Installing a Server Rack in my Home Office and adding a Ubiquiti Dream Machine/Switches for Dual WAN

[@monohydrate2]

This is the best video explaining why Ubiquiti is better than regular consumer grade equipment. thank you for organizing this information in an easy to digest format

[@MsJoeshmoo]

Impreesively inspiring that you drove through immense pain to take the time to make a video for your community. Thanks Scott.

[@vivekdu]

A year ago I decided to snake through CAT6a in our 30+ year old home. Looking back, it is the best decision I made and well worth the effort. Scott, it's great to see you innovating and finding ways to educate us. I discovered your blog 15+ years ago. This is great content! Keep up and get well soon!

[@RosaBrandDesigns]

Wow!!! You just saved our hides. We have had a Ubiquiti system for a few years now, but wanted to solve a few problems in our new custom home build. We have all the Cat-6 wires already throughout the house, but still struggled with internet reliability. This helps us decide which way to go. We'll be upgrading to the UDM Pro line. Dang...so glad I came across you on KZbin. Thank you!

[@nyanates]

Super handy overview of the ubiquiti product line and presentation of your network upgrade journey. It’s so easy to go overkill on this stuff and end up down a rat hole. Additional advice I’d give someone upgrading their home network is to really get an understanding of the actual problem they’re trying to solve and the capabilities of the industry, then plan out the solution with anticipation of a little growth. Sounds like a lot of effort but I’ve found that really pays off in the end. When we renovated the house -18 years ago the cat 6 standard hadn’t been fully deployed yet so now I’m stuck with cat 5e in the walls. Kinda important to know this if I wanted to upgrade to sfp+ today and work out of the home with a bunch of teenagers, all competing for bandwidth.

[@CM-nd7mx]

Hanselman.... Well done Sir. This is now the second tip I’m adopting from you (1st was using my Sony Cam as a webcam). The AR feature is fantastic.

[@ecu8r]

I always enjoy watching these type of videos because I also decided a few months ago to upgrade my home network. I am happy to say that I am done but always seem to find something better or upgrade to a better system. I had a lot of fun watching your video and how you explained the upgrades from a simple to a more robust home network, very well done sir.

[@guyg0d1n]

Great video Scott! A “Home networking 101” video would indeed be super useful; These days, lots of folks don’t know the difference between Wi-Fi and Internet 🤔

[@mechagodzyzzathotobliterat8094]

Yes +1 on networking content!

[@mrmotofy]

There's plenty of info out there but people won't take the initiative to educate themselves

[@Corybcrook]

Scott I transitioned my career about 6 years ago after being injured, I rapidly swapped to IT then moved on to learn cybersec/infosec and computer science. Your more low level overview videos help to connect gaps of knowledge if forget and didn't quite grasp along the way. I understand the foundations but sometimes when I go to create a diagram or engineer a project of all the things I draw blanks. Your talks help someone revisit there foundational knowledge and look at it from your descriptive and understandable perspective. Every time I watch the LED turns green, GG.

[@tjames22123]

Fantastic coverage. Once you busted out that diagram I knew you had a good vid a brewin. Thanks

[@jtreynolds656]

Thank you sir Scott for doing this. Been a fan for a long time (podcast, twitter, blog, now here) and you are one great inspiration to me. You have a fantastic way of delivering your message, no matter what the topic or circumstance you face - so thank you for that! I wish you a speedy recovery my friend. I had bought the UDM Pro back in May of this year after hearing you and Richard Campbell talking about Ubiquity in an earlier podcast and it grew to planning out hard wiring the house. It's been quite a project and a bit overwhelming at times (busy family with 4 & 8 yr old) so it was nice to see the setup and listen to how you tackled it all. I was missing the fiber connection between the UDM Pro and the switch and also plug extenders :). It's the little things. Thank you again for your strength and good vibes!

[@torfig]

I'd LOVE a 101 home networking video!!! I can't find any decent ones and your videos are fantastic!

[@shanselman]

What kinds of stuff would you want to learn?

[@torfig]

@@shanselman similar to this video, just more of it (and a bit more in depth). I'd love practical examples for example how DHCP device allocates the XBox an IP number as an example, practical troubleshooting when some device doesn't connect properly to the internet, How IP numbers work in your home and what should I do to get started going beyond the basics (e.g. what's the first thing I could do to customize or improve my home network and why). Your series on "stuff they didn't teach you in school" is such a fantastic approach to this. Love it!

[@mrmotofy]

Also see Network Chuck and Keeping IT Simple

[@lessevilgoog]

Really like the delivery style. Low-hype, deliberate and careful. Good job.

[@BobFrTube]

You remind me of how I future-proofed my house when I finished my basement in the early 90s. I used the best Ethernet cables avalable -- CAT-3. ;). That led to my prototyping home networking. Since then the network has grown to over 256 devices (thanks to Shelly, Lifx etc) with the vast majority on Wi-Fi.

[@BobFrTube]

BTW, I've been using a USG2 and trying to move to the Pro but it's missing a key feature so it's a work-in-progress.

[@outerheaven01]

Thank you Scott! I was one of those guys confused by the Ubiquiti prodcut offerings. Now I know what to consider for a future upgrade. Hope you recover soon!

[@drofnas6]

Love your videos Scott ... hope the arm has healed! ... learned a lot ... excellent teacher!

[@StevenJAckerman]

Having the POE is great. You can actually purchase POE modules that you can embed into an ethernet enabled product after production to provide your customers with this capability. Or purchase the chips and design it in. Not all customers will need or want the capability but those that do love it. Great video.

[@muse945]

Scott, like your videos. I got the same issues with my arm. The last six months can't lift it up. The pain is crazy, so I understand your problem. I hope mine will go away; maybe need some surgery but don't know yet if should get it fixed, but thanks again. I was looking at the same thing because I've got a gigabit feed now with Docsis 3.1 I'm streaming TVs all over the place Alexa and device sensors data like your insulin pump. I'm an IoT architect who has 30+ tools in is my house. I send a lot of stuff to IoT Hub. Bandwidth coverage & the signal levels are all over the place, so the mesh is pretty cool.

[@shanselman]

Have you talked to anyone? Sounds like frozen shoulder

[@tehsimo]

First job for UDMPro- go to users on the main screen where you pick network/protect/etc and create a local user The UDMPro is a fairly unreliable device in my experience, and if it goes wonky you'll need a local account, and a backup, keep the NAS & any pc u wanna restore backup from plugged directly into the UDMPro, as once factory reset you wont be able to access anything plugged into a switch. This is my experience after about 4 factory resets using this device.

[@sujitmani6705]

Excellent video absolutely detailed. Love the AR feature. Best video for UDM

[@larsoleruben]

Ubiquiti Unify just rocks. Get it up an running once, and you have rock solid stable network, like always. No rebooting and all that stuff.

[@ArielErlijman]

I am in the middle of moving to a new house and this gave me some innovative ideas! thx a lot and I clearly could feel your pain watching this video. Stay safe and have a fast and painless recovery from your shoulder.

[@jam471975]

Great video Scott, for those who don't understand networking this is a good watch for them... when I try to explain stuff like this to someone not in IT I usually get the deer in the head lights look partly because I have a hard time not calling items by their proper name, like when you call an Access Point a Hot Spot makes me cringe but the reality that's what most people think an Access Point is. Then one thing I disagree with you on is when you said you think the Cloud Key and the USG should have been the same device, basically what the UDM is now. The reason why I disagree with that is because that would force people to buy the Unifi gateway product regardless if they were going to use it or not. Having the controller as a separate device gives people the option to choose which gateway product they want to use. Over all Unifi makes great networking products but their gateway products lack some features that many business need so frequently you see other gateways products used in Unifi networks, which is why it is import to have these devices separated in a lot of networks. Don't get me wrong I think the UDM and UDM-Pro are great options to have but if Unifi gets rid of the Cloud Key and Controller software you are going to see a lot of very upset customers. I just setup a very similar network for a bar near my house using the UDM-Pro. They had problems with their internet going down during peak hours which prevented them from taking orders and processing credit cards... and now they have 2 different services coming into the UDM-Pro setup in failover like you do. One thing to take note is when Unifi gets the load balancing to work on the UDM-Pro this is most likely only going to work well if both of your internet providers have similar bandwidth... because load balancing is usually just a round robbin setup and does not actually try to truly "balance" the load across the two links. Also a single download stream would not be able to use the aggregate of both links and you would not be able to control which link is going to be used for the download. For example if you have 1Gbs fiber service and a 200Mbs DSL service I would definitely leave it in failover mode with the fiber as the primary link. What would be ideal is if the UDM-Pro will allow you to set which link is primary for each VLAN individually... so for example your IOT VLAN uses the DSL link as it's primary and all other VLANs use the fiber link. This way you would be able to balance the load across VLANs how you see fit.

[@BrianCooksey8]

Nicely done - and quite helpful! Excellent as always. Thanks!

[@whereistheaccountability7353]

Every setup is different and this is a top notch summary of possibilities. Love seeing and learning new approaches and equipment used. Liked, saved and subscribed. Well done!

[@HasanBazerbashi]

You must be proud and satisfied after this sweet setup 👍👌 I hope you get well soon 🌹

[@michaelwplde]

Very nice job on that rack mount rig. Impressive.

[@muralinarisetty8666]

Great video Scott, enlightened me to buy my first amplifier. Thanks a ton

[@gavancorrigan8813]

This is a beautiful video - I WANT MORE. I'm currently in the design phase of my home refurbishment/expansion and I'm dizzy from choice. Would love to learn more from you.

[@shanselman]

Check out design.ui.com! And I’ll also do a blog post

[@gavancorrigan8813]

@@shanselman thanks Scott. Looking forward to that. I’m becoming obsessed with planning now.

[@MrSoulMonk]

Great video. You have put in a lot of effort. I hope your arm is doing better. Thank you for sharing your setup.

[@howarddickson636]

Informative video thank you. Happy to hear about the upcoming link aggregation which is my reason fir going this way as well. Two things I struggle with in your working example Scott... 1. The dream machine is all-in-one... so IF one component in that unit goes out... How does it go then? What's the plan? 2 . I am no expert on network cabinets but mounting the thing right up near a ceiling? That's the hottest part of the room. Nor sure how much heat is given out from the components and sure, in this setup all will be OK no doubt. Then, as you mentioned when new rack mounted components are added, I wonder if the adjacent or internal cabinet temperature/s need to be monitored. Just the thing for an IoT temperature sensor for monitoring and controlling those fans. Comments any one?

[@bashmohandes]

Hope you feel better soon, thanks for the video

[@jwmoffat]

That AR view of the switches is pretty cool!

[@PieterSwart]

Yes that was awesome to see

[@thedoubleop]

That just blew my mind and sold me on it.

[@danielkallstrom5615]

In my experience, Unifi is the go-to brand for pro-sumers and it-pros that actually have to pay for their own gear with their own money :D i have a similar setup as yours in my home and I'm really loving it

[@josephwong2832]

Hey Scott, read about your shoulder injury on HN, you can rehab and re-align by stretching + very light flexing in differing ranges of motion I did that (with a less serious shoulder injury than yours) love your videos btw, good luck!

[@shanselman]

Thanks! I am doing stretching and flexing in physical therapy for an hour a day five days a week! I hope it works

[@josephwong2832]

flex your entire arm (very very lightly as you rotate through different ranges of motion without over doing it. Sometimes, just flex your bicept, tricept, chest, or back(while rotating) to feel how those muscles/ligaments used to connect... and then try to rebuild it

[@jp2kk2]

Thanks for the video! I have a tiny tiny server, a pi, but want to upgrade!

[@danielshue]

Great video Scott! Loved seeing what you did with your network. It was timely as I'm also upgrading to the UDM Pro for my new home. I will have CenturyLink fiber (1 Gbps Up/Down) for the first WAN and backup the second WAN over use LTE. I don't know if it can be done, but I'd like to get rid of additional networking equipment from the network provider. The fiber connects to the house using an Optical Network Terminal (ONT). I'll connect the ONT directly to the UDM Pro via its RJ45. To obtain the public IP address & authenticate to CenturyLink, I was planning to use PPTP. This will allow me to avoid double NAT and using their router in bridge mode.

[@shanselman]

Interesting, I have an ONT also, and I just had to call them and have them enable the RJ 45 port. I don’t have any authentication to the port

[@nilesh-gule]

Wish you a speedy recovery Scott.

[@TechnoTim]

Your new setup looks familiar! Nice work!

[@steinvk]

I'm in the planning stage of cabling my house. After seeing this video I think I will go for the Dream Machine in my house.

[@ToddSpatafore]

Thank you for the great content! And speedy recovery.

[@SubhamK108]

Great video Sir (as usual) I hope you're feeling better now. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[@omkarnadkarni4765]

Great content. Love your spirit. Keep englighting us and decode all the computer stuff they didn't teach in college

[@mytechnotalent]

Awesome job Scott! Hope your arm is feeling better as well. Again as always love your patient and thoughtful incredible work!

[@thegimel]

Good to see you are back on the horse! Great video as usual

[@JBoy340a]

Nice video. Loving our UDM Pro. Now if we could get 1Gbps+ up and down fiber is < 1ms latency like people in Austin do.

[@KaceyGreen]

I'm using the Amplifi now, will upgrade once we stop renting again

[@MikeGetsItDone]

Good video, Scott. I upgraded my home network to Unifi about a year ago and pre-wired our new house with ethernet everywhere. Really happy with their solutions, management interface and hardware, especially the PoE cameras. My next trick will be converting my Honeywell wired security system to use Konnected.io to bring that system into the 20th century. Might be something for you to use as a future topic.

[@RikerMoustache]

I literally just bought a Unifi USG and PoE switch. Liking it so far, but I need to decide on which AP I want. Also now that I am likely to be permanently working from home I need to get the house properly wired for Ethernet since I have many devices that are physically stationary.

[@truedreams1]

Wow, that AR feature was craazy.

[@ProtossOP]

This content is an absolute gold. Keep going Scott!

[@balajimarisetti]

How could you concentrate! Inspiring Scott. Thank you so much!

[@lboncich1]

Cool stuff! I dont have a home to install my own rack but interesting stuff to keep in mind for the future!

[@dikamiz]

Thank you for inspiring video! One thing confused me is how to connect your isp fiber cable to UDM pro? The ISP gave me ont device but i dont want to use it.

[@BinaryOcean]

Scott, Have you incorporated a Unifi Smart Plug? I installed one last night after multiple Comcast outages that were fixed with a modem power cycle. The plug power cycles the modem when it loses internet connectivity. $19. It took me several hours to figure out how to adopt it but pretty straight forward once I figured that out. (And in all fairness, Comcast has had several service vehicles on our street so they are likely aware that they have an issue.)

[@shanselman]

Clever!

[@JesseTemple]

My house is full of UniFi gear and I absolutely love it.

[@jamesdietsch7868]

Great content again Scott! Hope the arm is getting better

[@issacproton7885]

Scott, We Love you sir, Your contents are just Great!

[@ArnonDanon]

Happy to see you are up and running continue to provide awsome content and work like CRAZY, scott what are you made of 🤣 wish you fast healing and can't wait for your next content.

[@stevejohnny1111]

Wish I could cable up my house! Great setup scott

[@markvincze8205]

Thanks for the video Scott, great stuff! That AR view is absolutely bonkers :)

[@DominikRoszkowski]

Do you plan to have some UPS to support the NAS and UDM Pro in case of electricity outage?

[@pilotboba]

I actually stopped using my Unifi gear and went to a TP Link Deco WiFi AX 3000. It doesn't have all the config stuff Unifi gave me, but I found I never used that stuff. The Deco is WiFi 6. I probably would have stayed with Unifi if they had WiFi 6 access points.

[@manonthedollar]

Wait, I've set up multiple "normal" wireless routers for years and I've always just set them up to use the same SSID. Never had any issues. Have I been doing it wrong?

[@karimkhayati3877]

Thanks, Scott very inspiring, any future video on configuring a VPN within the unify?

[@jayhu6075]

Scott, many thanks for your great explanation about Home-networking. Can you make a tutorials how to install this Unifi networking from beginning to the end? Some part of the streaming is difficult to following so as to avoid Unifi device behind a crap router from a provider. Your advice is a ethernet connection directly to the Unifi device. This part is very useful for my, hopely that you can explain in your tutorials.

[@shanselman]

Yes I will do a networking 101. You need to change the crap router to a bridge or remove it completely so the UniFi device gets the external ip directly. I will try to explain

[@jayhu6075]

@@shanselman Thanks for your response.

[@Walterz930]

Nice video I have not long been starting my unifi network I have the edgerouter x installed with ap lite but sadly just lost my job so can not do anything else at the moment but outgrown my network cos of how many things is on daily

[@aidanhall3430]

Do you have any thoughts and opinions on mikrotik? I find most nerds are split between that and Ubiquiti for home network gear. I'm personally into mikrotik because it can do EVERYTHING, but it can also be a bit daunting. Great videos btw, I'm having a binge session on all of your content.

[@drreality1]

I'd probably go with pfsense as the firewall and multiple APs

[@brucefox6580]

Outstanding Scott, thank you for the detailed explanation. Very interesting and helpful :)

[@ericlyons11]

Can you do a video on how to troubleshoot network/wifi issues? I'm currently having a problem with my wifi. I have a bunch of Alexa's, Govee RGB lights , Fanimation ceiling fans and other devices all connected to wifi. After a few days, I have to reset the wifi router. I had a older router laying around so I set that up and put all home automation on that one and that seemed to help some but I'm still getting issues. I know a lot of this depends on router types and devices but I know you usually have awesome debugging technics. Thanks.

[@jimgarrett7209]

Thanks, great info. Question: What is the case for your Pi with the POE Hat on?

[@shanselman]

PiHole

[@williamp6800]

@@shanselman I think what the OP wanted to know, and definitely what I’d like to know, is what case is the Pi in rather than the use case.

[@gmore63]

Great video! Question : next to your NAS, on your rack, is it a UPS? If so, how much power can it handle?

[@mohamedrahim1204]

wish you a quick recovery and more keystrokes soon

[@michaelwplde]

10:45 That is a nice interface to admin your network. Yes.

[@DedicatedManagers]

Did you install all your new equipment with a bad arm? Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[@shanselman]

My brother helped me as I can't lift anything.

[@DedicatedManagers]

Scott Hanselman He deserves a shout out!

[@Corybcrook]

This video is so informative wow.

[@clearlyunwell]

Just awesome!

[@Zaclauck]

I am looking at doing this same setup. Do you notice the noise coming from the unit? Would it be too much in a home office? Also, how is the heat in the closet?

[@steveborrelli8800]

been looking for info if i should bridge my comcast router or not with my UDM-Pro . if it beneficial to bridge the router ( xfi) whot your opinion

[@farmarSean]

Great video, thanks a million :-)

[@lasseandreasen1518]

I love this video, the wife not as much, since the reconfiguration and rewiring of our network began

[@alonzosmith6189]

Thank you for sharing,

[@angmathew4377]

Hidde wires inside wall, Is this house designed for this or all houses have that?

[@zoredache]

Kinda wish Scott would bump up the audio volume. All his videos are so quiet relative to other youtube videos. When I have a Scott video in my queue I have to crank the volume to hear anything, and then if I don't notice the following video is soo loud. Some dynamic compression and normalization would be nice. Could probably be easily automated.

[@shanselman]

Sorry. I have an appointment with an audio expert to help me with this.

[@AMPTechGrade]

Yea represent, I LOVE FiOS

[@mylinuxstruggle5495]

I am wondering how many AP's I need to cover my house.

[@degsiemcdegface459]

Great vid! How do you do your screen annotation? Thanks.

[@shanselman]

ZoomIt

[@SalihHajlakovic]

I'm lovin' it

[@greengohm]

Scott, thank you for sharing it! One thing: I might be the only one, but your voice is very quiet. I can watch other channels without changing the volume. On this video I just couldn't hear you.

[@shanselman]

Sorry, I will check it again.

[@cme9241]

I can sum a part of this up 20 seconds, if you have a router/modem combo and you want a new router put original in bridge mode.

[@CraigBoucher]

Thanks for the content, Scott! What did you do to evacuate the hot air and bring in cool air? I've been thinking about doing this in my office, but I'm worried about locking myself in a little room all day with those expensive heaters ;)

[@shanselman]

This is in a closet under the stairs that has 9 foot ceilings and it’s up against the garage wall so it’s quite cool. Haven’t had any heat or ventilation issues.

[@doanpham972]

Those patch cables look a bit thin, wouldn't recommend them if running POE through them, voltage drops and possible fire hazard.

[@williamp6800]

The Monoprice thin cables are rated for PoE use

[@williambutler9635]

I was intrigued by your comment that you have two providers. Certainly an essential backup, however I thought I heard that Fios is your backup? In my area of the country, east coast, Fios is fully symmetrical up to 1Gb, whereas Comcast is asymmetric with only 20-50Mb uploads. Is it different on the west coast? Because I would think you want the better upload speeds that Fios provides as in my area.

[@shanselman]

If I said that I misspoke. FIOS is my main, 1G/1G and Comcast 1G/35Mbps is the backup.

[@FaheemRasheed]

Sir , first of all , thank you for your videos. they are amazing. i wanted to request you if you could please make a video of unfolding things as they happen in web development request life cycle. what i mean is , a client from like my location , srinagar kashmir india , accesses a webpage or a service thats hosted in america. how this request unfolds from its TCP/I.P thing to the end point and so. if you could please make an animation in general context irrespective of the web technology or asp.net would be better. so we can have idea of where each technology networking and stuff is used in the whole process. Thank You. Wish you a speedy and safe recovery.

[@ivanzinov6875]

Please can you speak louder when you record the video at home? I have seen your videos of a Microsoft's conference and I really enjoy the audio quality, but it is hard to follow it here when I am really interested. The video was really helpful, good job

[@1armadyl]

the ar view made me speechless

[@pfunkPT]

wow that's crazy, your failover internet is more expensive than my normal internet, but I know the prices of the US are insane... here (Portugal) for 1gb up and 200mb is 40€ a month...

[@shanselman]

Yes it's true!

[@Noceo]

Awesome video! Does that Dream Machine (non-pro) also work as a wireless amplifier with those rabbit ears - for those of us who doesn't have a fully wired house?

[@shanselman]

Yes the UDM has a powerful wifi hotspot INSIDE and can be expanded witj Ubiquiti Beacons or any Unifi Wireless AP

[@stubblyhead]

Do those rabbit-ear mesh points connect to the Amplify wirelessly, or is it powerline based?

[@shanselman]

Those rabbit ear deals are wireless mesh repeaters. You can also add a second Amplifi for wire-backed repeated WiFi. There are both wired and wireless options for UniFi.