Whole Home UniFi Upgrade
A high-end Los Angeles home traded a cluttered datacom cabinet and a single consumer modem for a labeled UniFi rack with no monthly fees.
A high-end home in Los Angeles needed its outdated network replaced.
The house ran on a single Spectrum modem in a closet, an old datacom cabinet and years of tangled cabling that made maintenance close to impossible.
We replaced it with a labeled UniFi rack that handles streaming, smart home devices and remote work, with room to add more and no monthly fees.
What stood in the way.
- The old datacom cabinet was overcrowded, with old coax, phone and Ethernet runs tangled together.
- Limited wired drops and inconsistent WiFi coverage throughout the multi-level home.
- No central core. Everything ran off a basic consumer modem and router combo.
- The client wanted a setup that is easy to maintain and easy to add to.
How we solved it.
We reused existing in-wall cabling where we could to limit disruption and cost, removed the old cabinet and untangled the legacy wiring.
Key components installed:
All equipment is mounted on a 4U vertical rack bracket with space for venting, in the original closet location.
The work also reached the rest of the house: access holes were cut in a vaulted ceiling to route speaker cable for ceiling speakers, and UniFi in-wall access points were fed from a labeled patch plate.
What changed.
The home now has multi-gigabit wired and wireless connections throughout, and the WiFi 7 coverage was planned to remove dead spots.
The rack is labeled, so future upgrades and troubleshooting are straightforward.
The UniFi system is self-hosted, so there are no monthly fees.
What went in
- Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro Maxgateway, controller and firewall
- Switch Pro Max 24 PoEPoE switching for the access points and future devices
- Data dropsterminated to a patch panel for wired connections throughout the home
- 4 x U7 Pro Wall access pointson 2.5 Gbps links for WiFi 7 coverage throughout the home
- 10 Gbps DAC cablebackbone link between the Dream Machine Pro Max and the switch
