So Long, Thanks For All The Help

[aex.perez]

It's actually more user-friendly than Asuswrt-Merlin + AMTM + Scripts. What is listed in your signature is built-in plus much more, including live data on your screen. I know you like monitoring things and you'll probably be watching it as entertainment for hours. No NAT acceleration hacks, no 3rd party involvement. The little box does everything in house with very quick UI.

Logs per category:
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Radios:
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My setup is pretty much stable, took me a bit to get the WiFi just right, but I suspect that's going to be the same regardless. Also pretty much hands off right now, unless something goes south, Police helicopter fly bys, or someone brings up their system using a similar channel for example. Fortunately I'm in a WiFi sweet spot, with few neighbors and being far enough from interference that my WiFi is VERY stable. A main plus, what I'm liking is not having to use a Router ($$$) as a node, when an AP will do the job.

If/when I jump on WiFi 7 or AT&T delivers more than 1Gb to me, then I'll have to make some decisions. Right now though life is good, and since I'm not and will never use some of the more questionable features , which could speed the process up if I got hacked, I'm good so far. One thing for sure implementing PoE, Security cameras (currently WiFi, but prefer wired) and a NVR would be a easier, that's for sure. Some other things I'm seeing are things I've looked at but worked around or done without. Having been on this setup for a couple of years, and a two AC5300's before that, been with this tech for a bit and on Merlin slightly longer.

5Ghz/160Mhz, I regularly (regardless of Speedtest Server) achieve +/- 650Mb over WiFi on the iPhone (AX-2x/80Mhz) and Laptop (AX-2x/160Mhz) which is plenty. 2.4Ghz/40Mhz (I know I'm selfish) and the (AX-1x/40Mhz) cheap Andrioid Tablets achieve +/- 200Mb (they don't have 5Ghz cheap). Not bad, based on many of the posts I seen here. Even if I upgraded the switching to enable 2.5GB, that 1GB out the Internet remains a limiting factor.

I got time as nothing is forcing my hand, but I'm really like what I'm seeing

 

[ATLga]

What's the consensus on auto updates; gateway and ap's. Reading the Ubiquiti forum, there a lots of comments about turning that off. I've always been one to leave that on.

 

[Tech9]

What's the consensus on auto updates; gateway and ap's

There is no consensus in general. It's an available option and entirely up to you. By default it's Enabled. At least schedule updates at night and for the APs at different time so your network is not entirely unavailable. I keep mine disabled, no rush to update the moment an update is available.

 

[ATLga]

One of my AP's went offline at 9pm last night. The power light is off on the top. The POE is still powered and lit. I've unplugged the power, unplugged cables, swapped out the cables, and switched to another port (it's plugged directly to the back of the gateway).
GUI status shows device unreachable and the usual help stuff; check cable, etc.
Bad AP or something else?

 

[Tech9]

Bad AP or something else?

You have 2x PoE injectors and 2x APs. Easy to find what’s not right. Let’s not turn this thread into general troubleshooting help. The steps are exactly the same like when you have 2x identical home routers and one is not working for whatever reason.

 

[ATLga]

You have 2x PoE injectors and 2x APs. Easy to find what’s not right. Let’s not turn this thread into general troubleshooting help. The steps are exactly the same like when you have 2x identical home routers and one is not working for whatever reason.

I know, already thought about using the other poe, but today is work from home day for SO so can't power the other one down. The POE light is on but that doesn't mean anything.
I did try a reset with a paperclip, about 15 seconds holding it in. Light never came on top of ap. Went ahead and removed it from the gui using the "remove" option for the ap.

 

[ATLga]

I know, already thought about using the other poe, but today is work from home day for SO so can't power the other one down. The POE light is on but that doesn't mean anything.
I did try a reset with a paperclip, about 15 seconds holding it in. Light never came on top of ap. Went ahead and removed it from the gui using the "remove" option for the ap.

Had a quick minute while they were in the shower and plugged the dead ap into the working poe/ap. Just a quick hot swap to rule out a bad poe. Light didn't come on for the ap so it's probably dead. Also did a chat with support and after wasting ten minutes, they directed me to the rma page.

 

[Tech9]

Make sure the cable is good on both ends before you proceed with RMA.

 

[ATLga]

Make sure the cable is good on both ends before you proceed with RMA.

I did. Swapped out cables, tried different power source (wall socket), tried poe injector reset (yes it has one too), tried U6 reset, tried plugging dead ap into the working ap poe and still dead. Removed it from the gateway gui.
Submitted an rma for it.
Not happy about this. It was literally online for 12 hours and died.

 

[degrub]

That happens with the best of equipment too. Infant mortality on the bathtub curve. Can be from many things - physical mishandling during manufacturing, shipping - small boxes get tossed around, trace or chip or solder issue. My rule is if there is a service/device you can't live without, buy an extra as a spare. When my RV-325 went belly up post lightning strike, i took my spare out of the box, dropped a backup config in, and restarted the network. 30 min start to finish.

 

[tgl]

At least schedule updates at night and for the APs at different time so your network is not entirely unavailable. I keep mine disabled, no rush to update the moment an update is available.

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.