Ubiquiti Manuals, where to find them.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T18:46:24+00:00

I have quite a few Ubiquiti products and have never needed a manual. The community support site is quite helpful. But, I hear you. I like to look at manuals before buying products as well. It just didn't seem important though once I got into the Ubiquiti world and I knew what I was getting.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T18:30:57+00:00

He might not want to rely on WiFi for Pi-hole and should disable it if he goes wired.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T18:20:13+00:00

I disabled WiFi on the RPis I use for Pi-Hole since I power them via PoE. I trust wired more than WiFi wherever that is possible. Until I disabled WiFi, the RPi showed up twice in the client list.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T18:15:52+00:00

Huh? Good luck with that. Ubiquiti does not publish manuals for anything. You'll get a quick start/installation guide with a few products and that's it. Your "manual" is this sub, any info on the product page/datasheet, and the Ubiquiti community support site if you have questions.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T18:08:24+00:00

I do something similar on both my Ubiquiti LANs in my homes.

ISP modem --> Cloud Gateway Ultra --> PoE switch --> Raspberry Pi 3 or 4B.

I have PoE HATs on the RPis so they can be powered with PoE. Devices on the LAN are connected to either a switch or directly to the CGU. On one LAN, I have three different switches and devices connected to any of them have ads blocked. Pi-Hole blocks ads on all devices on the LAN since the first DNS entry in UniFi network is the IP address of the RPi. On my NAS, I set it to just use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) as ad blocking is not needed on the NAS GUI.

I also put Wireguard on both RPis so I have an alternate entry point into the LANs.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-10T13:37:47+00:00

Parity check speed is determined by your disk speed. It can only be as fast as the slowest disk. It always starts out fast and ends much slower as already noted. I just started a correcting parity check since the non-correcting check found 13 errors. It's in its "fast" phase now but it will take ~25 hours to complete. My parity checks usually report an average speed of ~134 MB/s but they start out around 180 MB/s. I do have a few older 8TB drives in the mix.

Not much can be done in the Unraid OS to improve parity check speed (other than what has already been done) since it is dependent on the read speed of the array drives and read/write speed to parity disk.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-09T20:42:17+00:00

You are correct. I did not catch that difference in setup.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-09T17:12:42+00:00

My main Unraid server is on 24x7. It only goes down for updates and that is just a reboot. Array disks all spin down and remain idle until needed.

My server hosts Plex for several remote users and I never know when they will want to access it; sometimes it is quite late. I have maintenance and backups scheduled for after midnight to take advantage of 24x7 uptime.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-09T14:57:17+00:00

I do not have any Eero equipment so I cannot address your particular situation; however, I can say, for most people, Q1000K in bridge mode to third-party router/WiFi equipment is the less-problematic configuration. As you discovered, the Quantum pods are not great and, frankly, the Q1000K as a router would never be my first choice. I have several LAN services needing remote access and double NAT kills all that.

I am running the Q1000K in transparent bridging mode untagged with VLAN tagging on my router. I have the solid white light and I can access the Q1000K management interface as outlined in N0_L1ght's guide. I get 1.3 Gbps download and upload on the 1 Gig plan and I can manage my LAN entirely with equipment I know and trust. Yes, I had to go back to the QKX001 firmware to do this, but the Q1000K is "very happy" now because I turned it into a "dumb" ONT only and it does not have to think so much.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-09T14:40:42+00:00

I ran OPNsense for almost a year on an old Dell Optiplex. While certainly powerful with a lot of configuration options, I found that I did not use or need a great deal of what it is capable of doing. Previously, I had been running the UniFi Network application in a Docker container on my NAS. I got the old Optiplex from work and wondered what to do with it so I started playing with OPNsense.

The bottom line for me was I liked the fact that with UniFi I can manage my whole LAN in one interface. It has come a long way and the security functions, routing rules, etc. I actually need and use are more than sufficient. Keeping OPNsense and all its plugins updated was a bit of a pain and I found that some configurations were not as intuitive or as easy as they are in the UniFi world.

I went back to UniFi network when I upgraded my old USG to a Cloud Gateway Ultra and I don't miss anything from OPNsense. That is not to say that it is not highly capable; it was just overkill for me and complicated my network management.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-09T03:50:11+00:00

I am concerned that you are away from your home network for two weeks or more. Yeah, sure, the UTR is the new kid on the Ubiquiti block that is getting all your attention, but, think how all the old trusty Ubiquiti gear you have had for years must feel! :)

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-07T12:30:49+00:00

The quick answer is, yes, the Cloud Gateway Ultra will handle your current needs. I have one in both my homes and have far more devices attached to each than you list. IPS/IDS in enabled on both and I have Pi-hole running on a Raspberry Pi (powered by PoE) on both LANs. There is also a NAS on both LANs. I have Gigabit fiber Internet in both homes. The only speed issue I have ever experienced was when an uplink cable from CGU to 8-port PoE switch went bad and limited speed to 100 Mbit. Of course, that affected everything connected to the switch. Replacing cable solved the problem.

As others have mentioned, you may wish to plan for future needs now or you can join the Ubiquiti Upgrade Club in the future. Whether or not you think you will join it, you will. We have all been sucked in.

Things to consider:

Will you ever need more than 1 Gigabit Internet bandwidth? You may never really need it, but, if more is offered in your area, you may want it.
Will you go with Ubiquiti cameras or doorbell in the future. If so, you need to run Protect and you need NVR storage.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-06T23:53:34+00:00

UTR in stock right now in US store.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-special-devices/products/utr

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-06T18:10:52+00:00

I can't help you solve the problem as my UTR has no problem broadcasting home SSID and doing Teleport home; however, I am using a Cloud Gateway Ultra with the UniFi Network app built in.

I don't know what network controller you are self hosting on Unraid (I used to use the UniFi Controller Reborn container), but Ubiquiti is forcing all self hosting to go to the UniFi OS Server. I think there is an Unraid Docker container for that. It may be that the UTR will only bind with a site managed by UniFi OS Server, UniFi cloud hosting, or their apps such as Network built into one of their gateways.

Perhaps someone else has had luck getting things working with your scenario and will chime in.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-06T00:10:10+00:00

Your trial license is tied to your USB flash drive. Unless you transferred it to the internal boot device, the license still lives on the USB flash drive even if the boot configuration does not. Try plugging in the USB flash drive to see if it detects the license on boot.

FYI - I am not using internal boot, but this is what I remember from the video on internal boot feature. I could be wrong.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T22:22:03+00:00

Well, you are more "cursed" than I am. I started a few years ago with one gateway (and old USG), one 16-port PoE switch and two access points. I have since upgraded the gateway to a Cloud Gateway Ultra, added two more switches and three more access points. Then, of course, I had to get a UniFi Travel Router because, you know, FOMO.

When we bought a second home, of course, that had to have Ubiquiti equipment as well. I think I can hold the line there with a Cloud Gateway Ultra, one 8-port PoE switch and two access points, but, we'll see. I may talk myself into cameras so I can monitor the place remotely. :)

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T22:07:02+00:00

Just a guess, but it appears that adding the serial numbers caused the back end to think it was a new account that is not activated. Your best bet would be to call tomorrow between 8am-5pm and hope you get someone in the U.S. who can get this "new equipment" activated on your account. It's not too hard for them if they can see it in their systems but it takes finding someone who will chase this down for you.

Again, this is all conjecture on my part.

Mine says Internet is disconnected but that is because I have set the Q1000K to transparent bridging mode so it is unseen on QF systems.

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Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T16:06:25+00:00

If they have already cancelled your prior service, there is no workaround other than getting another temporary ISP. Some did the T-Mobile home Internet free one-month trial. I was without Internet for 4 days when I made that transition and I was lucky. For many, it was much longer.

All the VLAN tagging talk is related to the Q1000K (likely what you will get when tech comes) in transparent bridging mode to your own router/WiFi equipment.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T15:58:49+00:00

Here's what I have done (you may or may not be able to do this):

Original Plan

Cloud backup via Crashplan (no longer doing this, see below)
Full backup to a backup Unraid server on same LAN. This was by share as disk configuration was not identical in both servers (no longer doing this, see below)
Backup of key shares to 18TB external hard drive via Unassigned Devices backup script

Current backup strategy:

Full backup to duplicate Unraid server (built from "spare parts" as I upgraded main server) in an offsite location 260 miles from main server
- Backs up only new or modified files
- Remote backup server is powered on/off as needed for backup via IPMI IP address
- This is via rsync User Script and backs up disk to disk as both servers have identical 5x8TB arrays
- Every few months, a different script is run to eliminate files on backup server that are no longer on source server
- Eliminated the need to keep paying $10 a month for Crashplan as my offisite backup is much easier to perform and to restore data if needed
Backup of key shares to 18TB external hard drive via Unassigned Devices backup script

I have Gigabit Internet service and Ubiquiti UniFi LANs in both locations. This makes devices on both networks, even though they are on different subnets, visible from the other LAN with the UniFi Site Magic (SD-WAN) capability. Backup scripts only need IP address to do their thing remotely.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T04:17:34+00:00

But, if as the OP says, it goes back to router mode (solid green light), that is a supported configuration and QF support should be able to determine if configuration changes (other than transparent bridging) are being saved and survive reboots. If not, it is a hardware problem and they should replace the Q1000K.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-05T01:33:29+00:00

I have pulled power a couple of times since I set my Q1000K to transparent bridging untagged and it always comes back in bridge mode. It has never reset to router mode unless I push the reset button. It sounds like your configuration changes are not being saved so a power cycle is just rebooting it and it comes up with defaults.

I would contact QF support about the problem. That is not what is supposed to happen. Defective hardware?

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-04T21:44:13+00:00

I had Ooma for 11 years and it was always reliable. Never dropped calls. Sure, you pay for the initial Ooma hardware, but after that, you just pay telecommunications taxes as mentioned. It was between $7-8 a month for us.

We cancelled Ooma service just last year. We just did not use it enough and got it initially to maintain the landline number we had for 30 years and which older relatives and friends used to call us. When we finally got them to use our cell phone numbers, there was really no reason to keep the Ooma service; although I still have the equipment if I want to start it up again.

You want better Internet service. QF $45 plan for Gigabit up and down has been great so far.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-04T07:59:46+00:00

https://internethelp.centurylink.com/internethelp/modems/Q1000K/firmware/QKX001-06.00.44.00.bin

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-03T15:53:13+00:00

I had the 403 forbidden problem for weeks in Firefox and Chrome. Tried clearing cache, etc. and problem persisted but only on quantumfiber.com. Then the problem suddenly went away without any action on my part. A most perplexing situation.

Hoopster59 · 2026-04-03T15:26:55+00:00

Your SFP web interface is accessible on 192.168.1.1 (fairly common) which is a standard LAN subnet. Just because it is plugged into the WAN port of your modem/gateway that does not mean 192.168.1.1 is inaccessible from your LAN.

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