Gareth 🏴🇬🇧<p>Today's WTF in Gareth's Network of Chaos.</p><p>I was running my whole home LAN off a single <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Ubiquiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubiquiti</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/UniFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniFi</span></a> Express. It worked fine, although the UI was utter dogshit. Slow as balls.</p><p>I upgraded a few weeks ago to the new <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/DreamRouter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DreamRouter</span></a> 7. Holy shit, both the upgrade (take a backup of settings from the Express and restore it onto the new one, instant success!) and the performance of the UI were amazing.</p><p>Except for one thing. My Eufy doorbell wouldn't connect to the internet if I put it on my IoT VLAN (everything else that was running on that VLAN on the Express migrated to the Dream seamlessly). If I put it on the Guest network, it said it was on the Internet but I couldn't get to it via the app. I've just (while typing this) figured out that that's probably because even though I have the captive portal set to off, you do need to visit a web page and click a button the first time you join the network. I think this is dumb, but don't have enough guests for it to be a big problem.</p><p>So today, just for a laugh, I reset the Express and adopted it into the Dream Router as a mesh device.</p><p>And the doorbell connected to the Express on the IoT VLAN and immediately had internet connectivity again.</p><p>I've set that device to only use the Express which should keep it online going forwards, but seriously, WTF?</p>