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Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by tallanvor »

logbiscuitswave wrote: post #325
ex_ubiquiti wrote: post #35

As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.…

I’m not sure how it is that they still don’t have a hardware update to the USG3P that can enable both IPS and DPI without throttling network speeds to sub-80Mbps speeds. It’s been years now. I’m a big fan of the ecosystem and I’ve recommended it to many people but I’m constantly astonished by the slow pace of hardware updates.

I guess you're more waiting for the XSG-Pro, which was announced at least a year ago but hasn't materialized yet. I'm guessing that the UDM and UDM-Pro are meeting the needs for most customers, although obviously they're not the right fit for everyone.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by Seich »

twblalock wrote: post #200
ex_ubiquiti wrote: post #35

As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.…

I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn't see any similar products. Are there any other "prosumer"-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doe…

I have a Mikrotik Audience I can wholeheartedly recommend. The performance is great, it had a great price and doesn’t look half bad. The UI is very much “pro” in the sense that you get all the options you might ever want to play with which for 90% of the time is just too much.

The wiki is good and the community is really friendly. If you have networking experience or want to something to tinker with it’s a nice deal. If you want something you can set and forget I’d look elsewhere though as the UI is not friendly at all.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by pmlnr »

twblalock wrote: post #200
ex_ubiquiti wrote: post #35

As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.…

I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn't see any similar products. Are there any other "prosumer"-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doe…

Give AVM and their Fritz!box products a go.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by aksss »

dehrmann wrote: post #376
ex_ubiquiti wrote: post #35

As a former Ubiquiti employee, I'm sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.…

The product lineup has also gotten pretty scatter-shot. What is Ubiquiti doing selling solar panels?!

I think some of their seemingly wackier stuff makes marginally more sense when you think of them trying to outfit their WISP customers - having solar to power stuff on your rohn tower, manage it all from one pane of glass, that kind of thing. They had a whole line of managed power products (since abandoned) for several years aimed at this crowd.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by mlyle »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #321
mlyle wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for the info!

Separate 5G and 2.4G SSIDs are no issue in my experience-- it's multiple SSIDs on one phy where Atheros goes wrong.

I really want WiFi6 gear... but given that there's no real OpenWRT support yet, and how long it's taken 802.11ac to mature in OpenWRT (it arguably hasn't yet), it's kind of discouraging.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by lillecarl »

novok wrote: post #348
grahamburger wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The MSP I work at maintain some 500 MikroTik devices, I wouldn't call it particularly high maintenance. Once they're set up they'll just keep working. I've been auto upgrading my stuff at home with beta software for the last 4 years without encountering any issues. (ROS6, 7 is another story).

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by aksss »

tallanvor wrote: post #379
dehrmann wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The product lineup has also gotten pretty scatter-shot. What is Ubiquiti doing selling solar panels?!

I can't see that they're actually selling solar panels. What I do see is them selling a specialized switch that is powered by solar panels and a battery that can then be used to power remote devices in locations where they would otherwise need to run power lines. It's not traditional networking gear, sure, but I can certainly see the play they're making, so I wouldn't call this a scatter-shot approach.

They did sell solar panels but the product line was mostly killed. Product number SM-SP-260W-DC-US. You can find a legacy datasheet for the product family still.

But I think this is an example of them having an ideas they only end up abandoning. They are now selling an access control solution, but would you trust them to be standing behind this in 5 years? Enough to deploy it to a customer building? Not me. Attractive for the hobbyist perhaps.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by lillecarl »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #321
mlyle wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

5G and 2.4G is usually not handled by the same NIC. So that'd be why they're not problematic.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by cabraca »

pmlnr wrote: post #383
twblalock wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn't see any similar products. Are there any other "prosumer"-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doe…

Give AVM and their Fritz!box products a go.

fritzboxes are everything but certainly no "prosumer"-type devices. Most of their "mesh" is still dual band. only the latest repeater "FRITZ!Repeater 3000" is tri-band and afaik there is no router yet available that supports tri-band.

Re: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

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Post by berkes »

sundvor wrote: post #329
bacondude3 wrote: post #41

PSA: with Mailchimp URLs, it's best to remove the `?e=xxx` URL parameter. That way, A) you can't be identified by the sender as the person who shared the email, and B) other people can't flood your inbox by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. In this case, the cleaned URL that should have been posted is https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification

Good call! This just keeps getting better, sharing the URL is such a natural thing to do but of course they need to add the tracking parameters to everything.

In this case it's both tracking and a legitimate feature: being able to place unsubscribe links in the "web version".

I'd argue that this feature is not worth the privacy invasion, but for it to work, you do need a secret in the URL that is always personal.

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