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Why bet on a risky croud funding campaign when you could just go with a Ubiquity.
by pmorici 10y ago
Why bet on a risky croud funding campaign when you could just go with a Ubiquity.
- ashitlerferad 10y agocz.nic isn't risky in the slightest. Ubiquiti don't ship with open source firmware.
- pmorici 10y agoIt has nothing to do with the firmware it has to do with the fact that they haven't delivered a single working router to a customer yet. You don't seriously believe that buying something through a crowd funding campaign carries zero risk do you?
- ashitlerferad 10y agoIn this case yes, funding cz.nic has zero risk. They just sent an email saying the first shipments will start this week.
- bonzini 10y agoI bought a Ubiquity a few months ago, and found out that it couldn't communicate over wireless with a Raspberry Pi's USB-WiFi dongle (with drivers in mainline kernel) sitting 3 meters away. Before I bought it, the same dongle was acting just fine as access point for the whole home network of 3-4 phones/tablets and 1-2 computers; it could easily handle browsing, updating Android/iOS apps, and YouTube video streaming. And it still is doing that just fine after I sadly had to return the Ubiquity! Now of course this is just my own anecdote. But it remains a fact that WiFi setup can be incredibly hit-or-miss, and there's no reason in principle why two devices 3 meters away should have occasional 2-3 seconds packet delays.