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Comment by sonicanatidae | Hacker News Reader

Its fine to use at home, but I see a lot of people pretend these are Enterprise devices and use them as such. They are upgraded consumer gear, at best, imo.

Source: I've been working with unifi gear for the past 4+ years and use a basic unifi setup at home, since it was free to me. I wouldn't have bought it.

Like all things, YMMV. I'm glad to hear its working like you need it to.

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What would you have a bought instead? In my experience there isn’t anything comparable in the consumer space. I’d love to be shown I’m wrong. I use both their network gear and security setup (door bells, cameras).

I’m not sure there is another company offering the same solution with ease of setup and low overhead to manage. Is there?

I guess this depends on use-case. I mean, if someone has a need for the more advanced features of a router/firewall like this, then they don't need the consumer focused UI.

If someone doesn't know networking well enough, then the UI isn't helpful really since they don't know the why of things.

It's a great niche, but Unifi has issues and they seem more focused on selling more of them, than fixing issues present for 5+ years.

Here's an example: Unifi uses Strongswan for VPN. There is a bug in that 2 people cannot connect to the VPN site from the same IP. Site2Site between 2 unifi devices has been unreliable.

As far as what I would have bought, it's moot, since I'm not the common use case. At one point, I used an ASA 5510 as a home router. ;)

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