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[Supermule]

Not good performance on the 5G band..

2.4 GHz performance for the UAP-AC was comparable with AC1750 routers we have tested. But 5 GHz performance suffered from both lower peak throughput and shorter range as well.

Compared to other access points and AC1750 routers, at $300, the UAP-AC is expensive. The runs contrary to Ubiquiti's general hardware pricing, which tends to be very competitive. But as one of the few draft 11ac APs available, perhaps Ubiquiti is just trying to get while the gettin' is good.

@Cino:

I hear ya, this may help:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32153-ubiquiti-uap-ac-access-point-reviewed
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32202-ubiquiti-uap-ac-access-point-retest

Its not the best out there but I've hear it works pretty damn good right out of the box.

[Supermule]

WRT1900AC

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143623/linksys-wrt1900ac-wi-fi-router-review-faster-than-anything-we-ve-tested.html

This test was the reason is chose it over the ASUS…

And it does a very good job here at home.

[Cino]

Pretty much every review I've read about the WRT1900AC has been pretty good. I'm looking more towards features/reliably then WiFi performance.. When OpenWRT/DD-WRT firmware comes out, I may hit you up to see how VLANs work on the box..

[Supermule]

It can VLAN out of the box… I just dont like the Linksys software since its pretty non informative.

Reliability is excellent and with DD-WRT firmware, it will be something that will last a long time since it can push a lot of traffic...

[Cino]

Good to know, thanks for the info

[MontTech]

Came in today, going out tomorrow!  Love the new boxes  ;D

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[MontTech]

Annnnnnnnnnnnnd another one….Doing our part to keep the pfSense boys busy!


[xy.pf123msgebox.com]

My laundry room:

pfSense Firebox XTM 520
gigabit managed switch
ISP gigabit modem
big ups (server) & small ups (network)
mac server
*invisible due to embedding in the floor - 2 x ubiquity ap-lr-ac - the best wifi I've had
& fabric softner, detergent, furnace, etc :)

[stephenw10]

Nice.  :)

No lcdproc?

Steve

[jahonix]

Steve, can you make this a sticky so it can be found even without new posts?

[stephenw10]

Seems like I can.  :)

[ivor]

For those with official pfSense hardware, please post a few pics here as well https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=126630.0

[Soarin]

Running pfSense in a VM with my Dell PowerEdge R610

CPU: x5560 (only 4 threads given)
RAM: 4GB of DDR3 ECC
HDD: 6GB (Even with Squid, Snort, and a few other packages installed it uses 19% of 6GB)

I'd eventually like to take my pfSense out of a VM and put it into a dedicated machine. It runs my server & home network, the amount of speed & control I've gotten out of this is immense compared to my ISP MoCA.

[kilthro]

So it's been a while since I was last in here posting my setup.

This was my previous one.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=57028.msg304531#msg304531

@kilthro:

Well I wish I had a fancy setup. Here is a a pic of my pfSense box.

SUPERMICRO SYS-5015A-EHF-D525 1U Intel Atom D525 Dual Gigabit LAN w/ IPMI Server
4 gig ram
Intel EXPI9402PT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
two 250gig WD black 2.5 inch drives mirrored
1500AV UPS (not shown) for 1.5 hours of backup time.
And for the heck of it a Crystalfontz display. :-D
Have gigabit wireless access point as well hooked up. (not shown)

Don't make fun of my makeshift fan bracket (zip ties in vent). lol The system is "passively cooled"  and I didn't like the 65°C so i put a case fan in and now its 40°C. Not exactly where i would want it but much better.

It, unfortunately, died a few weeks ago… The onboard SATA controller died and hard drives couldn't be accessed.

Here is my new one..

Supermicro Server (SYS-5017P-TLN4F)
Core i7-3612QM
8GB ECC ram
Dual WD Black 250GB 32MB Cache 7 MM 2.5 Inch - WD2500LPLX in GEOM Mirror
Intel EXPI9402PT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter  (taken from prior build so I can have 6 ports) :-)
WIFI is handled by a NETGEAR ProSAFE WAC730 Business 3x3 Dual Band (set up for EAP)
Crystalfontz display taken from prior build. So happy to have that working again in recent builds!

Long live pfSense!!! Can't imagine using anything else. #goldmember for life!

[docdawning]

This is my little datacentre closet. My pfsense router is in the top left corner. It's a ~2.0GHz HT Pentium 4 Dell machine, with 768MB of RAM. It has a couple of IDE drives, one of which holds a squid cache. I've got a much newer Xeon server to replace it with, but it works perfectly fine, lots of traffic through it and it's been solid for about 8 years.

[Dax71]

My pfSense setup and network produkt line is:

HPE Microserver Gen 8 i3-3220 8GB Ram running pfSense 2.3.x
3 Unifi AP 2.4 Ghz
2 Dlink Managed switches

[indigo88]

Fractal Design Node 202
Intel Core i5 7600K
ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac
16GB DDR4
Intel Optane Memory 16GB M.2 (There's a 250G Samsung 960 Evo in the photo, it was way too big, so I reclaimed it)
Intel X550-T2
Running 2.4.0 beta


[seelukebairgmail.com]

Running an ugly little AMD AM1 vmware box, 16G RAM at my home.
Windows 10, Vmware Workstation It has just enough juice to run PFSENSE 2.3,Domain Controller, fileserver, and my plex server. 
Most of the build was from spare parts, the RAID card was the most expensive item. 
I recently was running 70+Meg internet on a usb NIC, but upgraded to a cheap Intel pcie.  I'm mentioning it because some people had questions about running pfsense on a usb nic, I had no notable problems other than the clunky vmware network configuration.  Note I used workstation and not ESXi.

[Ryu945]

Pfsense can use intel optane?

[Gershwin]

My hardware setup. Software setup is pending  ;)