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More like the Sonos of networking gear, in that they were once kinda cool but squandered it with questionable product decisions.
by inopinatus 11mo ago
More like the Sonos of networking gear, in that they were once kinda cool but squandered it with questionable product decisions.
- Nux 11mo agoHear hear!
- chrisweekly 11mo agoOn the Sonos tangent: the hardware is really good! But the software is just staggeringly, aggressively, and proactively terrible. :(
- greenavocado 11mo agoCan it be reflashed
- chrisweekly 11mo agothere's sadly no community solution AFAICT
- seltzered_ 11mo agoWhy cant an android phone with ethernet tethering to a router suffice? I've done this using an android phone, usb-c hub w/ethernet nic, and and edgerouter lite before. The biggest missing piece i see is the option for an external antenna.
- greenavocado 11mo agoThe antenna is often more important than the receiver
- chrisweekly 11mo agoI don't understand how that fixes the awful Sonos software.
- seltzered_ 11mo agoWhoops, I replied to the wrong subcomment.
- ttyyzz 11mo agoThey made some good decisions aswell in the recent past, looking at their firewall configuration features (made it zone based).. All in all their eco system is worth it imo and the hardware is actually affordable. On the other hand I had some mikrotik gear in the past which was also really good, the user interface is just not as shiny ;-)
- kibwen 11mo agoAh, so what you're saying is that they're the Apple of networking gear.
- gsibble 11mo agoGood one.
- brandensilva 11mo agoThey have always been stuck between prosumer, pro business, and enterprise. They have tried to go subscription based licensing but that can be conflicting for companies who just want decent reliable network gear in all the above market segments. I fit in the prosumer category and have about $10,000 in gear and while it's great for my needs I don't see myself ever spending money for network gear subscriptions.
- PaulHoule 11mo agoIt is nice stuff. I have several UniFi devices in a 2200 sq foot old house that are wired on Ethernet and the WiFi is great everywhere. They also have a line of point-to-point modified WiFi radios for long range links and it took about 30 minutes to set up a link between my house and another house on the property.
- flyinghamster 11mo agoThat is fair, though they at least walked back some of those, and self-hosting is still very much a thing if you prefer not to deal with configuring your system through Someone Else's Computer.