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Comment by amluto

I know nothing about this particular product, but I would not buy anything from UniFi where you will be sad if it becomes essentially useless for any remotely nontrivial use case.

In recent days, I've encountered at least the following issues:

- Removing a fixed DHCP address from a device that is no present requires switching to the old UI.

- Gateway network traffic by client is flat-out broken.

- My particular combination of hardware does not support UniFi's speedtest. Dunno why. They don't care.

- Doing almost anything temporarily disruptive to the network resuts in long-lasting disruption as the controller re-adopts everything.

- Per-port switch settings are janky. They often result in the settings page and the actual applied settings not being in sync. And sometimes the port I want to configure is missing. (Seriously, the ports will be in numeric order except one is skipped. So maybe I have port 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Traffic is passing on port 4 just fine, but there is no port 4 as far as the UI is concerned.

- Network ACLs are a serious mess and often simply don't work, although I admit it's been a little while since I've re-tested this issue. (The ones above are all things I've encountered very recently.)

I'm sure I'm forgetting something. UniFi is... sort of featureful but not actually impressive.

parent amluto 1 year ago

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