quovadis
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Local peering is at the best it's ever been - the local peering growth has been explosive.
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Local peering is at the best it's ever been - the local peering growth has been explosive.
Guess you haven't been using Webafrica or Crystalweb the last few weeks..
quovadis
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Lol there's a difference between peering and what I assume would be IPConnect capacity...
Chris.Geerdts
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Yup. I think it's the IPC costing that's going to strangle the 200Mbps product. Although my guess is we'll see an IPC priced reduction soon - first to accommodate the 200Mbps product and 2nd as Telkom's last reductions were May and June last year afair.
A R271 line rental premium levied by Openserve is bs. Adoption will be abysmal if Openserve charge that to ISPs. If that was the only amount levied by Cool Ideas to bump 100 up to 200 I probably still wouldn't be interested.
Yep, it has come to this now. Never thought we'd actually talk about something like that
I'm going to have to upgrade my Ubiquiti UniFi stuff this year, assuming the 200Mbps bump gets a sensible price.
I see the UniFi AC Pros are R2.5k a pop, and I need two of them. Oh well.
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Really dont need AC PRO's
Pop me a message when you ready and I can assist we get dealer pricing 
+1 even international speeds are VERY acceptable actually.
I follow the seedbox rubreddit on redit and the Americans with the 300Mbps+ lines can't even get to 50-80Mbps download speed to EU. They constantly complain about slow connections to EU.
EU is where most seedboxes are located especially Netherlands and France so we are doing pretty good. I would say most people on proper fibre connections get pretty decent local speeds latency and pretty good international speeds.
Really dont need AC PRO's
Thanks! What would you recommend over my current LR APs then? The 100Mbps ethernet ports is what antiquates them.
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My entire setup is Ubiquiti. The only thing in the house that’s connected at 100mb is two old APs that I had before I noticed the other APs and these two now service the kitchen and study. I’m replacing the kitchen one to another AP AC Lite tomorrow and moving the one to the outside area to service guests over in summer. The AP AC Lite however as you know covers and insane range.
Price and performance you really don’t need anything more than AP AC Lites running. I have two upstairs to service about 20 devices in total (10 each on average) and just paid R1280 for one today.
These are connected to the Switch 8 POE 60W which get rid of the POE injectors, both upstairs APs run off this at full 1000mb speed and have a downlink 1000mb to the switch connected to the Gateway.
My setup is also 100% Ubiquiti UniFi. The Cloud Key Controller isn't pictured below:
I wasn't aware that the AC Lite has good range. I specifically bought the long range models to get as much out of them as possible. My property is really expansive, and each AP covers a really large area inside across two floors. The Outdoor+ covers a large outdoor area and services several outbuildings. At any given moment a lot of wireless devices are connected.
Wiring just my three current APs took nearly 300m of cabling and a lot of climbing and crawling. So whatever replaces them needs to have excellent range, and I really don't want to have to add APs to the setup as it's so much effort and the current 8 port switch is full.
rvanwyk
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My setup is also 100% Ubiquiti UniFi. The Cloud Key Controller isn't pictured below:
I wasn't aware that the AC Lite has good range. I specifically bought the long range models to get as much out of them as possible. My property is really expansive, and each AP covers a really large area inside across two floors. The Outdoor+ covers a large outdoor area and services several outbuildings. At any given moment a lot of wireless devices are connected.
Wiring just my three current APs took nearly 300m of cabling and a lot of climbing and crawling. So whatever replaces them needs to have excellent range, and I really don't want to have to add APs to the setup as it's so much effort and the current 8 port switch is full.
Another full UBNT user here.
Have to agree. Those AC Lites are pretty impressive. Bought mine on Amazon when I was in Germany and had them delivered to the hotel I was staying. Was about R100 cheaper than dealer pricing here at the time.
Didn’t splash on a Cloudkey though. Using a PC as the controller.
Just can’t get the Speedtest feature to work.
My setup is also 100% Ubiquiti UniFi. The Cloud Key Controller isn't pictured below:
I wasn't aware that the AC Lite has good range. I specifically bought the long range models to get as much out of them as possible. My property is really expansive, and each AP covers a really large area inside across two floors. The Outdoor+ covers a large outdoor area and services several outbuildings. At any given moment a lot of wireless devices are connected.
Wiring just my three current APs took nearly 300m of cabling and a lot of climbing and crawling. So whatever replaces them needs to have excellent range, and I really don't want to have to add APs to the setup as it's so much effort and the current 8 port switch is full.
Forgive the stupid question, but what does the Security Gateway do, and is it worth it? Cost?
Also, what kind of range do you get on the LRs? Did you have to tweak any settings/power output to get the range?
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Cloud key is a device that plugs into your network that hosts the entire cloud controller software onto it. Thus eliminates having to use a PC as a host or server so forth.
It’s pretty cool as it allows you to access your network from outside of the network through Ubiquitis website without having to setup any open ports or hosts and such.
Very handy in the enterprise market when your managing multiple sites/ clients. Iv found mine very well worth the money spent.
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My setup is also 100% Ubiquiti UniFi. The Cloud Key Controller isn't pictured below:
I wasn't aware that the AC Lite has good range. I specifically bought the long range models to get as much out of them as possible. My property is really expansive, and each AP covers a really large area inside across two floors. The Outdoor+ covers a large outdoor area and services several outbuildings. At any given moment a lot of wireless devices are connected.
Wiring just my three current APs took nearly 300m of cabling and a lot of climbing and crawling. So whatever replaces them needs to have excellent range, and I really don't want to have to add APs to the setup as it's so much effort and the current 8 port switch is full.
Sorry man took awhile to get settled and found the video that I wanted to share with you. He covers both the AC Lite, LR and up. The AC LITE LR version with 1000mb support ofcourse is packed into a slightly thicker body but is the same underlying hardware just with bigger antennas.
Very good point that he does bring up however is that as always you will be dependent on the devices RX rate when at distance from the unit however the unit itself does have a very large range (all covered in the video) secondly he also gives a good summary of the use cases for each and the estimated users for each so you know where it fits in.
https://youtu.be/0RbKb38rIvE
Locally the LR version of the AC Lite is around R250 more than the normal and then it’s the bigger jump to the Pro of around R750 (not bad I guess in the end but then again advantage being the 3X3 Radio which would only be advantageous if the devices could support this 3X3 or if you really had so many WiFi devices using the radio).
I just love this hardware and software and can see myself never recommending anything else. Next on the list is to get the house security cameras setup...take my money
Weird. I don't recall have issues with the speed test even before I got the Cloud Key.
The UniFi Security Gateway is pretty useful. The main purpose is to enable the full functionality of the UniFi system. So way more stats and monitoring of the network. The USG can also function as a router for fibre users, so that's useful too. I bought it purely to unlock the UniFi system.
You do need to tweak the APs to get the best out of them, but it's nothing you shouldn't do with a regular router anyway. Scanning channels and ensuring you don't have overlap, setting channel width and AP transmit power is pretty much all there is to it.
He asked about the USG, not the Cloud Key.
The key certainly is very useful. So much better not having to deal with the controller software on any PC, or losing stats because a device wasn't running the controller.
Sorry man took awhile to get settled and found the video that I wanted to share with you. He covers both the AC Lite, LR and up. The AC LITE LR version with 1000mb support ofcourse is packed into a slightly thicker body but is the same underlying hardware just with bigger antennas.
Very good point that he does bring up however is that as always you will be dependent on the devices RX rate when at distance from the unit however the unit itself does have a very large range (all covered in the video) secondly he also gives a good summary of the use cases for each and the estimated users for each so you know where it fits in.
https://youtu.be/0RbKb38rIvE
Locally the LR version of the AC Lite is around R250 more than the normal and then it’s the bigger jump to the Pro of around R750 (not bad I guess in the end but then again advantage being the 3X3 Radio which would only be advantageous if the devices could support this 3X3 or if you really had so many WiFi devices using the radio).
I just love this hardware and software and can see myself never recommending anything else. Next on the list is to get the house security cameras setup...take my money
Thanks for the vid. Certainly useful stuff to know. I think I'll stick with LR models when I get around to replacing my current ones. For one they're the same size and I can switch them out without climbing into the attic, but also it would be a disaster if the regular APs did actually have reduced coverage in my house.
Just have to wait for Openserve to sort out their crap pricing...
rvanwyk
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I don't know why its doing it. The SpeedTest button runs a python script on the USG called speedtest_cli.py.
Logged into the USG and ran that script but keeps coming up with an error:
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Could not retrieve speedtest.net configuration: timed out
Oh well. I've almost given up.
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here is some results from a 200Mbps Afrihost priority uncapped account
South-Africa
https://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/result/6834210
Paris
London
New York
San Francisco
South-Africa
https://speedtest.mybroadband.co.za/result/6834210
Paris
London
New York
San Francisco