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I recently had my house struck by lightning and it completely friend my cable modem and Google WiFi router.
Seemed as good a time as any to make the move to a Dream Machine so I ordered one up. Was not impressed. I kept getting dropped from my internet connection (wired or WiFi) for short bursts where it wasn't enough to see it while pinging, but my VPN connection for work kept dropping me. Super annoying.. Ended up returning it and picked up another set of Google pucks from a neighbor (who ironically went to the UDM as well).
After all my complaining about the price I decided to get the UXG-Pro. This is probably me being a noob, but how do I get ANY information on how to set this thing up? I plugged in the WAN/LAN ports and my network is working, but it came with not even a single sheet of paper that one could call "instructions" how do I actually login to the thing? I read I need to setup a controller on another device? I see I can do that on a Raspberry Pi?
Can't say exactly as I have never owned a Ubiquiti device, but I would assume that it is a web interface via the Gateway IP address. Now as to the default login details I cannot say, but I found this article that may be of help.
yes, you can set up a controller on r-pi. Once you get it set up, you can adopt the uxg-pro and manage it. A good place to look for set up guides is youtube..
Thanks. Curious if you know the answer to this. Does the controller need to be on the same subnet? I ask because, right now all my devices are behind a Google Wifi (which means they are on 192.168.86.x because Google sucks and I HIGHLY recommend no one buy Google Wifi). The UXG is 192.168.1.1. Do I need the controller to be on the 192.168.1.x subnet or can it be on 86?
So, are you going to be getting Access Points as well or are you planning on leveraging your Google Wifi as APs? (Could they even be configured in that mode?)
Google Wifi has this horrible "feature" where if you want it in mesh mode, it cannot act as a true AP. It MUST create its own subnet and it MUST run its own DHCP server. So for now, I have all my devices behind the Google Wifi wall. At some point I plan to replace them with new mesh APs and rid myself of Google
They won't. I'm sure of it. I'll "make it work" but I will lose a lot of capabilities. Like I said, I recommend everyone avoid Google Wifi. But at the same time, I'll have some Google Wifis for sale in the future if anyone wants them
I know someone already answered this saying it does, but I’m not sure that’s accurate. I run my controller in another subnet which is a separate vlan without issue. As long as you provide the IP of the controller and the device you are attempting to adopt can route traffic to that IP there should be no issue putting a controller wherever. In fact some people run their controllers in AWS which is certainly not in the same subnet.
After a $500 router I’m not really looking to spend $100 on a device that, in my opinion should have been built into the router. I’ll set it up on the same duvet to be safe. Thanks guys!
