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Re: UniFi 5G

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Indeed. It's very cheap ($5?) and is fast enough to do 1080p YouTube with unlimited data. It's speed capped so if you really need it it's best to upgrade the plan that month.

Link? Cheapest I can find is $40/month

https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/starlink-standby...

Interesting option.

Re: UniFi 5G

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Unifi is the Apple of networking gear. When something new is released the HN crowd is excited even when the same functionality existed already with another company.

Apple of networking? I suppose no OpenWrt then.

You actually can install Openwrt on bunch of their hardware

Re: UniFi 5G

#93

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What it can do, and Ubiquity already had this as a separate product, is act as a fallback for you regular internet connection. You can do the same with Mikrotik and a ton of configuration, the pitch with Unify is that it "just works".

"It just works" with Teltonika and Glinet as well. In most of the openwrt based routers multi-wan is already enabled. It is also very easy to do with TP-Link Omada (just enable a checkbox). So, implying that Unifi is the only company that does this in an easy way is misleading marketing. Comparing against Mikrotik is a very low bar.

You're refuting a point he didn't make.

Re: UniFi 5G

#94

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Link? Cheapest I can find is $40/month

https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/starlink-standby... Interesting option.

You can’t use it perpetually they force you to upgrade after a while. It’s called „standby plan” for a reason.

Re: UniFi 5G

#95
So Ubiquity is trustworthy again?

After the 2.4GHz wifi issues with UDM I swore I will never buy them again.

Re: UniFi 5G

#96

I wish website designers would remember that not everyone can see great. This text is so fine and light and they’ve also disabled screen reader

Even if my vision is okay, it still feels like a slap to the face. Can't take some time to make sure the most important part of the page is readable by all.

Re: UniFi 5G

#97

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Link? Cheapest I can find is $40/month

https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/starlink-standby... Interesting option.

> 0.5Mbps (500Kbps)

I am cautiously optimistic that this means even if thousands of these devices suddenly "light up" in an outage, the infrastructure should be able to handle them, right? Thoughts?

Re: UniFi 5G

#98

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https://www.satelliteinternet.com/resources/starlink-standby... Interesting option.

You can’t use it perpetually they force you to upgrade after a while. It’s called „standby plan” for a reason.

I for one think this is a great marketing opportunity. Even if you have the best gigabit fiber, at five dollars a month, this is a no brainer for a lot of people. If you can have monthly recurring revenue for starlink doing essentially nothing, why not? Also, it is probably easier to upsell to existing customers.

Re: UniFi 5G

#99

I am confused, this is just a 5G router right? Like the 5 year old Huawei CPE Pro 2 but with wifi7, poe and eSim? [1] https://consumer.huawei.com/en/routers/5g-cpe-pro-2/

Unifi is the Apple of networking gear. When something new is released the HN crowd is excited even when the same functionality existed already with another company.

I recently bought their cloud fiber gateway and two in wall wifi 7 access points because I'm setting up a network in my new apartment and hear this multiple times.

Honestly they are nothing like Apple - like just look at their mobile apps - how many do they have - 10 ? To interact with the same gateway just for slightly different use-cases. Not to mention that the functionalities are hard to decipher

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