Sigh. I have a NAS that saturates a single gigabit link pretty easily. If only they included at least one 10GbE (or even just 5GbE) port...
Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
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Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#22Ok I'll sound like such an amateur, but that's one nice router. Probably the nicest one I've ever seen. I hope it's a commercial success. Unifi/Amplifi makes good hardware.
Since you mention Unify, I've come to absolutely despise the Unifi (from Ubiquity) wifi routers and avoids them at all cost, here's why: In order to set them up, you need to download a terribly confusing software (the "Unify controller") that has never worked well on my mac os machines. Said software then needs to "adopt" the wifi routers you want to configure. The configuration is then saved onto your computer (as o…
The intent is that you'll host their software somewhere on your network as a service, rather than running it from your laptop. They have cloud-based offerings or dedicated management hardware you can also use if you don't have a system to run UniFi on.
These are managed devices and you can't really approach them as you'd approach a traditional standalone AP or router.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#23Ok I'll sound like such an amateur, but that's one nice router. Probably the nicest one I've ever seen. I hope it's a commercial success. Unifi/Amplifi makes good hardware.
Since you mention Unify, I've come to absolutely despise the Unifi (from Ubiquity) wifi routers and avoids them at all cost, here's why: In order to set them up, you need to download a terribly confusing software (the "Unify controller") that has never worked well on my mac os machines. Said software then needs to "adopt" the wifi routers you want to configure. The configuration is then saved onto your computer (as o…
Respectfully, if you are having technical difficulty installing or maintaining the Unifi controller software on something like a very basic LAMP stack debian or centos virtual machine, Unifi is not the product line for you. You should go with something like Meraki.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#24What is the use of the display on a Wi-Fi router? I did not touch mine since I have installed it and the next time I will touch it will be when I will replace it. It is as fire and forget as possible.
none. You'll look at it once, and then never again. It's not a good use of resources.
Still, this is targeting the average user, so it looks cool.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#25That's the first time I've seen one of those weird "evolved" antennas in a consumer device. Scroll down the page to see it.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think unifi is meant to be managed via cloud/cloud key. They also have the dream machine which is an all in one for smaller deployments.
A few years back, they did not offer the cloud solution and only offered that "controller" software. I haven't tried their cloud solution, but it's in my opinion not ideal to depend on a cloud solution to configure my internet access.
That's what cloud key is for.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think unifi is meant to be managed via cloud/cloud key. They also have the dream machine which is an all in one for smaller deployments.
A few years back, they did not offer the cloud solution and only offered that "controller" software. I haven't tried their cloud solution, but it's in my opinion not ideal to depend on a cloud solution to configure my internet access.
Your previous message used the present tense ("avoids") though.
Also it looks like their "cloud solution" is not really (public-)cloud based at all, it looks like a standalone piece of metal: https://unifi-protect.ui.com/cloud-key-gen2
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since you mention Unify, I've come to absolutely despise the Unifi (from Ubiquity) wifi routers and avoids them at all cost, here's why: In order to set them up, you need to download a terribly confusing software (the "Unify controller") that has never worked well on my mac os machines. Said software then needs to "adopt" the wifi routers you want to configure. The configuration is then saved onto your computer (as o…
Respectfully, if you are having technical difficulty installing or maintaining the Unifi controller software on something like a very basic LAMP stack debian or centos virtual machine, Unifi is not the product line for you. You should go with something like Meraki.
It's not really a technical difficulty, aside from the fact that the unifi controller works really badly on macos. (also, I specialize in infrastructure, so the LAMP stack isn't an issue)
I just find it impracticable to have to maintain a dedicated machine (or VM, or whatever it is) just to configure those routers.
Now, however, I realize that this is because my current office only has about 4 of those and we're a 70 people company. I imagine it starts making a lot more sense once you start handling a few dozen of wifi routers.
So I guess the overhead of using Unifi at a small company might not be worth it, but, passed a certain amount of routers I can understand the overhead is lessened.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#29That's the first time I've seen one of those weird "evolved" antennas in a consumer device. Scroll down the page to see it.
I'm not sure it's actually an evolved antenna or not. It could just be a very dense dual band antenna array weirdly outlined by marketing.
Re: Amplifi Alien Wi-Fi 6 Router
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few years back, they did not offer the cloud solution and only offered that "controller" software. I haven't tried their cloud solution, but it's in my opinion not ideal to depend on a cloud solution to configure my internet access.
Your previous message used the present tense ("avoids") though. Also it looks like their "cloud solution" is not really (public-)cloud based at all, it looks like a standalone piece of metal: https://unifi-protect.ui.com/cloud-key-gen2
unifi cloud is public cloud. Unifi cloud key is an on prem/hybrid version.