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Maybe this is helpful or maybe not: I have seen similar asymmetric behavior in a totally different context. I have some MoCA adapters that are rated for 2.5G, and they can deliver solid 2.35Gbps according to iperf3 ... but when connected to certain devices, it's 2.35Gbps in one direction and...

I doubt that that observation is terribly relevant here. The problem for an SFP+-to-ethernet module that wants to run 2.5G on the RJ45 side is that the SFP+ side doesn't do that speed, so it needs buffering and speed conversion ability, which eats power.

Fair enough. I think UniFi's ceiling is a bit higher than you give it credit for, but I agree it might not be a great choice if you're running the network for a large corporate division, major university, etc. UI would like to be in the running for such deployments, but they're not there yet.

Ubiquiti does pretty well from a price/performance standpoint. I'm not aware of any other wifi brand that competes with them on that scale and is reliably better about software bugs. The other ones that I've tried since giving up my late lamented Apple Airports (Netgear, ASUS, Zyxel) are...

Thanks for doing the research on that --- I'd poked around Netgear's site a little, but failed to locate that list.

See for example this article from The Register: "product registration is required to unlock full access to the local browser user interface". The policy may not apply to every Netgear managed switch, but for sure at least some. It also aligns with my experience with Netgear Orbi wifi gear: you...

I've read that all of Netgear's managed switches have phone-home behavior, so pay close attention to that point. (I love their unmanaged switches, but would be hesitant to buy a managed one.) I have a managed Zyxel switch (XGS1250-12) that I quite like, but it doesn't do PoE so that particular...

That wouldn't in itself explain the observed symptom, since @hys17 didn't mention replacing his router with something else, only rebooting it. But I bet you're close to the truth. I'm wondering if the router itself changes its WAN-side MAC address during reboot for some reason. If so, it...

Download speed different from upload speed is far from unusual. If your ISP swears that it's configured the same on their end, the first thing that comes to my mind is a buffering problem. There are certainly going to be points in your connection out to the wider internet where the line speed...

I am not an expert in these matters, but even I know that your local building code is likely to have some things to say on this. If you don't know the code backwards and forwards you should not be undertaking this job. One point I'd particularly think about is that with that length of run, it...

I agree so far as new purchases go. However, there are plenty of old Apple machines around that are no longer supported by current macOS releases. They are still pretty decent hardware too. If you've got one, your choices are to recycle it, continue to run an old OS with known security holes...

There's a user-maintained UniFi product chipset list here. Sadly, it lacks an entry for that particular switch; but eyeballing the list suggests strongly that UI prefer Broadcom or RealTek for their bigger switches. If you have the switch in hand you might try ssh'ing into it and seeing if you...

I believe that a good deal of the complexity (and hence heat dissipation) of SFP+-to-RJ45 adapters comes exactly from the need to buffer different speeds between the 10G-and-nothing-else SFP+ side and the potentially-multispeed ethernet side. From that standpoint, feeding a 2.5G ethernet device...

You might look to see if you can find something suitable from Zyxel -- their XMG1915-18EP would about fit your requirements I think. I don't own that model, but I'm assuming it's fairly similar to the XGS1250-12 which I do have. It's pretty low-featured for a managed switch, but it can...

Yeah, the wind rating is the same, so maybe it's fine. The main thing is to make sure they are sturdily mounted, because once they are aligned you don't want them shifting even one degree, or you'll be making that snowshoe trek ...

You're on the wrong site. Go to Ubiquiti's community forums... lots of knowledgeable and helpful people over there, as well as a wealth of pre-existing discussion. FWIW, I don't know about Litebeam units in particular, but I'm quite sure there is UISP gear that will serve your purpose. I have...

Radio authorities normally regulate what frequencies and transmit power levels you can use; they don't care about different wifi protocols. So I'd expect that you could use wifi 7 gear just as well as wifi 6 or wifi 5 gear, so long as you stick to allowed channels and power for your area. If...

Nope, it does routing just fine too, as well as DHCP, VLANs, and lots of other stuff. See the manual here.

FWIW, I'm running Verizon FiOS 1Gbps service with 5 static IPs on a (fanless) Netgate 4200 using pfSense+. The 4200 hardware is really overkill for this --- I bought it with the idea that Verizon might be offering 2Gbps service sometime soon, but that still hasn't come to my neck of the woods...

Getting back to the original point: if you own your home, I suggest looking into getting a whole-house surge protector. These devices are normally installed inside the electric meter box and provide strong first-line defense against lightning surges. UPSes are good second-line protection, but...