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[sswilson]

What are you using for the 2.5G backbone to feed the AP's in this setup?

For the moment I've got a 2.5G POE switch on the U7 Pro and still using a 1G POE injector for the U6 lite, but I've got a 2.5G injector inbound that should be here before the second U7 Pro arrives.

Ideally, I'd want a Ubiquiti 2.5G POE switch, but there's no way I can justify $650 for their current Enterprise 8 PoE. With any luck they'll bring out a pro-sumer grade 2.5G PoE for sub $200.

a second? what is the use case you need a second router?

It's a second AP that will replace an existing U6 Lite

 

[JD]

Ideally, I'd want a Ubiquiti 2.5G POE switch, but there's no way I can justify $650 for their current Enterprise 8 PoE. With any luck they'll bring out a pro-sumer grade 2.5G PoE for sub $200.

I would probably look at the Pro Max 16 PoE for $540 instead. You'd be left with 1 free 2.5G PoE along with 3 non-PoE on the UCG itself. Could always get SFP+ to RJ45 adapters if you needed all 4 2.5G PoE ports too.

And then you'd also have 12x 1G PoE for cameras and door bells

 

[Izerous]

I would probably look at the Pro Max 16 PoE for $540 instead. You'd be left with 1 free 2.5G PoE along with 3 non-PoE on the UCG itself. Could always get SFP+ to RJ45 adapters if you needed all 4 2.5G PoE ports too.

And then you'd also have 12x 1G PoE for cameras and door bells

Thats what I was eyeballing myself until I realized it was only 4x 2.5G ports which is why I was curious how @sswilson had addressed it for himself. Honestly at this point i'm more likely to pick up a USW-Aggregration switch and keep expanding on the 10G connections over the 16 port pro-max and leave everything at wifi 6 for a while.

UDM-Pro only having 2xSFP+ ports means my desktop and the UNVR have already tapped both ports, and I have at least a NAS and one more server, maybe more that could utilized further SFP+ ports. (I'd swap the UNVR and NAS around if the NAS was ready). Have a pile of SFP+ adapters and a local shop has decent pricing on fiber cables (https://www.fatwiredist.ca/)

 

[JD]

Thats what I was eyeballing myself until I realized it was only 4x 2.5G ports which is why I was curious how @sswilson had addressed it for himself. Honestly at this point i'm more likely to pick up a USW-Aggregration switch and keep expanding on the 10G connections over the 16 port pro-max and leave everything at wifi 6 for a while.

UDM-Pro only having 2xSFP+ ports means my desktop and the UNVR have already tapped both ports, and I have at least a NAS and one more server, maybe more that could utilized further SFP+ ports. (I'd swap the UNVR and NAS around if the NAS was ready)

Cough up the coin and get the USW-Enterprise-24-PoE, that's what I did

(though I already had a ES-16-XG for the 10G side of things)

 

[Izerous]

Honestly 4x2.5G ports is probably more than I would need for a while, just at those prices i'd rather KNOW it would last me a while.

 

[sswilson]

For my current use case, the only thing standing in the way of using my existing third party 2.5G POE switch for both APs is that it disrupts the topology view. The CGM seems to get confused with 2 APs reporting on the same port and loses all topology reporting after a short period of time. Until such time as Ubiquity releases a Lower end 2.5G PoE switch (along the same lines as the Switch Lite 8 PoE, but in 2.5G instead of 1G) I'll stick with 1 AP on the third party switch + 1 on a 2.5G injector.

edit: If at some point we do decide to switch over to Ubiquity cameras (won't happen unless/until we move) the Pro Max 16 PoE would probably make a fair bit of sense.

 

[Marzipan]

For the moment I've got a 2.5G POE switch on the U7 Pro and still using a 1G POE injector for the U6 lite, but I've got a 2.5G injector inbound that should be here before the second U7 Pro arrives.

Ideally, I'd want a Ubiquiti 2.5G POE switch, but there's no way I can justify $650 for their current Enterprise 8 PoE. With any luck they'll bring out a pro-sumer grade 2.5G PoE for sub $200.



It's a second AP that will replace an existing U6 Lite

my bad...my brain read that as UDM Pro. sorry!

 

[sswilson]

I would probably look at the Pro Max 16 PoE for $540 instead. You'd be left with 1 free 2.5G PoE along with 3 non-PoE on the UCG itself. Could always get SFP+ to RJ45 adapters if you needed all 4 2.5G PoE ports too.

And then you'd also have 12x 1G PoE for cameras and door bells

So, it's just a matter of inserting one of those adapters to convert one of the 10G ports into an ethernet WAN to bring 2.5G to the router? No networking gymnastics required?

I really shouldn't have looked.... there's currently an Enterprise 8 PoE on ebay for $500 + $20 shipping......

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Really bloody hard not to hit buy on that one...........

 

[JD]

So, it's just a matter of inserting one of those adapters to convert one of the 10G ports into an ethernet WAN to bring 2.5G to the router? No networking gymnastics required?

Yup, I use this one for example: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07P39G4XJ as it runs a bit cooler than some of the "older" ones. I had a 1st gen MikroTik which ran super hot. Ubiquiti sells one too but it's $86.

 

[sswilson]

On the negative side of this.... I just realised that my OnePlus 12R is only wifi 6.

Correction.... I keep making the mistake of conflating having access to the 6 ghz band with wifi 6 / wifi 7. The oneplus 12r recognizes that it's connecting to wifi 7, but only does so on the 5 ghz band.