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A bit of a long shot but here's my problem. Youtube seems to run slow (very choppy or doesn't load) if i set my edgerouter lite's dns servers to either google dns or opendns on ipv4 and ipv6. I tried using this method and this method to set up the dns through the command line. The dns servers show up fine when I use show dns forwarding nameservers I'm a bit new to the command line so i only copied what they put (accounting for eth0 being my WAN). However, if I set the dns through windows "Network->Adapter->ipv4/6", it seems to have no issues that I can tell. Videos playback smoothly. Am I just configuring it incorrectly?

I am buying a PoE router from Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter series, and am trying to figure out if their UniFi access points will work with it without the need for the UniFi controller, but have not been able to find that information anywhere. Please Help.

Hello all, I'm approaching building my first home network. I'm hoping to confirm that this hardware will do what I need. I'm considering the following hardware: Switch: https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-switch-8-60w Access point: https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lite/ I have the ISP-provided modem/router, and I believe I can plug that into the switch, then connect the AP to the switch, then hey presto, internet! Am I right, or do I need more hardware? Thank you.

I have the Unifi Controller setup as a jail on my FreeNAS server that is controlling my AP-AC-Lite. I can use the app (iOS) for local connections to manage my network, but I can't access it outside of the network on my phone or computer. When I go to unifi.ubnt.com on my laptop, I can see my AP listed, but I cant manage it outside of the local IP. I have open port 8443 and tried to access it just by entering https://mypublicip:8443 in my browser and it just refuses to connect. I try to use that URL for the app as well and it doesn't work. I have a domain through google I would like to use to access my controller via my phone, but I can't figure out how that works. I've already added in my controller under settings>controller>controller hostname/ip, but that hasn't changed anything. The only physical Unifi hardware I have is the AP. Controller is through FreeNAS.

Hello, I've been running my house on UBNT hardware for a while. I set it up a while ago with 4 APs connected directly to my ISP router. This worked very well and I've been using them ever since without touching the controller software. I added a UBNT EdgerouterX down the line and that was fine too. Today I added another AP to cover a dead spot that is now in use and to set it up, I've had to reinstall that controller software. Ever since I adopted the APs into the controller, all things WIFI have just not worked. The Problem: Some devices stay connected (2 Tablets in the house), others stayed connected for a bit and decided to disconnect later and others instantly dropped connection (a dektop). When you try to connect to any of the APs, windows says that it cant connect and Android just doesn't. No error nothing. Cable connections work like always though. Things I've tried: - Update everything - nope - Various google searches making me change many settings - nothing - Restart of all hardware and software - no luck - reinstall of the software and hard reset of the hardware - same thing - more frustrated googling and I'm all out of ideas. I'm not particularly good at networking but know the basics. This is a step above me seemingly. Im not even sure what information to provide here to help you. Hardware: 5 x UBNT AC Lite (Firmware 4.0.42.10433) 1 x UBNT Edge router X (Firmware 1.10.08) 1 x Generic ISP modem Controller Software running on a Cable PC connected to Edge Router (Version 5.10.25 (Build: atag_5.10.25_11682)) Setup: Internet -> Modem -> EdgeRouter -> Switch -> APs & House EdgeRouter only hands out anything on 255.255.1.X Modem is only on 255.255.255.0.X (which is only the Edge Router) If I understand this correct then the Edge router Should be the DHCP server. I might be understanding something wrong here though since it seems to me like the controller software is emulating a router? Giving out IPs and managing devices etc. If that is the case, that's obviously not going to work but how can i make it work? Attached is the current settings file for the controller. Not sure if that helps. Sorry if this is a bit incoherent. I'm just so much out of ideas. Thank you to anyone willing to give this a think. EDIT: Mini update. Phone decided to connect randomly. Didnt change anything. Just decided to do that now. I took the opportunity to tell it the gateway was the edge router. Still connected. Maybe it is the DHCP settings then? Nevermind. It gets kicked as soon as i try to actually do something now. Again didn't change anything EDIT 2: I had a friend help me and now the Edge router is out of the equation. Current setup is just the ISP modem acting as the DHCP server and router in general. Same Wifi issues persist. After more testing, widows devices seem especially affected by it. Setting a fixed IP and gateway does not improve the situation like on some of the android devices. I have also contacted UBNT support. Will update when i get a response. 5.10.25-20190716-0030.unf

so i'm using power beam 5ac gen2 and i don't know what's the best channel . so if anyone is experienced with it please tell how to chose the best channel .

Hey guys, I'm not a total expert on networking and such so excuse me in advance if I use terms that aren't correct. Ill try to explain the issue i'm having the best I can. Firstly my situation is iv got internet via "wirelessFibre™ Fixed wireless" and the speeds and everything is fantastic. My issue started when I upgraded my router to the EdgeRouter X. The interface is very intimidating, being used to standard routers all my life I had become confident with navigating my way around, but this is like a whole new level of network language I'v never experienced. I had the ISP guy set it up for me and everything worked great. I had my line in and then line out on 1 channel to a network switch which then fed all my devices. Iv been trying to word what I want to say for the last half an hour but I dont know the correct terms and I keep deleting it because I sound like a complete amateur. Ill stick with my main issue, every time i connect a device to my network either via wireless or wired to my switch, I get no internet access and have to manually set up an ip address on the device i want to use internet on. So for example i have to go into my network settings for that connection on my Nintendo switch and assign it a local address (eg. 192.168.3.20) then set the router (192.168.3.1) and the subnet (255.255.255.0) and then dns etc, before I can get internet access. I don't know why the second last number is "3", iv only ever known my router IP to have 192.168.1.1 or 10.1.1.1 etc. I now have 192.168.2.1 and 3.1 etc on this router. Its crazy confusing why im on the 3.1. The other ports on my edgerouter don't get internet but that must be how he set it up. I want to get my head around it all because I tried to fifddle and ended up knocking out my internet. After a few days trying to get help I eventually got one of their guys to remote login and get my net up and running again but I wasn't in a position to get help with my other issues. Hoping I can get some education from you you fine gentleman. Thanks guys -James

I’m looking into setting up a 16 camera security system for a small business. They already have some Ubiquiti access points. The UniFi Protect lineup caught my eye because of its simplicity and no licensing fees. I’m currently thinking of using a cloud key gen 2 plus and a couple Poe switches along with an assortment of their g3 camera lineup. is this a good idea? Does anyone have any recommendations? Do you have any experiences with these Ubiquiti products? Any information is helpful.

I have a Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive USB 3.0 which used to plug nicely into the Linksys WRT AC1200 router I previously had - using this, I could access my hard drive's files from any computer on the network. I have since committed to the Ubiquiti life, purchasing an EdgeRouter X, a couple of US-8 Unifi switches, and a few UniFi AP Lites. Unfortunately, none of the Ubiquiti products have a USB slot. I thought I would be clever by purchasing the the Plugable USB 3.0 to Ethernet LAN network adapter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AQM8586/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Coupler Adapter (Type A Female to Female) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0793NX3GR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) so that I could do something like Routher->Ethernet cable->USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter->USB 3.0 coupler->External Harddrive USB 3.0. Alas, this did not work - the external hard drive did not even turn on. Any thoughts on where I went wrong here? Any more clever ideas than mine?

Hey everyone. I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the new Unifi Dreamteam and how it relates to purchasing the components individually and also in relation to the Amplifi HD. I've been looking into a new network set up for awhile but I don't really have the ability to put the Unifi access points throughout my home (It's a renting thing) so I ordered the Amplifi HD last night but it looks like Ubiquiti have just released this: https://store.ui.com/products/unifi-dream-machine I'm wondering what you guys think of it vs the performance of the Amplifi system and the Unifi systems with their individual components like the gateway, switch, APs etc. I think you can add APs to this as well. I'm thinking this may be a good compromise for someone like me who wants the unifi system but can't do the full setup.

Hi guys I wanted to ask you a question. What is the best option for stable Wi-Fi with no dead spots and good signal for a place around 200 square meters and with thick walls like hell. Im thinking about 3 Ubiquiti APs connected to together as one SSID because my friend is very angry about solution with multiple SSIDs so as one that will create few problems with connection that would be solve with MESH system but mesh system that would provide same connection for that price is very hard to find and because its company based it needs to be working 24/7 with 99%. So what would you do in my position? What would you buy or how would you solve this issues ?

This is a stupid question, but there is very little details on User Groups for the UniFi controller I can find, and some of it is contradictory. Is the User group bandwidth limit in the settings applied to each individual client device, or is the limit applied to the entire group. If I made a Public Wifi system, and I assign the Public WLAN to the Guest user group, and I set the up/down to 5Mbps for that group, is that per client? Let us say the total bandwidth from the ISP is 100down/25up. If every user on the Guest WiFi has a constant 1Mbps up/down, will that mean that 20 users will be able to use it before their speed degrades, or will it mean 5 users will be able to use it before their speeds degrade.

Hey guys, I am looking for best mesh solution, I have to cover 2 floors and I am not able to run ethernet, now I have one asus router and 3 repeaters but the clients wants best solution, money is the case, I saw linus's vid about ai mash, also I am looking at ubiquiti solutions, how do you think ? I don't want to use poe, I would like to use standard wall plugs - something like this asus repeaters is fine

Hi, I'm was looking to get a gigabit switch at home since I only have a regular 100 Mbit one. I'm currently looking at the following options: D-Link DGS-1210-16 (https://eu.dlink.com/uk/en/products/dgs-1210-series-gigabit-smart-switches) Has the following, which is want I would want from a new switch VLAN QoS Trunking/Link Aggregation Port-Security (MAC based) ACL's 802.1X Port-based Authentication It has fiber uplink which I dont need since I cannot run new lines to another room with lets say a second switch for roof mouted cameras There will be no cameras connected to the switch directly (has some surveilance features) because I will need to either branch of a wall socket in some room to a poe switch to hook up cameras or use wireless ones. Ubiquiti UniFi Switch 24 (https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-2448/) this one is a bit more expensive but I'm also potentially interested in more stuff from UB (like AP's Security Gateway and such) if it is feature equivalent or has more features I would pick this one over the D-Link one My questions now are: Does it offer the same features (security wise) like the one from D-Link (has to be through the UniFi Controller) especially points 4-6? I dont have UniFi devices yet and I can't tell if the switch (throug the help of the controller can provide the same security features as the D-Link one) Does anyone have experience with the noise level of the UniFi Switch 24? I will be connecting 10-12 devices since I dont need PoE the 16 port options are more expensive thus the 24port model) it will sit in the basement in a room with the heater, my wall mounted smart home central unit and our home ventilation device (so its never silent in there but its not a big server room with blowimatron's either xD) regards Alkahna

Hi everyone, I have Ubiquiti Airgrid M5,i wanna turn Airgrid to router so i can reach my internet from anywhere within 2km because where i live i dont find hotspots anywhere near by.I cant seem to get router mode to work with PPPOE connection,i think its my DNS i tried tracing but i get NaN,also tried pinging google it fails immediately.Here are my settings.

Need to redo my whole network minus cables, as the new connection is 500mbit up and 500mbit down which is a 500x improvement in upload and 20x in download. All my switches are 8 port 100mbit and the current router is getting handed back to the previous ISP(thank god because I don't want to even dispose of that pice of garbage). I need WiFi for two floors(2.4GHz & 5GHz), probably one access point per floor, and two-three ethernet connections downstairs which is where the fibre comes in and then 5+5 ethernet ports in separate places upstairs. Budget is ~€300 if we forget the upstairs switches but I'd like it if everything fit in under that. I was recommended Ubiquiti AC AP Lite access points and an Edgerouter Lite as the router. But that left me short in ethernet ports. Will not touch anything ToiletPaper Link. Thanks for any help

Hi guys! I had been mulling over the WiFi setup at my new home - can you help me, please? Due to the currently prevalent human malware situation and delays it caused we are extremely short on time when it comes to the move and the work that will be carried out. As such, I need to plan this installation blind, without having access to the property, I need to order everything and have it at the ready, the installers will need to come in, do the cable runs and then the builders move in with whatever else they're scheduled to be doing. The Basics This Google Photos album has screenshots of my currently "planned deployment" created in the UniFi Design Center. I was too stupid to figure out a way to share the designs from within the suite in any other way, sorry if it's a thing. The house is spread across four floors and that is the thing that's throwing me off - I am yet to find a definitive source of information on how the APs behave in a vertical space. Most resources I found on the forums say either something vague like 1 or 2 APs per typical house or pertain to commercial deployment scenarios, where one is likely to be dealing with concrete floors anyway. The Internets I have a Gigabit fibre optic connection terminating in the cupboard. The cupboard is about as tidy when it comes to the hodgepodge of pipes and tanks as in the attached image (album), hence I am minded to relocate the rack under the stairs. The House Some general info on materials and construction: Internal walls between rooms in were built in block work or from metal frames. Block work walls can be finished in plaster or plasterboard dry lining. Metal framed walls are finished in plasterboard. External walls Walls that are used to separate townhouses are designed to provide an effective sound and fire barrier. In the townhouses the party walls are constructed of two leafs of concrete blocks with a mineral wool insulation cavity infill. They have a plasterboard finish. Plan notes Ground floor: Wife's study, toilet, pantry, kitchen/dining room, terrace/garden || Rack under stairs First floor: My study/guest bedroom, bathroom, drawing room Second floor: Kids' bedrooms/study rooms Third floor: Master bedroom, walk-in wardrobe, bathroom The Goals We would like to have a 10GbE solution for work on shared 4k video projects, run a NAS and a Plex server for media distribution. Having a centralised Steam Library is also an added bonus, I'll get on it when I have the time;). As such I'm planning for: Cable runs to the spots where main devices require hardline connection: both studies, entertainment centre in the drawing room, kids bedrooms. That's work, kids schoolwork and main entertainment/media consumption (drawing room powered by an HTPC). Excellent WiFi coverage throughout. That's mobiles/tablets and the occasional time a laptop is used not plugged in;). I'm minded to focus on 5GHz on all APs save one with good access to downstairs and the first floor (my on-paper candidate is the in-wall AP in my wife's study downstairs) - we don't have too many legacy WiFi devices and the 2.4 GHz will be mostly to serve the guest network. This is the area I'm struggling with the most, due to my lack of knowledge about the vertical signal range between floors. Any comments as the the appropriate numbers of APs or alternative locations are welcome, as well as whether I should be careful of the between-AP interference, if I intend to run them on different alternating channels, and, being the end of terrace I only have one neighbour to my left (when looking at the plans). The Monies, please One of the attached album pictures contains an estimate of the total costs w/o the actual cable runs and on site installation. Gulp! Help me please not spend all that money needlessly. I know I should be using the Nano HD instead of the Pros, but the Design Center fails to feature them (or I'm too stupid to figure out where they are), but besides cutting down on the amount of APs I don't see immediate cost saving measures. Thanks!

Hey there, I've recently gone through the process of upgrading my home network to 10gig speeds, and in the process upgraded my Telus connection to 1.5 gigabit. But I can't get around one thing. I've tried three different methods of connecting to the WAN, but I always will suffer the same 1 gig bottleneck before it even gets to my gear. My preferred option is straight into my Dream Machine Pro on the WAN2 interface with SFP. But there's the rub - it's immediately bottle-necked down to 1 gig before i gets past that interface. Going through the Telus TV Wifi Modem suffers the same problem. What do I need to use to get full access to the 2.5 gb down and 1.5gb up that the fiber connection offers? Thanks for any thoughts.... jordan

Hello, My first foray into mesh networking was... disappointing at best with an orbi that couldn't sustain 30 MBPs down reliably, let alone my actual internet subscription speed. I now need a new system, which unfortunately has to be a wireless mesh because of the building material in my house and cost concerns, I can't run cables for regular APs. Recommendations welcome - but not netgear because their customer service leaves something to be desired. (particularly people with good OR bad experiences with nest wifi or amplifi hd)

So I’m thinking of moving my small rack with Ubiquiti gateway, switch, cloud key, and Netgear modem from the office room to the garage of my house. The normal temp inside garage is around 80°F/26°C to 85°F/29°C in Florida (U.S.A) humidity. Question is, does anyone think I’ll have any problems by operating all these devices within the garage? I want to move it to the garage since I just moved to this house and it’s already wired with Cat5e throughout the home and the junction box is in the garage. I’m open to suggestions or ideas. Thanks in advance.

I live in a rural area that has very slow Internet speed. There’s only one ISP that runs a wire to my house, and it’s not fiber. My wife and I use a lot of bandwidth, so cellular and or satellite don’t work for me because I can’t deal with data caps. I run a business from my home, and needs and faster Internet. Right now the fastest Internet I can get for my ISP is 12 Mb down and 1.2 Mb up. I’ve tried all of the Internet providers in south eastern Iowa to see if they have Internet over long distance Wi-Fi antennas. Nobody services my house. I live in hilly terrain, and close to the bottom of a hill. I know my neighbors which are about a half mile away, and they’re willing to work with me on getting Internet to my house, but every house I’m close to there is one hill in the way. What are my options? I don’t need Internet beamed from 10 miles away, just a half mile. But LOS would require a 50 foot pole, i’m not excited about that. Also, my current ISP is willing to do Internet bonding for me. What’s the max lines that you can bond together? I think there are boxes that can bond together more than just two, but does my ISP need to have something on their end that can handle more than two connections being bonded at one time?

I'm a super newbie at setting up an internet connection via ubiquiti setups. Where's the best place to find a complete walkthrough for setting up the ubiquiti pbe 5ac 300? I got the hardware set up, but I would really like a complete walkthrough on the airmax software. If there is a place to watch every button press I'd be happy haha, but I can manage with a more in-depth walkthrough.

For various reasons, beyond the scope of this post, my parents switched from an Apple AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi mesh, to a Ubiquiti Amplifi HD mesh system. We went with the Amplifi for a couple reasons. 1) It was really robust per the reviews and our house does not get along with Wi-Fi very well thanks to steel ceilings 2) Super easy setup, I wanted my technologically limited dad to be able to adjust and upgrade it 3) we didn't care about speed that much because my parents are hardly power users, they just want to watch Youtube/Netflix, and our service is only 100 Mbps. ....In the back of my mind was also Linus's great experience with Ubiquiti. So we've had this Wi-Fi setup for a year, and it works great. The only catch is my Dad now wants to upgrade to a bona fide, remotely accessible home security solution. Right now we have one 720P nest cam, and it sucks. You can tell someone creeped around our driveway but we have no idea who they are because the resolution is bad and the compression for cloud storage is worse. Ideal upgrade would be a NUC server, attached to 1440p off the shelf security cameras off Amazon. Plan was to install open source security camera software on the NUC, and then remotely access it from mobile apps. However, preliminary testing on a VM with the security camera software has revealed an issue....... We can't set up our router to use either a VPN or dynamic DNS, so we have no way to expose the router to the outside world. It's all locked down by the manufacturer. On one hand: great, super secure router, nice job Ubiquiti On the other hand: We can't access our network from outside (unless we use Ubiquiti's proprietary solution which only works when plugged into another LAN), so not cool Ubiquiti Current ideas: 1) There's some kind of magic voodoo to make the Amplifi HD use Dynamic DNS, and then we can easily remotely access into our network 2) Set up the NUC to connect to a VPN server offsite, and remote viewing clients can connect to that same server, this is the idea I've just came up with and it seems the most sane. I can get a DigitalOcean Applet server for $5/month, that would be acceptable to my parents I think. Plus we could use it for stuff while traveling. 3)Set up the NUC as a VPN server (is this possible without access to dynamic DNS at the router level) 4) Something else? Open to suggestion. What we can't do: 1)Set up some other device to act as a router. I don't want to add that complexity for my parents to deal with, the Amplifi HD's routing workload needs to stay put 2)Some enterprise solution 3)Something that takes up a lot of space or is garish. Our Wi-Fi gear etc is in my mom's dressing room/home office (honestly makes a lot of sense, who is in the home office at 8 AM and can't wait 10 minutes). If it's a giant orange box that says "RTX " like Linus's shirt this week, I've moved out, but my Dad will have to deal with my mom being reminded we put that tacky box in her dressing room every morning, which won't be a good time. It's gotta be shoebox sized or smaller. 4) Something with an expensive subscription, my Dad (who is doing the upgrade) doesn't mind capital expenditures, but *does not like* monthly fees. $5 a month for DigitalOcean or similar is fine $25 a month would be a no go What we don't care about: 1) Super Duper security, all we need is a password we are not concerned about someone hacking into a video of our driveway. 2) Command Line, I can command line in a pinch. So NBD Re Idea #2: If I just connect the NUC to a private VPN made with software like Algo (https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-that-works/), will the NUC be able to see other devices on the VPN, or will they both just have their traffic routed through the VPN? All the setup guides I've read make no mention of whether that is possible. Do I need to turn on SSH tunneling for that to work?

Hi Guys Does Ubiquiti make a modem i know they have gateways but couldn't see a modem option unless i missed it. Thanks

Hello! I want to supply my friend whom is about 2-3 miles away from me some good ol internet because he gets around 3 Megabits per second... I was wondering around which model I should purchase of the Ubiquiti Network Powerbeams. While looking at different solutions I think the Ubiquiti PBE-M5-300 would suit my needs best. I live in Southern California and there are a lot of trees and it isn't exactly flat around here. So one of my problems is that I don't know if the connection would go through even if I elevated one of the dishes 20 feet from my roof. Let alone that the ground isn't the flattest, his house is a bit lower than mine. I just don't want to buy these dishes if I just run into these problems and require a HUGE pole to mount them to like linus did in his video on the Ubiquiti Power Beams. Thanks! https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-PBE-M5-300-2-Pack-PowerBeam-Outdoor/dp/B00UZ048R6/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1522967618&sr=1-3&keywords=ubiquiti+point+to+point The Power Beam I am considering ^^^^