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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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[–] zo0@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For large networks with over 20 devices, I find them acceptable not because they are good but because other options are more expensive.

For small networks? I despise them

The UI keeps changing and moving around settings for no good reason after each update
You can't setup devices directly if you have a device or two, you are required to setup a control center
The control center is already slow and sluggish, but the real nightmare starts when you start having 100 or more devices
Last couple of years they have been releasing batches with serious issues, software and hardware. The way they accepted recall for unfixable devices was so limited that many people are left with broken APs that will kill their network occasionally and the poor consumer has no idea why.
Honestly fuck 'em. there's more but I don't wanna give them any more rent space in my head on a Sunday lol

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What annoys me most is people mindlessly promoting Unifi. Sure it has its advantages but no one wants to talk about disadvantages

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anecdotal: I like like my OG UDM. Bought it the year it came out. No issues in almost 7 years.

Unifi is one of those brands where this phrase applies: "when it works, it works really good."

People will see those comments, buy the hardware, and some of them will have bad experiences. You will hear about those bad experiences way more often than someone who hasn't had any issues with the same hardware in the same timeframe.

That's how it is with pretty much every consumer-focused network equipment brand.