Have any good recs for nonconsumer wifi mesh system that is not too far off from consumer prices? I had a velop system for awhile and it was torture. This thing stems from horrid design and will likely always be awful. Use an Asus system now and have been happy with it. Used to run Asus systems with merlin, but admittedly running stock firmware now.
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This is why I don’t run consumer crap. Among other reasons.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ubiquiti gear is very solid for the price. Start with their dream machine (check eBay for used, just saw one for $150, otherwise $300 new), and then add nano access points as needed. Enterprise gear for a fraction of the price.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t Ubiquiti back to being a “have to make a cloud account to control all your local devices” company?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They’re either or. Their configuration device is called a cloud key, but it runs locally on your network. You can choose to enable cloud management, though everything can be administered locally, nor do they punish you for it.
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can also run the Network Controller on any PC or even Home Assistant if you dont need to do any advanced traffic routing features.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Unifi is probably the best you’ll get for prosumer. Unfortunately it’s not without flaws either. I’d take it over the junk consumer brands any day still. Because I work in the industry and I like to use a lot more advanced things, I can’t get myself to use anything other than opnsense for home use. I have a protectli for hardware. You can install pfsense, opnsense, probably even ddwrt which is probably the most friendly of the bunch from what I hear. I use a ruckus poe fanless switch, but this is the least important for a typical home user network. Just get something that has poe and isn’t cloud managed 😂
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought Ubiquiti moved back to cloud managed on everything? Or is that just the network cameras?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Not sure, been a while since I used those
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not an expert but I’ve been very happy with my synology wifi router, plenty of range for my house. I’ve had good luck in the past with ubiquiti access points for an application that needs to cover more square footage.
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
You do know that enterprise doesn’t make you safer, right? Consumer gets hit by botnets, enterprise gets hit by higher level attacks.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t get your point. This isn’t an attack, this is a cheap consumer company doing what they do best and stealing your personal information because $ and other crap. If this happened in enterprise they’d be in so much shit with laws. Cisco, juniper, Aruba, etc are not going to be shipping off your passwords because that liability is going to be a big problem.
Enterprise level stuff also charge top dollar and don’t need to sell your data to make more money.
If enterprise level stuff we’re doing this intentionally they’d be out of business. This would not fly with SOC and other security designations.
Additionally just because a consumer uses enterprise gear, that does not make them a larger target. I’m not Microsoft. No state attacker is going to want my worthless data.
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’ll make them a target of attacks targeting that class of gear.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Most threat actors are looking at who owns what IP space and checking the IPs of that, or what other public info they can find (website address etc). Not chasing after someone with a consumer internet IP. There is just not the same incentive.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
They didn’t say they’re using enterprise. Diy open source hack crap such as a ddwrt router for example doesn’t exactly fit in the “consumer” category.