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Me neither. I switched out my trusty old Microtik AC router for a combination of a Unifi AP AC Pro and UniFi Security Gateway in order to get a bit more distanc
by atombender 6y ago
Me neither. I switched out my trusty old Microtik AC router for a combination of a Unifi AP AC Pro and UniFi Security Gateway in order to get a bit more distance, and performance and reliability has been shoddy.
I eventually got a TP-Link WiFi 6 AX3000, and it's been super solid, significantly faster, and required almost zero manual setup. The Unifi itself required a PoE adapter and a router, and of course needs the controller application to do anything.
(The controller app with its easily-corrupted and hard-to-upgrade MongoDB database is perhaps the worst part of it. My two devices occasionally required re-"adopting" for no discernible reason. I was unable to upgrade the controller at one point because apparently (?) they stopped bundling MongoDB, and the controller refused to use the version I installed manually. Of course, this breakage happened after the software updated, so the only way to fix it was by restoring the old version and database files from backups.)
Maybe Ubiquiti products make more sense when you need dozens of access points across a big building, but definitely not in a small city apartment.
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoI don't think that's an environment in which Ubiquiti gear makes sense. It's much more useful for the people who have a 3-story house and have to have a separate downstairs and upstairs Wi-Fi network to get decent coverage.
- atombender 6y agoAgree, but I would at least expect performance and reliability to be better than a consumer router.
- vetinari 6y agoIt is useful even in apartments: you can have your router near entrance, where the ISP terminates, and then AP elsewhere in the apartment, where you can get better reception for your devices.
- LgWoodenBadger 6y agoWhat do you mean when you say “the Unifi itself required...a router?” The Unifi Security Gateway is a router.
- atombender 6y agoSorry, the AC.
- LgWoodenBadger 6y agoAny access-point-only device will require that, it’s not a unique requirement to the Unifi access points.
- atombender 6y agoOf course. But it could be a lot simpler, too. For example, USG doesn't have PoE (only the EdgeRouter X does, I think), and the AC itself doesn't have a power adapter. Both things would have made things simpler. My wish is for a prosumer wireless router that's rock stable. I've burned through numerous routers that all have had weird issues. The closest I've gotten was my Microtik AC Lite, which I loved, but it doesn't have an external antenna, so its range was questionable.
- vetinari 6y agoDidn't your AC ship with an injector? AFAIK, only the 5-piece package ships without injector, the individual ones do have it.
- atombender 6y agoNo injector came in the box. I remember reading forum discussions about it at the time that explained which models/packages came with the injector, but I forget what they said.
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