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Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch) (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what brands are good and homelab friendly? I've heard great things about Ubiquity, but know nothing about their products. I do wish to buy a mesh system, as I do have 2 floors and concrete walls in the new place. I am looking for something easy to maintain, yet customizable for when I get more comfortable with playing around with networking equipment.

I have some experience with TP-link + decos, but really dont like their app and default settings. Blocks mullvad.net by default for instance...

If it matters, there will only be 2 people connected normally ~ approx 8 devices or so in total.

2 phones,
2 laptops (wired if possible)
1 desktop comupter (wired)
server (wired)
Nvdia shield (wired)
RaspberriPi (wired)

Am also aiming to buy a 1000/1000 Mbps connection :)

Lemmy know what you would recommend in this scenario, and please feel free to ask about further details if I have missed anything, Thanks as always!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of negativity around Ubiquity in here, which is surprising to me, honestly. I had their USG for years and loved it, recently swapped it out for the Dream Machine and love it. Really don't understand the complaints about linking it to the cloud. I just didn't bother, everything works fine. Additionally, I managed to get a Debian container running on it and installed ntopng, it's been awesome for getting realtime visibility into my network traffic.

E. I should add I have 6 of their switches and 3 access points, one of which is at least 7 years old and still receiving updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats really neat! Unifi devices seem really good, but a little confusing for someone (like me) without a ton of knowledege on these devices. Not sure what to get. From what I have read I need:

Dream Machine (UDM), as the UDR seems to be capped at 700mbps.
I need 2 APs, but no idea which ones to get.
In the future I will need one of their switches, but also not sure which one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have two of the U6 lite APs and they cover my whole house perfectly. They're POE but I just got a cheap POE unmanaged TP-Link switch for now.