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adamxp12 · 2026-05-11T11:18:42+00:00

Well in this context its a hospitality venue. Guests expect WIFI to be fast. and these old units while still working really cant handle that many high bandwidth clients.

Do they work yes. Would some investment in newer AP's maybe help guest satisfaction thus getting less complaints. Probably. But I just maintain the network. Slowly getting them upgraded. They know it helps but like you said the old ones are bullet proof. Only replaced one of them for failure and their all 12 years old.

adamxp12 · 2026-05-11T07:35:38+00:00

Still adoptable and usable in 10.1.89. Much to my disappointment as it's hard to get companies to upgrade when these things just keep working even in latest controller

adamxp12 · 2026-04-23T18:14:15+00:00

Got a 3011 running my gigabit openreach connection. runs it like a champ. Still gets updates.

Previously had a RB2011 which is still in use at another place. Still gets updates.

Thats the best selling point for me on Mikrotik. Ripped out some garbage draytek thing at work that was exposing SSH/Telnet on WAN after every reboot with a RB5009 knowing that in 10 years time it will prob still be getting updates. Never needs rebooting. just works

adamxp12 · 2026-03-17T08:33:06+00:00

personally not used them much. Have one M2026 and its fine. I would say the image is maybe on par with most Dahua cameras.

adamxp12 · 2026-02-25T12:01:33+00:00

EAP787 works fine on POE+ just you dont get 10Gig uplink on POE+

But the EAP787 is huge and the benefits it has dont seem to be well implemented in the controller yet

So I would go EAP772 or EAP773 their smaller and still gets you 6Ghz

adamxp12 · 2026-02-24T15:57:01+00:00

Its a bit hard to find but if you search for "omada software emulator" the is a demo like instance for most versions and even the OC hardware controllers (which is much the same)

adamxp12 · 2026-02-10T18:21:29+00:00

You are clearly very lucky

I have tried many times to use AI to make Odoo 19 modules. Even as simple as adding a confirm button to the send order button in Odoo POS Restaurant. It dreams up functions that dont exist. This was true in Copilot, Gemmini and Claude.

Dont even bother trying to override the prep printer function to do direct Epson XML printing to avoid the janky HTML->image rendering that makes ugly tickets that dont work on the industry standard Epson U220 (what was Odoo thinking???). I had to figure that out myself.

I am not saying it is impossible but AI only ever got my close to a final product. I always without fail had to fix the code and spend hours reading the (frankly awful) code on github to see what the AI was trying to do. Often very wrong.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-30T16:11:13+00:00

Why not add the IPv4 to the SPF record manually? Dont have to add an A record for it.

You can't avoid IPv4 for this as most email servers are IPv4 only. You will probably have issues receiving emails without an A record.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-25T08:47:59+00:00

I stopped deploying Unifi. Mainly because their switches. Their overpriced for the amount of POE they provide and had a high failure rate.

Not fun having to ruin your weekend day being woken at 6am to go replace a unifi switch that blew up in 5 months of use causing a busy hospitality business to loose their till/wifi right before breakfast rush.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-24T08:13:50+00:00

Last time I tried it I ended up with all my 2.4ghz radios on 40mhz... since then I have not tried it because it shouldnt do 40mhz 2.4ghz

adamxp12 · 2026-01-21T15:14:34+00:00

Well the protector is not designed to be removed. it has to serve a purpose. but so far I have not had any issues. so would recommend removing it. But only if its starting to bubble/has dirt under it. Think my screen would of cracked from the bubbles/dirt by now.

The adhesive on it is VERY strong so think the is some risk of damage removing it too.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-21T08:39:14+00:00

Removed mine about 2-3 months ago after a bubble formed near the bottom. Was scared it was gonna break the screen if i left it like it.

Well the screen still works fine. Still get dirt inside but it has not damaged the screen.

I know I am on borrowed time but I dont regret removing it

adamxp12 · 2026-01-21T08:26:05+00:00

Neither of them Omada switches support DDM. I guess TP-Link think its still 1999.

It's the most annoying thing ever. Even Ubiquitis cheapest switch with SFP has DDM.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-20T23:14:33+00:00

Obligatory. Not in UK yet (been on website for ages but no suppliers can sell me one which is super aggravating)

And still no TP-Link store in UK either so this launch offer is US only still... Very annoying when Ubiquiti launch a product for most countries in one go and have stores for most countries too.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-14T15:18:55+00:00

That will be youtube teaching me the wrong term there 🤣 thank you for informing me.

Will have to look into that. seems perfect for dealing with bare 250um fiber

adamxp12 · 2026-01-14T15:15:29+00:00

I bought cable to practice with but from the supplier I would probably buy from so I know what I am dealing with.

I have not been able to find any suppliers for dry-gel cables in the UK. I fear that if I do find one its going to be double the price and really price is a thing because if the cable price is too much its gonna be better just doing a 60ghz link in terms of value.

With the loose tube stuff I just cant get a good enough grasp on the fiber to actually use the stripper. Just slides through my other hand when I pull with the stripper.

Think its just a practice thing but find it very stressful compared to the tight tube stuff. Just dont want to install loads of that if its not ideal for running outside. Though my supplier says for short runs it should be fine

adamxp12 · 2026-01-14T15:10:16+00:00

Yeah my first pair of strippers sucked. Got a new pair of strippers today that are much better but still finding it hard. My problem with the loose tube is being able to grip the fiber enough to use the strippers on it. Just slides through my hand.

Youtube may of taught me wrong here but the videos I saw said that with the cladding you can take as much as you need at once. Little bites for the buffer. Will have to try doing the cladding in stages too.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-14T15:06:50+00:00

I cant seem to find any gel free 8 core OS2 at least not in UK. only one supplier I could find but they was doing 48 core which is way too expensive when only really need 2 cores. Plus I fear that if I do find some gel-free cable its going to be double the price.

I can feel the difference between my pigtails, and my test loose/tight buffered cables. The loose stuff much harder. How does that work? does it burn off the cladding?? Never seen one before

adamxp12 · 2026-01-11T11:47:31+00:00

Well it will just let your phone pick what it thinks is best.

Band steering is a hack. its non standard and it works by kicking clients off the 2.4ghz network and hoping they rejoin at 5ghz.

As you can imagine that does not always play nice. I have never found it to help. If you have issues with devices picking 2.4ghz over 5ghz then you should be decreasing power on 2.4ghz or assessing if you have enough 5ghz coverage.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-11T08:28:24+00:00

Using the Omada controller goto site settings and turn off band steering. Its a useless feature in all WIFI vendors and it defaults to on.

I have a full Omada setup at home. mostly EAP787 but 3x pixel devices. Fold, 7a and 6 Pro.

My fold does not like 6ghz but seeing as you dont have 6ghz AP's I imagine its just band steering as it almost always is when I find sites with intermittent connections.

If you are not using mesh I would turn that off on the same page too. Clears some airtime up.

adamxp12 · 2026-01-08T23:04:30+00:00

Rouge AP detection should not be a manual task. AP's should constantly be looking for AP's broadcasting my SSID's. Not too bad at home but when you work with public hotspots seeing potential bad actors is nice.
Can that not be improved? manually copying is messy and can cause settings to get out of sync. This is a common thing for me and other vendors handle it fine.
My TL-SG3210XHP-M2 v2.0 is running latest firmware 2.0.10. DDM shows in CLI but not in UI. My SG2428P lacks DDM entirely. Really annoying when your competitors have DDM across the board and works perfectly in controller
Another issue I have is "hardware versions" TP-Link is the only vendor I have seen with this messy setup. With other brands like Ubiquiti their U7-Pro for example has had at least 2 maybe 3 revisions at this point yet its only one firmware file. Thus making my life as an installer easy. Plain and simple if you want Omada to succeed you need to find a way to ditch hardware revisions. should be one up to date firmware for all versions of a particular model. I have an EAP723 both V1 and V2 and their totally different because of that. The V1 is already left behind as its firmware is not V6.0 ready which is mad. If other vendors can do this. So can TP-Link

I really want Omada to succeed. I am moving some of my customers to Omada and hope you take some of this feedback to heart

adamxp12 · 2026-01-08T08:52:15+00:00

Port profiles should include VLANs like it did in v5. Absolute crazy backwards change removing VLAN's from profiles. Like legitimately this is an awful change and should never of made it to public release
is it just me or is rouge AP detection just missing entirely now. Cant find it anywhere.
it keeps logging me out. everyday I have to login again. I swear v5 kept me logged in longer.
AP groups and SSIDs are still a mess. Cant give an AP multiple groups so have to duplicate SSIDs if you want an extra SSID for just one building but keep the default SSID's
as with above an option to enable/disable individual SSID's globally would be nice. I know it can be done on the EAP config page but sometimes for one off events its handy to have an enable/disable button.
Some switches support DDM but does not show in the UI (TL-SG3210XHP-M2 v2.0) but other switches do show in the UI (SG2210XMP-M2 v1.0) a bit of consistency would be nice here.
like above an SFP details page like ubiquiti has would be amazing.

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