I used to have a UDM Pro, a Unifi rack mount switch, four APs, three cameras, and two mini POE switches. I sold it all when I moved recently, and now I just have 3 cheapish routers running OpenWRT.
I wish I kept all the Unifi stuff.
Do it.
I used to have a UDM Pro, a Unifi rack mount switch, four APs, three cameras, and two mini POE switches. I sold it all when I moved recently, and now I just have 3 cheapish routers running OpenWRT.
I wish I kept all the Unifi stuff.
Do it.
Dew it.
Edit:
This post is like an addict asking a group of other addicts if they should stop while the whole group takes another hit.
B&h photo and video as well as adorama let you buy ubiquiti equipment and return it.
Ubiquiti has a reputation for not accepting returns on properly functional gear
I too went down this road. Everything bar the Modem is Unifi in my home network now. The central management is very convenient, but if you want to hear about grievances, I got two for you to choose from. First, IPv6 support is needlessly limited. You can have Prefix Delegation or advertise a ULA network, but not both at the same time. No idea why. This seems very easy to implement. Second, the local dynamic DNS (i.e. advertising the IPs of your local clients) works sometimes, but not all the time. You can mitigate this one by using .local as your domain ‘though, in which case you fall back on MDNS in case the Unifi DNS fails.
Get ready to see lots of this in your future:

No explanation, the connection is fine, the cloudkey is fine, the camera is fine, it just randomly decides to drop quality permanently.
Go for Mikrotik.
I had to upgrade my EdgeRouterX when I got gig fiber. I kept the Ubiquiti APs, I really like their management interface. But I replaced the router with a Mikrotik RB4011iGS+ because I thought it had a better feature set than the equivalent UBNT and was half the price.
@WeAreAllOne @ccunning If it sways the decision any, Mikrotik has a Fediverse presence. They have both Mastodon and PeerTube and are active on both (aka not just spam posting duplicate posts from other platforms while ignoring replies like some others)What other company is going in on the Fediverse?
Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.
But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can't do on unifi (but I don't do bgp, mlag, etc at home).
I just got screwed over when my UDR failed after 2.5 years and they refuse to do anything about it because it is just out of warranty. Their tech support admitted it was a hardware failure but they are refusing to replace it.
I'd be really wary about investing in their hardware. I never had something break on me so soon.
Best of luck out there.
The UDR and UDM line are so horrifically poorly designed it’s frankly astonishing they ever left the drawing board. Not only is the shape unwieldy and awkward enough on its own, the thermals on those things are terrible. I used to wake up to no internet every few weeks because my UDM would overheat and would be unable to boot until you cooled it down. I learned to just stick it in the fridge for a bit to cool it down so it could boot again.
The UniFi UCG ultra and the Max are far better machines, capable of doing just as much if not more than the Pill shaped routers while staying cool and not sounding like a jet engine every time you send a text over wifi. The only thing you even lose is the integrated Access Point which sucks compared to the discrete ones anyway.
This is exactly what is happening to me. The wifi turns off and the only way to fix it is a pull-the-plug power cycle.
Thanks for the advice but I'm pretty bitter about how it all went down. I'm gonna look elsewhere for network hardware.
I don’t have advice to give you beyond looking at !ubiquiti@lemmy.world and !ubiquiti@lemmy.ml
This will happen automatically if you buy enough and start experiencing their true hardware failure rate lol.
You can only order more kit, if you share it out. With every member of this community!
@ccunning Sorry, can’t talk you out of it. I can only talk you into lower tiered items that are significantly more cost effective. If you want gigabit speeds with a nice single pane of glass, UniFi is a great line which is best described as budget enterprise. If you need ten gigabit (or faster) and don’t have a need for the single pane, Mikrotik is a significantly better choice. I’d describe it as quirky but effective. If you share your cart you’ll get a better convincing.
Do their radios still not do 801.11af? You still need to have their stupid POE injectors hanging on the wall?
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