Ubiquiti UniFi

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Ubiquiti has gone downhill on a lot of things the last 5 years or so, but their radio firmware has always been a step up

Dec 2025 · comment

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1. Yes, a home product with a dedicated controller unit, Fx networking support, cloud based management with ability to self-host, traffic shaping and SDN capabilities.

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2. The Unifi range is quite definitely optional cloud. Don't turn it on (and don't use a cloud-based controller!), and it won't have any mechanism for control.

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3. Ubiquiti has gone downhill on a lot of things the last 5 years or so, but their radio firmware has always been a step up

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4. comparing TP-Link, which is a home/SOHO brand to UniFi, which is essentially a prosumer/enterprise offering is not fair

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5. I've also been able to deploy UniFi for my parents and my wife's parents, and easily manage their setups remotely.

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6. Ubiquiti unifi has struggled to integrate routing as reliably and as well as the wireless and switching piece.

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7. Ubiquiti did a good job of advertising these features and making them available to the “prosumer” segment

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8. The APs are fine. Decent power and the central administration with the switch is actually quite nice.

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9. I think their goldilocks deployment is large home / small businesses that need remote administration.

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10. I've deployed 40+ unifi APs at some locations with 800+ devices over multiple ssids with no issues.

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11. I've been a fan of Ubiquiti APs managed by a self-installed UniFi instance without cloud features

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12. you can use a company that is self hosted like Unifi and have complete control over your data

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13. Unifi APs are a sweet spot of price/performance, and I have no difficulty recommending them.

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14. Unifi has had some regressions in IPv6 support over the years, but that's fixed these days

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15. Unifi is great for small IT companies providing network services to tens of costumers.

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16. I can plug whatever I like into my Unifi estate and expect it work with little fault.

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17. All in all their eco system is worth it imo and the hardware is actually affordable.

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18. I’ve had no complaints with my UniFi APs, but that is a fairly small sample size.

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19. it is pretty damn good but there are bugs, and unfortunately their support sucks

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20. I've never had any reliability issues, never had to even think about my network

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21. after 2 different more advanced configs I had caused wild stability issues - affecting APs, a USG and the controller itself

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22. their faulty dual UI POE switches (Make a change in the old UI? Welp thats going to wipe your comments from the new one!)

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23. Obviously the gateway or router missing proper v6 support is an issue and a bit surprising ubt hasn't done a good job.

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24. The only downside is this doesn't work if you have IPv6 enabled as UniFi Network still allows those to bypass the VPN.

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25. I generally have moved towards other Wifi solutions as I've grown weary of tweaking Ubiquiti all of the time

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26. I'm much more pleased with it than the Ubiquity gear that I am presently taking a break from fighting with.

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27. ZTD with Ubiquiti - at least in their Bluetooth app deployment era - has been a crapshoot for me.

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28. if you are doing anything that is not a defined happy path for Unifi, it is a freaking nightmare

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29. I have no issue or problem with using UniFI myself. But it is not something I could recommend to family and friends as they don't know how to set it up.

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30. It's super nice because you only need to put the UPS/ATS at the PoE switch and then you get power redundancy everywhere you have ethernet running

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31. They recently implemented some much needed updates to make doing things like firewall rules and routing based on device much easier.

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32. I installed several low power UI APs around the house and and popped my own DNS and devices to a separate VLAN. No more complaints

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33. In most good routers/APs (Unifi, OpenWrt, etc.) WiFi client isolation is something that is just a simple toggle

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34. Even their enterprise switches aren't really equivalent to Cisco, Arista, Juniper, etc enterprise offerings.

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35. I would go for Unifi stuff far before Cisco. There's a plethora of it available from decommissioned sites.

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36. if your cheap WiFi router isn't doing it for you then, get some UniFi hubs and wire them up on Ethernet

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37. If you dislike their UI, not going to try to convince you, but it is part of the value of the system.

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38. it works well enough - WAN failover, and they've built out a fair bit of downstream failover as well

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39. while it's great for my needs I don't see myself ever spending money for network gear subscriptions

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40. Their new XG and XGS products all support 10GbE natively, without needing SFP+ modules to connect.

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