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by jcfhchcjxhx 1296 days ago
you are drinking too much of their marketing.

Not a single wifi consumer vendor have any say on those features. it is one hundred percent done on the closed OS in the radio chip.

your expensive ubiquiti/oanda/cisco have the same mimo/beanforming performance as any opensource/clone using the same wifi radio chipset.

the consumer facing OS just flip a bit somewhere in the configuration flash. granted, knowledge of the right bit to flip mighty be missing on the opensource still, but there's no magic happening in ubiquity owned code.

uniquity is extra shaddy as they buy off the shelf components but demand custom labeling to look like it's their custom silicon. it's not. uniquity is the matress store of wifi.

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> uniquity is extra shaddy as they buy off the shelf components but demand custom labeling to look like it's their custom silicon. it's not. uniquity is the matress store of wifi.

They're not - I have no idea about the hardware itself, but what makes Ubiquiti so popular is the software integration layer. Their stuff Just Works even for incredibly complex and large installations while still being easy to configure.