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Guess I'll keep rocking my Unifi for a while longer. I don't really see the need for such high bandwidth wireless in the home, or even in a business, for general purpose device use.
 
Riccochet said:
Guess I'll keep rocking my Unifi for a while longer. I don't really see the need for such high bandwidth wireless in the home, or even in a business, for general purpose device use.
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Yeah, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, the biggest use case is probably for very dense office areas or public places, where you have a very large number of devices in a very compact space. Then presumably one of these AP's can serve a greater number of users/devices by sharing the greater amount of bandwidth.

Still, wireless networking will always play second fiddle to the real wired stuff to me.
 
Zarathustra said:
Yeah, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, the biggest use case is probably for very dense office areas or public places, where you have a very large number of devices in a very compact space. Then presumably one of these AP's can serve a greater number of users/devices by sharing the greater amount of bandwidth.
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Yep, that's what I did in Dec 2020 at our office that has roughly 10-20+ mobile devices connected to it at anytime using video apps. I thought about a mesh but decided to just hit it with one big hammer instead with a model that has large coverage, bandwidth, and decent security features. I can't remember what it is off the top of my head but it is one of these kinds of things. It's worked out great.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Yep, that's what I did in Dec 2020 at our office that has roughly 10-20+ mobile devices connected to it at anytime using video apps. I thought about a mesh but decided to just hit it with one big hammer instead with a model that has large coverage, bandwidth, and decent security features. I can't remember what it is off the top of my head but it is one of these kinds of things. It's worked out great.
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Where I work I have to provide WiFi for over 250-300 people at a time during our busiest times. UniFi HD's have worked great for them.
 
Riccochet said:
But, for the money, it's really hard to beat Unifi.
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Only real annoyance is the need to run the controller. I run it on a Pi 4 alongside pihole, but in more commercial installations you'd want something a bit more robust, I'd imagine.
 
LazyGamer said:
Only real annoyance is the need to run the controller. I run it on a Pi 4 alongside pihole, but in more commercial installations you'd want something a bit more robust, I'd imagine.
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Yeah.. I've got an OLD Dell PowerEdge 2950 running pfSense, the controller, and a couple of VMs for the public wifi network.
 
Riccochet said:
But, for the money, it's really hard to beat Unifi.
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It is. I've been very disappointed in the direction they are going through.

I think my current Unifi AP's are probably my last. I've been planning on swapping them out for some time, possibly for Ruckus units, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
Zarathustra said:
It is. I've been very disappointed in the direction they are going through.

I think my current Unifi AP's are probably my last. I've been planning on swapping them out for some time, possibly for Ruckus units, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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I can't find a reason for me to swap my AP-AC-LR's. They both have been going strong for 6 years, never need maintenance. Every once in a blue moon when I actually start the controller I'll update their firmware's. The controller doesn't have to be running. Really ever, unless you are pushing updates or want remote management capabilities.

If there was some ground breaking reason to upgrade I'd do it.
 
I will say this for the Asus routers. You get a free sub to Ai-Protect network signature based scanning. Is it the best thing out there... No. Is it better than nothing... YES. And it's no additional cost and hasn't impacted my latency or speed on my gigabit connection either.
 
Zarathustra said:
A /64 block means the first 64 bits of the address are fixed, meaning the remaining 64 (out of 128bits in total) are yours to use, so you get 64bits or 2^64 or 1.8x10^19 addresses just to yourself.

A /56 block then means the first 56 bits of the address are fixed, and you get 72bits to yourself, so 2^72, or 4.7x10^21 addresses to yourself.

So, the way they reduce tracking per device is to have the DHCP rotate the addresses on the device on a regular basis. How often this occurs is configurable.
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and what is stopping them from associating the first 64 (or 56) bits of a block to you/your family/household/whatever?

Them being "the trackers"
 
Grimlakin said:
I will say this for the Asus routers. You get a free sub to Ai-Protect network signature based scanning. Is it the best thing out there... No. Is it better than nothing... YES. And it's no additional cost and hasn't impacted my latency or speed on my gigabit connection either.
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Or just get a real stateful firewall that drops all inbound traffic unless specific rules are created for it. UPNP is garbage, and third party control over it isn't much better.

That's the cisco engineer in me talking.
 
Riccochet said:
an't find a reason for me to swap my AP-AC-LR's. They both have been going strong for 6 years, never need maintenance. Every once in a blue moon when I actually start the controller I'll update their firmware's. The controller doesn't have to be running. Really ever, unless you are pushing updates or want remote management capabilities.

If there was some ground breaking reason to upgrade I'd do it.
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Eventually they will end support and stop patching them, like they did with my old green ring b/g/n model years ago.
 
LeRoy_Blanchard said:
and what is stopping them from associating the first 64 (or 56) bits of a block to you/your family/household/whatever?

Them being "the trackers"
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Exactly. That's why it is of limited usefulness, but it is on the same level of associating your NATed public IP to your family.

Currently I run all of my LAN traffic through a VPN. I'm not entirely sure how that works with IPV6.

I guess you'd have to use a NAT66 to accomplish this, otherwise you'd need one VPN connection per LAN IP address.
 
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