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Doing stuff from terminal is easy. Finding anything on their forum is easy. And they answer all the questions. I got all things UNIFI, same as the guy that made the post, and I am not network engineer. Setting up the networking was easy and fun.

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With the Unifi line it doesn't matter how easy the terminal is since the config gets overwritten by the controller on each re-provision. So not only do you get to figure out what config works via terminal, you also get to insert it into the config via JSON and find the right way to provision it.

It's certainly not rocket science, but I don't know too many junior sysadmins who could do it without hours of research and pain. Whereas making a change on an EdgeRouter is more legacy - find, apply, save. Done.

If I can do it easily with 20mins of research and I am just a software engineer without networking background than any sysadmin should be able to do it to. Btw I have unifi ap, switch and router, also rocking backup 4g link on wan2 and some NAS storage.

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