Hopefully this gets upvoted more but it somewhat repairs my view of Ubiquiti's brand now that more details have come out about what actually happened. I hope the courts will determine the full extent of the truth
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> it somewhat repairs my view of Ubiquiti's brand
It shouldn't. Everything I read still speaks to their toxic culture and their inability to focus on a product before releasing 10 new ones.
I buy their switches and APs, but their routers are still garbage.
What's the better set-it-and-forget-it alternative? The Dream Machine Pro has been truly wonderful for me. I'm not interested in the equivalent of "a totally customizable Linux box running pfSense".
Mikrotik?
If the top result for "Mikrotik configuration" is accurate:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/First+Time+Config...
Then no thanks. I have a finite number of hours on this planet and I have no interest in spending more of them trying to configure network equipment with commands like
``` /ip firewall filter add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related \ comment="fast-track for established,related"; add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related \ comment="accept established,related"; add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=invalid add chain=forward action=drop connection-state=new connection-nat-state=!dstnat \ in-interface=ether1 comment="drop access to clients behind NAT form WAN" ```
Ubiquiti does a great job of having good defaults out of the box, a straightforward UI, and remote management. I could walk my mother through setting up Unifi equipment over the phone and even get so far as to grant remote access to me without ever leaving it in an insecure state. I wouldn't get past setting an IP address in the Mikrotik section before losing that.
> Ubiquiti does a great job of having good defaults out of the box, a straightforward UI, and remote management.
Which UI? The UDM has two. Mobile devices have another. Some features are only available on one of the UIs, and when the feature is available on both, it often behaves differently. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
I ended up buying a Protectli box (FW6E) with OPNsense preinstalled. It's been fantastic, and blows Unifi out of the water.
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have any recommendations like Protectli, but for for the wireless AP?
The fragmentation about Ubiquiti devices drives me crazy - I have the "wrong" consumer wifi AP or the "wrong" (pro)consumer router (take your pick), so half of the wifi AP functionality is disabled - but for no reasonable reason - just they have two (more?) product lines that don't work together and it's hard to realize until you get the products. Overall I've been pretty disappointed by my Ubiquiti hardware - I feel like it was advertised as higher performance and better functionality than it ended up being.
> Do you have any recommendations like Protectli, but for for the wireless AP?
Nope, but I'd love a viable alternative. It seems like every company I look at has some big downside that makes me stick with Ubiquiti.
I was mostly trolling to see if anyone would jump in with an actual alternative because I also wanted to know. I used to buy ubiquity pcie radios to use in mikrotik boards before ubiquity came out with their own complete devices.
Although There is a web ui for mikrotik too, ubiquity’s was definitely slicker.
Aren't they still serial and uncaring GPL violators?
You can assume that from 99% of all device vendors. It is a shame but it is a reality. That is not something I would put on Ubiquti especially considering all their other serious flaws in product management.
Source for this?
Latest I can find is this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450944
I’m not sure if it’s still ongoing, that’s why I asked if it was.
My comment from back then stands.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21451666
There's also some random community post here: https://community.amplifi.com/topic/3296/gpl-source-code-ava...
They're still in flagrant violation of the license for all the software they're stealing.
IIRC FCC disallow to open radio related source even though it's GPL. I don't know Ubnt opens other sources.
Just being practical here: who isn’t? That is companies that sell hardware with gpl code that actually respect the gpl well.
My $50 TP-Link router came with a card in the box explaining their GPL compliance and giving me a link to their changes. I would think if I'm going to blow hundreds on Ubiquiti gear, they could at least match TP-Link when it comes to actually following the law.