Home WiFi Network Setup

Get a Raspberry Pi

Install Pi-Hole
Connect with LAN cable to the router.
Set it as the DHCP server and disable the DHCP on the router.

Had an issue with a Dlink router and did this as a fix before getting a new router.
 
A few Saturdays ago our only installed Unifi AP (LR), we had two sitting in a cupboard to be installed, decided to have a day off and I could no longer pick up it's WLAN on any device in our household. I tried to reboot it, reboot our main Asus router, reset the AP, I even got one of the other AP's and tried to install it but nothing I did worked. I never figured out what the issue was although I believe it had something to do with the Unifi app on my iPhone. So, using my wife's 'spare' work laptop which basically stays at home 95% of the time, I spun up a Unifi network controller, adopted one of the AP's that was sitting in a cupboard in place of the AP LR, which I moved to where the main Asus router lives, adopted it as well and setup a WLAN with the same name as the AP LR previously had. And voila, up and running again, with two AP's now although the LR is in a temporary place until I get time to get it in properly, which will be in December as I will be 'between employers'...
 
Managed to get all three AP's up and running, they aren't 'permanently' in but they work for now. The Dining_Room_AP is an LR version and sits smack bang in the middle of the house, the others are on the ends ow wings of the house...

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I can still play around with placement but this is what it looks like for now...

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Next is to get the USG up and running, I plan to get it to sit between the main Asus WiFi router and the the AP's initially before ditching the Asus eventually.
 
Neuk_ said:
Managed to get all three AP's up and running, they aren't 'permanently' in but they work for now. The Dining_Room_AP is an LR version and sits smack bang in the middle of the house, the others are on the ends ow wings of the house...

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I can still play around with placement but this is what it looks like for now...

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Next is to get the USG up and running, I plan to get it to sit between the main Asus WiFi router and the the AP's initially before ditching the Asus eventually.
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Nice one, my sense is you may need 1 more AP - and I know the design tool isn’t always 1:1 with real world
 
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Neuk_ said:
Managed to get all three AP's up and running, they aren't 'permanently' in but they work for now. The Dining_Room_AP is an LR version and sits smack bang in the middle of the house, the others are on the ends ow wings of the house...

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I can still play around with placement but this is what it looks like for now...

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Next is to get the USG up and running, I plan to get it to sit between the main Asus WiFi router and the the AP's initially before ditching the Asus eventually.
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What AP is in the dining room? Looks unsuitable for that space.
Also, FE uplinks? You need to get a gig switch in there dude.
 
Mzezman said:
Nice one, my sense is you may need 1 more AP - and I know the design tool isn’t always 1:1 with real world
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I have no idea why the InnerSpace part of the UI network manager puts these strange WiFi patterns on each AP :unsure: Like the Dining Room AP just doesn't cast WiFi to it's left, bizarre. Anyway, I still have tweaking and playing around to do, the LAN cable I used to get the last AP in is absolute horse **** but it will do for now.
 
Sinbad said:
What AP is in the dining room? Looks unsuitable for that space.
Also, FE uplinks? You need to get a gig switch in there dude.
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AP LR in the Dining Room, all the AP's are old but do the job for now, we don't need a blistering fast home network just one that covers a house that is nearly 30m in length. Our fibre connection is only a 50/50 Mbps so the kit is fine for now, I'll upgrade as and when I can, this is Afrikak and I am unemployed as well.
 
Time for an update...

I pulled the plug and bought a Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra and USW Lite 8 Port PoE+ switch to replace the Asus RT-AC68U and NetGear GS208 8 port switch. I have kept the ancient AP's and AP LR as they work fine for now and we have no need for a brazillion Gb capable network. All up and running except my plan to run the AP's and AP LR off the USW Lite PoE+ ports didn't work as they are old 24v passive PoE devices. I am busy learning how to setup and run the UCG Ultra and will need to see how best/easy it is to get the four Unifi AirMax Nanostation M5's adopted without too much disruption of our Dahua CCTv network.
 
Neuk_ said:
Time for an update...

I pulled the plug and bought a Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra and USW Lite 8 Port PoE+ switch to replace the Asus RT-AC68U and NetGear GS208 8 port switch. I have kept the ancient AP's and AP LR as they work fine for now and we have no need for a brazillion Gb capable network. All up and running except my plan to run the AP's and AP LR off the USW Lite PoE+ ports didn't work as they are old 24v passive PoE devices. I am busy learning how to setup and run the UCG Ultra and will need to see how best/easy it is to get the four Unifi AirMax Nanostation M5's adopted without too much disruption of our Dahua CCTv network.
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Welcome to the club :) You can not adopt the nanostation to a unifi controller
 
Neuk_ said:
Thanks and thanks, I have some Googling to do.
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Am going to guess the 4x nanostations form 2 bridges for cameras, or 1xAP, 3xClients again just bridges. Ignore them unless they ever give a problem. They will just work forever and dont need management

If you want advice for the Unifi setup post in the Ubiquiti thread as there are lots of people who can give advice in there
 
Neuk_ said:
Thanks and thanks, I have some Googling to do.
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UniFi <> Airmax

Two different product lines.

But you can still make them work together, just can’t manage it directly in one interface.

Won’t share the same SSID. Well they could but that would be a mess.

As Yogi said though depending on the need probably don’t need to touch them.
 
Thanks @yogidabear and @SauRoNZA, the Airmax's are used to extend our network between the main house and garage and then from the garage down the driveway, mainly for our CCTv network but I will be installing a spare WiFi router or two as AP's at some stage. They work, could probably be 'optimised' but I'll leave them be for now.
 
Neuk_ said:
Thanks @yogidabear and @SauRoNZA, the Airmax's are used to extend our network between the main house and garage and then from the garage down the driveway, mainly for our CCTv network but I will be installing a spare WiFi router or two as AP's at some stage. They work, could probably be 'optimised' but I'll leave them be for now.
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Yeah if they are just bridges then you are all good, they can just be hooked into the network and you can just manage them directly by logging into them.

I have an ancient Unifi outdoor for the same purpose but it being 802.11n doesn't really matter as it only serves a handful of IoT devices on their own SSID and I don't connect any high bandwidth "user" devices to it at all.
 
Neuk_ said:
Managed to get all three AP's up and running, they aren't 'permanently' in but they work for now. The Dining_Room_AP is an LR version and sits smack bang in the middle of the house, the others are on the ends ow wings of the house...

View attachment 1780120

I can still play around with placement but this is what it looks like for now...

View attachment 1780123


Next is to get the USG up and running, I plan to get it to sit between the main Asus WiFi router and the the AP's initially before ditching the Asus eventually.
Click to expand...

They so old they don't even support 5Ghz?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah if they are just bridges then you are all good, they can just be hooked into the network and you can just manage them directly by logging into them.

I have an ancient Unifi outdoor for the same purpose but it being 802.11n doesn't really matter as it only serves a handful of IoT devices on their own SSID and I don't connect any high bandwidth "user" devices to it at all.
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Sorry, I missed your posts for some reason, they are bridges to 'extend' our network where cabling wasn't possible or desirable.
 
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