Folks - I need help.
I bought the UDR7 router during the Black Friday sale just to see what the hype was about and since then I’ve already placed multiple orders for hundreds of dollars of equipment. As we speak I have a cart full of over a thousand dollars more equipment that I’m on the cusp of submitting and and there is no end in sight.
If there is anyone out there who can talk me out of this rabbit hole I fear this may be the last chance for salvation
My name is ccunning and I’m a Unifi-holic…
Dew it.
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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 ans 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
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.
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.
As much as I dislike UniFi, it is true that there isn’t really a competitor in their tier of equipment. Upgrading would be a good choice, but if you end up choosing to stay with UniFi, I’d highly recommend the UCGs.
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.
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!
I don’t have advice to give you beyond looking at !ubiquiti@lemmy.world and !ubiquiti@lemmy.ml
Do their radios still not do 801.11af? You still need to have their stupid POE injectors hanging on the wall?
