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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by ianal_uanal »

lmm wrote: post #151
ianal_uanal wrote: post #123

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s/GPL/copyright/g and you get your answer.

No you don't. There's no point copyrighting something if you don't intend to enforce your copyright.

Well, both Copyright Holders and GPL Licensors want to enforce their license. But guess what. Piracy is a coin with two sides.. Thousands (millions?) of companies around the world use illegally obtained copies of software to make money. A dozen companies also violate the GPL. I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by trome »

lmns wrote: post #159
eltoozero wrote: post #147

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Are you going to deploy/support Tomato for your customers/family? Insert DD-WRT/OpenWRT here and then give up and get a MikroTik since you can actually eat your own dog food.

LEDE / OpenWRT actually are quite nice if (and only if) your hardware is supported by free drivers. With proprietary drivers, of course, not so much. My TP-Links with OpenWRT (I know, I should upgrade to LEDE) are probably much more stable than any other networking gear I've ever owned. Everything is old 802.11n gear powered by ath9k. But if you aren't into flashing your own firmwares, MikroTik is fine too. I use a p…

I've got a pair of OG Nanostations going on 250 days uptime here, not the fastest, but in a rural area with no budget they still work decently.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by amiga-workbench »

ksec wrote: post #108

Ubiquiti is nice. But, it is not a consumer brand, most consumer dont need all the options and setup. Its consumer version AmpliFi, doesn't rhyme with me. Hence why i am very sad when I heard the rumors of Airport Extreme being shoved. Most consumer Router as of today, still requires a reset from time to time. Please name me one which doesn't, Linksys, Belkin, Buffalo, Netgear, Dlink, ASUS. Some of these brand may ha…

Sadly those Apple AP's are now discontinued.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by trome »

newman314 wrote: post #90
uean wrote: post #84

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Totally and entirely depends on price point. If I get to be in charge of your wallet and you promise not to look at your VISA until after I leave, you'll end up with Meraki all over the place. It does have its flaws, but they are minor in the grand scheme of things compared to everything it does right. As for the OP, its a tough call. My complaints with Ubiquiti are in a heavy use congested RF environment. Not really…

Meraki is nice but I don't like the cloud based bit as well as the licensing.

Yeah, the yearly licensing is brutal, but it does encourage you to forklift it after a few years & upgrade.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by jnbiche »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #123
trymas wrote: post #120

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> And ultimately, the relevant team never responded, hoping that I would simply forget about it or give up. > However, if we want the GPL to retain its power, this is precisely what we cannot do. One of the most important things. IANAL and not an expert on licenses, but what's the point of GPL if it does not protect itself and the code it's applied to?

s/GPL/copyright/g and you get your answer.

GPL code is copyrighted. GPL is not my favorite OS license, but all FOSS licenses are also copyrighted by at least 1 person or organization. The only exception would be something in the public domain (which is technically not a license).

You can enforce copyright on GPL code just as well as with proprietary code. You just need to take the steps to do so.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by boot13 »

Interesting, but not really all that useful for people who don't have loads of money. The rest of us have to make do with consumer grade crap, or do the extra work of finding good hardware and installing useful firmware into it. I'm running an Asus RT-N66U with Advanced Tomato and it works beautifully. Of course, I don't live in a mansion.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by crest »

cdsx wrote: post #136
realityking wrote: post #112

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Just to be clear, Ubiquiti's implementation of Zero Handoff (and all similar solutions) are not 802.11 standard. They are creative hacks that create one big virtual APs out of many APs.

Does anyone know a good way to implement wireless roaming around a large home? I had Ubiquity's Zero-Handoff on my list of things to check out, but seems they don't use it anymore, and as above it was a hack anyway. I have been for years using (and recommending to others) multiple access points (of any brand) wired together and just set them up with the same SSID and passwords. Usually works mostly OK, although VoIP…

Have the APs limit the RSSI and let the client roam.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by ianal_uanal »

infinite8s wrote: post #157
lmm wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you don't. There's no point copyrighting something if you don't intend to enforce your copyright.

You don't have to copyright it. Anything you produce us automatically copyrighted. What people forget is that the GPL is a way to get around the default lack of distribution and replication rights in ordinary copyright.

Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by quickben »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #161
lmm wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you don't. There's no point copyrighting something if you don't intend to enforce your copyright.

Well, both Copyright Holders and GPL Licensors want to enforce their license. But guess what. Piracy is a coin with two sides.. Thousands (millions?) of companies around the world use illegally obtained copies of software to make money. A dozen companies also violate the GPL. I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

Well, philosophically, does anybody builds nowdays using the win XP source code to make profit? How about the Linux kernel?

I'd argue one of these has an approach that actively benefits humanity and the other one is a footnote in history.

Re: Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

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Post by teddyh »

ianal_uanal wrote: post #168
infinite8s wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to copyright it. Anything you produce us automatically copyrighted. What people forget is that the GPL is a way to get around the default lack of distribution and replication rights in ordinary copyright.

Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).

Is a free society one the laws of which you can’t break? No, that’s called anarchy.

A free society can have laws, and a free license can have conditions.

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