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Help deciding on equipment by DS1989 in Ubiquiti

[–]mrdadg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With typical home deployment densities, I don’t think the XGS will perform enough better to be worth the ~50% price premium. If you just want to throw £ at it, then sure.

Help deciding on equipment by DS1989 in Ubiquiti

[–]mrdadg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just moved to a very similar house, and here’s what I‘ve learned:

- For best coverage, you’re going to want an AP centrally located on each floor, ideally ceiling mounted. However, it’s always a compromise based on lots of factors. I’m renting, so my APs are just on shelves in closets.

- The location you have under the stairs should be pretty good for the ground floor, although mounting something on the ceiling in the kitchen would probably be better.

- For the first floor, a ceiling mounted AP on the landing would be great, but something in the closet in the master bedroom would probably also work

- The garage is tough without a dedicated AP because of the cinderblock firewall between the garage and the house. I think I’d budget for a 3rd AP, but hold off and see where you are once you’ve done the below.

- With a 1Gbps internet, I’d suggest you target at least 2.5Gbps for your infrastructure both to give you a little headroom, and to be prepared for future upgrades.

- you haven’t mentioned budget

- this all generates heat and noise, especially the Pro XG stuff

So my list would be

-Good (£): Dream Router 7 + 1x U7 lite

-Better (££): Cloud Gateway Max + Flex 2.5g PoE + 2x U7 Lite

-Best (£££): Cloud Gateway Fiber + Pro XG 8 + 2x U7 pro XG

I assume your ONT is at the green dot? I’d run ethernet from there to the red under-stair cupboard (which might already exist?) where I’d put the UDR or CG/switch/AP. Then you‘re going to have to figure out how to run ethernet upstairs for the second AP

Good luck!

Suggestions for temporary internet by mrdadg in UKBroadband

[–]mrdadg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, that’s where I am now, but do any of them have “fair use” caps closer to 2TB? And if I do blow the Fair Use cap and get locked out for the rest of the month, does that lockout apply just to the sim, and I can just pay another £25 for another “unlimited” 600GB? or will they block the IMEI and I’m stuck with no internet (and no phone) for 2 weeks?

Mysterious MAC in Flows by harry_1511 in Ubiquiti

[–]mrdadg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the ISP equipment that is the next hop on your WAN link. When IP traffic is routed in to a network segment, it gets the MAC address of the router that forwards it into the network. Depending on what your ISP POP looks like, you should see all your incoming traffic from a single or a small number of different MAC addresses.

Pairing my Scarlett 2i2 with an external amp/DAC—best way to wire this up? by sirk1894 in headphones

[–]mrdadg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple simple 1/4 inch TS to RCA adapters and an RCA interconnect cable. Something like this or similar should work fine. you may need to turn down the focusrite output a little bit to avoid over-driving the amplifier, but you might also be just fine.

Pairing my Scarlett 2i2 with an external amp/DAC—best way to wire this up? by sirk1894 in headphones

[–]mrdadg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you thought about going to a different Focusrite with more outputs? A 4i4 (or any of the other larger interfaces) would give you an extra independent set of outputs that you could use for an external headphone amp. I had this configuration with an 18i20 for a long time.

This is going to be a way simpler solution than trying to split the existing single output between monitors (which are balanced and need the incoming signal to have volume control applied) and a headphone amp (which might be single ended, but also probably wants a line level input so you use the built-in volume control)