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Post by philjohn »

wyuenho wrote: post #139

I'm going to go out on a limb here to point out the inconsistency of this entire thread. For the following reasoning, I'm going to use the word "ad" in the broad sense. 1. Everybody is excited with Github's new features that they promote on the dashboard. Sometimes popups and flashes too. Are they not ads? 2. Nobody ever complains about Github showing ads. 3. Github is a SaaS. 4. unify.ui.com is a SaaS 5. OP is compl…

From what I can see it takes up the space that would have been used by the stats from that equipment if you had it installed - so it's a lot less problematic than if they were taking up space that could have been put to better use.

I think some of the responses in this thread reek of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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Post by Firehawke »

kieckerjan wrote: post #260
bigiain wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” –Jeff Hammerbacher

Some of these best minds are probably reading this right now, and keeping awfully quiet. :-)

Or hiding in plain sight in posts here.

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Post by biftek »

izacus wrote: post #172
biftek wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently upgraded my home network and went with mikrotik (an RB4011). RouterOS is incredibly deep

It's also incredibly userunfriendly and lacking features for home users. I have both UniFi APs and a Mikrotik router and configuring RouterOS reminds me of trying to setup PPPoE internet on a Linux machine in 1990s. A lot of manual settings with obvious features (NAT acceleration, NAT loopback, good VPN client, easy QoS, reasonable firewall) being extremely hard to configure well in comparison to competing SOHO equip…

Mikrotik definitely doesn't have a flashy UI if that's what you care about, but the configuration for those things you list didn't seem all that different to ubiquiti's edge line from my research. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm also happy with my choice and had no problems setting it up

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Post by petersellers »

dr_hooo wrote: post #212
petersellers wrote: post #152

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But it doesn't justify being rude to the support person.

So the support person is a glorified bot, but we have to be careful not to hurt it's feelings? Honestly I feel for the support guy, but he represents the company. And companies purposely push their support onto social media platforms like twitter - where exactly are unhappy customers supposed to vent their anger?

It? This is an actual person we are talking about. And most people are perfectly capable of handling a mildly stressful situation without acting like a complete jerk to someone.

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Post by rubatuga »

stragies wrote: post #272
kmlx wrote: post #236

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WRT1200AC. the worst experience i have ever had with a router. the moment i plugged in my NAS the whole thing froze and had to be force rebooted. every 3-6 hours the wifi just died and had to be again force rebooted. will not touch linksys again. they're a consumer brand, and my requirements are clearly SMB. imo their best product was the WRT54GL.

Was that running the original Firmware, or OpenWRT? In my experience, all vendor firmwares are to be regarded just as "proof-of-electrical-functioning", to be replaced with a OpenWRT running a recent kernel. Similar to how to you reinstall/upgrade a new laptop on the second boot fresh out the box.

Probably stock, probably on a DFS channel.

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Post by reillychase »

greg5green wrote: post #138
thaumaturgy wrote: post #96

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I dunno. I'd be starting all over again and looking for different options depending on the application. One of the nice things about Ubiquiti was that they did several things well. For plug-and-play home wifi, Eero might be a good choice, with some reservations. For slightly larger scale prosumer stuff, I might look for a way to use Ubiquiti's hardware but with something like https://hostifi.com/ , maybe with older-g…

> For slightly larger scale prosumer stuff, I might look for a way to use Ubiquiti's hardware but with something like https://hostifi.com/ , maybe with older-generation hardware that I still trusted. For prosumer stuff -- why would you not just self-host?!? The average prosumer is never going to need more than the cheapest DO droplet to host. Or else just run it on a computer that isn't on all the time -- prosumers e…

My bad, (it's WordPress) we're working on building faster landing pages with Webflow

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Post by imwally »

mewse wrote: post #264
imwally wrote: post #103

I had a Dream Machine (the all-in-one, not the pro) and it fried the very next day. Even after that I was willing to give Ubiquiti another try, but now I don’t know what to do.

I have two of them at two different sites. They’ve been completely fine for me, apart from the problems from the 1.8.x firmwares which probably should never have reached the ‘Release’ channel. (The recently-released v1.9.2 appears to have fixed all my issues from 1.8.x) I’m definitely not pushing either of them very hard or doing anything particularly fancy, but they’ve certainly been a big step up from the aging App…

Hmm, I'm still interested in a Dream Machine but I've been holding off for the so called SE[1], with the display on the front, similarly to the Amplifi Alien.

[1] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

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Post by breakingcups »

patrickk wrote: post #171
luckman212 wrote: post #105

I see a lot of complaints here, but nobody offering any substantive alternatives. Mikrotik is mentioned several times, but always with the caveats that it has glitchy UIs or poorly implemented features. EnGenius... you've got to be kidding. I've been a UI fan for many years and was also dismayed by the 6.x releases and the switch to Mediatek, but every time I went looking around, I saw the same tire fires at other ve…

Building your own router with pfSense is one prosumer solution I've considered, by shied away from due to lack of time[1]. Not sure how a pfSense setup would work with wireless APs though. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/i-built-my-own-super-router-out-of-o...

OPNSense might be a better choice, considering recent and not-so-recent events.

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Post by furyg3 »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #266
dspillett wrote: post #249

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> but KYC-ing advertisers and screening/auditing ads for blatant and obvious scams or false marketing is many orders of magnitude less resource intensive And very easy to automate. We know they can do it. But until there is sufficient threat of action if they don't then they are happy to let their users get fleeced in exchange for the advertising $. There is an argument that "if they crack down on the easy to detect…

For an extra dose of cynicism keep in mind Youtube is demonetizing countless videos supposedly because advertisers don’t want to be associated with such content. Garbage ads certainly aren’t exempt from that logic, yet there doesn’t seem to be as much of a crackdown on them.

The content creators aren't paying them, the advertisers are.

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Post by thiagocsf »

crocsarecool wrote: post #15
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…

We upgraded to Ubiquiti a few months ago. I was so impressed by the hardware for the price. The dream machine firewall had such a good interface compared to more expensive firewalls I’ve used in the past. I’ve been very pleased so far, but this and another article have me worried they’re going downhill.

I recently purchased switches, wireless access points and cameras for a new home-office setup. I was looking at going full Ubiquiti because the dream machine (UDM) comes with a network video recorder (NVR) that looked quite good in comparison to Zoneminder, Shinobi and even Synology's paid product.

While researching I found-out that you must use a ui.com account to setup the UDM (the apologists call it "mandatory online registration"). While you can setup a local account and disconnect from ui.com afterwards, I was perplexed that they would choose to do this.

Their user forums had at least two flamewar threads with people pointing-out the security implications of linking your local network to a remote, internet-accessible service but zero communication from Ubiquity themselves. Fast-forward to January and we saw the disclosure of a massive breach on ui.com.

So I ditched the Ubiquiti cameras for Geovision (better bang for $), kept the switches, APs and have been running the controller in containers (https://github.com/jacobalberty/unifi-docker). Needless to say, I'm not going to upgrade from version 6.0.43, which does not include advertisement.

I hope it doesn't get any worse because I do love how easy it is to maintain VLANs, firewall rules and IPS services.

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