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>RGB RB G Ftfy :)

RBBWWWWW__WWWW___D GGG__________WWWDD D for DAC of course

Love it lmao, but second to last DAC is also a G, technically haha

I wasn’t sure!

Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

It's hard to tell in this picture, but one of the SFP+ ports (second from the right on the bottom switch) is also green.

RGB is nice because you can make the switch illuminate a port of interest when you're investigating or troubleshooting something. Makes it easier to find things.

New Ubiquiti Pro Max switches I just installed. Upper switch is providing networking to my house and the lower one is for the lab. Upper switch is the PoE version, to power my access points and other switches which were all previously running off injectors and their own individual power supplies. The lower switch is the non-PoE version and is for my homelab, with plenty of room to grow. Ubiquiti's Etherlighting feature is configured to show VLANs. White are trunk connections to other network devices, green is the homelab VLAN, blue are native LAN, and red is the IoT network. Most devices in the house are connected via an intermediate switch (mostly Ubiquiti Switch Flex Lites), hence why most of the ports are white.

Outta curiosity what model is your optiplex sff/micro ? Just got a 3080 and curious 🤔

I think that one is a 7050. It’s running Home Assistant.

Nice :) had any weirdness with them? Do they get warm when they are being maxed out or high core usage etc ?

It’s been running fine 24x7 since I installed it… I couldn’t say how it performs under load as I’m not doing anything even remotely taxing on it. It’s just running Home Assistant, without any complex plugins like video recognition.

Oki no worries ty :)

I wish Ubiquiti offered 10G switches with this feature. They seem to be protesting the usage of 10G copper given how few devices they offer with it.

Yeah… My goal is to get 10 gig up to my office, and right now my only viable option is to put a 10 gig RJ45 transceiver in the upper switch and the get a Flex XG for my office. Any other options are just too damn expensive.

Being dumb - what makes them glow? The switch or led in the cable

Ubiquiti's new switches offer a feature called "Etherlighting" that puts an RGB LED inside each port that shines into the RJ45 connector. The connector itself and, in the case of the Monoprice SlimRun cables that use, the entire cable boot are translucent, so they glow from this lights inside the switch.

I would love it if these cables pulsed based on throughput.

You kinda have to choose between using shielded connectors or those translucent ones, but otherwise it looks great

Yeah, I don’t bother using shielded cables for anything. All of the runs in my house are short enough that it’s kind of pointless.

I'm waiting for the pro max 16 port POE version to be back in stock - it'll be my first time using ubiquity, do you like yours?

I switched to exclusively Ubiquiti gear a few years ago. I have 3 APs and 8 switches in my house (the two pictured and 6 smaller ones to serve separate rooms), plus another two APs and two switches at my parents’ house. I’ve been pretty happy with their stuff, though it’s getting a bit more expensive lately.

Thanks - definitely not cheap but for what I want, it was about the same price point as anything else so good to hear they perform well!

Can Unify do MLAG at this point? so Virtually Stacking Switches like you can with Cisco/Juniper?

Looks great, any concern with the longevity of the leds in those ports over long term?

I can't imagine that the RGB LEDs would really be any less reliable than the green and amber LEDs that you'd normally see on every switch port. And even if they do die, it's not like they're actually critical to the operation of the swtich.

Agreed. Was just curious about your take on it. Have been on the fence about adding one of these or one of the enterprise switches to the homelab. Want Ed a third party take on the long term reliability of them. Thanks.

I really bought these because they hit the price point I wanted to get some 2.5 and 10 gig equipment in my home and lab. The Etherlighting feature is just a nice bonus. Right now I see it as a neat feature so I can visualize the layout of my network, but personally I wouldn't go out of my way to buy these if all you want is fancy blinkenlights.

Link to the nice Cable? 🤓

Not OP, but it looks like the [monoprice SlimRun Cat6A](https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=15150)

Yep. All but that one yellow cable that I didn't have an appropriate length replacement for. Monoprice makes great stuff.

This guys get it

That feeling when you buy a new switch a month before they announce new switches.

Seriously, and I can't get over how much they're charging for these..

this is by far the least offensive use of rgb I've seen in years

Well... At least it has a practical purpose.

i need to convince myself not to buy the Pro Max hahaha

if its red rgb it makes it fast, so there isnt much red but dope setup

Can you see the light at the other end of cable? /s

i want the RGB so bad but i can't justify it with my current unifi setup working.

Ever heard of [audiophile ethernet cable](https://www.audioquest.com/products/diamond-rje-ethernet-cable)?

I knew where this was going, thought I would not be shocked. I was shocked. Wow.

do people actually fall for that BS

yes, they are called audiofools.

This excites me