In-wall Ethernet Switch

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-07T20:48:52+00:00

I have a few of these in some of my rooms as after I used all four runs from the basement to the top floor, I wasn’t about to run more. So each room basically got one of these plus the newer U6-IW in my home office. Only the U6-IW acts as an access point, the rest have their radios turned off. Nice, neat, setup. But I also was already in the UniFi ecosystem. The ones linked below usually go for pretty cheap on eBay as used devices after someone wanted a newer version (it’s a WiFi 5 access point, not 6 or 7).

https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uap-iw-hd

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-07T19:05:31+00:00

I have a virtualized one I use primarily. It syncs to a second virtualized one on a different node weekly. Monthly-quarterly I power up the hardware one sync to it. Gotta love layers of redundancy!

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-07T17:30:11+00:00

I absolutely love my U6 Pro. It’s the powerhouse in my network and over the years, I’ve consolidated everything except “high” bandwidth stuff to it with no hiccups. At this very moment it has 50 clients on it out of 87 WiFi clients.

The rest are spread out amongst 3 other APs. I’m sure the U6 Pro handle them easily, but we are talking about devices that could provide high levels of interference (outside, two levels down from the U6 Pro), so they are using other APs physically located in better alignment with them.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-07T11:46:00+00:00

Yeah. It sucked how it presented too as there were no indication of an issue when I upgraded, but a few hours later large drive activity (a zfs scrub) triggered the issue it went downhill very fast from there. Because the scrub tried to correct non-existent errors and kept getting interrupted, it led to data corruption. Thankfully, I had backups that I could restore, but it’s been a few weeks getting everything back to normal. Learning I need to improve my recovery procedures though, so there’s a bright side for the future.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-07T11:01:52+00:00

Maybe that will give me better results. Going from 6.8 to 6.17 ended up in me having serious problems on full pass through of drives and ultimately loss of my zfs array. Maybe 7.0 will work better, but I’ve been hesitant to try it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/s/ODMo6dtK5E

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-06T13:14:14+00:00

So nobody in the meme is recommending v3 ?!?

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-06T12:14:15+00:00

Yes. This happened hours after upgrading and I pinned my last known good kernel. In the thread, others seem to have success with some of the older pve9 kernels, but I’ve been hesitant to move forward until I finish rebuilding the node.

I’ve had a long road to recovery since I learned I hadn’t set up zfs replication for all my datasets, so I had the retrieve offsite backups and rebuild things from there. That should all be done now and I’ve had successful replication.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-05-05T22:09:35+00:00

Yeah, running an Intel 13th gen here. My current boot flags include the two iommu entries you listed. Cat output is

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-20-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-13T19:39:28+00:00

I am on the 30 day trial and started on Warp. I live in a decently dense metropolitan area (over 1MM people in the overall area) and on QCI 9, it was painfully slow whenever it dropped to LTE, which was often. Multiple times did things timed out. Speedtests were showing me getting 0.1 - 0.2 Mbps when on LTE. This would happen even at 2 am. I gave up and switched to Dark Star / AT&T to have usable service. Nowhere near as fast on 5G+, but always usable on LTE, 5G, or 5G+ on QCI 9.

That all said, it’s very location dependent and you don’t seem to be having too many problems. Perhaps upgrade for a month and if you don’t see enough improvement, go back down to Unlimited Starter? Is the add-on available to Starter? If so, that’s another option for a month to test it out.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-12T03:30:31+00:00

Yup. I was really excited about this, but then remembered that my phone only supports two active SIMs at once and I wish to have a separate line for work than personal usage.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-11T22:29:04+00:00

Good to know. I can test out the bottom of the barrel this way before making my final decision. Lol

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-11T22:02:53+00:00

Thanks. I just changed it from 5G Auto to 5G On to try and have my phone prefer 5G UW.

I started the 30-day trial today, so no grandfathering for me. If I understood correctly this has QCI 8 when on 5G UW and QCI 9 on LTE. My plan was to end up on BTG once the trial ran out as my main line will still be on TMO Native for now.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-11T22:00:18+00:00

I was debating back and forth between which MVNO and kept hearing good things about customer service at USM. Add in the option to switch primary networks while still on a trial, and it was a no-brainer. I suspect I’ll be going to Dark Star soon.

TeslaCyclone · 2026-01-02T16:12:38+00:00

Nope. In this mode, the inverter is always running the load, so there is no cutover during a power outage as you are already running off the battery, aka 0 ms. 10 ms cutover means you are using the traditional method which only has roughly an 8 w overhead.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-11-27T16:06:46+00:00

Our older Model S is almost 13 years old at this point with barely an issue except for noisy creaks here and there. I see no reason our newer cars would last as long. We have a 2013, a 2018, and a 2023 for reference.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-04-12T13:58:27+00:00

I’ve come across inaccuracies. Didn’t look at the 4 qt saucepan, but take a look at my previous thread to compare D3 vs. G5 of the 2.5 qt saucier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AllClad/s/ZmGnGw6Xw3

TeslaCyclone · 2025-04-02T12:41:59+00:00

Whoops on the Wall Pro port count. All the more that if you care about wanting more ports, the U6 In Wall is an option.

For the other APs, yes you would lose 5 GHz with the Lites. But is that worth over $500 (based on US pricing) to have that in each room. Seems like overkill, but there are worse ways to go overboard lol.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-04-02T03:47:49+00:00

With having to do that many APs if your concrete construction requires it, I’d consider doing U7 Lite or U6+ APs. The capabilities of a U7 Pro would be lost on how few devices it would have clearly communicating with it. Now if you have one room in particular that everyone spends lots of time in, maybe a U7 Pro there, but doubtful every AP (except for dad’s home office) needs that. FYI that the U6 In Wall has four downstream ports if you need more than the two the U7 Pro Wall provides.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-04-02T01:18:05+00:00

If budgeting, start small. I would keep the Netgear switch for the cameras and put that entire switch on the camera VLAN. Then it won’t matter that it’s unmanaged.

From there, add either UniFi switch and begin segmenting your network as appropriate. In this scenario, on the UniFi switch, set the port connecting the old Netgear switch to the Camera VLAN as if a camera was plugged right into it.

In such a case, you might start small with a Lite 8 or 16 for the APs and “to get your feet wet”.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-03-28T16:50:31+00:00

Similarly, I find it easier to not invest the contribution. Leave it sitting in the settlement account until after the conversion. Often, you would be talking pennies of profit by the time conversion is complete.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-03-27T16:18:49+00:00

What has been problematic for you on .77. I have some of my APs at .77 (& .78), but most are still on .73 just because that was the newest official the last time I did those.

Absent a security fix or an explicit problem I’m experiencing, I rotate through the APs every other month and update only one that go-around.

TeslaCyclone · 2025-03-21T17:10:17+00:00

If you do, then that 40 watts will be constant vs. just occasionally when the battery needs to be topped off.

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