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    Solved Help with Unusual WiFi Connection Issue

    Giving some preference to WPA3 doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. If the client were allowing that preference to make it choose a really bad signal, that wouldn't be great; but you have not offered any evidence about how bad the choice is. What actual signal strength are you seeing from the...
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    Asus RT-AX88U Pro or BE92U (or other)?

    Maybe, but I don't have a lot of faith in beamforming in consumer routers with user-adjustable antenna positioning. Beamforming is hard enough in gear where the designer knows all the antenna positions to a gnat's eyelash. It's going to be mostly a crapshoot in any of these spidery...
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    Asus RT-AX88U Pro or BE92U (or other)?

    To be concrete ... I don't know what prices you're looking at in the UK, but in the US I see these prices on Amazon: RT-AX88U Pro $260 RT-BE92U $300 XT8 2-pack: $263 XT9 2-pack: $263 I feel a bit queasy recommending the XT8s, because I had a not very impressive experience with them two years...
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    Asus RT-AX88U Pro or BE92U (or other)?

    I feel like you're setting yourself up for failure with this framing of your requirements. The dirty secret of wifi range is that it's largely determined by your client devices not your router. If I'm reading wikipedia correctly, under UK regulations your router is allowed to have transmit...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    There's certainly a lot of complaints about the U7 APs on Ubiquiti's forums. The impression I have is that much of that is about not playing nice with wonky IoT clients. So you might be just fine depending on what you have. That said, wifi 7 is still in the wild-west phase, where...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yeah. Personally I don't allow auto updates on anything. I'd rather deal with any ensuing problems on a schedule of my choosing; not wake up to a broken network on a day when I have work deadlines. But other people may see things differently.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Right, I think I mentioned that upthread. You want to be gentle about shutting down the network controller (which is in the gateway in your case) because that's where all the configuration information lives. APs aren't such a problem; the theory is that APs that get confused after power loss...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    On the reboot point ... the only reason I've seen for a full reboot of either an AP or the controller is a new firmware version. As noted, some configuration changes involve a momentary service outage --- maybe 10-30 seconds, versus a couple of minutes for a reboot. But a lot of changes cause...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yes, if you're using wireless meshing then the parent and remote APs must use the same 5GHz channel, because that's where their backhaul traffic happens. (Unlike some Asus models, UniFi APs don't have a spare radio for backhaul.) But if you have wired APs, I think putting them on...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Hmm, have you re-checked that with UniFi? I have all my APs on different channels, and roaming between them works just fine AFAICT. I do have "BSS Transition" (a/k/a 802.11v) enabled, which might help on this. Yeah, "YMMV" is always applicable with wifi.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Received wisdom on the community.ui.com boards is to not trust UniFi's "Auto" settings for channel or Tx power (or indeed anything else). Their auto channel selection is notoriously stupid, and as far as anyone can tell "Auto" power is just a synonym for "High", which is seldom what you want...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Personally I prefer to plug a new AP directly into the controller (or into the same switch), adopt and configure it, and only then take it to where I plan to mount it. Saves a lot of running back and forth in case you mess up and have to reset the AP while configuring. I believe that once you...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    PoE is typically used in things like ceiling-mounted APs. If they had an internal power supply then you'd have to run both a power cable and an ethernet cable to them. With PoE, only one cable --- plus, it's relatively low-voltage and typically is not subject to the building code requirements...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    I've only tried to use that once so far. It gave me extremely precise, detailed instructions for navigating to and changing a setting that doesn't exist. Best example of an AI hallucination that I've seen yet.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    FWIW, I don't think you need to turn on the Professional Installer mode --- I don't have it on, and I see these options. The tricky thing about Custom Tx power is that (at least in my browser) it's not obvious that you have to scroll the drop-down Tx power menu to get to it. I've had very good...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yeah, the one serious knock I have on Ubiquiti is that their documentation sucks. There's no user manual as such, just a collection of random help pages on their website. If you've successfully used anything like Asus routers, you won't find the Ubiquiti GUI to be daunting, although it's...
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    in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

    Your DNS server seems to be set up to resolve names to local IP addresses but not vice versa. I don't know anything about AdGuardHome so I can't counsel on how to fix it to do both. In a standard DNS server like BIND, forward and reverse maps are totally independent and you have to put an...
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    POE vs plug power adpaters

    Standard PoE supplies 50V or so, not 12V.
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    UniFi doesn't seem to expose device temperatures anywhere in the web GUI, which is odd. However, you can get a bunch of info by ssh'ing into the devices. They seem to be running some not too bizarre variant of Linux/OpenWRT. On my U6-Ent APs, running cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp...
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    So Long, Thanks For All The Help

    Yeah, Ubiquiti is notorious for keeping minimal inventory on-hand. It's common for new stock to come in and sell out within minutes, if it's a popular item.
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