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I would go with MikroTik. Or just one if the cheaper Ubiquiti devices, like the EdgeRouter series.
MikroTik feels like rolling your own linux router box, a bit overkill and high maintenance.
No specific comments to the breach... But, I couldn't help but chuckle at We Take Your Security Seriously™. Why does every company, after demonstrating a lack of security, like to say this exact line? I can just imagine the PR person hovering over the shoulder of whoever authored the post yelling "make sure you tell the victims of this breach that we care!"
Regarding authenticity, from the TechCrunch article about this: > The networking company quickly followed its email with a post on its community pages confirming that the email was authentic, after several complained that the email sent to customers included typos. Indeed: How am I supposed to know whether this email is really from Ubiquiti? * There was apparently no official press release. * All links in the email,…
The real kicker is that the sender is no-reply@ubnt.com - why is it not @ui.com?
Ubiquiti has typically been the "cloudless" provider which is why I've used their stuff. They've been sorta moving in a disturbing direction for cloud control. I don't want that risk.
WHAT? I bought this stuff so I could self-host and _not_ rely on other services. I guess I didn't do enough research when investing in new hardware. I didn't see anything in their spec. sheets or descriptions about needing cloud for Protect access.
Ubiquiti is slowly becoming Sonos. The difference is, their potential for bad behavior, risks and attack surface is far, far greater.
What’s wrong with Sonos? I’m about to drop a bunch on a full home setup, should I consider an alternative?
I do have over 100 devices on the Dream machine + 4 AP-HDs network, but Unifi promised to make my network rock solid, and it's been anything but.
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Though you'll probably end up with Atheros wifi chipset on modern hardware... and I've found the OpenWRT drivers to be extremely unreliable when providing multiple SSIDs--- crashing every few days instead of weeks of uptime. I keep hoping that one of the OpenWRT snapshots will fix it, but this is something I've been fighting with for years on multiple pieces of hardware.
I bought a Linksys WRT3200ACM specifically for use with OpenWRT after a bunch of research. It's modern hardware and based on Marvell, not Atheros. I don't have lots of SSIDs, but I do have separate 5G and 2.4G SSIDs, and they're working well enough.
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MikroTik feels like rolling your own linux router box, a bit overkill and high maintenance.
It's definitely overkill, but what is a homelab if not overkill? It's not really high maintenance, though. Once it's in and running you'll never have to touch it.
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Cloudless if and only if you run their gigantic bloated Java network management tool. I really like ubiquiti hardware but I got fed up with their software BS. Now I use either Mikrotik or TP-Link’s industrial offerings. Both are way easier to work with than ubiquiti and the hardware is usually in the same tier.
Mikrotik? Easier? Do not get me wrong, I love Mikrotik, but easier would not the word I would be using. This image ( https://www.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/jyjgnc/mikrotik_v... ) sums it up neatly. Also, Mikrotik is not directly comparable, you cannot replace Unifi Controller with Capsman.
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The real kicker is that the sender is no-reply@ubnt.com - why is it not @ui.com?
ubnt.com is another one of their domains.
I must admit - Ubiquiti has lost some of it's shine in the last few years, whilst AP and routing hardware seems to still be very good in terms of pricepoint, it does feel like the software side of things has been going in a very strange direction for quite some time. I'm still quite annoyed by the fact that I was forced to migrate from Unifi Video to Unifi Protect - due to vendor lock in and the fact that the remote…
Not only have they engaged in multiple interface redesigns with loss of features with no apparent gains, the last firmware update removed the ability for me to use the Protect app locally on my network without needing cloud access enabled. This breach has only confirmed my belief that my home cameras must stay off their cloud. Extremely dissatisfied.
Yeah, this has been really baffling. Their settings UI has been in a transition state between "Classic Settings" and "New Settings" for years. Neither is complete. Some settings are only in New Settings (e.g. WiFi AI), while many more are only in the Classic Settings (e.g. allow multicast from Ethernet to WiFi).