alt Hacker NewsI'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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Their software updates are also very flakey. The past few releases for the Console and occasionally the Network were pulled right after being published for having blocking bugs. Again and again they publish the update and then do QA on their users. If you have an IT department you probably have some sort of process in place to deal with this and deploy when you're satisfied. A home user will probably have auto-updates enabled and bite the bullet again and again.
A while ago one update automatically enabled PMF (set to required, I believe) on all Wi-Fi networks. That didn't go great for me when half of my IoT devices stopped connecting and I wasn't available to fix.
> TP-Link is less expensive and better performance. WiFi 7 and 10gbit for less money.
Thanks, they really seem like good alternative.
The thread you reference ends with the post saying "it is fixed in the 7.4.140 controller release", so im not sure how you can say it wasnt acknowledged or fixed.
> Their security issues in the past.
That's why I moved off as well. Maybe some day SDN (at least so far as the ubiquity experience goes) will become an OpenWRT priority.
I’m curious to know more about your setup! Which switches do you prefer? What hardware are you using for proxmox? And what does your network look like?
Cheers!
is there a writeup on the openwrt/proxmox vm for routing you talk about? Examples of the cheap switches?
TP-Link comes with a healthy dose of worry about the Chinese governments surveillance practices tho.