[gene91]

That sound like a terrible workplace.

For your own home, if not Ubiquiti, what do you use nowadays?

[scrlk]

I've been considering MikroTik recently (specifically the RB5009 series). Main downside I've read about so far is that the UI/UX is a bit rough.

[cyberax]

I don't get all the Mikrotik UI hate. It's not winning any beauty contests, but it's straightforward and it works well.

I've been using their devices for years, and I haven't had any problems setting them up.

[lbotos]

I have a mikrotik https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac3 that I bought as a sort of test and it's been working fine for my needs. the webUI isn't the best, but wiki docs were pretty straightforward and I've been decently happy.

[bastard_op]

You think the UI is rough, try the cli.

[deep_origins]

Anyone using Mikrotik these days? Been Mikro-curious for awhile and always see them thrown around as a Unifi alternative. Yet to hear of any firsthand implementations though.

[0] https://mikrotik.com/

[bastard_op]

As a network engineer, I've considered them for my house, the price is right, but:

1) Their main push seems to use a thick client for admin which is a big no to me, otherwise the web ui in theory looks ok-ish. 2) Looking at their cli guide, it was cryptic as hell to me, and I deal with everything from cisco, arista, aruba, juniper, fortinet, pan, whatever from a cli or gui.

This was mostly confirmed a few weeks back, another old network engineer friend of mine hit me up asking if I've ever dealt with Mikrotik, and said no, but I knew where he was going. He'd screwed with it for a day or so supposedly just trying to make some L3 vlans, and finally a day or so later told me he'd made it work, but has never dealt with anything so terrible to configure from either gui or cli after having tried both, and he's another 20yr+ network engineer like me I trust not to be stupid.

That was all I needed to hear for future consideration.

[sam_lowry_]

I have half a dozen Mikrotik hAP AC and wAP AC devices with Openwrt used in various places for work and for home.

Rock-solid hardware and muuuch better UX that RouterOS.

Don't remember when I setup those, but probably well before Covid. Really fire-and-forget devices.

[lotsofpulp]

Not the person you replied to, but I like Aruba Instant On.

https://www.arubainstanton.com/

[mook]

Hmm, that looks like it must be centrally managed from the internet? Not saying it's not an appropriate replacement for Ubiquiti, but that seems like an opportunity for the same issues to show up… something that isn't remotely managed might be better instead.

[aetherspawn]

Looks good but lacks layer 3 and fiber aggregation switches which we use in our SMB.

[allarm]

Not sure if they sell it outside of EU, but Keenetic is absolutely awesome. Been using their routers for a while, have a wifi mesh configured in my home built on their devices.

https://keenetic.com/en

[hughesjj]

Tplink for aps and mini PCs for routers

[dixie_land]

TP links are cheap and well made for its price, if you don't care that the CCP has a backdoor to every device

[jandrese]

I've had pretty bad luck with TPLink APs temporarily dropping connections and being just generally unstable. Even when you can put OpenWRT on them the hardware is just kinda buggy.

[seany]

Ruckus 730/750/850 with unleashed firmware

[alt227]

Draytek routers are not perfect, the UI lacks polish, but I have never had one fail on me yet. Solid kit (even though you do need to keep up with the firmware updates to keep them secure)

[tekla]

Aruba. Some jank in the software, but the gear has been rock solid

[sl360]

The Instant-On gear is physically almost identical to the professional line, but with heavy software limitations.

Best built hardware I've used, and I'd still be using their PoE at home if they didn't patch out SSH/REST access a few years ago.