{"id":44,"date":"2017-05-15T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philroche.net\/?p=44"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:10:57","slug":"the-ultimate-wifi-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/2017\/05\/15\/the-ultimate-wifi-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate wifi upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been procrastinating for a very long time about whether or not to take the plunge and upgrade my office\/home wifisetup. The goal of the upgrade is to have complete high speed wifi coverage throughout my house and seamless hand over between access points.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/accessories\/toughswitch\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-46 size-medium_large\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/toughswitch-features-design-768x185.jpg\" alt=\"TOUGHSwitch TS\u20118\u2011PRO\" width=\"660\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/toughswitch-features-design-768x185.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/toughswitch-features-design-300x72.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/toughswitch-features-design.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOUGHSwitch TS\u20118\u2011PRO<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today I bit the bullet and decided to buy a five\u00a0pack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/unifi\/unifi-ap-ac-lite\/\">Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite AP<\/a> and one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/accessories\/toughswitch\/\">Ubiquiti TOUGHSwitch TS\u20118\u2011PRO<\/a>. I could have gone for the Pro or HD access points but for my use case this was overkill.<\/p>\n<p>All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/\">Ubiquiti<\/a> products seem to be the industry GOTO product and we use them at Canonical sprints where we&#8217;ve never had a problem. I also purchased 305m spool of cat6 cable and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.platinumtools.com\/products\/crimpers\/ez-rj45-crimpers\/ez-rjpro-hd-crimp-tool-100054c\/\">Platinum Tools EZ-RJPRO Crimp Tool<\/a> and connectors to make it easier to properly terminate the connections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubnt.com\/unifi\/unifi-ap-ac-lite\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Selection_127.png\" alt=\"UniFi AC Lite AP\" width=\"324\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Selection_127.png 532w, http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Selection_127-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UniFi AC Lite AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All the access points are (POE) Powered Over Ethernet so will not require power points in the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>This setup does require using Ubiquiti Unifi controller software but thankfully there is a docker image which sets this up and which I can run on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freenas.org\/\">Freenas<\/a> box.<\/p>\n<p>All this means I should achieve my goal highspeed wifi throughout the house and seamless handover between access points. It will also hopefully mean that I no longer require any\u00a0ethernet over powerline adapters.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on taking a few pictures of the setup as it progresses as well as performing speed tests.. watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been procrastinating for a very long time about whether or not to take the plunge and upgrade my office\/home wifisetup. The goal of the upgrade is to have complete high speed wifi coverage throughout my house and seamless hand over between access points. Today I bit the bullet and decided to buy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}