LOVE seeing these videos! We’re moving south as well, from Jersey (Verizon FiOS territory) to North Carolina (AT&T territory) so I love seeing how other people get their AT&T setups working. I’m hoping to god our new home has AT&T
Well done video!! We have 1 gig fiber in our area (Not AT&T). I have been networking our home with a conglomeration of OM3 fiber, Cat 6, Cat 8, and MoCa adapters where I couldn't run fresh Cat 6 or 8. The MoCa's supply a 1 gig backhaul for my ASUS mesh system. I hope you will get your 5 gig speeds, one day soon! Cheers to you!
Our company has AT&T's 5 Gb/s service. But getting 5 Gb/s through a *_single_* Unifi gateway is a challenge. Until the UDM-Pro Max, Unifi didn't have a gateway that could attain that level of IDS throughput. In addition to our UXG-Pro, we added a UXG-Max) that now fronts a bare metal API cluster. This keeps our corporate gateway isolated from the API gateway, while also using the same 5 Gb/s service. For home use I'd def go 2 Gb/s if the price was good, but 5 Gb/s will be wasted dollars.
Thanks for showing your setup, I have the same service in the home, and because of your video I bought a switch aggregation to go with my UDMP SE - such a good idea!
Stan this is brilliant thank you very very much I'm looking forward to moving to Texas exactly what I want fiber and every room basically your home is wired for fiber. I was just calling AT&t to see if they could wire the entire home for fiber because I will be purchasing hopefully a new construction home is the homie already be up and ready to go so long story short your video has helped and answered a lot of questions particularly for the switch AT&t said are the representative I spoke with said that I did not need a switch and I knew I did and you just showed me yes having a switch is good to have. I get like you and debating to go to 5 gigs because currently I have to but like you I can't justify 5 gigs I'm not a gamer I just work from home and it's just me, but something about having that speed and know you have that speed it's just feel so good!
Using ATT 1gig fiber for years. You cant go back. Unlimited data and symmetrical 1Gig upload and download. If you have Blu-ray and 4k movies being streamed on max quality on your home network through your servers and you do lots of streaming and content creation its a MUST
Yep. I'm mainly interested in the unlimited data. I had Comcast for almost 6 years. The service was good and reliable, but the data cap was just absurd IMO. It was 1 TB and then they "graciously" gave us an extra 200 GB during the pandemic. I just got fiber from a provider not too long ago and its been great. Definitely cheaper than Comcast and I don't have to worry about the stupid data cap.
7:44 I'm attempting to reverse engineer your setup but find myself confused as to how you integrated your aggregation panel. There are three lines going from the UDMSE to the patch panel followed by another three lines from the patch panel to the aggregation panel with an SFP+ connection back to the UDMSE. Are you only servicing three home lines in this setup or six lines? Do you have something to show the wiring setup?
I just got ATT fiber and can’t get an ip on my dream machine. What settings did you use for the ATT box? I put it in pass through mode and turned off the att firewall and dhcp. My dream machine won’t pickup an ip no matter what info.
Suppose I should reply to this since I've since gotten one.... Nokia xs-020x-a. When the installers showed up he had it sitting in the truck and was like "hey can I get one of those instead? There's no way to get fiber where I want my router but I already have copper in place.". and he hooked me up with it.
You have it wired wrong. Just a heads up but with having the dream machine you can bypass the ATT router. Unplug the SFP in the ATT router and plug it directly in your dream machine.
This will not work. You need a xgs-pon sfp+ transceiver that can be configured with the mac/serial of the att gateway that's provisioned on your account. It can be done but they cost around $200. Look up masquerade as the at&t bgw320 for instructions if anyone is curious.
what is the point of running full ubi stack? is it safer / does Ubi have more safety features like wpa3 and things to keep out people from accessing your wifi?
Is that kind of bandwidth to internet necessary for home usage ? only thing stop me using AT&T is they don't allow bridge mode, which is a show-stopper for me. nice speakers btw 👍
I have the At&T fiber 1 gig plan here in louisiana and i use it mainly for gaming. I usually get 40 ping in a lobby full of players and like 15-20 ping whenever there is barely anybody in the lobby. Will 2 gig or 5 gig decrease my latency?
@@thesleepingGOD_ lol i’m using cat 8 cable and i have an asus rtx 82u router. The router modem that at&t provided i switched off the router part on it that provides the signal and now it just acts as a modem. I’m just wondering if the higher speeds will decrease my latency
@@chocolatemilk9102 major factors that contribute latency are type of internet (cable, fiber, dsl), your location, your hardware. You’re talking about bandwidth so ultimately no. In this case though supposedly AT&T 2 and 5 gpbs are separate, so might not get congested, so its possible but like 95% confident nothing will change
@@woodburnisg yea my equipment is pretty good. Wifi 6 gaming router with the cat 8 ethernet hardwired to my ps5. I always wondered if doubling my internet speed would do anything ping wise. Thank you for the response though
I live in Houston, and they pulled the fiber to my house today. They will connect everything on Thursday. I ordered the same service that you have. Do you know the dimension between the mounting screws on that outside ATT box?
How do you have the ATT BGW modem connected to your Dream machine? I seen a black RJ45 come out the back of the modem, and in the Wan port you had a white RJ45 connected to the Wan port. Did I miss something? Asking becuase im having issues getting my Dream machine SE to connect to the internet.
I know it's an old post but did you ever figure this out? I'm about to get a new bgw320 too with my UDM-SE and I want to know if I can simply use port 9/rj45 too. only getting 2gb speeds, not worried about 5gb. thanks :)
@@TheDevilOfCoffee yeah I messed up and was setting up the device without the UniFi mobile app so it ended up getting set up properly. As for the speed you just have to make sure that you have the motivating everything plugged in correctly. There’s a port in the back of the BW modem I think it’s green that’s the port that gives you speed excessive one gigabyte.
Great setup! But the AT&T technician did a poor job with the installation he used outside fiber to bring into the home which causes problems if tugged either from the outside home or inside the panel, they should have use the pre made indoor bend sensitive fiber that they do have and use all the time for indoor fiber. Using the outdoor fiber like this will cause light reflection making the speeds drop or have a random disconnect to the ont built into the bgw 320 modem(the white modem).
I recently upgraded my AT&T fiber speeds to 5 gigs and upgraded my entire network setup with Unifi switches, UDM SE Pro and cat 6a rated cables, but for some reason, the switches are not capable of delivering 5 gigs speeds. They are getting capped at 2.5 gig. If I connect my PC directly to the UDM pro LAN port, I am able to get 5 gig speeds. If anyone is able to help troubleshoot why the aggregation switch or the 48 port switch I have is getting capped at 2.5 gig, please let me know. Thank you.
You might be using a switch which is not rated for 5gig, and if the switch is capable of 5gig you should check the connection from UDM to switch, like you have connected your switch uplink to 10gig port or connected it to 1gig port.
@scottluther2091 a year later, and i have switched to att with the bgw320 and unifi and have zero issues or slow speeds with it bypassing straight to my udm so its fine. it would be nice to get rid of the sfp to rj45 transceiver but its fine
Do you set the gateway Im assuming to bridge mode and then connected your router? Also that fiber run to the house would get me anxious of a neighborhood dog or someone accidentally damaging it lol
I haven't had AT&T in years, but last I remember, there's no bridge mode with the U-Verse or fiber internet services. You have to put the AT&T gateway in IP Passthrough mode so that it allows your 3rd party router internet access.
Great video Stan, I have the 5 gig connection and im trying to get the most out of it just like you. I love your setup but i dont need it in every room just here at my PC which is a custome built one with only a 2.5gig port on the mobo and the rest will be wifi. i want to set something up just like yours to maximize that 5 gig connection but i dont think i need something that big. Any pointers or recommendations you have for me and acheiving those speeds? Im in texas as well, so welcome to texas!!
If you're set on using 5 Gigabit, you can pick up a 10 Gigabit Ethernet card, and it will auto negotiate with the ATT router 5 Gigabit (blue port). That said, you could just save yourself some money and drop down to the 2.5 GBE fiber plan. It's significantly cheaper and you'd be hard to saturate that connection with just one PC.
About time, congratulations!! Could you provide a list of networking equipment used & a simple config chart. That would be awesome for others looking to do home networking. Thanks.
Ubiquiti is the way to go these days, very good devices for a fair price and look great as you can see in this setup even that rack is made by Ubiquiti.
super cool!! is it possible to hook up fiber (from the ONT box which is the box that takes fiber from outside and converts it into copper for Ethernet) to the dream machine and have the dream machine act as the ONT whilst providing internet to the rest of the premise? also does it have wifi? thanks!
I've seen a couple examples of people doing it, as mentioned it's "not easy". There's some kind of authentication that requires the ONT modem box where if you reset the connection you need to plug it back into the box.
The box outside is just a termination/ test point. The ONT is building into the 320bgw older fiber setups will have a white nokia box that connects to a 5268/210/599/589 models. It is possible to bypass using the 320s ont but you will have to configure alot to do that.
I am interested in your setup. In 2-3 months, I will be setting a similar configuration and will be upgrading from Xfinity to ATT Fiber, but I keep hearing the stories that ATT is forcing people to use their gateway, which if that is the case, I can't do cause I won't have proper coverage, plus I want to use my own router and access points.
What part of Texas are you in? I live near Austin and all I have and stuck with is Spectrum which does have a GB downloads but the uploads are horrible. Hopefully somewhere down the line we'll have Fiber because I like yourself also have a good Ubiquiti setup with UDM P, NVR and Talk and would really love to use 2GB up and down. BTW I'm really jealous of your speeds.
I recently saw a video saying the FCC dropped the old cable card mandate and that should allow Spectrum to free up bandwidth for better uploads. No timeline but hopefully it'll be quick once they shut down the cable cards.
@@gingerman5123wow all these years I thought it was hardware or cable line limit not able to provide more upload. Or that cable companies are just cheaping out not wanting to provide for its customers. So it was the god damn fcc, like wth why they want to limit cable companies on that..
too bad not more details...what connectors look like unplugged, point to point description of wires and connectors with overkill description. This was just a gloss over for me of no use.
4:30 Wow, so your fiber cable installer really botched that job then. 😆 NEVER *EVER* only pull one cable through a conduit with a pull string. Always (*ALWAYS*) pull a cable + another pull string. Future you or future buyer will appreciate that.
