Agree. Mesh is pretty consumer, and most of those brands have issues.
Can you run just enough Ethernet to use APs instead? Ubiquity is def a good choice in that case.
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I worked at a wireless ISP about 5 years back, we used UBNT to create 25+km wifi links. Great products to work with.
I've got a UDMPro, 24 port PoE switch, and 3 AC Pro APs. I built it out when I got into my new house and it's the first zero compromise network I've ever had. Here's my home "network closet". I want to redo the cables since I didn't make them long enough to make it look clean.
Beautiful. Love that synology. ❤️
Self hosting ftw.
✊ self hosting is addictive. I'm now self hosting everything outside of email (I tried it for a couple years and it ended up not being worth the effort)
I’m setting up a next cloud today. Was thinking about email. Still a pain eh?
Actually it was pretty much fine until I was interviewing for jobs and had issues delivering to Outlook. Lost an opportunity because I couldn't get mail through to them. It turns out MS uses a filter from a "company" that likes to extort people for money. I had a clean VPS IP and they blocklisted me and wanted me to pay a fee to get me off. Told them to go fuck themselves.
These days I just use Protonmail. Any important comms go through my self hosted private Matrix server.
Ok that makes sense. I’ve heard outlook was a bad offender. I think gmail accepts most self hosted email as long as you have dmarc set up correctly.
Yea I had dmarc, dkim, and spif set up. Everyone I email use Gmail or icloud so it never even came up that I was on a blocklist until the job hunt.
Obligatory "fuck Microsoft 🖕"
I’ve come around lately on the company as a whole, but their cloud offerings still suck.
Sataya Nadella has taken several of their technologies in a very positive direction overall though.
Office 365 and azure are still a travesty.
I'm sure there's things they do well. I'm just a rabid FOSS only, corporate distrusting kind of guy and have been for over a decade. XP was the last windows version I used 😄
Only have a single Ethernet port but can use Ubiquiti products to setup multiple extenders which is basically the same thing as mesh anyway.
Definitely gonna take a look 👌
I definitely would. The admin interface takes a bit of exploring, but there is a lot of power there, and pretty solid security. I’d get this to start with:
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udr%7D
My house is getting one when it’s done.
Yeah I'm looking at a UDR + AP6 Mesh setup, that's perfect for my needs.
You get an intelligent firewall and the ability to vlan that way. Primo setup for the security minded. ❤️
I've used these to setup a campground with wifi, worked quite well. 1 ethernet, the rest was mesh network.
If you use these without a Ui console, they can still operate in dumb mode correct?
Yeah, you just need the Unifi Server UI running on a PC for setup & management, it doesn't need to run all the time.
Absolutely perfect for my use case 💯