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I've been wanting to move away from standard consumer networking hardware for ages, because it all seems terrible in lots of different ways. The Unifi Security

by Latty 9y ago

I've been wanting to move away from standard consumer networking hardware for ages, because it all seems terrible in lots of different ways. The Unifi Security Gateway looked interesting until I googled a bit, no IPv6 support in 2018 at £100? That's insane. I mean, apparently you can do it manually, but bleh.

frio 9y ago
From what I can see it does support IPv6 -- https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-How-to-Implement-IPv6-with-DHCPv6-and-Prefix-Delegation-on-USG https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-H... is their own help article on the topic; it doesn't look difficult. It may even come standard in newer firmware. The one caveat I have with UBNT gear is that the stuff you get out of the box always seems to be outdated; I fought a friends ER-X for a few hours until I realised it was running old firmware that lacked some stuff I needed. That said, that might just be a quirk of living in New Zealand...
- Latty 9y ago
  Yeah, I saw you can do it manually, but what's the point of paying for custom hardware with nice interfaces when you have to switch to a config file for really basic functionality? At that point, might as well stick with bodged consumer stuff.
ad_hominem 9y ago
You'll also have to manually configure UPnP if you want to say, connect more than one Xbox One to Xbox Live at a time (learned that the hard way trying to host a LAN party - thank you broken/crippled EdgeRouter PoE UPnP implementation ruining my event). Besides the router issue, I've become very apprehensive at installing the latest UniFi AP firmware releases because I've experienced one revision absolutely tank WiFi performance (which took me a while to figure out the culprit thanks to the controller auto upgrading firmware) and another make APs periodically crash/bounce like every 20 mins. So yeah in my experience after using Ubiquiti products for a few years, they are way overhyped. I guess people are willing to overlook a lot if you have a nice sleek industrial design.

by Latty 9y ago

frio 9y ago

From what I can see it does support IPv6 -- https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-How-to-Implement-IPv6-with-DHCPv6-and-Prefix-Delegation-on-USG https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005868927-UniFi-H... is their own help article on the topic; it doesn't look difficult. It may even come standard in newer firmware. The one caveat I have with UBNT gear is that the stuff you get out of the box always seems to be outdated; I fought a friends ER-X for a few hours until I realised it was running old firmware that lacked some stuff I needed. That said, that might just be a quirk of living in New Zealand...

Latty 9y ago
Yeah, I saw you can do it manually, but what's the point of paying for custom hardware with nice interfaces when you have to switch to a config file for really basic functionality? At that point, might as well stick with bodged consumer stuff.

ad_hominem 9y ago

You'll also have to manually configure UPnP if you want to say, connect more than one Xbox One to Xbox Live at a time (learned that the hard way trying to host a LAN party - thank you broken/crippled EdgeRouter PoE UPnP implementation ruining my event). Besides the router issue, I've become very apprehensive at installing the latest UniFi AP firmware releases because I've experienced one revision absolutely tank WiFi performance (which took me a while to figure out the culprit thanks to the controller auto upgrading firmware) and another make APs periodically crash/bounce like every 20 mins. So yeah in my experience after using Ubiquiti products for a few years, they are way overhyped. I guess people are willing to overlook a lot if you have a nice sleek industrial design.