[simoncion]

> - Ability to sign onto a Wi-Fi network that is less painful than sharing the passphrase.

If you use WPA-Enterprise, you can create a rolling username/password that's deterministically generated. [0] And/or you can load a passphrase into a Yubikey or similar for laptops that have a USB port and other devices that have NFC.

> - Ability to sign onto a Wi-Fi network that is less painful than sharing the passphrase.

If all smartphones came with a QR code reader (seriously, why doesn't every Android phone come with ZXing's Barcode Scanner??), you could print the passphrase and frame it or something. Additionally, if Google got their shit together, they could make a URI of the form

    $wifi_crypt_method//$uriescaped_ssid:$uriescaped_username:$uriescaped_pass

that every Android phone would recognize and understand what to do with.

I'm not sure why they've failed to do so for the past several years.

> I currently use a Ubiquiti Uni-Fi...

Ooh! Which one? I have a UAP-AC v1 and a UAP-AC-LR.

[0] Actually, you can do a lot more than just this. I've been having so much fun with FreeRADIUS over the past week. >:D

[IgorPartola]

I just have the UniFi AP Pro. I thought I'd need two or three of them, but one covers my whole house and an acre of land: something that my TP-Link WDR-4300 with three huge antennas failed to do. I could not be happier with this product. Got the non-AC version because I have no devices that support AC yet and it was about double the price. It also did not support the seamless handoff feature which I thought I'd need with multiple AP's.

[simoncion]

If you ever decide to get an AP that supports 802.11ac, and decide to purchase one from UBNT, I strongly recommend not purchasing the square ones. Pick up an AC-LITE, LR, or PRO.

(From what I understand, the LITE and LR use the same (Qualcomm-Atheros) radio, but the LR has a much better antenna, and the PRO uses a 3x3 version of the radio used in the LITE and the LR.)

[IgorPartola]

Thanks for the tip!