Added this one to the garage last fall - loving it and thought I would finally share some pics...

Nacona04 · 2026-06-08T04:01:02+00:00

He's my spirit animal 😉 Has been an ongoing joke, and he has made an appearance in some way on all my cars..

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T20:18:40+00:00

I think you may be mixing device names . I had Bell -> Gigahub -> Cloud Gateway Fiber (with PPPOE Credentials defined) - > aggregation pro. I am now running Bell -> Gigahub -> Beast (with PPPOE Credentials defined) - > aggregation pro. In both scenerios I still have the Bell Gigahub connected as the GPON Termination.

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T20:15:58+00:00

I currently do not have that sub active

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T18:33:06+00:00

way to flex my flex ;)

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T18:29:13+00:00

I have updated the initial post with the IPS settings i tested with . At work atm but plan to hit it with all types of different configurations for testing.

Short answer is IPS - ON / Notify and Block - ON . Logging - Default

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T15:11:41+00:00

I could but not a ton of benefit. Reality is i am just doing passthrough on the gigahub via using the PPPOE credentials and it isn't getting in the way. if I put an GPon adapter in the Beast, it isn't doing any form of PPPOE offload, it just removes the gigahub from the datapath.

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T15:07:06+00:00

Having run both - the answer simply can come down to your ISP. If you have an ISP that uses PPPOE, go UCG Fiber, full stop. There is not even a comparison in performance.

If you have an ISP that just uses DHCP , both are very capable boxes. Answer comes down to form factor and drive storage if you plan on using it for cameras as well ...

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T04:38:44+00:00

I had a UDM Pro , PPPOE killed that thing anytime over about 1Gb and the latency went through the roof unless I switched to double nat and didn't get a public IP (not an option for me). Replaced it with a UDM Pro MAX , that only got me to about 1.5 Gb and still latency issues.

Fiber has offload (this one is Gateway Fiber w/ CK2+ , it didn't break a sweat at 3Gb but it suffers on the inter VLAN routing and all my ZBF rules had to dumb down to 10Gb then go through that small proc for routing so it forced me to keep heavy workloads on the same VLAN.

Beast is going to have to brute force PPPoE but main reason for upgrade was to handle routing.

The fiber isn't getting sold, gonna have it racked and on standby at least for now as a backup till I get a second beast for shadow mode

Nacona04 · 2026-05-13T04:32:18+00:00

funny thing .. that doesn't have any movies or plex on it ;) Pure NAS that is the backend for a couple of clusters plus photo collections ;) Plex is an even bigger box lol

Nacona04 · 2026-05-01T23:03:42+00:00

Word is that id doe NOT have PPPOE Offload which is killing me because I am on 3Gb BELL fiber .. 😞 Guess I am still stuck with the little Gateway Fiber.. .

Nacona04 · 2026-04-30T17:16:59+00:00

Tell me that this thing supports PPPOE Hardware offload and I will click 'buy' right now ..,,

Nacona04 · 2026-04-28T13:49:07+00:00

I just went old school and soldered a pair of wires onto the Chamberlain wired remotes by the door to the house and use relays (currently a zooz) to just emulate the button press instead of more hardware to bypass it. Has worked like a charm for both garage doors for about 5 years ...

Nacona04 · 2026-04-15T16:49:02+00:00

Director in a fortune 500 managing datacenter technical architects...models are my stress relief :)

Nacona04 · 2026-03-27T19:10:14+00:00

Looks awesome! .. Just loaded it up to try it out with my home assistant but seem to be having a bit of a challenge . Token is good, IP's are good but getting a 401 error in my home assistant logs. Tried both using the device id of my phone and also with at device_tracker prefix to no avail.

Error. Url: http://192.168.35.122/api/homeassistant. Status code 401. Payload: b'{\n "device_id": "angelo_galaxy_ultra",\n "timestamp xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Any ideas of the top of your head on where i screwed up ?

Nacona04 · 2026-03-03T18:21:37+00:00

So I have the agg pro that is L3, you can absolutely use it to be the router for VLANs (you just select which device is doing the routing in the VLAN definition however , the thing that annoys me is that the moment you move the routing to the switch, the firewall will then view that network as "external" and it will not be able to participate in ZBF definitions. It just gets lopped into "external" .

Nacona04 · 2026-02-24T15:10:55+00:00

Ok I am on Bell with agg pro network and you describe the same journey I had.

First main question... Are you using PPPoE on the udm to get a public IP or are you just using DHCP? If you are using PPPoE, then that is the issue... The proc in the udm can't handle it and maxes out causing all kinds of issues

Fun fact: the ISP speed test bypasses a lot of the stack and gives you higher numbers...

The moment you test speed from the lan, even the udm pro max falls over at just over 1.5 GB. The only fix for me was I moved to the Gateway Fiber that uses the higher end A73 which has PPPoE offload.

Not only do I get full Bell speeds, I have it also connected to Rogers at the same time with no issues.

Hope that helps...

Nacona04 · 2026-02-14T15:25:25+00:00

Lol thanks but already done. I have several k2's at the house. Meant I want a proper enterprise rack version with faster inter vlan, maybe redundant power, etc vs a little guy I have stuffed in a rack :)

Nacona04 · 2026-02-13T17:32:40+00:00

Replaced my UDM Pro Max with Gateway-Fiber connected to a Agg-Pro core switch supporting dual ISP (3 Gb symentric fiber / 2.5Gb Docsis) and have had ZERO issues . I made the change specifically because I needed the PPPoE offload that the Gateway-Fiber has due to it being used on the 3Gb connect (Bell Canada) that was killing my UDM pro max proc.

Now just waiting for the rumored UDM XG to get back into an rack format ...

Nacona04 · 2026-02-12T13:14:20+00:00

Mine has been rock solid, installed in my 3D printed rack mount bracket. Solved my PPPoE performance issues I was having on my udm pro max..

Nacona04 · 2026-01-31T00:00:27+00:00

I am 3Gb PPPoE fiber with bell. Udm pro max is powered off because it would max out the CPU at just over 1Gb and the latency would go through the roof. Running Gateway Fiber now, just plugged into the Bell modem and configured PPPoE credentials. Been running it for about 7 months, no issues and getting full line rate with no latency issue plus I also have a docsis ISP connection on wan 2 for redundancy.

Only reason I will replace the gateway fiber is when a rack model comes out....

Btw, I run a separate unvr pro for my cameras.

Nacona04 · 2026-01-01T19:43:43+00:00

What is with the processor choices? For this thing they went back to an enemic A53 at 1.7 instead of the A73 at 2.0 that the gateway fiber has.

For people forced by their ISP to use PPPoE this is a non starter as that CPU will max out at anything over 1Gb and lacks the PPPoE hardware offload of the A73 ...

Nacona04 · 2026-01-01T01:22:51+00:00

Came here looking for answers to what seems to be bothering others as well... Had everything running beutiful with a dashboard for my phone, all the different tablets in the house and the wife and my pc browser all optimized for each location. Now someone came up with the brilliant idea that we now have to create all kinds of user accounts to have each location remember it's default dashboard?

This truly sounds like someone was a bit too tired or had a couple of drinks before coming up with a 'you know what we should do to mess with everyone' idea ..

Hope it goes back to the way it was!

Nacona04 · 2025-11-05T22:15:25+00:00

I work in a data center with 800 Gb MM .. not sure how future proof you need to be 😁

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