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I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house. When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem. But as others have said, it's out of stock all the time, and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable. Eventually I picked the Asus ZenWifi system, and honestly it works great (I have no affiliation with Asus). There's no cloud account to create when you install it. The app is acceptable. There are various security things you can turn on which seem to require cloud assistance, but the core product seems to work very nicely. Any time you try to turn on something which might cause the system to share extra data, a popup appears to explain that to you. It's so powerful, Wifi-wise, that I bought three nodes and only deployed two. I use it with Ethernet backhaul but it has a dedicated radio for wireless backhaul. It has ethernet LAN ports on each node, and each node is identical to every other node (i.e. there is no "base" and "satellite"). I went from spotty Wifi throughout my 2,000 sq ft house to very strong Wifi throughout. I wrung my hands for a long time because I gave up VLANs and some other things I wanted, and then said the heck with it. |