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galonk | 4 years ago

I would have said splurge for a Ubiquiti Dream Machine, but it's not quite the automatic recommend it was before they started taking a "go fast break things" attitude toward their software. Still better than any consumer-level gear though.

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lotsofpulp|4 years ago

I was on the Ubiquiti train, but then I found out the owner started cutting costs and outsourced development and now there's headlines about ads in the dashboard. I assume it's only a matter of time before they start cutting corners in manufacturing and quality of components.

cactus2093|4 years ago

The ads complaints are a little overblown IMO. It's not like they're selling your data and ad space on your dashboard to other companies. They're just showing you their newer product lines from their older product lines, it seems more like a deprecation warning than advertising to me.

Edit: Ok I immediately regret defending Ubiquiti after the new top story about the covered up data breach. I agree it seems like there is some crazy mismanagement going there based on this and other leaks/rumors over the past year or two.

Someone|4 years ago

“Not quite”? We’re talking about the Ubiquiti discussed in https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b..., are we?

If so, and if that whistleblower is right, “attacker(s) had access to privileged credentials that were previously stored in the LastPass account of a Ubiquiti IT employee, and gained root administrator access to all Ubiquiti AWS accounts, including all S3 data buckets, all application logs, all databases, all user database credentials, and secrets required to forge single sign-on (SSO) cookies.”

briangerman|4 years ago

They recently started putting ads in the management console. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198

manmal|4 years ago

I spent some really frustrated hours with the non-Pro Dream Machine before I sent it back. Instead, I‘m using a Unifi USG and two APs, and am really happy with this setup.

redsky17|4 years ago

Not sure exactly when you had the UDM, but the earlier firmware for both the UDM and UDMP was awful and filled with bugs. It has since gotten a lot better. I haven't had any issues with my UDMP since the newer firmware and my home internet experience is much smoother than with my consumer routers (which would randomly drop connections or refuse new connections until a reboot... full NAT table maybe?)