Bridge Mode with UniFi Access Points (GarageLab Part 1)

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Hey, I am bit late to the party but does this also work with a Swiss-Army-Knife as the secondary AP or does it need to be a pro?
Thanks for the great content!!!

Your video is gold I set up an AC pro mini months ago and have struggled with crappy speeds a powered the unit directly from a Poe switch never utilizing the secondary port

I have done this with ASUS routers with no issues. But after I’m done switching over to Unifi my biggest question is does the AP matter? Will I notice a speed difference between a U6lite or U6+

Instead of plugging your switch in the secondary port, could you have used the same as the POE injector? In other words, plug your switch in the POE injection box itself, thus using a single cable for data and power to the UAP? What's the relevance of using the secondary port? What about UAP that don't have a secondary port?

Thank you! Good stuff!

Does the secondary AP also broadcast wifi?

Just tried to setup a uap-ac-pro as a client to an existing Wi-Fi AP (not Unifi) and there is no way. Only way to Wi-Fi bridge is with two Unifi devices. Situation is two buildings, one has complete working setup, second building is on a different power source so powerline wont work. I can get a good wifi signal from the second floor at one far end of the building. Second building has a fully wired network in place, with multiple hard wired devices (3d printers etc.) Currently using an NSM2 and it does what I want, just hella slow... uap-ac-pro is simply not able to do this simple job... looking at other manufacturers now...

Can you do with with the UAP-PRO models? They can do wireless bridge mode but I don't think they can preform wireless-client mode.

Dude this is perfect.i have my FiOS ont in the living room and i can't run a cable upstairs to my office. I have a PFsense FW and i want to segment and secure my network. Now i probably need 2 managed switches and 2 APs to pull this off but i know exactly what i need to do. cheers!

Just ordered a 6e amd the AC pro is going in the garage, can you manage a unifi switch on the bridge side ?

Will this work with the dream router and a U6 lite AP?

a question

is it possible to brigde an Ubiquiti AP .... to another NON Ubiquiti AP broadcasting internet wifi ?!?!?!?

This is Wi-Fi Mesh based Bridging no?

I am wondering if you could potentially help here. In a similar vein to your video, my setup is as follows: Unifi Dream Machine > Wireless connection to Unifi 6 Mesh AP > Wired connection to Unifi Switch (PoE) > Wired Connection to PC (LAN). In short, the Unifi 6 Mesh AP is acting as a wireless to ethernet bridge for my PC. However, the issue I am facing is that inevitably, both the Unifi 6 Mesh AP and Unifi Switch go offline. I have no idea why this is happening, but it does cause my PC to lose connection.

also it is same SSID yes ?

I must be missing something because I don't understand with just the PoE port on the injector plugged in how exactly is the software Unifi Network going to see the new AP?

Thank you

I have version 7.2.92 and cannot see any of these options. It seems like the previous versions had more functions.

I love Ubiquity products. We use them at my office on our floor and I have one at my house for about a dozen devices. The AP firmware lapsed and i wasn't able to see access it through the controller software for a while, but today i decided to see what would happen, and sure enough it was detected and even said there's an update. That's some intuitive hardware if you ask me.

Was all excited when I started watching this video until I realised that this will only work if you have an AP with 2 network connections. With only 1 connection you have to connect the network cable to power and data. As this now becomes a wired AP it does not trigger an uplink. Shame....

I am using UNIFI AP AC Pro but in my dashboard, I don't have the uplink wifi feature.

Interesting you mentioned starting out in tech support. I did too, and later on made my way into software development. Cool!

I'm trying to figure out if I'm overthinking this, because I'm not finding a straightforward answer online. Is this Wifi bridge to the outside garage simply plugging the Linksys router (that the cameras are connected to via PoE connections) into that second/new Unifi Access Point's Ethernet port? Like either the new AP in that garage is sitting right next to the Linksys router or there's an Ethernet cable being ran up and/or along the wall and/or floor?

I guess I'm not getting past the abstraction of how devices connect to the internet, you're plugged in via an Ethernet cable or connected to WiFi, but it's the same device you're connecting to. Especially a box you get from the ISP, it's a router, modern, and Wi-Fi (that I guess is a wireless access point, to itself technically?)

So I'm trying to figure out how "Set to WiFi bridge between two Unifi APS's" is not the same as "Connect two wireless devices". I have to be either missing something or overthinking this

I do have to ask once it's in bridge does that mean that wifi clients can still connect to the second ap even though it's in bridge mode?

heads up - v5.x firmware can make almost 3/4 of your devices not be able to connect. I normally have close to 40 but only 9 could connect until I downgraded to the latest 4.x

Curious about your workflow: Why when the camera is on you do you splice out in-between sentences? Is this artistic? Can't touch the content, as an avid unifi user, I appreciate any videos on the line.

Thank you for posting this. I had watched another video and never could get it to work. Your steps were easy to follow.

Hello, i was just thinking about doing this in my garage to connect my cameras to a Poe switch, because i don't have a UTP cable in my garage and pulling one will be hard. But i asked this question on the Ubiquiti Forum and there was the answer that with cameras, which produce alot of data transfer, this option is not good. What do you think?

Thanks for the great video. I'm looking for a way to use a Ubiquiti Access Point the way you did but have it tie into a non-Ubiquiti access point for internet access. Do you think that is possible? (The UAP-IW-HD would be my preferred unit to use but I could use the same unit you had in the video)

Do I need to use the UAP-AC-PRO with a secondary port or does a UAP-AC-Lite with only one port work as well?

Does this work with the Access Point WiFi 6 Lite?? Cause these have only one RJ45 Port :O

Question: Can I use UniFi FlexHD or Unifi UAP-AC-M-PRO as "AP" and "CLIENTS" in a similar setup? I.e. having two or three 'clients' to a common 'access point' using this mode..? Thanks for awesome video :-)

found this via ubiquiti community site.. love this

In your image you say 400MB/s but is has to be 400MBit/s doesn't it?

Love your vids! Thank you very much :)

Nice video. Have you done one on setting up a second UniFi as a repeater?

I'm little frustrated searching for an AP Client Router. And I was thinking to buy another UAP-AC-PRO (i already have 4 of them). but since I'm far from home cant really test if they work as ap client router.

What I need? I'm traveling on an RV, every rv park has wifi internet, some of them free, some of them paid, but the constant is that the signal is weak. or I have the bad luck to pick the bad site or the far from the ap. In any case, I have a small wifi ap/router in my rv, that is capable to manage tethering from cellphone, wifi repeater (in a good routing mode), and wan via cable, and I have an external AP that has a sort of ap client router. But it has bad signal (despite that is announced as a powerful). Is a WAV brand, is so bad that my phone sees the park wifi but this ap no. In any case, I need an ap that I can connect to the site wifi, as a client, and connect the wired lan to my other wifi to connect my internal devices via cable or some via wifi. I guess that I should work as AP Client (no bridge/router) too

So ddwrt or unifi?

Can you add AC AP Pro to an exiting wifi network (not a Unifi one)?

what is the range between the two ap's?

Just what I needed for my family room which has no way to run a wire to it. My Roku should greatly benefit from this. Thank you for the video tip! I ordered a Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO from your Amazon link.

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!!

Works like a champ, thanks for the demo.

Hey @Techno Tim - great channel thank you for all the interesting content.

About this bridge - can it only be achieved on APs with dual ethernet ports? And if so would I be correct to assume that's only the case for the "remote" end - i.e. the source AP could be any model right?

OR is it actually possible to do with a single port AP also on the receiving end?

Are you sure this cannot be done using one of the "Lites" (or just any model with only 1 port) by connecting the LAN port on the power injector to an ethernet switch?

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Your preview image said 400 MB/s not 400 Mbps. I thought it was going to be an insanely fast connection and was curious how that was possible over WiFi.

I'm doing this currently with a main wifi 6 router to a WiFi ac router I'm getting about 320mbps any idea wifi when I try 2 wifi 6 routers the speed doesn't improve