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Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by philsnow »

errantmind wrote: post #8

One of the reasons I have used Ubiquiti over the last few years is their product quality over other networking hardware. The inclusion of ads leads me to revisit those assumptions before my next purchase. Ads, even if self-promotion, are a bellwether for a company being desperate or greedy, neither of which bodes well for their long-term product quality, usually because it indicates sales people are making the decisi…

> Ads, even if self-promotion, are a bellwether for a company being desperate or greedy

from 2003: https://www.theregister.com/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router...

I have never bought a belkin product since.

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by donmcronald »

maxgashkov wrote: post #41
letitbeirie wrote: post #29

Joke's on you, Ubiquiti - you've bungled so many controller upgrades I haven't upgraded it in a long time.

Yep, gonna stay on that sweet 5.14.23 till the end of times.

Holy shit! I thought I was the only one. The updates terrify me. Watching devices at 150 sites all provision simultaneously makes my asshole pucker so tight it creates a vacuum in the office. Why Ubiquiti?

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by andremedeiros »

donmcronald wrote: post #82
maxgashkov wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, gonna stay on that sweet 5.14.23 till the end of times.

Holy shit! I thought I was the only one. The updates terrify me. Watching devices at 150 sites all provision simultaneously makes my asshole pucker so tight it creates a vacuum in the office. Why Ubiquiti?

So you’re the one whose ass is splitting atoms.

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by trylfthsk »

I think it's a common sentiment here, but I'm turning into a more extreme anti-advertising zealot every day.

Even the large ad networks show paid content that violates what I would consider widespread ethical norms - presenting everything from hyperbolic claims to straight fraud to people with little repercussion. I'm reminded of a poignant example in television, where episodes of Jeopardy! are intertwined with their shilling quackery like Prevagen to an audience using the fear of aging. Perhaps I'm growing increasingly blind to any positive impacts of the discipline, but ethically I find it hard to separate the fraudsters from the engineers that enable them.

I guess advertising is saving me a lot of money in the end by cultivating this hatred, and though I can't change the world this screed was therapeutic.

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by dkhenry »

I have been watching Ubiquiti slowly go downhill over the past five years. I finally jumped ship to Mikrotik for a recent addition to my network and they seem like a good replacement for power users. Nothing they sell is quite as user friendly as the Ubiquiti gear, but I would rather have to spend a few minutes at a console then loose control over my network because a SaaS went offline

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by walrus01 »

outworlder wrote: post #36
candiddevmike wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mikrotik user here, I find their software really clunky and buggy. My dream networking gear for my house is whitebox switches that I can run Debian on, but I can't find any at an economical price. Anyone know of 5-12 port ARM switches?

Are you talking about the windows-based software? It's clunky. The CLI, on the other hand, is pretty great. Everything is consistent.

the mikrotik CLI is an abomination if you're ever worked with JunOS on a juniper.

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Post by mikelward »

One auto update they broke my laptop's ability to connect. Turns out they'd auto enabled 5 GHz band steering, but my laptop's chipset only did 2.4 GHz. Even when it was enabled, the Android management app said the setting was disabled.

Customer support directed me to the forums. Ubiquiti didn't respond to my post. I posted on a thread where someone else was seeing the same problem, where a number of people gaslit me and blamed me for the problem.

I still have no idea if they've fixed their band steering. Or how they decided to force 5 GHz on a 2.4 GHz chipset. Or how to get support. Or how to report a problem.

Definitely won't be buying their products in future.

https://community.ui.com/questions/Intel-Centrino-2200-N-cli...

https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Controller-5...

https://community.ui.com/questions/Default-AUTO-OPTIMIZE-NET...

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by sathackr »

acidbaseextract wrote: post #76
croutonwagon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ive been using them since gen1 hardware on 2.6 controllers. And their advertised features like zero handoff were hot garbage. Their channel selection to this day still sucks and isn’t even self aware. I often have multiple aps on the same channel close enough they have their own co-channel interference. This even happens on 5Ghz where theres plenty of space, not even considering DFS and I live in the country. Standar…

With the depth of your experience, what's your prosumer recommendation? MikroTik?

Mikrotik has a great feature set and is mostly stable for the mainstream features. Where they really fall apart is wifi throughput. Most devices won't top 400mb/s.

There is some hope on the horizon with v7 and the newest devices like Audience. Have seen reports of 1.3gb/s on these. But it's barely even beta right now.

Ruckus is pretty solid and you can usually find them used for great prices. Many units have a stand alone firmware available that negates the need for a controller.

Re: Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

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Post by jcpham2 »

kogir wrote: post #47

Ubiquiti has really fallen far. The 5.x series of controller with the AP AC (S)HD was great, but everything since has been hot garbage. The 6.x series of controllers is still basically a public beta and riddled with bugs. The newer MediaTek based APs have constant problems with client device compatibility, and can’t even reliably support DHCP on the newest official firmware and controller versions (or any of the last…

Thanks for this
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