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> everything is not as it seems in unifi land Go on... A buddy of mine just dropped several G's on UniFi gear so I'm hoping he can tell me about any issues be

> everything is not as it seems in unifi land Go on... A buddy of mine just dropped several G's on UniFi gear so I'm hoping he can tell me about any issues before I jump in.

willis936 6y ago
The UDM line is about a year old and many features are in the "to-be-implemented" bin. This is a vague statement and I don't have specific examples on hand. I just recall seeing references to them when hunting around. I don't have firsthand experience. The UDM can't be adopted by another controller: it needs to be the unifi controller. This really kills the upgrade path imo. One of my best metrics for deciding what hardware to get is to look through the 1-star reviews for realistic testimonials by reasonable users. It takes a lot of sifting, but it builds an okay picture. There are almost no complaints about the ER-4 compared to the UDM. I think I'd likely roll a pfSense box before jumping into unifi. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B081QNJFPV/ref=cm_cr_unknown?filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1 https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B081QNJFPV/ref=cm_cr_...
- katbyte 6y ago
  I got a UDM-pro and overall while i am very happy with the other unfi gear i have i would have not gotten the UDM pro if i'd known about the limitations before hand: can't adopt USGs to its controller, link agger doesn't work ("yet" so never), and IDS/IPS maxes out at around 800mbps and i have gbit now so its limiting my internet. i'd have gone with a USG-pro and cloudkey 2, but otherwise the unfi ecosystem has been good, i like the single plane view of my network and works well enough to not want to give that up
anonymousab 6y ago
A bunch of my co-workers jumped on board, and with a good discount I gave it a shot as well. When it's working fine it seems marginally better for wifi connections than a standard cheap consumer Soho router. But that's the problem: it very often just doesn't work correctly. Port forwarding rules will sometimes, randomly, no longer apply. DNS issues will mysteriously crop up. Some clients seem to get a cut in downstream speed but not others (with or without enabling the setting to optimize channels). UPnP, if you choose to enable it, will mysteriously work for some clients but not others. Sometimes these issues will only happen for wireless clients, sometimes for wired, and sometimes for only a given port or AP. It often feels like a double-NAT situation, but somehow with a regular, basic, client-only topology. My co-workers have reported both these issues and ones I have never seen. The worst part is that you will go on the forums, sometimes find users with the same issue as you (and many responses) and then rarely see an official response beyond 'yeah that's a known bug, no eta'. I've heard nothing but praises from friends for their other hardware. It's just the UDM that seems strangely awful.

> everything is not as it seems in unifi land Go on... A buddy of mine just dropped several G's on UniFi gear so I'm hoping he can tell me about any issues before I jump in.

willis936 6y ago

The UDM line is about a year old and many features are in the "to-be-implemented" bin. This is a vague statement and I don't have specific examples on hand. I just recall seeing references to them when hunting around. I don't have firsthand experience. The UDM can't be adopted by another controller: it needs to be the unifi controller. This really kills the upgrade path imo. One of my best metrics for deciding what hardware to get is to look through the 1-star reviews for realistic testimonials by reasonable users. It takes a lot of sifting, but it builds an okay picture. There are almost no complaints about the ER-4 compared to the UDM. I think I'd likely roll a pfSense box before jumping into unifi. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B081QNJFPV/ref=cm_cr_unknown?filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1 https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B081QNJFPV/ref=cm_cr_...

katbyte 6y ago
I got a UDM-pro and overall while i am very happy with the other unfi gear i have i would have not gotten the UDM pro if i'd known about the limitations before hand: can't adopt USGs to its controller, link agger doesn't work ("yet" so never), and IDS/IPS maxes out at around 800mbps and i have gbit now so its limiting my internet. i'd have gone with a USG-pro and cloudkey 2, but otherwise the unfi ecosystem has been good, i like the single plane view of my network and works well enough to not want to give that up

anonymousab 6y ago

A bunch of my co-workers jumped on board, and with a good discount I gave it a shot as well. When it's working fine it seems marginally better for wifi connections than a standard cheap consumer Soho router. But that's the problem: it very often just doesn't work correctly. Port forwarding rules will sometimes, randomly, no longer apply. DNS issues will mysteriously crop up. Some clients seem to get a cut in downstream speed but not others (with or without enabling the setting to optimize channels). UPnP, if you choose to enable it, will mysteriously work for some clients but not others. Sometimes these issues will only happen for wireless clients, sometimes for wired, and sometimes for only a given port or AP. It often feels like a double-NAT situation, but somehow with a regular, basic, client-only topology. My co-workers have reported both these issues and ones I have never seen. The worst part is that you will go on the forums, sometimes find users with the same issue as you (and many responses) and then rarely see an official response beyond 'yeah that's a known bug, no eta'. I've heard nothing but praises from friends for their other hardware. It's just the UDM that seems strangely awful.