I don't need technology to increase the speed at which I exhaust my data cap, I need legislation to outlaw data caps and create ISP competition.
More details: https://www.howtogeek.com/337719/how-to-tame-your-chromecast...
I did install a firewall/data logging app on a spare Amazon Fire HD8 and found it downloaded several hundred megabytes of advertisements over a week's time despite sitting in a drawer unused. That was an easy fix.
Another glaring data hog was an Amazon FireTV stick which was set to the highest quality.
Overall it's been an eye opening experience to see how many devices consume bandwidth with no regard for optimization or giving users control.
But only get a UDM pro if you don't need link agger or the ability to control multiple networks from the same controller (i wanted to throw a USG at my parents but can't join it to the UDM pro because.. reasons). it has some annoying limitations (IDS/IPS cannot keep up with my internet anymore) that if i knew about i'd have gotten a USG-pro and a cloudkey.
What the hell is a idle chromecast doing everyday? That's absurd. Is it outbound WAN traffic or just local network traffic.
but yea, cell confinement and directional interference optimisation is the way to go for high density applications.
true and nobody used it, hence i was talking about AC which was practically the start of 5ghz wifi
This is only true for small houses with certain construction materials, few devices, and an internet connection under, say, 50Mbps. The last year has been especially good for seeing how rarely that's true for most people, however. It's so easy to find people talking about how upgrading from a 10-year old access point or adding 1-2 more made a huge difference for things like call latency or contention between devices. Having everyone home and trying to work, attend class, or socialize online made dealing with all of that a priority.
I don't know when 802.11ac AP's became common, but the first iPhone to support it was the iPhone 6 in 2014.
Go on... A buddy of mine just dropped several G's on UniFi gear so I'm hoping he can tell me about any issues before I jump in.
The UDM can't be adopted by another controller: it needs to be the unifi controller. This really kills the upgrade path imo.
One of my best metrics for deciding what hardware to get is to look through the 1-star reviews for realistic testimonials by reasonable users. It takes a lot of sifting, but it builds an okay picture. There are almost no complaints about the ER-4 compared to the UDM. I think I'd likely roll a pfSense box before jumping into unifi.
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B081QNJFPV/ref=cm_cr_...
i'd have gone with a USG-pro and cloudkey 2, but otherwise the unfi ecosystem has been good, i like the single plane view of my network and works well enough to not want to give that up
When it's working fine it seems marginally better for wifi connections than a standard cheap consumer Soho router.
But that's the problem: it very often just doesn't work correctly. Port forwarding rules will sometimes, randomly, no longer apply. DNS issues will mysteriously crop up. Some clients seem to get a cut in downstream speed but not others (with or without enabling the setting to optimize channels). UPnP, if you choose to enable it, will mysteriously work for some clients but not others. Sometimes these issues will only happen for wireless clients, sometimes for wired, and sometimes for only a given port or AP.
It often feels like a double-NAT situation, but somehow with a regular, basic, client-only topology. My co-workers have reported both these issues and ones I have never seen.
The worst part is that you will go on the forums, sometimes find users with the same issue as you (and many responses) and then rarely see an official response beyond 'yeah that's a known bug, no eta'.
I've heard nothing but praises from friends for their other hardware. It's just the UDM that seems strangely awful.
Update:
Throttling via groups: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/204911354-UniFi-How-to...
While this isn't exactly "per device" throttling it looks like it can be used to achieve the same thing. I would most likely have a "low speed" tier that I assign to things like smart speakers, kids devices etc.
I swear I saw some screenshots or maybe videos with a per-device throttle option but maybe I'm getting my routers confused.
I routinely use between 1.4-1.8 TB of data each month. I have about 30 devices connected to the network at any one time, maybe 50 total.