I have wanted to upgrade my network for a while and a recent event finally made me do it. I received a notice from my shit ISP indicating I was approaching my monthly cap, just 5 days into the month. I was using two Nighthawks, the RAX120 and AX6, two of the most absolute, piece of shit routers from day one, that have ever been created in the fucking universe, BTW. I checked my PoS network and notices some crazy traffic coming from somewhere but couldn’t really get much info. This was really my fault running these two POS routers in the first place and not really having much else in place but here I am.

All of that to say, I’m not really a networking person and I wanted to get some feedback on my “upgraded” system. I don’t mind tinkering with the network and learning more about networking in general so, anything technical is fine with me.

Here are some of the details with a diagram of my layout. Again, not a network person so, sorry for the shit diagram.

** Main House**

  • 2200 sq/ft, 2 story
  • Main Living, downstairs

ADU/Backyard Office

  • 120 sq/ft
  • Hard wired, 2x CAT6A

Internet

  • Down: <1100 Mpds (at fucking best)
  • Up: <35 Mbps (at fucking best)

Proposed Hardware

  • Modem: Arriss SB8200 (Had it forever)
  • Ethernet Router: Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra (UCG-Ultra)
  • PoE Switch: Ubiquiti Ultra 8-port GbE PoE switch

Main House

  • Upstairs WiFi AP: Ubiquiti AP U7 In-Wall

  • Downstairs WiFi AP: Ubiquiti U7 Lite 2.5 GbE

    Backyard Office / ADU

  • WiFi Access Point: Ubiquiti U7 Lite 2.5 GbE

Other Stuff

  • Pi running PiHole
  • NAS for occasional video and pic dumps, often times over WiFi
  • Family of 5, kids sure love streaming :/
  • WFH 50%

Sorry for all the info, I’m just tired of battling with this absolute horseshit network for far too long and would rather put the time in building a proper network without going too crazy.

Attached are pics of my network devices.

    • schmeeds@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Good to know! I didn’t think the opener worked with the RAX120 chipset but it appears I was wrong. I guess I’ll keep that PoS around and at least play with it a bit. Thanks!

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    So nintendo switches and roaming, they will try to stick to the existing access point no matter the strength of the signal, fast roaming setting or anything you can think of to make them move on the same network. I run separate 2.4ghz and 5ghz because of this and IOT devices that don’t like combined networks. Then when the switch moves to a different area and has bad WiFi, change for 2.4 to 5ghz or the other way and it will pick up the closest access point.

    • schmeeds@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Good tip! That’s the next part, optimizing the network. But for me, that’s the fun part TBH.

    • schmeeds@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Because of my shit network (again, totally my fault) it was difficult to say what specifically was happening other than some device on the network went haywire. It could have been the router for all I know. It can happen if a device gets stuck in some sort of trying to update loop. They can hammer the network with requests. At least that’s my guess of what happened.

        • schmeeds@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          While I wait for my new hardware, I have since setup my Pi as a router/firewall behind my existing WiFi routers in AP mode, so I can at least monitor web traffic. It’s a bottleneck for sure but will at least help me better determine WTF is going on while I get the final solution setup.

          I’ll follow up with what I find, if anything.