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What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by early_riser@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I bought into the ecosystem while taking my networking cert classes back in 2017. They were much cheaper than Cisco gear for business-grade networking, and overall I've been happy with them.

Their security offerings are locally managed, and you can make local accounts, but I just bought a NAS from them and I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account, and it seems the cloud account has some privileges that you can't give to local super admins.

So now I'm having second thoughts. I figure since it's enterprise-grade stuff they can't really make it cloud-dependent like you see on the consumer side since a lot of companies need air-gapped networks. On the other hand, on those occasions that I didn't have internet access and hadn't yet made a local-only account, I was locked out, so...

Regarding the NAS specifically, I use a TruNAS system at work and it works well enough on a rack server, but since it uses ZFS I don't know it would be good for home use. What alternatives are there?

Are there any truly FOSS networking options? I figure especially on the switching side you need purpose-built hardware, right? There aren't generic motherboards with 48 network ports you can buy.

I like my Unifi setup, I'm just scared of a rug pull.

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[+] TheDrunkard@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This sounds like a good thing for consumers.

According to Hunterbrook, Ukrainian military sources and Russian vendors interviewed for the story say Ubiquiti devices are favored because they are inexpensive, easy to deploy, and difficult to disable remotely.

[–] jif@piefed.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is this a good thing? Getting extremely rich selling products to the Russian military despite sanctions?

I'll be avoiding Unifi products until they stop doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6i4uffZvhc

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think it was on them, I thought from reading the article it was 2nd hand not directly from the company itself. I'm saying the reasons listed are good for consumers especially as the US gets more oppressive against its own citizens.

This situation is not unique to Ubiquiti. Many technology manufacturers face similar challenges: Once products are sold through distributors, resellers, or secondary markets, control over final destination becomes limited. Sanctions enforcement often focuses on exporters and sellers, not manufacturers alone. Networking hardware is inherently dual-use, meaning it can support both civilian and non-civilian applications

[–] jif@piefed.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's still on Unifi. They're responsible for where their products are sold.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Actually they are not, only who they sell to, if it's an official distributor they can put that in their policy and stop giving them product if the distributor breaks the policy. If I buy 10 switches and then sell them to some guy in Russia, that's on me, not ubiquity.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Semi-related: companies advertising “military grade” like it means something other than “made by the lowest bidder”.