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Josh · 10-09-2024, 08:38 PM

Understood, there's just an annoying youtube/reddit cult following when it comes to unifi who think that its suitable for any environment.

Proper enterprise grade gear actually doesn't work great in houses when it comes to wireless as they have a smaller coverage area for larger deployments, to both reduce co-channel interference and be able properly handle all wireless devices on the network (design for capacity). A unifi AP will actually have more coverage, again good for homes, not so much for a business.

Unifi also under sizes their processors in their AP, to get the maximum speeds, they need to have some of their options turned off (deep packet inspection etc). They also don't follow standards (their AP's aren't wifi alliance certified) and their passive POE switches were known to catastrophically fail and fry all of your downstream equipment (servers/storage/camera's).

Again, fine for a home as they tend not to have complex networks nor require much segmentation. I'll give it to them that they have a nice dashboard.

10-09-2024, 08:38 PM	#322
Josh Scoring Winger Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Oregon Exp:	Understood, there's just an annoying youtube/reddit cult following when it comes to unifi who think that its suitable for any environment. Proper enterprise grade gear actually doesn't work great in houses when it comes to wireless as they have a smaller coverage area for larger deployments, to both reduce co-channel interference and be able properly handle all wireless devices on the network (design for capacity). A unifi AP will actually have more coverage, again good for homes, not so much for a business. Unifi also under sizes their processors in their AP, to get the maximum speeds, they need to have some of their options turned off (deep packet inspection etc). They also don't follow standards (their AP's aren't wifi alliance certified) and their passive POE switches were known to catastrophically fail and fry all of your downstream equipment (servers/storage/camera's). Again, fine for a home as they tend not to have complex networks nor require much segmentation. I'll give it to them that they have a nice dashboard. Last edited by Josh; 10-09-2024 at 08:41 PM.