I got 99 problems but my WiFi ain't one

They are assigned via DHCP (I looked at fixed IP but it's one of those areas where googling the settings only gets you solutions to far more complicated problems).

The APs work fine, are still adopted and I can see everything that is connected to them in the client devices. It's just that the topology screen no longer shows a nice map with the APs and what is connected to each.

Your problem is indeed the loss of the Ubiquiti switches. They have their own internal web server which serves an overview of what is connected to what, effectively their routing tables... it's this which the Cloud Key (or whatever) is using to draw the topology.

The missing part of the picture is because the data is missing.

Frustratingly, whatever switch you have does know this stuff... it's just not exposed to connected devices via any API, it's just internal knowledge, hence it cannot be seen or factored into a topology graph.

Your choice is: 1) Live with it, or 2) Replace switches with Ubiquiti switches.

My knowledge is exhausted - I go so far as to try different flavours of turn off & on again, I'm afraid.

[Edit] ^ That looks like a much better answer.

Any idea why my DreamMachine would be contacting facebook.com?

I can't say that I'm a fan of ubiquiti kit deciding to dial home and just about everywhere else all the time.

Cheers. I thought that may be the case but couldn't really remember whether the timeline worked out and I thought it being a tough switch rather than a Unifi one counted against that idea.

I do need to replace the switch, I'm currently using a couple of PoE injectors and a spare switch, but all the unifi stuff being out of stock and costing twice as much as the alternatives probably means I'll live with it.

Anyone got recommendations for sub £100 WiFi mesh setups? Power line don’t seem to be working for us for some reason (cabled is all good, it’s the WiFi that doesn’t seem to work consistently at all).

Is anyone with Community Fibre? I'm looking to sign up so if anyone has a referral link they'd like to share, let me know.

https://www.communityfibre.co.uk/friends?referral=GevehPIJPz

My brother's - he's been very impressed with them since it went in a few months ago
Cheers!

Can anyone recommend a simcard wifi box, like a dongle but to give wifi to a whole house?

When I did this I just plugged a cheap sim dongle into my existing network (router and wireless access points) which is a cheaper and more powerful option if you already have stuff from a previous setup.

I had some cheapo portable ones but they weren't great (both in range and router options). Not sure how much you'd have to spend to get a good one.

Thanks. It seems on more investigation Vodafone offer a router box and simcard for the same cost as just a simcard, so I might just do that. Need to see if it comes with external satellite.

I actually might have an old apple airport, in a box somewhere, will look into that good idea.

I have a GL-inet router which I can plug a sim-dongle in when I travel if there's no wifi and I have a laptop (to be fair, I've only used it once). I also use it for VPN when I'm in countries with over the top governmental surveillance.

Vodafone are cancer. Avoid at all costs.

Why?

Absolutely horrendous customer service and generally not good actual service.

Things like this are commonplace...

Yeah fair enough. I'm sure you'd be hard pushed to find a company without stuff like that against it.

I did call movistar go ask about the 5g box. Guy on the phone said they don't do it, then he said they do it but it's only 20mbps. Then I gave up with him.

Triple pack of Deco M4 is £99 at Currys at the moment. Does the job pretty well in my small thick walled flat set up as Access Points via the Deco app.

Just managed to boost the speed by 3x in the slowest room using power line adapters as an ethernet backhaul from the furthest room to the base unit so you could still make use of your powerline adapters if you can turn off their wifi?

Great, thanks very much!

FWIW just had an email back from unifi RMA department. It took 26 days for my return to get through customs and royal mail.

Within 20 minutes of recieving it the replacement camera was placed on back order. So it has somehow irretrievably bricked it's self and there is no stock to replace, although I am grateful that it will be replaced.

Replacement Tough Switch has got my topology map back (and got rid of a couple of PoE injectors). Cheers @Velocio

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Nice.

Mine looks like this:

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Also... fast.com lies... I cannot possibly have 9.2Gbps when my local network is only capable of 1Gbps.

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Its telling me I'm getting 170Mbps out of 950.

Speedtest.net has me at 924Mbps.

Fast.com is indeed lying.

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How do you control multiple rooms using one widget from the android app?

I got my fastest recorded speed this evening, it usually runs around 350, maybe it’s the weather…

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