These are great videos! In a short wile I’m going to move from ASU’s network to UniFi, and with your videos it’s going to be a walk in the park.. Thanks Tim 🙏
These are fantastic videos! Just set up my first proper home network top to bottom with Unifi and i'm following these along! Thanks Tim, liked and subbed!!
thank you for your time. I need to set up a bridge. what switch should I look at. I have the cloud gateway ultra as my first component. small home to shop.
When you say bridge, do you mean a wireless bridge? (Like a point to point?) If that is the case, then the switch won't really play a role in that. If you planned on having a switch in your shop, then you would just need to pick one that has the power and port requirement you need for out there... but the bridge is a separate piece of equipment. This video of mine shows how to setup a bridge... ua-cam.com/video/7x4_Gzv2Hiw/v-deo.htmlsi=GsHYbDGkZ0SP_FXT
I think in general gaming consoles are fairly secure. That being said, it doesn’t hurt to stick them somewhere like an IOT network or maybe put them on their own VLAN. However, I think you’d probably be safe, putting them on the main default network in most cases.
QQ: which setting wins, when you activate the portal for guests but also check the GUEST setting under networks? I would assume, that both settings generate implicit firewall rules. But which comes with the higher priority?
You know, I don't actually know. That is a good question. You may have to play around with that a little bit and try out the different scenarios if that is something you are looking to implement.
The Facebook authentication is wild, but I wouldn’t be one that trusts people enough to chance that. A valid email with a 2fn type thing might be cool, but probably few people would want to do that. I saw one at a restaurant in NC, it asked for my email address which I did provide, now when I go back there it’s like hey welcome back, here’s a discount code, thought that was super neat.
@ not as far as I know, and I tried to login to the gateway to see what it was but their firewall rules were on point. Was in Moyock NC Eagle Creek Gold Club & Grill I think it was.
I'm glad you didn't have access. That would have not been good as a guest. LOL. Neat setup. Not a strong suit for Unifi if you ask me. My guess that was some kind of 3rd party proxy doing that.
Great series! Any suggestions for why my Guest network only gets Internet from the AP off of my Unifi Express? I've got the Guest SSID broadcasting to all my APs. I can connect to Guest Wifi but if my device is connected to another AP (not the Unifi's) it won't provide me Internet. My default network's wifi provides Internet on all of my APs.
Based on that question of having Unifi APs and Non-Unifi APs, I can't really figure out how you are setup currently... However, to answer your original question, in the WiFi settings, you can create AP groups and then you can assign certain Wifi networks to only broadcast in certain groups... An example of this is if you had a pool WiFi name and you only wanted to broadcase the pool WiFi on the outdoor AP... You would create an AP group and name it something like Outdoor APs - then put that outdoor AP in that group. Then you could create a pool wifi network and assign to the outdoor AP group and it will only broadcast outside... Not sure if this applies to your setup with the different types of APs, but I this is how it is typically done.
I got all your questions... you may need to email me at tim@ethernetblueprint.com and explain what it is that you are trying to accomplish because I can't really figure that out based on your quesitons... I will do my best to help, but it sounds like you are trying to do some advanced settings and that makes your network very difficult to manage...
Great Video...just what I need. I will have to go back to video one and what the whole series...Keep up the great work....LIKEd and Subbed.
These are great videos! In a short wile I’m going to move from ASU’s network to UniFi, and with your videos it’s going to be a walk in the park.. Thanks Tim 🙏
So happy to help. I wish you well on your move!!!
These are fantastic videos! Just set up my first proper home network top to bottom with Unifi and i'm following these along! Thanks Tim, liked and subbed!!
Thanks so much... I'm glad you find them helpful! Appreciate the support!
Just did the same
I'm in the process of moving from Eero to Unifi. Your videos are extremely helpful. Thank you!
I’m so glad to hear that. I love helping others. Best of luck with your move from Eero.
Excellent video. I am getting ready to do the same and your videos are a lifesaver!
Great video - super helpful
Great. That is what we are shooting for here. Thank your for watching!
thank you for your time. I need to set up a bridge. what switch should I look at. I have the cloud gateway ultra as my first component. small home to shop.
When you say bridge, do you mean a wireless bridge? (Like a point to point?) If that is the case, then the switch won't really play a role in that. If you planned on having a switch in your shop, then you would just need to pick one that has the power and port requirement you need for out there... but the bridge is a separate piece of equipment. This video of mine shows how to setup a bridge... ua-cam.com/video/7x4_Gzv2Hiw/v-deo.htmlsi=GsHYbDGkZ0SP_FXT
Great videos, easy to follow. I'm new to this, but where would you put the Game Console. Ie PS5, Xbox
I think in general gaming consoles are fairly secure. That being said, it doesn’t hurt to stick them somewhere like an IOT network or maybe put them on their own VLAN. However, I think you’d probably be safe, putting them on the main default network in most cases.
QQ: which setting wins, when you activate the portal for guests but also check the GUEST setting under networks? I would assume, that both settings generate implicit firewall rules. But which comes with the higher priority?
You know, I don't actually know. That is a good question. You may have to play around with that a little bit and try out the different scenarios if that is something you are looking to implement.
The Facebook authentication is wild, but I wouldn’t be one that trusts people enough to chance that. A valid email with a 2fn type thing might be cool, but probably few people would want to do that. I saw one at a restaurant in NC, it asked for my email address which I did provide, now when I go back there it’s like hey welcome back, here’s a discount code, thought that was super neat.
Thanks for sharing. That is a cool that it remembered you and offered a discount. Was that a UniFi thing? I kind of don’t that it was.
@ not as far as I know, and I tried to login to the gateway to see what it was but their firewall rules were on point. Was in Moyock NC Eagle Creek Gold Club & Grill I think it was.
I'm glad you didn't have access. That would have not been good as a guest. LOL. Neat setup. Not a strong suit for Unifi if you ask me. My guess that was some kind of 3rd party proxy doing that.
@ agreed on all points!
Great series! Any suggestions for why my Guest network only gets Internet from the AP off of my Unifi Express? I've got the Guest SSID broadcasting to all my APs. I can connect to Guest Wifi but if my device is connected to another AP (not the Unifi's) it won't provide me Internet. My default network's wifi provides Internet on all of my APs.
Based on that question of having Unifi APs and Non-Unifi APs, I can't really figure out how you are setup currently... However, to answer your original question, in the WiFi settings, you can create AP groups and then you can assign certain Wifi networks to only broadcast in certain groups...
An example of this is if you had a pool WiFi name and you only wanted to broadcase the pool WiFi on the outdoor AP... You would create an AP group and name it something like Outdoor APs - then put that outdoor AP in that group. Then you could create a pool wifi network and assign to the outdoor AP group and it will only broadcast outside...
Not sure if this applies to your setup with the different types of APs, but I this is how it is typically done.
How do we manually just add the Mac address of trusted devices, so that rules can apply before they connect?
I got all your questions... you may need to email me at tim@ethernetblueprint.com and explain what it is that you are trying to accomplish because I can't really figure that out based on your quesitons... I will do my best to help, but it sounds like you are trying to do some advanced settings and that makes your network very difficult to manage...
Thank you
You're welcome! ☺️
So when I have the Hotspot portal turned off I am unable to access the internet through the WiFi but it's still pushing out a signal. Any thoughts
Fixed was a bug on the mobile device trying to connect
Glad you were able to diagnose this issue! Good job!
Portal is broken and needs a firmware update to get it to show the splash login screen.
Interesting. I don't have that on by defauilt and didn't know something was off. Thanks for sharing!