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stephen_g08/01/20257 repliesview on HN

I still use their access points because it's hard to get anything else as good for the same kind of price, but they burned me killing the development on EdgeRouter.

So I've gone elsewhere for cameras, switching and routing.

This release is a nice point in their favour though but I can't see myself going back all in on Ubiquiti.


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MrDarcy08/01/2025

I've moved on from Ubiquiti access points as well. Their U6 simply does not handle VLANs properly, they never acknowledged the issue let alone fixed it. See https://community.ui.com/questions/U6-IW-how-to-trunk-all-5-...

Their security issues in the past. Their failure to make the EdgeRouter handle DHCP and DNS properly. Etc...

I've since moved to cheap switches that support all port vlan trunks and LACP bonding, then just plug Proxmox into them and run OpenWRT in a VM for routing all the vlans. The Proxmox+OpenWRT combo even supports hot-plug virtual interfaces as more VLANs are lit up, they just pop up nicely in the web UI.

For the APs, TP-Link is less expensive and better performance. WiFi 7 and 10gbit for less money. No need to run a management OS in a VM either.

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graton08/01/2025

They just released v3.0.0 of the EdgeRouter software three days ago.

https://community.ui.com/releases/EdgeRouter-3-0-0/33ee3852-...

But yeah they haven't released any new hardware in quite a long time. But nice to see they are still doing development work on the software.

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b3lvedere08/01/2025

This. We used to do a lot of Ubiquiti, then the software quality went way down, their own security officer 'hacked' them and lots of other weird stuff. We were already using debian vm's instead of their horrible cloudkey devices (so slow..). We switched to Aruba Instant-On.

We still use some Ubiquiti. Sometimes i use this script on a Debian VM:

https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Script...

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cromka08/01/2025

For cameras, everyone should be looking into https://openipc.org/

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madduci08/01/2025

I moved the firmware if my EdgeRouter X SFP to OpenWRT, since it has been years from their last security update and recently the WebUI tripped and broke.

The router works still amazingly fine, only their software has some bugs.

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chamakits08/01/2025

Any recommendations on cameras that can be fully local?

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chrisandchris08/01/2025

What do you use the for routing?

I tried a Mikrotik router recently but conoared to the Ubi devices, configuration feels so clunky and complicated.

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