Upgrading My Ubiquiti Home Network: Part 2 - Connecting Devices & UniFi OS Setup Guide

[@Polkster13]

Ubiquiti also sells short DAC cables in White that look a lot better than the curled up long Black ones you have in your rack. They also sell patch panel snap in covers to cover up any unused holes, small silicone plugs to put into any unused switch ports, and covers for the unused SFP ports.

[@InsideWire]

Hopefully all to come over time.

[@richcreedy4118]

although the more joints you have in a connection can reduce overall signal quality, if you are using quality parts it would be fairly minimal, so not really a problem to use the passthrough type

[@InsideWire]

Agree but some are old school and dont agree with pass throughs.

[@reasonmath]

Question if I have the unifi firewall and Aggregation switch do I still need the cloud key or udmpro?

[@CanonMike68]

I like the idea of the pass through keystone jacks but can’t find them on amazon. 😢

[@InsideWire]

I’ve linked them in the description now but here Amazon US: amzn.to/3Yq36kh Amazon UK: amzn.to/4f2fwFW

[@CanonMike68]

Thank you

[@DamZFXBeats]

Great video btw! Just a question, isn't a udm pro max quite a bit overkill for a home network upgrade? I have the udm SE and for me that's plenty good enough. Even the udm pro would of sufficed, I just got the SE so I can have the 2.5gb wan capability.

[@InsideWire]

Thank you! 🙏 In most instances yes it probably would be overkill. I was running the UDM SE previously.

[@rogerjones9984]

TBH Yes - but "newer shinier toys" - I've gone from UDM Pro to UDM SE, to UDM Pro Max 😀. The UDM SE is probably optimal for most serious home users. The caveat would be if you use Protect, then the Max arguably has the edge because the twin drive bays allow for a RAID setup to store video data. Realistically, for 90+% of (Ubiquiti) home users the Cloud Gateway Max is likely the top choice. (The other 10% will all have a comms rack so the UDM Max would be de rigueur)

[@DamZFXBeats]

@@rogerjones9984 💯 I'm a network engineer, always wanted to have my own rack so recently got the udm SE with the 16 poe pro max with the rack mount. In future I'll probs get the nas pro and a mini nuc to run proxmox on so I can run containers for plex, uptime kuma etx

[@osbmx]

why is your rack mounted upside down?

[@InsideWire]

There was a reason I did this when I installed it many years ago, now I can’t remember why. I have a new one on the way with more RUs so it will soon be changed 😄

[@henrikvester7171]

I'm absolutely triggered 😀

[@InsideWire]

hahaha, please forgive me!

[@21moonblade]

cant find part 1

[@InsideWire]

Part 1 was the livestream unboxing I did a few weeks back: kzbin.infoB0EbSktwuf0?feature=share