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I love unfi system for my home lab it’s feature rich and just constantly getting better

subscribed 1y ago
I especially love it when the entire network is down after I changed the schedule for one WiFi network. Or after everything, including the gateway trips over itself when I reboot one of the switches. Or when it decides to run two APs, pretty much next to each other, on the exactly the same channel after a daily scan. Or when I wake up to the WiFi down because it decided to turn on the automated firmware upgrade. Yeah, they're almost out of the alpha phase.
- psyclobe 1y ago
  lol u posted that before idk man I run a home lab different use cases
  - signalblur 1y ago
    Yeah I’ve used them for years - I get some people have different experiences and people occasionally get lemons but I don’t remember the last time my UniFi gear was the source of an outage that wasn’t caused by my misconfiguration. I’ve had only a simple / reliable setup experience with a great UX
    - elevation 1y ago
      Unifi WiFi has been highly reliable for me in simple set ups. An elderly friend had high-speed Internet installed in his farmhouse. The lath and plaster walls were reinforced with chicken wire mesh, and ISP’s WiFi router box couldn’t penetrate it. I thought maybe he would need a few UAPs, but a single UAP-LR puck has been serving reliable Wi-Fi for 10+ years with no need for a unify controller. I’ve repeated this installation for other elderly and non-technical friends. I get absolutely zero service calls.
- nerdsniper 1y ago
  Anything you’d recommend instead?
  - Terretta 1y ago
    You could always go with the buzzword bingo "secure network architecture designed for AI" by Cisco, whatever that means*: “With intuitive technologies, we optimize IT experiences, secure locations, and seamlessly connect people, places, and things.” https://meraki.cisco.com/ https://meraki.cisco.com/ * What they say it means, here: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-ai-ready-enterprise-building-the-intelligent-workplace-with-cisco https://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-ai-ready-enterprise-buildin...
    - nerdsniper 1y ago
      It looks like their cheapest WAP (CW9172I) costs $1,300 + $250/year for licensing? That’s not really an alternative.
      - Terretta 1y ago
        OK, a more serious answer. If we're talking "homelab", consider TP-Link Omada, or maybe Aruba: https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/3/tp-link-omada-overview https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/3/tp-link-omada-overview But for most homes, Eeros.

I especially love it when the entire network is down after I changed the schedule for one WiFi network. Or after everything, including the gateway trips over itself when I reboot one of the switches. Or when it decides to run two APs, pretty much next to each other, on the exactly the same channel after a daily scan. Or when I wake up to the WiFi down because it decided to turn on the automated firmware upgrade. Yeah, they're almost out of the alpha phase.

psyclobe 1y ago
lol u posted that before idk man I run a home lab different use cases
- signalblur 1y ago
  Yeah I’ve used them for years - I get some people have different experiences and people occasionally get lemons but I don’t remember the last time my UniFi gear was the source of an outage that wasn’t caused by my misconfiguration. I’ve had only a simple / reliable setup experience with a great UX
  - elevation 1y ago
    Unifi WiFi has been highly reliable for me in simple set ups. An elderly friend had high-speed Internet installed in his farmhouse. The lath and plaster walls were reinforced with chicken wire mesh, and ISP’s WiFi router box couldn’t penetrate it. I thought maybe he would need a few UAPs, but a single UAP-LR puck has been serving reliable Wi-Fi for 10+ years with no need for a unify controller. I’ve repeated this installation for other elderly and non-technical friends. I get absolutely zero service calls.
nerdsniper 1y ago
Anything you’d recommend instead?
- Terretta 1y ago
  You could always go with the buzzword bingo "secure network architecture designed for AI" by Cisco, whatever that means*: “With intuitive technologies, we optimize IT experiences, secure locations, and seamlessly connect people, places, and things.” https://meraki.cisco.com/ https://meraki.cisco.com/ * What they say it means, here: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-ai-ready-enterprise-building-the-intelligent-workplace-with-cisco https://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-ai-ready-enterprise-buildin...
  - nerdsniper 1y ago
    It looks like their cheapest WAP (CW9172I) costs $1,300 + $250/year for licensing? That’s not really an alternative.
    - Terretta 1y ago
      OK, a more serious answer. If we're talking "homelab", consider TP-Link Omada, or maybe Aruba: https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/3/tp-link-omada-overview https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/3/tp-link-omada-overview But for most homes, Eeros.