Router placement with PTP Unifi network
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Hi guys,
One of my clients recently finished construction at a new office building less than a mile from their existing location. Comcast was supposed to complete installation of the new circuit at the new office already, but now things have been delayed with no ETA of installation.
We're now looking at Ubituqiti's AirFiber 5 solution (perfect line of sight) to make a point to point network. At the new office I have their new router in the rack and now I'm trying to decide if it should stay there or be placed at the original office where the Comcast circuit will reside.
Their existing Comcast gateway has a local 10.0.10.1 LAN IP and a static IP (96.89.X.X). Can I configure Ubiquti Airfiber device A (located at Comcast) to have 10.0.10.2 IP, Airfiber device B (located remotely) with 10.0.10.3 IP, and plug the receiver directly into the router's WAN side with the 96.89.X.X as if it were plugged directly into the Comcast gateway like usual? Or, would it be better to relocate the router to the comcast circuit and have the AirFiber devices use LAN IPs from the router itself (10.1.10.1) so it would be like 10.1.10.250 and10.1.10.251 for example. Or does it even matter?
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I guess my preference would be to keep the router in the new office because it's got multiple DHCP ranges/VLANs for various networks, and if the PTP went down, nobody would get an IP for local LAN network resources.
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NVM...I'm looking more into it and it seems that it has dedicated ports for Data/management. It seems I should be able to plug Comcast gateway directly into "data" port and on the other end plug that data port directly into my router's WAN port and configure it with it's static IP.
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If the Comcast router is doing NATing, then they are providing a firewall for you already. Personally I'd disable that, put the comcast device into bridged mode and accept the real IP directly on your equipment.
Are both locations staying active?
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With perfect line of sight and that distance I'd also look at the NanoBeam AC Gen2. NanoBeam is probably quite a bit less expensive than the AF5, and also a lot smaller footprint so easier to mount, etc., but still should cover that distance with pretty good performance.
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@frodooftheshire said in Router placement with PTP Unifi network:
NVM...I'm looking more into it and it seems that it has dedicated ports for Data/management. It seems I should be able to plug Comcast gateway directly into "data" port and on the other end plug that data port directly into my router's WAN port and configure it with it's static IP.
Correct. AirFiber is designed to be just a transparent pipe if you want.
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@frodooftheshire said in Router placement with PTP Unifi network:
At the new office I have their new router in the rack and now I'm trying to decide if it should stay there or be placed at the original office where the Comcast circuit will reside.
Second site doesn't have any need for a firewall, do they? They don't have a WAN link.
