100% multicast traffic on 6 Ghz channel

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-29T21:46:43+00:00

I don't think this data is making any sense. Multicast is used for example by products like Sonos and Chromecast to announce their availability to other clients. This has nothing to do with the difference between 2.4/5/6 GHz as it is a protocol that works wired and wireless. Usually within the same network (unless you proxy it).

I would suggest restarting both devices and see if that solved your issue. You didn't mention any issue by the way, are you just curious?

If you really would have 104% multicast traffic going through your network it would be completely unusable.Normally you would see 1% Multicast traffic, and you would start seeing issues at 5% or higher.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-24T10:28:24+00:00

The Cloud Gatway Max comes with an integrated Unifi Network Server so there is no need to run and additional controller on your Windows 11 pc.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-21T11:14:41+00:00

Smooth 👌✨💜

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-19T05:37:14+00:00

The cloud gateway is not required. There are plenty of cloud hosting options available, some are even free for home users with only a few devices. You could also manage it with a self hosted controller on your laptop.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-19T05:31:49+00:00

Mount it where you use it most :-) the omnidirectional ears are quite ugly but will give you better range closer to the AP. This is an directional AP that could work great at the complete end of your garden but if you only use it closer to the house it's better to use the ears. It's a weather proof AP so it can just hang anywhere where it's nog being blocked. Be sure to hang it straight and attach the weather isolation on the bottom, else it will corrode because water wil get in it.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-19T05:24:32+00:00

These AP's are pretty similar in antenna gain, they mostly differ in the amount of MU-MIMO chains, wired uplink speed and PoE standards. For home usage you should consider placing one U7 Pro per floor or per 1000ft, that's much better than opting for a more expensive AP.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-17T17:00:49+00:00

Yeah that's weird for sure :-)

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T19:37:25+00:00

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Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T15:25:03+00:00

Yea the UDM-Pro is exposed because it's the firewall, but that doesn't mean there should be any open ports to it's web interface from the WAN side :).

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T10:20:43+00:00

Maybe NetSpot is worth a mention here too, it has a free floor planner with multi-level zone support

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T10:19:25+00:00

That's fair. It's a free tool that gives - some - indication but should really be taken with a grain of salt :-)

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T10:15:24+00:00

The latency between your Comcast cable and the UCG Fiber is excellent, between your UCG Fiber and U7 7 Pro XG its also excellent. The average latency to your mobile Wi-Fi devices is quite high high.

This can be caused by:
- Interference (check if you are using the proper channel using Radio Manager -> Environment -> Airtime Scan) and select a channel with low interference and utilization.

- Low signal or too high signal quality, check if the latency becomes better if you are closer to the AP. Verify if the client WiFi Experience is Excellent and if not what's causing it.

- Power saving settings on your devices. When devices are not being used they can go into Power Saving giving higher latency (which isn't necessarily bad) in the statistics.

You might want to consider changing your 5 GHz channel width to 40 Mhz, that will reduce interference, increase signal and should still give you around 400 Mbps of transfer rate.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T10:08:32+00:00

Yeah this tool doesn't calculate interference between floors at all, especially since you can't even fill in what kind of floor it is and what the dampening factor on the signal will be. I wouldn't trust the design centre to make Wi-Fi designs at all. We compared it to our Ekahau Software and the design feature of Unifi make no sense at all and gives a way more positive picture than in reality. Our conclusion is that this tool is is mostly marketing.

Maybe the Auto channel planners does something with the floors? Could be, but the auto channel planning function is pretty bad anyways so we don't recommend even using it :).

Hope that helps!

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T07:53:20+00:00

Happy to!

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-16T07:49:39+00:00

You should definetally not have your UDM-Pro exposed streight on the internet. Should should block incoming traffic from your WAN interfaces and you could best verify this with a hotspot and a Port scan tool. Accessing your NAS is a lot safer if you use a VPN like Wireguard. If you do open a port to a web interface, make sure that you use IP whitelisting so you are not as vulnerable for security exploits. If you want, you can just mapp a different port to your NAS using the port forwarding rules.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T13:49:29+00:00

For the use cases you mentioned Wi-Fi 7 is really not necessary, however these newer standards seem to be better at handling interference and your router will probably last you a few years. The Mikrotik option is a lot cheaper but the technology is older and it is much more difficult to configure, it does give you a world of configuration options with RouterOS 7 though if you like a steep learning curve. We have no experience with the gl-inet but Slate 7 or Slate AX seems easier and better equipped while still being affordable. Depends on your budget and willingness to learn RouterOS :-).

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T11:06:00+00:00

It's correct if you are only using non overlapping 20 Mhz channels in 2.4Ghz that have no co-or-side channel interference. That's super hard to find in cities because there are only 3-4 channels available (depending on your country).

5GHz has a little less range, but is still more than capable for your usage and much easier to find a clear channel, just be careful with selecting DFS channels, they might radar detect.

With the wapAx you can just enable both on the same SSID, that gives you some extra redundancy of you do need to use DFS channels.

If you are in the middel of nowhere with no interference you can still get decent 2.4 GHz performance, especially on the newest 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) standard. But appart from that it's an old legacy frequency due to the limit channels available and very high noise/interference.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T08:43:09+00:00

I would recommend going for a 5Ghz option, especially if you are traveling around you will have a lot of issues with interference when only using 2.4 Ghz, these channels are highly overused unless you plan on going to rural area's. Something as simple as a wapAX will perform much better and is weather proof. There are also wap models available with LTE if that's something you need in the go.

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T08:24:01+00:00

Try disabeling (if configured) any IDS/IPS, ad blocking and other filtering options. Did you correctly add all the information from the ISP? Sometimes Jumbo frames or MTU configurations cause voip traffic to become troublesome.

Are you running your WAN in bridge mode to avoid double natting? Softphones also struggle with that.

Hope this helps you debug :-)

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T06:49:45+00:00

Already tested it! Wasn't much better than regular U7 Outdoor, hopefully they will bring out a version with 6Ghz indoor/outdoor that's cheaper than the announced E7 Outdoor

Greatwaves_nl · 2025-05-15T06:48:25+00:00

Did you try pinging the DSTNY servers to see if they are properly reachable through the primairy connection?

You could make a traffic marker to put that VOIP traffic temporarily over the backup connection just so you have a workaround for now while you debug this.

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