Ok here it is! The New setup I am looking at...

Do you use the POE adapters or do you have a POE switch? I had problems with the U6-LR and the POE adapter. Ended up selling it on Ebay and bought my RT-AX86u instead. I still use a Unifi Wifi 5 AP to extend my network and that works great. I hear good things about PFsense but it is above my complexity comfort level.

pfSense is what we use in our data centers so it happens to be my happy place.  In addition to that, it's so far been the only platform I've been able to successfully deploy a multi-interface IPv6 network on and have everything work as intended.

I hate PoE adapters personally, this is my switch:

store.ui.com/.../usw-enterprise-48-poe

Wow, enterprise grade. You don't mess around. 1600$ is too rich for my blood. Do you actually have that many ethernet connections? I was thinking of getting the Ubiquiti USW Flex Mini but not sure it can do POE+.

Very nice!

Given the industry I work in I've come to view the consumer grade hardware as amature hour.  The firewall is currently configured with 9 interfaces for various purposes and my current port utilization on my core 48 switch is about at 75%

The USW-Flex-Mini is a convenient, low cost solution for adding ports to a location that doesn't have extra drops to spare.  It can be powered via PoE, however, it does not provide PoE to any connected devices.

Something like the USW-Flex is powered via PoE++ which in turn gives it the ability to provide PoE without the use of an external power source.

LOL, Yeah, I have a line issue and every time I call they get upset that I won't allow them to ship me a pano gateway, and they write in the notes customer refused modem upgrade. This way, no more upgrades required for a LONG time!

I have a line issue

What kind of line issue? T3's? I notice you haven't mentioned it on the forum. Are you working with the Social Media Team or have you gotten to Tier 2 yet? I hear it's harder then ever to be escalated.

Working with CAG. It's a Maintenance issue and there's an UNO ticket opened on it, upstream line noise, I get crackling on my telephone and packet loss. Since I don't do much, then only real impact is the home phone. If it takes much longer though I will contact executive escalations in Ga. I still have the important phone numbers. 

Any of those numbers public that you could share? I bump into people on Reddit who get stuck with Tier 1 for maintenance issues. Do you know of any trick to get CAG escalation? Do you need CCC now?

Here's a good number for corporate/escalations. I would definitely exhaust all efforts before going to this.. 888-566-7751