I bought into the ecosystem while taking my networking cert classes back in 2017. They were much cheaper than Cisco gear for business-grade networking, and overall I’ve been happy with them.
Their security offerings are locally managed, and you can make local accounts, but I just bought a NAS from them and I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account, and it seems the cloud account has some privileges that you can’t give to local super admins.
So now I’m having second thoughts. I figure since it’s enterprise-grade stuff they can’t really make it cloud-dependent like you see on the consumer side since a lot of companies need air-gapped networks. On the other hand, on those occasions that I didn’t have internet access and hadn’t yet made a local-only account, I was locked out, so…
Regarding the NAS specifically, I use a TruNAS system at work and it works well enough on a rack server, but since it uses ZFS I don’t know it would be good for home use. What alternatives are there?
Are there any truly FOSS networking options? I figure especially on the switching side you need purpose-built hardware, right? There aren’t generic motherboards with 48 network ports you can buy.
I like my Unifi setup, I’m just scared of a rug pull.
Mikrotik for switches. Grandstream for APs. All been just working, and easy to set up. Good price as well.
Came here to say same thing. Mikrotik is great, although RouterOS doesn’t support Ipv6 Neighbour Discovery in a highly useable manner yet. Fantastic otherwise.
One thing I like about Grandstream/TPLink Omada devices is if you don’t want to use them centrally controlled you don’t have to. You aren’t forced to self-host/purchase a cloud key/dream machine to run a single AP.
The Grandstream APs even have their controller built in so your first AP can manage up to 50 other APs with no additional hardware.