| ▲ | kkapelon 2 hours ago |
| Unifi is the Apple of networking gear. When something new is released the HN crowd is excited even when the same functionality existed already with another company. |
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| ▲ | johncolanduoni an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| For wireless, the prices aren’t much different from products with comparable feature sets/performance. For some niche combinations, they’re the only option that doesn’t force you way upmarket (Meraki, etc.). Most of the money they make is from small business and tiny WISPs, not HN boosters overdoing it on their home WiFi in what must be a bid to get their partner to divorce them. Their wired stuff is a total scam since Edgerouter fell off, though. The same functionality exists on a $50 netgear managed switch (or wired router, etc.), and the shitty unified configuration interface doesn’t justify the markup at all. |
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| ▲ | amluto an hour ago | parent [-] | | To be somewhat fair, the quality of their management tools for their switches and routers has increased somewhat, and some of their wired routers are actually decent on the price/performance spectrum these days. Meanwhile, the quality of their competitors’ tools for managing multiple switches without manually configuring each one, individually, over SSH or via a graphical tool is not necessarily amazing. For example, it’s been a while since I used Ruckus Unleashed (the low-end management tool from an very upmarket vendor), but I think UniFi Network (the management tool) is a good amount better than Unleashed. I really wish the people who put so much effort into software like OpenWRT would put some of that effort into managing multiple devices in a nice, unified manner. The tooling could be so much better. |
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| ▲ | a3w an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ah, this is a Ubiquity product. That explains it. Why did AVM or Netgear Orbi not get this treatment for "works", though? |
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| ▲ | lwkl an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Because Unifi is more focused on the needs of businesses and enthusiasts. AVM and Netgear Orbi are products for the consumer market. So they miss a the advanced features Unifi supports. Unifi is used by the tech-savvy homeowner that needs PoE for their security cameras and wants to control and configure their network without needing a network engineer. | |
| ▲ | milliams 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Small aside, AVM have now formally rebranded as "FRITZ!" |
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| ▲ | amelius 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Apple of networking? I suppose no OpenWrt then. |
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