Generally, yes they do seamless handoffs with clients. Some older clients have a hard time with it, but most stuff made in the past 5 years will be just fine.
The recent updates added genuine meshing as well, so they can extend a network without being connected via ethernet if you want them to. I don't know how well handoffs work with the mesh setup though, haven't tested it because I'm a latency snob. On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:49 PM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/12/21 6:32 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > > For what you asked, the small router or firewall is SKU: USG, and that's > > what I run in my house, but their enterprise offering is called the Dream > > Machine or SKU: UDM/UDM-pro. The dream machine is an all-in-one > offering: > > provides switching, gateway/firewall, and network controller. The basic > > USG provides DHCP, firewall, deep packet inspection, and can do port > > aggregation or redundant connections if you so desire, but it does not > host > > the controller software. You technically could do all the stuff you want > > in the controller software in terms of vpn and dhcp configs and use > > whatever DHCP/DNS/gateway your heart desires, but the USG or UDM will be > > appropriate for an office setup. > > Will the Dream Machine act like the cloudkey thing then to configure and > manage all the ubiquiti switches and APs? Kind of sounds ideal for my > needs. This is the kind of thing that's really hard to discern from > their web site. > > > All their devices are just running a variant of busybox. Their configs > > (/etc) get flashed into memory from the controller, and the USG can > update > > its configuration in place without any connectivity loss. All their > > devices run just fine without the controller software running on the > > network, it's only used for configuration changes and setup and is a > > run-anywhere portable java application. > > > > I think they only offer 8, 16, 24 and 48 port switches. I have the 24 > port > > and 8 port in my house and it runs everything at full gig, plus includes > a > > fiber channel slot that will take up to a 20gbps adapter (which is how I > > connect the two switches). My 8 port switch runs pretty hot for no > > apparent reason (average 68C), so you may want to add in some circulation > > or put it around flame-resistant materials > > A 24 port switch will probably work great for me. > > Do you know if the WAPs when managed together can do something like a > single SSID across overlapping devices, and transparently hand off > clients, or is this something that only a high-end cisco system could do? > > thanks so much! Very helpful. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Todd Millecam /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
