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by tonster 1258 days ago
Ubiquiti Dream Router and a couple of WiFi 6 Access Points. Excellent WiFi is so underrated and not as common as we might think. It has allowed me to work comfortably in all corners of the house as well as outside when the weather is nice, all without skipping a beat during calls. Highly recommend setting up a proper WiFi network and looking into this more prosumer level hardware which has been rock-solid for me.
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linsomniac 1258 days ago
I feel really burned by Ubiquiti. I had ~5 cameras with their PoE switch and originally the NVR, which was flaky, and later the CloudKey G2. I was considering replacing my Google wifi 4-node setup with Ubiquiti. I regularly had problems with cameras not coming back up after a power outage or firmware updates. Then at one point a switch update caused a the Google wifi nodes to start being shut off because of loop detection and there was no way to turn it off. Then a year later most of the cameras bricked during one of their firmware updates.

The Google setup has been pretty nice, though sometimes it gets into a weird state where wireless performance goes into the toilet.

I'm currently playing with a Ruckus R620 from ebay, which seems to be some really solid Enterprise gear that you can get for around $250 on ebay, used.

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crmd 1258 days ago
I am literally researching now for a home network upgrade. Been running Dr-wrt on a linksys for years and WiFi is starting to get super unreliable. Can you say more about your ubiquiti experience?

I am looking at ubiquiti, meraki go, and aruba instant but am open to ideas.

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bilal4hmed 1258 days ago
I came across Firewalla as well. Anyone using those ...looking at the gold while wondering if gold+ is the way to future proof
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sorum 1258 days ago
Same here, the UDM Pro [1] and any of their U6 WiFi APs [2] are great. I went the extra mile and wired up each room with 2-3 ports, so had to get one of their PoE switches because you quickly run out port space on the UDM.

[1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-unifi-os-cons...

[2] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless

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piafraus 1258 days ago
Does it still require cloud account?
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