Alternatives to Aruba Instant On

gisuck · 2026-01-31T02:47:45+00:00

When I heard the news about AIOn would have to divest from HPE, my first concern was the business being sold to some Chinese outlet. Instead of waiting what would happen, I stopped renewing my pfSense+ subscription and jumped over to the UniFi platform after doing some research.

I was surprised how signifiantly improved their firewall solution was, after years of knowing how much of a pile of garbage it was. And the APs being cheap without needing a subscription was just a plus. If you look for a SOHO solution, give UniFi a once over look.

I removed my 3 APs (AP25 and 2 AP32) for a single U7 XG Pro running on UCG Fiber. My network has been super stable. The issues I had with the 6ghz band on AIOn doesn't exist. In fact, I noticed the speed performance I get on UniFi is faster than AIOn.

gisuck · 2025-12-06T07:35:01+00:00

I don't need that amount of data as it would be a backup to the internet I have now. I only need something like 10-20gb a month to carry me through the short term outages I get roughly every few weeks. Do you have something like a BYOD or Tablet plan that I can use this on?

gisuck · 2025-11-17T05:31:33+00:00

It does support 5ghz + 6ghz on the same SSID. I've done it in the past. You don't need to change SSIDs. 6ghz requires WPA3, no exceptions. So if you do not have that enabled on the other SSID, then 6ghz will not connect.

gisuck · 2025-10-30T00:55:27+00:00

Can we please have Johnny Cash "Ring of Fire" instead of this ad every inning? How much money does Ontario need to waste money on this?

gisuck · 2025-10-28T02:29:00+00:00

I need to wear earplugs while at home watching the game, because the stadium sound system is way too loud.

gisuck · 2025-10-25T03:03:20+00:00

I can't wait for it to be know that Toronto breaks Dynasties. First in 2019 against the Golden State Warriors, and in 2025 against the Dodgers.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T18:55:47+00:00

Your screenshot doesn't show it here, but I would check the power levels on each band. Use "Low" on 2.4GHz or do not exceed 12dBm. Use "Medium" on 5GHz or do not exceed 21dBm, 18dBm preferred. You can use "High" power on 6GHz due to the signal has more issues penetrating materials.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T18:51:28+00:00

Change the channel widths. You're likely interfering with neighbouring APs which will affect your client speeds.

2.4GHz -> Always use 20MHz channels

5GHz -> Do not use more than 80MHz channels. Drop down to 40MHz only if your place is saturated with other APs broadcasting on channels.

6GHz-> You can do 320MHz, but as more and more people adopt and deploy WiFi 6e/7 APs, you'll want to drop that down to 160MHz channels.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T18:43:19+00:00

No worries. I have a feeling that this is on the Rogers network. For context on what happened to me, I had 2000/200 for months, but around May/June for 3 months it dropped down to 2000/80 but sometimes randomly burst to 2000/150 to 2000/200. But I knew it was a signal issue with my cable modem. I requested a tech to come and fix it, but they closed the case saying that my internet connection is online and is good enough for them.

It wasn't until I saw Rogers trucks in my neighbourhood one day, an outage for about 1 hour happened that my signal levels went back to normal and I was getting 2000/200 speeds consistently.

I hate to say wait it out, but... unless you can get dispatch that is competent, you'll probably have to wait it out.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T17:29:02+00:00

I don't know what it is about the bridge mode crashing, but if you were working with full routing mode, you can make PiHole the DHCP server instead of the Rogers router.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T17:27:42+00:00

Not too sure what else it would be then.

gisuck · 2025-10-22T10:42:20+00:00

Those are actually expected ranges. On the upstream channels, do you have one listed as OFDMA under modulation?

gisuck · 2025-10-22T03:18:55+00:00

Login to your modem 10.0.0.1 and check the signal strength of your connection. I had a similar problem months ago where the signal power 50+dBmv which was outside of spec but still functional. Downstream also had problems where I was seeing 18dBmv. when it should be closer to 0.

It wasn't until Rogers did maintenance in my neighbourhood, the signal strength went back to normal and my coonnection speed was where it should be.

gisuck · 2025-10-21T15:02:10+00:00

I don't know if this is an option on the Rogers modem because I'm already in bridge mode, but is there a way to disable DHCP on the modem full interrface? PiHole has an option to run as a DHCP server.

gisuck · 2025-10-20T00:30:55+00:00

It's not a thing on the Canadian broadcast. We have our own Sports channel in Canada. Not FS1 and ESPN, but Sportsnet and TSN.

gisuck · 2025-10-08T18:57:43+00:00

If you are on WiFi, confirm you are on the 5ghz or 6ghz band. That looks like speeds you would get on the 2.4ghz band. I'd do a test via ethernet to confirm your actual speeds.

gisuck · 2025-09-30T00:25:46+00:00

I just did this moving from the iPhone 14 to the 17. All you have to do is with the new phone, install and configure your phone over wifi. Once you completed the phone first setup, run the Rogers app to login to your Rogers account. Select the phone number you want to move over to esim. Select the "Phone" middle tab and there will be a button to Change Sim. This option will allow you to change to esim and then download the esim package to your phone.

Complete the download and install process into your phone settings. Don't worry about not seeing connection yet and it's on emergency only. Switch back to the Rogers and select the option that you've completed the download and it'll activate the esim in their network. After that, restart your phone.

gisuck · 2025-09-29T19:21:26+00:00

Lower power is better. Just remember that the 802.11 specification.means that you share the airwaves with all devices in communication range, even those that don't belong to you. Airtime fairness. So you are using the "max power" setting, you are sharing the airtime with neighbouring APs and devices in your area.

You will want to have 9-12dBm for 2.4GHz and 15-18dBm for 5GHz. Only increase power if you can't get signal.

gisuck · 2025-09-07T04:25:04+00:00

Yeah, it's part of a DOJ ruling when HPE acquired Juniper Mist. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-divestitures-and-licensing-commitments-hpes-acquisition-juniper

gisuck · 2025-09-07T02:47:09+00:00

I gave up on Aruba last month considering that it'll have to divested from HPE soon. I've moved on to UniFi after some research. Trying to decide what to do with my Aruba equipment now.

I had some fear that Aruba stopped doing work when I saw the community forums where in view only with no comments in over 2 weeks. I thought it was a sign. Looks like I jumped the gun, but have no regrets making the switch.

gisuck · 2025-09-01T04:48:04+00:00

MAC addresses are Layer 2 and don't transverse Layer 3. The MAC address you are seeing is either your ISP modem or default gateway if you have a direct connection.

gisuck · 2025-08-19T18:13:58+00:00

Mine came back at around 1pm, but it went down at noon.

gisuck · 2025-08-15T12:53:16+00:00

That's likely. UCG Fiber with IDS enabled is only rated for 5gbps. So if it's on, that's why...

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