive PoE?
My intention was to power my TP Link EAP650 which supports 48v passive PoE with a unifi 24v PoE Injector. Would that work?
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Wireguard cloud server connection
I have a problem setting up connection with my cloud server, it kinda works but not as indended.
OK, so on my cloud server there is an internal network 192.168.33.0/24 in which all of VM's work. On ...
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Routing between LANs on an EdgerouterX
My apologies if this is a stupid question. I am trying to get an EdgerouterX set up in my home network and learn some practical networking at the same time. Currently, I have connected to the ...
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UAP-AC-LITE very slow
I get internet over a Vodafone wireless router. Wired and wireless, a speed test (reproduced several times over the last month) shows 220 Mbps with a wireless connection.
To have internet in the whole ...
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block a printer on a ubiquiti network from guest users
trying to block a printer on a ubiquiti network with 3 lans: One is Public or Guest(open) and two are p/w protected.
Will a network rule work or should I use vlans? Having trouble with network rules
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Unifi UDM - IPSec VPN PING works but nothing else?
I'm trying to setup a remote syslog solution that is comprised of the following:
Unifi UDM SE --> Site-to-site IPSec VPN Connection --> AWS VPC --> Private EC2 Instance (syslog collector - ...
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Cannot access Fastly CDN websites - Intermittent SSL handshake failure
I have a small home network, with DNS running through a VM with Pi-Hole. A couple of days ago, a hard drive problem took down the machine running the VM, so I temporarily set my router (an UDM SE) to ...
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Unifi bridge to switch or ethernet
I have been trying to figure this out and can't seem to get it to work. What I'm wanting to do is create a switch on a stick using Unifi AC Pro's in bridge\mesh mode and extending the network onto ...
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Home Router drawing wrong IP address
I have a house Netgear router (with an IP address for example 192.168.1.1). I have an Ubiquity nanostation with a station and a access point going to a shop with a Linksys router there (with an IP ...
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NAS disappearing
Dear fellow superusers please help save my sanity.
This is a network question and I have no idea if this is the right forum.
I wanted to get into Ubiquiti as easy as possible so I bought 2 unifi 6 ...
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Custom Cat6 Ethernet 802.3af not working as it should
I have a custom cat 6 ethernet that I made with the following 250ft of Cat 6 from Monoprice. Wired with T568B
I have this cable currently, which is roughly 20 feet, going to a keystone jack on a patch ...
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How to configure Bullet ubiquiti using wifi roaming?
I am using a bullet 2HP and a bullet M2. The bullet 2HP has the following options for wireless mode:
Access Point
Access Point WDS
Station
Station WDS
The bullet M2 has the following options for ...
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Bad Packet loss between Unifi Switch and Unifi Dream Machine Pro
I'm pulling my hair out on this one. I'm seeing really bad network performance (bad packet loss) via one of my switches. In short, this issue makes VoIP impossible to use, causes certain applications ...
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Ubiquiti USG stopped routing through WAN1
Since a few weeks, I have a strange problem with the Ubiquity USG. The USG no longer routes Internet traffic from het internal network to the Internet via the WAN port, but it does so via the WAN2 ...
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how to link 2 LANs using 2 Ubiquiti antennas
We have 2 Ubiquiti antennas model "Nanobeam m5-16-5ghz"
I want to link my home network to my sister home, where she has an internet provider.
The visibility is perfect and the distance is ...
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UDM Pro VPN - Client can't reach LAN devices, but LAN devices can reach client
I'm setting up a home network with a Ubiquiti UDM Pro at the heart. I want to be able to remotely access the network over a VPN.
I followed this article from Ubiquiti to set up the VPN gateway.
Using ...
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Can I block network traffic for a specified IP range on a Ubiquiti NanoBeam in a PTMP configuration? (updated)
Kind of new to the whole networking situation, but I'm working on a project that has my home network stretching out over my property to two different locations. So I have my home, a Barn, and a 2nd ...
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