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I’m very happy with my Ubiquiti UniFi setup. Don’t know if it’s more secure than a google product but I trust it more.
by zrail 8y ago
I’m very happy with my Ubiquiti UniFi setup. Don’t know if it’s more secure than a google product but I trust it more.
- jlgaddis 8y agoBased on Ubiquiti's track record over the last few years, I certainly wouldn't bet my money on that.
- r00fus 8y agoPlease elaborate.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoThink it is probably based on things like "CITRON EXPOSES UBIQUITI NETWORKS" http://citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networks/ http://citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networks/
- xedeon 8y agoThat's your source? I advise you look up Citron's track record and history. That outfit is run by Andrew Left, an activist short-seller. He even targeted companies such as Shopify etc. "Looking at Citron’s track record, Barron reports that, on average, companies that Left writes about see their value drop by ten per cent in a year. “And some drop as much as 95 per cent,” he writes. But that’s of little consolation to those who followed Citron’s advice and shorted NVIDIA, Motorola or Mobileye." Ubiquity makes solid networking hardware for prosumers and small businesses that costs considerably less.
- plg 8y agoWhat’s your setup? I have an EdgeRouter Lite but I’m looking for one or more WiFi access points to add to my network.
- zrail 8y agoCloud Key, USG, Switch 8 POE, and two AP-Lites. The UniFi console makes management easy compared to the edge router UI. I also have one of those but it’s just sitting right now.
- nvarsj 8y agoI'd be wary of any Ubiquiti network kit. I only trust their APs. The ERL for example is an awful router - it has had a firmware issue for years now where it causes persistent packet loss due to reordering incoming packets. I discovered these problems in my own testing, and there is a giant thread on the forums about it which I helped kick off. The ER-X is the only thing that seems to work properly. Their switches are bad too (small buffers). UI is nice and they are cheap, but not worth the poor performance. I sold most of my Ubiquiti gear and bought a Netgate 2440 a couple years ago, put Debian on it with Shorewall and auto updates, and haven't looked back.
- walterbell 8y agoWhy didn’t you use PFsense from Netgate?
- nvarsj 8y agoI don't like pFsense because it's difficult to automate and lacks bufferbloat AQM. I use ansible checked into source code - it's easy to rebuild and tweak, and works great. And with Linux you get access to fq_codel and cake. These are easy to setup and work extremely well, with 1-5ms bufferbloat even under throughput saturation. I couldn't manage to get anything similar in pfsense's QoS.
- namibj 8y agoHow large do you want the switch to be? Where I am, if I download something form google drive, I get _major_ bufferbloat on the downstream, I suspect because everthing except the last PHY link to my laptop (on a LAN port) handles at least 1Gbit, but the switch is still a little old-ish and won't do more than fast Ethernet. Please, for god's sake, either drop packets or use fq-codel or something similar, but don't use a large-ish, blind fifo that only listens to his expelicit QOS settings. I wan't my mosh session to be responsive even if there is a large _inbound_ filetransfer. (note that this is textbook bufferbloat, just in the reverse direction from the usual residential situation)