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If it helps, about a year ago I was replacing a UniFi setup at home and I was trying to decide with pfSense or OPNsense. After poking at both in VMs for about a

If it helps, about a year ago I was replacing a UniFi setup at home and I was trying to decide with pfSense or OPNsense. After poking at both in VMs for about a week I settled on OPNsese. My main reasons were that it did everything I wanted pfSense to do, something about the UI felt a bit smoother to me, and it didn't have the smarmy/wonky feeling that pfSense does (aggressive company behavior, closed-ish stuff, and then post-switch the Wireguard stuff happened). I'm running this on a Protectli FW4B and have been quite happy. It's still doing exactly what I wanted, updates have been good, a bug I reported got fixed quickly, and it's... just working. Also, by going to open hardware (and not the Netgate stuff I was originally thinking of) I can switch to another platform (eg: Untangle, OpenBSD) if desired. But, for the forseeable future, OPNsense seems to be working just fine. <shrug>

unethical_ban 5y ago
What moved you off of Unifi? Did you move off entirely, or just for the gateway?
- c0nsumer 5y ago
  I moved entirely. It was mostly the GW that I didn't like. The primary bug was when they changed the maximum SSID length from 32 (standard) to 31 and I could no longer edit my network. I also had a very frustrating ARP bug where ARP broadcasts wouldn't work across mesh'd APs (https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ghs4bg/arp_for_client_on_meshed_ap_not_working_help/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ghs4bg/arp_for_clien...). Then there was just some various other quirkyness/weirdness, and I happened to get out just before the big security breach was disclosed. I ended up going to a Ruckus R610 AP that I got via eBay running the Unleashed OS, and it's outstanding. Coverage is so good I no longer need my old AP + extra mesh'd one. For switching I'm just using an old TP-Link that I had laying around. UniFi seemed really neat at first, but then it just felt... overwraught. I don't need single-pane-of-glass monitoring of a ton of stuff for my home network. I don't want to run a management software server just for my home network. I do want something robust, but I don't want to worry about it, and I want to be able to piecemeal upgrade it. A small PC running OPNsense + a solid AP + just whatever for switching does exactly that. (I'm not a homelab-type person... If I want that I use VMs, or my employer's hardware. I want my home network to be a solid, reliable utility that requires little maintenance. I don't want to be tweaking my home network after my day job.)

unethical_ban 5y ago

What moved you off of Unifi? Did you move off entirely, or just for the gateway?

c0nsumer 5y ago
I moved entirely. It was mostly the GW that I didn't like. The primary bug was when they changed the maximum SSID length from 32 (standard) to 31 and I could no longer edit my network. I also had a very frustrating ARP bug where ARP broadcasts wouldn't work across mesh'd APs (https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ghs4bg/arp_for_client_on_meshed_ap_not_working_help/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ghs4bg/arp_for_clien...). Then there was just some various other quirkyness/weirdness, and I happened to get out just before the big security breach was disclosed. I ended up going to a Ruckus R610 AP that I got via eBay running the Unleashed OS, and it's outstanding. Coverage is so good I no longer need my old AP + extra mesh'd one. For switching I'm just using an old TP-Link that I had laying around. UniFi seemed really neat at first, but then it just felt... overwraught. I don't need single-pane-of-glass monitoring of a ton of stuff for my home network. I don't want to run a management software server just for my home network. I do want something robust, but I don't want to worry about it, and I want to be able to piecemeal upgrade it. A small PC running OPNsense + a solid AP + just whatever for switching does exactly that. (I'm not a homelab-type person... If I want that I use VMs, or my employer's hardware. I want my home network to be a solid, reliable utility that requires little maintenance. I don't want to be tweaking my home network after my day job.)