Unifi Switch Aggregation Review 

Thanks for the comment and I’ve pinned it to the top

Common mistake, I see this all the time at work when people explain LAGs.

LAG provides redundancy. Connections maximum speed will be limit by LAG load balancing

No gonna lie, I laughed hard as I was expecting "This is best practice, but unnecessary for at home." It was a nice surprise.

Apparently the mikrotik switch is good as well. I have one just never fired it up

Ya that will be a good switch

Hey Sean. I do use a 10G nic for my pc. Here’s a link to the one I have amzn.to/33F9yYB

I have the CRS305 but haven’t tried it out yet

Honestly no clue. I haven’t changed any setting on them just default

Hi I think it would work perfect for your situation

You can get them pretty cheaply these days. I've bought them for around the $250 mark.

Ive never used them but they would be a good option if you need more ports. Also like how they have a few RJ45 on them

@@klimraamkosie They are a bit more expensive here in the UK

@@MactelecomNetworks My network will be 16 x 48 port switches (up from 8) and I have about 60 AP's

Ya I mean you can use it for whatever you want. I just don’t have any other devices that are 10gb at the moment. I wouldn’t mind a fan either seeing as mine is in a network room I wouldn’t be able to hear it I’ll monitor the temperature hopefully it doesn’t get to hot

Hey nope I have a separate subnet just for cameras

If its not showing up I would try and hard code the speed to 10gb on both ends

I had to update the controller software version to be able to adopt the aggregation switch. After updating, it finally showed up to be adopted.

You can use it as a normal switch and connect devices directly to it, not just other switches. That's how I use it, as a normal managed switch with regular stuff plugged in 👍

Hey ya it has layer 3 capabilities. I don’t use it right now and wouldn’t see much benefit as I don’t have a large network

Hey Josh, You could use this to connect any 10gb device. So it would work great for you

@@MactelecomNetworks awesome, thank you! This seems like one of the more reasonably priced 10Gb switches.. and the added bonus of blending in perfectly to my UniFi system

@@Josh.Wilson I think it’s a great price. I have the Mikrotik 10gb switch as well ( haven’t powered it up after month) may give it a go and see how I like it

it's little confusing. can you repeat how your switches are connected? ( topology? )

It would be nice to have a second option for a Rps port that would raise the price of the switch though

The pro version of this switch (currently in the early access store) has an RPS port.

It’s a great switch use them all the time and highly recommend it for the price.

In my setup no it can not. But if you had a lot of devices connecting through these switches that were eating up a lot of bandwidth you would

Honestly, for most people the redundancy aspect for LAGG is more relevant then a minor speed increase.

I'm using this switch for 20Gb links to my 2 two NAS servers (which have a dedicated 40gb link for replication) and my primary workstation, and a 10Gb link to my wifes workstation and a 10Gb uplink until i can get my hands on a leaf and bring everything up to 25Gb. IF you have the hardware, then sure you can take advantage of the 20Gb link or faster... In my case the NAS servers have 4TB of nvme plp'ed cache, so that the workstation backups dump as fast as possible.

Hi you can connect a nas or pc of whatever you like to it

@@MactelecomNetworks Thanks ;)

@@SmartLANdotNET no problem

I have the dream machine on first floor cat5e up 1 floor to one of these 10G this has two 10G NAS then 10G to my office to another one of these switches and main 10G NAS and 10G pc

@@michaelbeaver4804 Ok so it can act as a "basic 10G switch"?

Hey, I still have this device just sitting on my shelf right now. I will verify this weekend and get back to you

@@MactelecomNetworks hey cody, thanks so much for getting back to me. I was actually able to verify the functionality is *not* currently supported on the regular Aggregation. Thanks for offering to check it though.

It gets a little warm but not to bad

Thanks check some of my newer videos it will have the correct discord link

Shouldn't matter - traffic between two given endpoints will always go over the same connection; this also means that they will never see more than 10Gb/s. You need multiple traffic streams to actually go beyond 10Gb/s throughput for a LAG

@@koma-k interesting so if you have a computer and a server with two 10 gig ports on each and they're both lagged you're not going to get a 20 gig throughput you'll still only get 10 gig ?

@@Reedith yes and no... a single datastream or "conversation" as the IEEE standard calls it cannot exceed single-link speed, so you have to do something extra to deliberately spread the load. The short explanation: The LACP standard specifies that any algorithm can be used to distribute frames (packets) among links, provided they 1) arrive in order and 2) there is no duplication. To ensure point 1, only one link can be used per "conversation", as per-port buffers, retransmits etc. could conceivably cause packets travelling over different links to arrive out-of-order. LACP can use various functions to choose which link a packet travels over - traditionally a simple XOR "hashing" of either MAC adresses or IP adresses have been common, but according to the Unifi docs it uses: "Hashing based on Source/Destination MAC, VLAN, EtherType, and incoming port associated with the packet". So as long as traffic doesn't all go to the same service/port it will "fill up" all the links given enough simultaneous streams going to either different VLANS, different virtual NICs (i.e. different MACs) etc.

No it will not ping cell towers

@@MactelecomNetworks so.if i wanna setup infrasturctire on my country how many udmpro do i have to install.for the whole country

@@kakilancap I have no idea I don’t build ISPs and if that is what you are trying to do I wouldn’t use the UDM pro for that

@@MactelecomNetworks then what acctually are you doing rite now?

@@kakilancap I own a consulting company not an ISP

Hey I do in newer videos

I wouldnt say its any better. The XG 16 comes with 16 10gb ports this comes with 8GB ports. Depends on how many connections you're going to be using

@@MactelecomNetworks yeah I guess I didn't mean better but I meant if they were eight for eight is it the same throughput? Like I would assume the pro version of this switch is better than the XG What's confusing us small brained people is that the language between aggregation and switch If I need to get 10 gig lines all over my office should I use 2 x g's or one aggregation pro also because this one is so much smaller than the 16 and fanless it's just hard to think that it does as much throughput or better but it probably does that's just judging a book by its cover 🤣 I'm trying to find the perfect backbone for my network I think maybe a pro aggregation and a leaf would work but the leaf has disappeared from The Early Access store I have a pretty large building with a lot of random offices that need 10 gig and lots of people need 10 gig in each office so I need like 100 gig link to each office or at least 25 gig So perhaps some of these aggregation switches with them aggregated to 20 or 30 gig throughput would be the way Would be nice though to just run one fiber pair that can do 100 gig rather than three 10 gig pairs to aggregate

I had to loosen it to get the PDU out ( didn’t tighten it fully during the filming) it’s lifted back up but still a little bit of a sag. It’s pretty heavy and not sure the rack can handle it. Getting a new rack in a week or two

Oh I know most people aren’t that’s why I put that. In a good situation would be nice to have redundancy but for my home office not needed

Were still waiting on support for multiple IPs so I wouldn't hold you breath on mlag

Why not utilize the aggregation ? It’s one less hop between my other switches and as of right now I still have ports available

And since this doesn’t have an uplink port you have to use an SFP plus going to my one gig switch so I could go to the systems in the house that use one gig and POE

Ubiquity also do the 16 XG switch which has 12 x SFP+ ports and 4 x 1/10Gb copper ports and also allows aggregation. So if you needed 8 SFP+ ports plus an uplink that might be another option

My bad. My Go pro died (which i usually record on) was using Iphone

@@MactelecomNetworks fair but just turn the phone. Lol. Otherwise the IPhone video is probably better quality

@@ThePirateGod I get it in hind sight I should have done it but now it’s released. Appreciate the feed back

Hi you can but you would need the correct SFPs ( Copper or fiber)