[I-Hate-Hulse]

I finally took the plunge into the world of Unifi...the old Velop system was requiring periodic reboots, and with the new 2.5 Unifi gear out, I finally had future proofing to justify the purchase. Upping my content filtering game was a consideration too, with the kids getting older.

Went with the UCG Max, a Pro Max 16 PoE, 2xU7 Pro Wall AP, and a U6Plus (in the garage), and a Flex Mini at a spot a switch was necessary. The latter was a placeholder and wouldn't you know it, 3 days later the new Flex 2.5 was announced... In retrospect I probably could have gone with a non PoE Pro Max switch, but the cost of injectors adds up quickly. Out of necessity, I do have a couple of 2.5 MOCA adapters in the mix, but they seem to work well enough.

Deployment was relatively seamless, although moving all the Ring devices to a new IoT network was a pain. That and a couple of Apple Devices refuse to join the new kids network (with Family Content Filtering enabled). Seems to work fine on a guest network with "Work" filtering enabled well enough. I still have to move to NextDNS or OpenDNS for kid content filtering so maybe that solves that issue.

Pricey stuff, but overall it's been great. I'm impressed at how the two U7's AP's have replaced 5 Velop nodes - my house has horrendous interference. The new UCG Max / Ultras have really made a leap forward for affordability (I have the latter in a simple setup at a vacation property) and a smaller form factor.