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I'm a SRE and love to work with infrastructure, tweak things, etc, and have my own home lab. For years (decades?), I have gone the DIY route with networking gea
by gtirloni 2y ago
I'm a SRE and love to work with infrastructure, tweak things, etc, and have my own home lab. For years (decades?), I have gone the DIY route with networking gear and it's been painful to tell family "oh, just another 15min or maybe 4h and this will work great?" after I was updating things or messing around.
This year I decided to replace all networking equipment with Ubiquiti (gateway, APs, switches). It's really expensive and it makes me feel like a sell out but I have had zero issues (it's been 6 months now).
I'm really happy that OpenWrt has a stable release and others continue to make progress. I'll probably be deploying some _spare_ devices that won't break my main network, try patches, submit bugreports, etc. But I'm enjoying the peace of mind now.
Not contributing much to the discussion about OpenWrt, sorry.
- timschmidt 2y agoMy experience has been the opposite. I've had OpenWRT gear running rock solid for more than a decade, and a box full of Ubiquiti gear that no longer gets updates, doesn't work with recent management software, and some that's even been resuscitated back to usefulness by flashing with OpenWRT.
- cbm-vic-20 2y agoIt's not selling out when you're running a critical production system for a small number of users (the people in your house). You made the right choice.
- eduction 2y agoI looked into Amplifi based on your comment and it looks like they haven’t updated the line since 2022 and people are speculating they may exit the home market. Did you worry about this?
- eduction 2y agoActually ubiquiti doesn’t have any more to sell and the product is being bid up past 2x on Amazon. I guess we’ll find out if the line has a future soon.
- gtirloni 2y agoI didn't know that, thanks. However, I didn't buy anything from the Amplifi line. I'm using the UCG-Ultra gateway, U7/U6+ access points and their standard switches.
- eduction 2y agoThanks for the details! Interesting.