Dream Machine Special Edition

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Dream Machine Special Edition

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Advice on UDM SE, Doorbell Lite, PoE Chime & USW-Lite-16 Setup

That's more than I'd hang on the SE's AIO utility switch. It only has 1 GbE uplink to the UDM-SE proc. Cameras and IoT hubs only. APs and downstream switches are not good things to hook up there. Long thread on the topic. You really want a core switch hanging off of one of your SFP+ ports with a DAC

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TruthyBrat in r/Ubiquiti

December 27, 2025 5:03 PM

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Have you ever had a Ubiquiti product have a hardware failure? How do you plan for such a contingency?

My UDM-SE died in January, while I was out of town. It's at home so it wasn't a super huge deal (although the websites I host were all down) but my big worry was my wife. She's tech savvy enough to at least grab a spare ethernet cable and plug the Phillips Hue hub into the AT&T Fiber router itself s

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75Meatbags in r/Ubiquiti

May 10, 2025 7:45 PM

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UDM‑SE vs USW‑Pro‑Max‑16‑PoE

The UDM-xxx line really wants to be mated with a good core switch via DAC. Say a Pro Max 16 or 24 PoE, for example. That said, those ports are useful for many things, and aren't a horrible place to start out with, if you're spacing out purchases (SE, then switch, say). Low-bandwidth uses for UDM-xxx

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TruthyBrat in r/Ubiquiti

July 3, 2025 12:22 PM

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