Ubiquiti has just released the U7 Mesh wireless access point.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@Doug73 Yeah, mesh is easier to deal with here. I have ceiling-mounted a pair of U6 Pros at home, so I will probably just upgrade those to U7 Pros and keep the old hardware since it's compatible.

[doug73@mindly.social]

@SirMars @BorrisInABox no use waiting. the dream router 7 is a newly refreshed dream machine/ ream router 7. plus ubiquiti doesn't end of life products like google or apple so it'll be useful, and current for another 5 plus years or more.
Plus ubiquiti stuff is expandable so just add access points to the system later.
The only reason I might go with something else over the UDR7 is to get something that has SFP since upstream is getting faster and a lot of those boxes have 10 gig sfp ports on them.

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@BorrisInABox Sooooo tempting to buy that thing.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@ppatel I just did. Hoping it will solve my stupid bottlenecked channel bandwidth problem I am currently having between a U7 Pro and a U6 Mesh.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@Doug73 @SirMars Yeah, but apparently if you have an ISP that uses PoE over SFP, performance is not great yet.

[doug73@mindly.social]

@BorrisInABox @SirMars I didn't know about that. I was just thinking since he's buying the newest thing and he wants it to last, it gives him the most upgradeability. Plus SFP can be assigned to lan, or wan he can always hook up one of those 8 or 16 port switches via 10 gb SFP.
I'm annoyed. I got this 16 pro max switch, and found out that I need a rack mount kit. UI has been sold out on those for months. so I got one from ebay and now the seller is taking forever to ship Once I get that then I will get a super short sfp interlink cable and have everything hooked up all cool and fast. You should see the power supply for the 16 pro max. it looks like a vhs tape. I think its like a 300 watt 48 v supply, so it's huge.

[doug73@mindly.social]

@BorrisInABox @ppatel I'ts in my cart but I'm not pressing the check out button, no I'm not.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@Doug73 @ppatel No, you will press the buy now button instead, which is right next to the checkout button. Ask me how I know.

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@BorrisInABox @Doug73 I pressed the checkout button since I had other things in my cart.

[doug73@mindly.social]

@BorrisInABox @ppatel did you also include some of those super slim ethernet cables with the super bendable boots? Surprisingly the pricing for ubiquiti cables is quite good. even cheaper than monoprice and you don't have to wait for shipping from china.

[ppatel@mstdn.social]

@Doug73 @BorrisInABox That's exactly what I bought. I had them in my cart already. I have a contact at the company who told me that the new mesh was coming this month. So I waited.

[borrisinabox@fwoof.space]

@Doug73 @ppatel No, but only because I already had some of those. They are nice.

[sirmars@mastodon.social]

@Doug73 @BorrisInABox I mean it does have 1, 10 GB port I've seen people use that for their NAS and use the 2.5 GB for internet. Since I don't think I am getting 10 GB internet for quite a while.

[doug73@mindly.social]

@SirMars @BorrisInABox just make sure you have enough money saved to also buy the r2d2 mmount. After all you want your router to look super cool as well. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4325662359/r2d2-mount-fits-ubiquiti-dream-router-7?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=unifi+udr7+r2d2&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&content_source=3305d087-34fb-4bca-b60d-c01f6cff98c1%253ALT8d6ffcc0a075833408eacbcb1cbcd9ec0d406867&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=3305d087-34fb-4bca-b60d-c01f6cff98c1%3ALT8d6ffcc0a075833408eacbcb1cbcd9ec0d406867

[mrkrabs@someplace.social]

@BorrisInABox The U7-Mesh doesn't have 6 GHZ