Ubiquiti UniFi Configuring Wireless Uplinks For Mesh Networking and Roaming Between Them.
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Please be advised that to use wireless uplink you have to enable (it´s enabled by default) this stupid new option called "Uplink Connectivity Monitor" and you can´t have more than 4 SSID´s configured in your network. Otherwise the mesh options disappear in your AP´s config page. I just learned that the hard way... But the Ubiquiti community is really great and helped me in minutes !
Most of the video on the internet only show how to install it physically, you are going to config details and real life scenarios, when you dont have cable everywhere. Good work and thank you!
I have this set up in my double storey home. AC PRO is wired to a Ubiquiti switch and the AC-LR is connected via wireless uplink to the AC-PRO. Works very well & I haven't noticed much of a speed drop on either access point.
I set up a couple of APs at my parents vacation home where they have one main house and a guest cabin. The two are around 25m apart. There's a UAP-AC-LR in the main building, with LOS through windows to the side of the cabin. Behind one layer of wood planks, no insulation (shed) there's a UAP-AC-M. There's also a second UAP-AC-M in between for covering some dead spots in the kitchen. Both UAP-AC-Ms uplink to the LR (1 hop). Uplink quality is ~50% (-70dBm)
It works okay, however I'm seeing pretty slow iperf speeds. 30 Mbps end to end. Now that'd be fine, however the bigger issue is that it seems the service is intermittent, only really noticeable in real-time applications like multiplayer games where you'll stutter now and again. It's a lot better since forcing the downstream APs to uplink to the LR, however still not as good as I'd expect.
I thought I had it solved as it was working great for a while at 1am, as I got full ISP provided speeds (couldn't run iperf at the time), however now it's back down to ~30mbps again, both on speedtest and with iperf. Any idea where I'd want to look to fix that? Especially the intermittent
Can you do deeper into how to do the initial setup of the AP that isn't connected!!! Also, can you add in some details on actual throughput and latency impacts, like maybe a iPerf with 1, 2, 3 hops?
5:53 SSID: notice me senpai. Ah another man of culture.
Hey Tom , love your explanations and sharing your experiences. I have worked on unifi for some time now and would like to hear a video about the 101 of interference and how to mitigate. I noticed some radio show high interference. Thank you , great job!!
Posted some follow-up on the forum. I will try to do UAP-AC-PRO to UAP-AP original series (2.4GHz only) to boost for areas 'away from the main racks' where I genuinely don't fancy drilling through cabling again. I have some options for cabling if all else fails, but I would love to avoid due to not having any time for myself at the moment with COVID-19 work load (I work for a logistics company but we are doing remote go-live support which is a bit tricky when a customer is new to the whole system and approach). Appreciate the video, it looks promising as an option for the low-bandwidth or sporadic use that is likely to be involved for my application at home.
Thank you. Really enjoyed this. If you have the ability to POE back into a switch would your still setup a mesh or leave the default roaming setup?
HOW did you "undock" your pane for your Studio Table Nano details?!
9:40 connection to PC on the back clearly shows how fast it recovers, though doesn't seem as intended :)
Yeah the Chromecast doesn't roam as fast as my phone or laptop
I would have liked to see a iperf3 speedtest for this mesh set up. With my Orbi satellite w/ wireless backhaul, I get 500 Mbps (gigabit fiber connection) downstairs in my basement. With a UAP HD + Nano HD wirelessly uplinked, I get ~150 Mbps max. Devices are in the same exact location, and all the firmware is updated. If you're going to do wireless uplink but care about throughput, there are better (cheaper) options out there.
Please don't use dark mode on unifi controller. Hard to see some of the small text on a phone.
Hi Tom, thanks for all your excellent content! Did you do any tests on the speed impact using a mesh network? I’ve often seen figures around the 50% in speeds (as the network uses its bandwidth to backhaul). Is this the case with the UniFi AP’s? Thanks!
Hi, thanks for the video. I have a questions. I want to extend mi internet to another room is this connection correct? (ISP Router) -----UTP---> (Ubiquiti Switch Lite 8 PoE) ----UTP----> (Ubiquiti Access Point U6 Lite) ? Thanks in advanced
Great vids. Question. if an AP pro is in wireless uplink, will the secondary port on the AP pass through ethernet? Say to connect a hardwired device?
Hey, could you show how big the speed drop is (maybe with iperf)? I'd expect the throughput would be less than half (every packet has to be sent twice + processing time). Thanks for the video!
Can you trunk multiple VLANs with a Wireless Uplink, or just a single?
The VLANs do go across the wireless uplink.
Could you PLEASE cover what happens when we turn OFF the uplink?
When you turn off the uplink, the uplink stops working.
great video but would be greater if you could perform a step, such as what AP needs to be in MESH enable, radio channel settings, and etc.
I did show where to turn that on, the rest can be left at auto,
Switches in Series ... is this a good Topology ?
That SSID, can't stop laughing....
good demonstration. Very informative
Very helpful :)
Have you done a video on 4g failover for the USG?
Not likely as we don't use the USG very often
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Oh really.
What do you generally recommend for the router? I use the whole unifi stack at home, it's just that the 4g bit is so hard to come across a device that can work with it.
We prefer pfsense
OK but how do I stop the Unifi from using mesh. I have a 3rd party 28 Port 10GB Switch with POE++. Unifi has nothing like it so I don't want to switch. Each time I connect two or more unifi APs to it, Unifi puts the APs into mesh mode eventhough they are directly connected to the switch.
Hi Tom
I have setup a UAP pro in mesh. It is powered by Poe from a unifi switch that has no other connection to the network. It gives internet connectivity back to the switch which has some devices wired to it. Everything works fine. But I noticed that my entire WiFi network which has 5 other APs with wired uplinks have started to have higher latency and occasionally dropped connections. How can I solve that?
Always enjoyed your videos.
Thanks.
It seems that I read somewhere that when you use mesh connections on these traditional Unifi devices, that it cuts the speed by 50% for every mesh hop. Is that true? I may be remembering incorrectly...
How meshing effect max speed? I noticed max of 50 Mbit/s on meshing mode.
my friend but what if I have an xfinity router??? and 2 ac-pro, can I build my mesh network just with that ???
Tom's hair gets greyer and greyer as the years of videos progress --- Funny how working IT systems do this to us all
age+tech=gray
Do you know if the U6-LR will work like this? It's not listed in documentation but I ordered it already not knowing.
Hi! Having issues with handoff between APs as I roam around the property. Have 1 UAP AC Lite, and 2 UAP-AC-M-US Unifi Mesh AP. I have followed your video to the T, and still have a terrible time getting signal even 30 feet through a wall. I can walk outside and get a sad 3mbps, (of the 25 provided by ISP) then turn off my wifi, turn it back on and run the test again and get 13 mbps. I can SEE the Mesh antenna through the window and its only 40 feet away and im barely getting half speed. I logged a ticket with UNIFI and they had me to separate, static channels on each of the 3 devices and that only made hand-offs worse. I assumed getting rid of my LinkSys working with the UAPACLite would be best to integrate with only UNIFI gear but it appears to work worse?!?!?!? Suggestions? Is my Mesh gear faulty possibly?
This is my similar issue. From all my reading and watching vids, it seems that your device (laptop, phone, etc) will need to completely disconnect from whatever AP t is on currently before it will connect to a closer and/or higher power AP. It would be great to find a video explaining this. I've found them talking about this when using routers with the same SSID but nothing talking about APs or Meshed APs.
I just today found a video on wifi roaming. 802.11 r. I think this is the right tree to start barking at. Good luck.
What does "enable element adoption" do? It creates a hidden SSID. But what is its purpose?
This is a good question, I cannot find any solid information on this. We have a Marina site that had intermittent drops and once we unticked this option we never had any drops since.
Nice. Extremely helpful. Thnx.
Hello, question on my setup: I have my 4K NVR 8 Channels with 8 Camera's connected that's in my garage with no Ethernet cable. My plan is to buy 2 APs. 1 in the garage and 1 in my room which is right above my garage. The one in my room is going to be hard wired to a switch. But my concern is, would that set up be enough to keep up with my NVR bandwidth? I want to be able to live stream the video when i needed it with no delay or long buffering. Thank you.
Hello sir I want to ask you some questions about unifi , my controller and ap using roaming mode, but I'm always get IP address 169.254... and my DHCP pool not full connected around 156-170 devices, using/24, have any solution for this issues?
Does it require a controller for this though?
Been trying to find an answer to the following. If you mesh to other AP's do the other AP's automatically get the same channel width as the source? i.e. Wired AP has VHT40 do the others end up with VHT40 as well or can you set say VHT20 ? It's looking like the Wireless connected AP's ignore the radio setting and stick with the link AP's channel width. Testing a nanoHD to two LR's now and the LR's appear to be ignoring what I have the radio's set to for width on 5Ghz. What they say and what clients are connect at don't match, connecting at 40Mhz speeds vs 20Mhz which I have the LR's set to.
You need to take this down none of the options you show are available anymore.
Tom, UniFi access controller on their webpage. Exciting. Have you heard any news as it seems a great for for business customers.
I tried to set this up at a job site and couldn't get it to work. It seemed to work briefly and then the AP would start to blink blue, which I found out means that it's isolated. I ended up just running the network cable.
If I'm using an AP fresh out of the box, I have to adopt it first right? That's what I did, and I made sure I was able to connect to it, then moved it to the area where I had no network cable. It would go into the "isolated" status, even after moving it so that it was right next to the uplink, connecting it to LAN, and even after rebooting. I had to turn off wireless uplink in order to get it to start communicating again.
Brandt Absolu Check the voltage.
Just follow the article & works flawlessly straight out of the box.
What AP/AP's should I have as minimum to make this mesh network cut i use unifi AP AC lite for this setup.?
The link to the compatibility list is in the description
I have a pair of Lites meshed to a Nano HD and I've been very happy with it. One Lite will be wired later down the road but the other will always be meshed as its in my detached garage. They've worked really well so far.
Can you help me I have a group of offices I want to cover with WiFi
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Can anyone meshed APs using Unifi Controller 6.0.45?
Hey Tom, where should i start , i want an esxi virtual homelab , but i dont want to ramp up my electric bill, what specs should i get , i see a lot of these xeon 8-12 core processors but idk how much juice those servers use.... also what do you think is better getting a dream machine or dream machine pro use that as my network firewall IDS/IPS or just use soemthing like PFSense in the homelab ?
unifi mesh work on multi floor building?
sure
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are you saying white box because might as well with no support? or are you saying linksys/netgear have better support? or are you saying home users should pay for cisco/juniper/fortigate support?