Unify express ubiquity an R3 compatibility

[fds]

I am considering combining both pieces of equipment in order to get the best performance out of their features (DPI + Geo filter and anti-bufferbloat).

I am not quite sure how, or if, they can be combined. Any suggestions or tutorials are welcome.

[Netduma Fraser]

You'd have to have the Unify at the top so it can control the network with it's QoS and then the R3 connected to it for the Geo-Filter aspect. I don't think it's necessary to do so and would be better to use the R3 for both functions 

[fds]

This weekend, someone lent me a Ubiquity device. I tried to combine both devices and explore how they coexist in my network environment, but I found it impossible for the R3 to connect to the internet with the Unify managing the network. The idea was for the R3 to obtain an IP address from the Unify and connect the PS5 to the R3 to work with the geofilter and antibufferbloat and see how they coexist, but I found it impossible. The most I managed was for the R3 connected to the Unify to have its own network, but if I disabled the R3's DHCP, even after setting a fixed IP address, it never requested an IP address from the Unify.

 

I don't know if there is a method, but it has been somewhat frustrating.

 

 

[Netduma Fraser]

Unify is much more enterprise level hardware, it's not a plug and play solution. If you disabled DHCP and set a fixed IP then it's not going to request an IP, it's going to use the one you've given it so if it didn't have internet then it will be something on the unify side. The setup you mentioned also with just the PS5 connected to it you wouldn't be doing anything for bufferbloat because the R3 wouldn't be controlling the network and handling other devices which it would need to do in order to combat it effectively.

[fds]

So, in my hypothetical scenario of combining both devices and trying to extract the DPI level and limitation rules per device and application as Unify has, and, in turn, having Geofilter and antibufferbloat from the R3 on a device connected to it, would that be possible?

[Netduma Fraser]

22 minutes ago, fds said:

So, in my hypothetical scenario of combining both devices and trying to extract the DPI level and limitation rules per device and application as Unify has, and, in turn, having Geofilter and antibufferbloat from the R3 on a device connected to it, would that be possible?

Not really, the QoS on the R3 needs to control all devices to be effective, you can use the two together and just use the R3 for the Geo-Filter