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Mar/20

Filtering Websites With Ubiquiti Security Gateway And OpenDNS

Filed Under Networking at 2nd March 2020 0:01 by

Overview The Unifi Security Gateway (USG) can be setup to assign a custom DNS server. The DNS server itself will perform the blocking based on the sites people/devices access. Pre-Requisites In order for everything to work beyond a working Unifi … Continue reading →

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Sep/19

Low Signal After Ubiquiti Access Point Firmware 4.0.42.10433

Filed Under Networking at 2nd September 2019 0:01 by

Upgrading from 4.0.21.9965 to 4.0.42.10433 (and beyond) on UAP AC Lite the signal was very poor and kept getting failed to obtain IP address error on multiple devices. It turns out the “Auto-Optimize Network” setting was having the opposite effect … Continue reading →

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Jul/19

Home Networking Overview

Filed Under Networking at 1st July 2019 0:01 by

Overview My goal was to have the ability to manage and control devices connected to my network but also make it as seamless as possible for the users. These goals can be broken down into 3 areas: Securing devices Network … Continue reading →

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Jun/17

Adding Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway To Existing Network

Filed Under Networking at 22nd June 2017 20:38 by

Overview Adding a the Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG) to my existing setup was slightly more involved than I had hoped however it was fairly idiot proof. The issue is if the controller is on a different subnet to the … Continue reading →

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Oct/16

Install UniFi Controller On Ubuntu 16.04

Filed Under Networking at 3rd October 2016 0:01 by

Overview The Ubiquiti networking gear comes with a Java controller software to provision the hardware. It’s called the Unfi controller. Because it’s a Java application it can run on any Java compatible system so in my case I wanted to … Continue reading →