{"id":21,"date":"2019-05-31T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:51:50","slug":"network-upgrades-unifi-protect-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2019\/05\/network-upgrades-unifi-protect-and.html","title":{"rendered":"Network Upgrades – Unifi Protect and Network Re-Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long after Installing the CCTV cameras, Ubiquiti brought out some new cloud keys, one of which has a built in NVR and runs their new Protect CCTV software, this being the UCK-G2-PLUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This NVR is constantly recording from all of your attached cameras and comes with an internal 1TB drive, it also functions as a Unifi Cloud Key for all of your other Unifi devices.<\/p>\n

The switch from Unifi Video to Unifi Protect was pretty seamless and is covered off by a Ubiquiti help article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Likewise there is a Ubiquiti help article<\/a> for migrating from a Gen 1 cloud key to a Gen 2 cloud key.<\/p>\n

I have also been playing about with some of the connectivity in the house, increasing my collection of access points, switches and MoCA 2.0<\/a> network adapters and playing around with how it is all connected, trying to achieve maximum throughput everywhere in the house.<\/p>\n

The initial setup was somewhat wasteful of network ports and also of MoCA 2.0<\/a> network adapters.<\/p>\n

It was also not great for the lounge or my children’s bedrooms as they were dependent on wireless mesh connectivity.<\/p>\n

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I then ordered a MoCA 2.0<\/a> compliant 8 way cable TV splitter unit from the USA via eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This allowed me to connect all of the various rooms that I had wired with coax from a central point in the loft.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately cable the lounge was not playing nicely with the rest of the setup and caused the other MoCA 2.0<\/a> network adapters to disconnect due poor connectivity.<\/div>\n
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The same was happening with the connection to the cinema room, so I decided to run a cable from the office to the cinema room and leave the lounge wireless.<\/div>\n
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As you can tell from the various Visio diagrams, some were created prior to the cloud key upgrade as they still show the original Gen 1 cloud key.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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