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Ten years ago Ubiquiti offered commercial grade hardware at consumer prices. Now I understand it’s the inverse.

At least according to the disgruntled former employees that left sometime between the lifelogging wearable camera acquisition and the forced cloud/updates and the “massive” data breach.

What would be the 2024 version of how great UI was in 2014? Or what are your fellow hacker setups? Ideally something that does local first management, connection bonding, 10gbs, tailscale level of simplicity? I have the same setup as the author and uncomfortable with the Apple-ification of the product to something that looks pretty without meaningful root privileges.

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Build your setup around an OPNSense router. Once you've got that setup, then add from there, whether it be a PoE managed switch from eBay, a NAS, camera setup, rack server, or whatever. But don't buy Ubiquiti or any other of these locked in ecosystems whatever you do.

I’d say Ubiquiti is still the best pro-sumer for home networking. They’re expensive, but they really do have a quality and ease of integration/setup/use that just isn’t matched, even when you get to enterprise level (go setup a Cisco without your CCNA and then come tell me about how great it is).

The main reason why consumer wireless APs fail is inadequate power supplies. Ubiquiti gear is solid in this respect.

I have to agree with this to a point. I went with Mikrotik a while ago, which delivers great bang for the buck but oh my god the UX is terrible. Not helped that I don't want to spend more time learning it fully (it would be more cost effective to trash it and buy something else).

TP-Link and omeda is probably an alternative, but after spending time trying to figure out what they offer and what their alternatives are for my needs I just give up with their confusing model numbers and half hearted explainations.

The problem I really have with Ubiquiti is when I look at their offerings and what I need I am immediately put into their Enterprise offerings and I am running 48 ports.

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