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  1. The AP's have been installed and everywhere except the office is around -65 dBm.
  2. So Id thought I would give a little update. We just got in the hardware for setting up the wireless in the warehouse. I have everything plugged in, just in the server room but everything installed flawlessly. I even have the US-16-XG somewhat setup. For anyone considering connecting a US-16-150w (SFP only) to a US-16-XG (SFP+ only) or really any other Unifi switch using SFP+ ports, you have to set the Link Negotiation to manual on the SFP+ port and make sure 1000 Mbps is the Link Speed. Below is some spiderweb pictures of the testing setup.
  3. I'm starting the apocalypse. RESURRECTING A DEAD THREAD!!!!!! I bet the warehouse construction just wrecked the dust test. Drywall dust is super fine and clings to everything. But of course this will probably show the worst case scenario. Plus the dust is white so it will stand out in the Define R5.
  4. On my last attempt to set everything up, I didn't connect it to the network. I'm waiting for when I setup to fiber drops to connect it into the network. My original idea was to go from the gateway to it, then use the SFP+ ports to go into the 48x switches and also out to the drops in the warehouse. The three fiber drops in the warehouse have 3 pairs in each run so I was thinking I could just use one pair for the wireless and another pair for the NVR system I'm planning to put in sometime next year. Each drop in the warehouse would just have 1 16x poe switch (maybe a 24x) then I'd just configure each port I want to use for both vlans.
  5. If you do device manager its more than likely going to find a generic driver
  6. You can install drivers two ways, first would be go to the website of the manufacture that makes your card and get them there, or you can go to device manager in windows and find your card there and update drivers.
  7. Both, start with restarting the modem then when the lights start flashing when it is coming back up, restart your pc.
  8. Restarting the devices usually fixes most problems.
  9. How do you get your internet?
  10. I just wanted to post some of my initial thoughts and struggles setting up this network built on all Unifi gear (I will update at a later date once I get the access points and fiber drops connected). I'd also like to hear about anyone else's experience with setting something like this up in a small business environment. Hardware: 1 - USG-PRO-4 (Gateway) 1 - US-16-XG (12 SFP+ Switch) 3 - US-48 (48 port Switch) So the first day I have all the hardware in the office, I set up everything on my desk, configure the site and the network, add firewall permissions, set all 5 devices up with static IPs, and created VPN users (Radius?). At this point nothing had been connected to Comcast's modem, as I didn't want to disrupt anyone else on the network with DHCP issues. Didn't have a single error setting anything up. Everything seemed to be working so i took everything and installed it in our new empty 48U rack. Almost immediately the 48 port switch that was sandwiched between the other two 48 port switches froze and I couldn't do anything on it. It was obviously overheating (we don't have dedicated AC in the room yet). So I spread everything out by two cage nuts each except at the top between the gateway and the SFP+ switch and put a fan blowing on everything from the top of a rack in the corner of the room. This seemed to fix it. This also gave space to route the Cat 5e cables through to the patch panels on the back side of the rack. I waited two weeks before deciding to switch over to this new setup. Thursday night a coworker and I moved the patch patch panels over to the rack and started to run connections to the Unifi switches (You can tell from the pictures below we kinda rushed it). Once everything was connected we turned everything on. What a disaster... internet didn't work, workstations couldn't connect to our ERP software on the server, and thin clients couldn't connect to the vm server. I went into the Unifi controller and set all the switches to get DHCP IPs, then restarted the whole stack. Once they all came back up we had internet but still couldn't get the other two major things. We then decided to disconnect the SFP+ switch just because it isn't being used yet, still nothing. At this point it was 8 PM and we had both been at work for 12 hours. I made sure none of the switches had any settings still set to interfere with the old RV042 router and we just hooked it back up and disconnected the new gateway. Everything was working after we did this. Saturday I came into work to troubleshoot. First attempt I got everything working by setting everything back up the way it was before i moved the switches into the rack except setting static IPs on the 48 port switches. I could have just went home and felt good for figuring it out right away, but no, I had to test it. I set the static IPs back on the 48 port switches, everything went down again. I restarted the stack and workstations I was testing on. They had internet but couldn't connect to the application server and the thin clients couldn't connect to the vm server. At this time there was a backup running to a USB drive on the application server so I thought maybe it was interfering with the workstations connecting. I set the old router back up and left. Yesterday (Sunday) I came back in. I set everything back to factory defaults and had one hell of a time trying to get a new Unifi controller to start the wizard. It kept trying to use an old configuration (Previously I had to change what port the controller used because it was running on the vm server that used port 8080 so I had to configure the system.properties file from a PC that I had initially setup with the controller on my desk). For a third time I had to install a Unifi Controller to another PC (which is where it is running currently). Just to get the back to the setup wizard took me 2 hours to figure out. This time around I just set the bare minimum in the controller. Restarted all the devices and everything worked. The next step of the project is getting the 3 fiber drops in the warehouse connected. Then use 1 of the 16 port POE Unifi switches at each drop with 15 to 20 UAP-AC-PRO spread throughout the warehouse(120,000 Sq/ft with 40ft rack). I made a few mistakes setting everything up, but for being my first network setup I feel like it wasn't to bad. Images below of the rack. Today I was able to setup a VPN from our storefront back to our application server. Didn't have to restart anything!
  11. This projector looks sweet, id totaly get a screen and hang it from my ceiling or even put it on the wall and project it to the ceiling to watch movies or play games in bed (you know, like video games).
  12. Looks good to me. But if i were you I'd save the money on upgrading this and start thinking about just building a new tower that will give you future expansion capabilities. Especially since the x51 uses that laptop power brick that kinda limits you on what you can do. You can look on sites like ebay or even craigslist and try to find a used cases or even complete builds. I would stay away from computer company cases like dell, hp, lenova, etc. Because you might run into an issue where the form factor is proprietary like your x51. Usually any mid tower can support up to a standard ATX motherboard and sometimes smaller form factors like mini ATX or micro ATX but with the smaller form factors you loose stuff capabilities like only having one pci-e slot or less sata ports and usually don't have very good overclocking abilities. I just upgrade my PC and my old pc was 6 years old (except the gpu a R280 with 3gb) and could still run modern games no problem. If you buy good parts now it will last you longer especially if you overclock them.
  13. If your still up in the air about what monitor to get but you know you defiantly want to go with a 144hz panel make sure to get one that has AMD Free Sync. From what I've seen when you go up faster than 60hz the vertical pixels tend to tear especially at 144hz. Maybe its just me and I've only seen bad panels but just a thought.
  14. Instead of paying $136 for the os you should check out kinguin.net. Paul's hardware on youtube just did a video on it a couple days ago and it seems legit, you could get windows 8.1 pro OEM for $26.76 right now. All you need to do is create a bootable flash drive or make a bootable disk that windows 7 can do with the ISO that you will need to download after you get your key. I haven't tried the site yet but the sites i have tried they supplied me with the download for the ISO so I didn't need to go to microsofts website to download it. With spending $100 less you could get a better monitor like an Asus VS278Q-P (27") for $214 on Newegg, or 144hz refresh monitor like the Acer GN246HL (24") for $200 on Newegg. Also if you didn't mind spending like $260 you could get the AOC G2460PF that is 24", 144hz, and also has AMD Free Sync that will sync your frames between your monitor and gpu which should eliminate any screen tearing at 144hz. I hope this helps
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