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Ubiquiti doesn't have to go to the cloud. I manage my Ubiquiti stuff locally. The reason I bought Ubiquiti is because they offered pro-ish level quality and rel
by phalangion 6y ago
Ubiquiti doesn't have to go to the cloud. I manage my Ubiquiti stuff locally. The reason I bought Ubiquiti is because they offered pro-ish level quality and reliability at closer to consumer prices. At a time when the only consumer options were pretty crappy, Ubiquiti offered higher quality at a small premium without having to go all the way to Cisco APs, for example. I haven't really bought any new gear for several years, so I don't know if the landscape has changed.
- somethingwitty1 6y agoYeah, this is exactly it. They used to produce enterprise-ish level hardware and at a reasonable price. Their devices, in my experience, were pretty rock solid. Setup took a little bit more work than the consumer (edited) offerings, but then you were done. They just ran. They could handle more packets, at least at the time, than the majority of consumer hardware. They've now shifted to targeting consumers and their new stuff doesn't even have the basic features of other consumer hardware. Want DDNS? Something found in every other consumer router I've used. Nope. Want an admin console to configure or update without your smartphone (or when your wifi is down again)? Nope. Want to set a static IP for a device? Ok, but we restart the router each time you set one. Want your network to be bigger than /24? Nope. You can checkout their forums and see how long they've been aware consumers want these things and they've delivered on so little.