My ideal (budgeted) setup is:
- (1x) MX65 -- 12 GbE with 2 PoE+. PoE+ powers the access points.
- (2x) MR33 -- 802.11ac Wave 2 powered via MX65.The MX65 costs around $600 -- a 24 port (all with PoE) Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch costs about half that much.
I think the reason Ubiquiti gets a lot of write-ups for home use is that it's priced reasonably for the quality. I've had an 8 node small office deployment running flawlessly for 3 years now.
MX65 - $1,072 with 3 year enterprise subscription MR33 - $646 each with 3 year enterprise subscriptionHaving built a software platform that integrated with the big enterprise wifi vendors, I can comfortably say meraki's is the most intuitive and easiest to use.
So, you're happy with someone owning your devices and network, and you being said "renter" on your network? This is DRM of the worst kind: the logic is locked away behind their servers.
Nope nope, a flaming rake of fucks nope.