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Re: UniFi Express

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Post by xvector »

whalesalad wrote: post #2

I love ubiquiti. My entire home network runs on their gear, with self-hosted management. I have infra deployed across the country in a remote office that runs their gear, with a cloud key. It's solid stuff all around. Don’t use any of their unifi routers tho, can’t speak to that. I have an ER-4 at home and the remote office has a pfsense 1U.

I kinda hate Ubiquiti routers. My UDM Pro felt like a total scam, with the IDS/IPS being nowhere close to advertised. They promised but never introduced WireGuard. I also experienced strange bugs in the stack.

I eventually moved to OPNSense but the router I bought from them died. The interface was too cumbersome anyways, from the perspective of someone that just wanted WireGuard server+client, IPS/IDS, and VLAN.

I finally moved to Firewalla and it is lightyears ahead of Ubiquiti, OPNSense, and any other solution I've tried from a power user perspective. I use this with Ubiquiti APs connected to my Pi running the Ubiquiti management software, which works out quite well.

The Firewalla is far easier to use, has a way better UX, and covers 95% of the power user tasks.

Re: UniFi Express

#52

Post by CobaltFire »

Kirby64 wrote: post #46
CobaltFire wrote: post #28

This is effectively a Dream Router minus any other app support and the switch. For a typical home user who doesn't want/need Protect this seems decent, but I think the $50 upcharge for the UDR is absolutely worth it. That said, the UDR is heavily limited in running Protect. I started hitting occasional problems running Network and Protect together when I hit 4 cameras.

The dream router can’t route faster than 500mbit, which is a huge limitation. This claims to do 1gbit routing, so pairing with a switch gives you a dream router that can actually route at 1gbit.

With IDS and IPS turned off I can get routing at over 800Mbit consistently with my UDR.

It has the typical foibles of UniFi routing so I'm replacing it, but I haven't had too many issues with it tapping out the Gb port (when my cable line allows).

I wouldn't even try to add any fancy features to it and expect it to hold up though; it just doesn't have the power.

Oh, and one of the foibles is that if I do hit the router with a connection that saturates it it drops every other device on the network. So it being able to route above 500Mbit is kind of a non-starter I guess, as it can't do it to more than one client.

Re: UniFi Express

#53

Post by Spivak »

boringuser2 wrote: post #17
entropie wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wrong. I watched a video yesterday from a german medical cannabis business where I recognized unifi APs in the building. Their camera system was (as one would imagine) unifi too.

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You are forgetting that most business' needs are extremely minimal. By volume there are more bakeries, bars, gyms, one man doctor's offices, little car dealerships, hair salons than businesses that have actual IT needs. And for those businesses a dream router is fine if not a bit overkill.

Re: UniFi Express

#54

Post by hyperpl »

I_Am_Nous wrote: post #41
spankalee wrote: post #35

This page is a bit confusing if you don't already know the terms... What exactly is "A complete UniFi networking stack" anyway? Is UniFi some protocol that extends WiFi?

Unifi AP for wifi, Unifi switches, Unifi security gateway of some kind, Unifi point to point for terrestrial wireless to share with another set of Unifi gear in a barn/shed/whatever down the road. All managed by UNMS.

Do the Unifi APs and other Unifi hardware still need a docker image or software installed that includes mongodb I think it was to manage devices?

Re: UniFi Express

#55

Post by handy2000 »

_rs wrote: post #50
handy2000 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, as an engineer with decades of experience, I give up. What is "Unify AP for WiFi"?

Unifi is just their name for this series of products that all work together with their (free) controller. So you buy an AP, a switch, a router, all from the Unifi line of products and they all get setup from a single controller and work together pretty effortlessly

I see, thanks. So basically a suite of networking hardware solutions? What I found the most confusing is that they sort of differentiate UniFi from WiFi. E.g. "Instant WiFi for retail POS" - yes, like any other WiFi router? Or is this box going to connect to a global mesh that's called UniFi?..

Re: UniFi Express

#56

Post by samch »

xvector wrote: post #51
whalesalad wrote: post #2

I love ubiquiti. My entire home network runs on their gear, with self-hosted management. I have infra deployed across the country in a remote office that runs their gear, with a cloud key. It's solid stuff all around. Don’t use any of their unifi routers tho, can’t speak to that. I have an ER-4 at home and the remote office has a pfsense 1U.

I kinda hate Ubiquiti routers. My UDM Pro felt like a total scam, with the IDS/IPS being nowhere close to advertised. They promised but never introduced WireGuard. I also experienced strange bugs in the stack. I eventually moved to OPNSense but the router I bought from them died. The interface was too cumbersome anyways, from the perspective of someone that just wanted WireGuard server+client, IPS/IDS, and VLAN. I fi…

For what it’s worth, Ubiquiti supports WireGuard now, and it’s very easy to setup:

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005445768-UniFi-Gat...

Re: UniFi Express

#57

Post by hristov »

I am willing to bet it runs the unifi software on an arm chip. Which is kind of funny considering they dropped official support for arm on third party devices.

Re: UniFi Express

#58

Post by syntaxing »

buildbot wrote: post #32
syntaxing wrote: post #30

Had a UDR but switched to OPNsense. But the biggest issue with the UDR is that it can only handle about 500 Mbps due to the subpar CPU. Anyone know if this can actually run gigabit speeds?

I too switched to OPNsense., which has been awesome. Partly due to weird dns failure issues, but mostly due to what turned out to be the bullshit claims about security issues :/ krebs did real damage to them by pushing that story.

Yup, pretty much why I swapped mine. I think the final nail of the coffin was when they were like, “ok, we need to remove the free shipping so we can stay competitive without increasing prices”. Then a couple months later “jk, we gotta increase the prices too” (surprise to no one).

My OPNSense N100 PC + omada switch and AP was like $400 all said and done.

Re: UniFi Express

#59

Post by moondev »

I_Am_Nous wrote: post #26
smcleod wrote: post #21

Weird that the ethernet ports are only 1GbE, that discounts everyone with a >1Gbit internet connection

There are still far more people below gigabit speeds than there are people hitting their gig. As more fiber is deployed that may change, but it's still a very functional device regardless.

With that logic why does it even have a gigabit uplink, after all three are still people out there that are not "hitting their 100Mbit/s" yet?

Re: UniFi Express

#60

Post by ladzoppelin »

xvector wrote: post #51
whalesalad wrote: post #2

I love ubiquiti. My entire home network runs on their gear, with self-hosted management. I have infra deployed across the country in a remote office that runs their gear, with a cloud key. It's solid stuff all around. Don’t use any of their unifi routers tho, can’t speak to that. I have an ER-4 at home and the remote office has a pfsense 1U.

I kinda hate Ubiquiti routers. My UDM Pro felt like a total scam, with the IDS/IPS being nowhere close to advertised. They promised but never introduced WireGuard. I also experienced strange bugs in the stack. I eventually moved to OPNSense but the router I bought from them died. The interface was too cumbersome anyways, from the perspective of someone that just wanted WireGuard server+client, IPS/IDS, and VLAN. I fi…

Do you think Ubiquiti APs are still good, I have not used them since 2018?
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