This is on the hosted interface, right? I can sorta understand that, especially when the ads are for their own gear. But if I start seeing ads in my locally installed copy of Unifi, this will be a problem.
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My nanoHD reboots frequently with current firmware. Sometimes it needs readoption, sometimes a manual reset to be readopted. The AP AC Pro seems less affected.
Thanks for that input. My AP AC Lite has been absolutely rock solid so I wouldn't want reduced reliability; it's the reason I went with Unifi in the first place. Not that it matters; no chance I'll be going with Unifi in the future.
My FlexHD is perfect on my USG, so ymmv.
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#133Joke's on you, Ubiquiti - you've bungled so many controller upgrades I haven't upgraded it in a long time.
Same here. I switched to Ubiquiti gear a year ago, and by and large it's been very solid, running 2 AC-Pros, 2 AC-HDs and a bunch of switches and a gateway. My controller is a docker image running on a NAS, and having read about the problems with the v6 versions I have stayed on v5, and likely will for a long time. It's a relatively simple home setup so I'm not using any of the fancier configuration settings. For my purposes, it's infinitely better than the hodgepodge of equipment I had before.
I still like the UniFi experience and have not had any problems. I am increasingly concerned about the direction the company is going. I figure I get can a quite a few years of service from my current setup. I don't need to update or change anything for the time being, so there is no urgency. I might still recommend a Ubiquiti setup to others but it would be heavily caveated.
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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.
I wouldn’t go that far. There’s often leaky abstractions, sure. But at 30% (or less) of the price of the equivalent Juniper hardware, I can usually live with it
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Calling out bullshit is fine but I'd choose better language. "This is unacceptable and this change makes me very angry. I will not be considering future products from Ubiquiti"
The customer service rep isn’t in control of the change. They’re in control of what they tell me, and he was bullshitting. Not really sure what else to tell you.
> They’re in control of what they tell me
Have you never interacted in a non-business sense with someone who worked customer support? They DO NOT have control of what they tell you. They will get fired real quick if they don't follow the script. Especially someone working the first line of support in a chat box.
C'mon man.
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With the depth of your experience, what's your prosumer recommendation? MikroTik?
for wireless AP's? It really depends. I actually just went with Wave2 stuff. In the end i bought some UAP-AC-HD's because 1. I am familiar/setup to handle their quirks and had 99% of the setup already done. 2. I really wanted an AP with Dual 5Ghz AND dual 2.4 Ghz dedicated antennas for some very specific applications (multiple rtsp streams over wifi+client plex wifi streams+client traffic. With the first two largely…
> Id go with a ruckus. the r700 unleashed and/or r500 unleashed
This is the problem with Ubiquiti, and maybe why they feel they can advertise in their UI and let their quality slip: a new r710 lists for $1295.
That's almost four times as much as a UAP-AC-HD. On sale for $810 it's still over twice as much. Some of the Ubiquiti WiFi 6 stuff can be had for $100-150.
Like, yeah, I'm sure Ruckus is way better, but I'd hope so for the price difference.
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#137Misleading tweet. This looks more like them promoting an update to their own product than them "serving ads".
If you think they will stop at only advertising their own stuff, that is terribly naive.
Once they have the ad channel setup, it would be dumb not to try to take advantage of it.
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What would you buy?
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 either already have a server on all the time or don't care if they have logs going back 5 years. This seems to cost $60/mo at the least.
Also, I do not have much faith in this company with their website being so slow (maybe too many HN people are hitting idk, never heard of them).
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#139I'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 complaining about ads on a SaaS.
6. Most people here don't seem to like this banner in question, but that's not how they phrase their responses.
Is this a case of some random Amazonian complaining about intrusive ads or or a case of ads, even for self promotions, aren't allowed in SaaS?
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#140I feel bad for the engineers there, who clearly are not in charge.
Oh man you have no idea. I spent a year there running the Network Controller team.
"Shit show" doesn't even begin to describe it.