I have a home network that consists of thee buildings on 6 acres. My home of course has a UDR with an older US-8 60 watt switch. I am not using the ports on the UDR other than to connect to the switch. That in turn is connected by ethernet to a shed about 60 feet away and connects to a USW Flex mini switch. Connected to that switch is a U6 Mesh pro for outdoor connectivity, and a Nanostation Loco AC5 to get internet to the other shed accross the road. Also that switch is connected by ethernet to an old house I own next door to another USW Flex Mini. Connected to that switch is another U6 Pro outdoor, and also a AC Lite for indoor use.
I have a big shed accross the road about 600 feet away that I run a PtP with two Loco AC5’s. It all works pretty good as I only have 500 mbps internet and I get at least 200 mbps and usually in the 300s on the PtP. higher of course on the rest of the network.
My question is one of the USW’s is acting kinda stupid with ports not working. I was worried when I bought them that they would be close if no over their temperature rating because none of the places they are at have AC and it’s hot in Florida right now.
I am thinking of upgrading all 4 switches and was wondering what I should replace them with?
The US-8 60 of course is in my house and is climate controlled, the USW switches aren’t.
The reason I am considering it is I saw some stuff about prioritizing the switches in order to keep it working good and realized the USW’s are only configurable for RTSP and not a numerical priority setting.
Prolly too much info for what I am asking and hope it makes sense.
And to add to the question I must admit I don’t know much about the different PoE and what they power and what they don’t. Does the switches that can do Up to ++ power almost any unifi device?
Did a little internet sleuthing and it seems everything I have is PoE, but in case I upgrade to U7 stuff in the future I will prolly go +. The Nanostation is 24 v passive so I can get an adapter for that for $21. It looks like the two that are not in my house will need to be the flex cause it’s highest heat rated in the $ range I would spend.
@williehowe Hey Willie, the one in my house, which is the main switch connected to my UDR is the older Silver one. the other three are the newer white one’s that are Flex Mini. The Minis have worked well for about a year, and just had the problem with one of them recently.
I was reading a post on the internet about the flex mini and someone else had the same problem. Their fix was to go in and manually set the tx rate to 1000FDX instead of auto negotiate. Did that and so far the device that was showing FE is now GbE.
@guitargain You indicated you were not using all the ports, but I’m not sure how many ports you need. Have a look at the Grandstream GWN7710R. That unit is an outdoor rated unit and should handle the heat. Per the specs the operating range is -40 to 140 °F. It can be fed by POE, or it has a DC power input for 48vdc. It provides POE+ on all the ports and if you are feeding it with adequate power via the DC input jack it can provide POE++ on port 1. It can also be configured for 24v passive as well. Here is a link to the switch, and there you can have a look at the specs and the manual. GWN7710R | Grandstream Networks This unit also has a 1G/2.5G SFP port.