On 10/12/21 7:11 PM, Dallin Jones wrote: > I have been using them for a very long time now. I really like the > UniFi collection of devices. I run their controller software on an > old Debian machine and it works like a champ. If you went with the > Dream Machine, that should replace the controller/cloud key.
Okay good. I'm leaning towards the Dream Machine. It has a built-in wireless AP, so I'll stick that in the main shop I think, and then use a POE switch to power APs in some shipping containers attached to the building. > I like their stuff because it transparently moves clients around to > different APs when I am roaming around, or if too many devices try to > use a single AP. Awesome. That's what I want to hear. With my shipping containers, there's enough signal leakage that if I put a single AP to cover two stacked containers, hopefully I'll have enough overlap from neighboring stacks to get enough coverage for my purpose (which is solely to run a couple of wirelessly-connected thermostats). Transparent hand-off should help me get the coverage I need without having too many APs and thus too much noise. > My only complaint, is that I haven’t been terribly impressed with its > ability to filter unwanted sites. Probably need to just play with it > more, but it hasn’t been very intuitive to setup. Yeah, but filtering is getting harder to do anyway with everyone going to SSL. The only filtering that works these days is purely DNS filtering, which can be done with your own DNS server, or with a service like OpenDNS. Definitely something I'll explore as if this works out well, I'll be deploying a similar network for my house and yard. thanks again, Michael /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
