Yes.
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Yes.
Faster CPU, more RAM (and upgradeable), SFP option for WAN1/LAN1, second WAN/LAN port so you can (theoretically) combine 2 networks or have a failover network or just run two completely separate networks.
Sounds like it is absolutely unecessary for our home network then!
Don’t forget the edge router options, but you loose the single pane management. Unifi is in a slightly strange place at the moment if you don’t want a UDM, it’s harder to reconcile buying a USG 4 Pro at £250ish new when it’s ‘old’ tech, but the UDM Pro hasn’t managed to get anywhere near what it should be capable of.
If you can ween yourself off the Ubiquiti single pane management, pfsense has a slightly higher learning curve, but offers a much better level of functionality for free, Untangle has a free option or an inexpensive home subscription, Sophos Home gives a lot of features for free, but is quite backwards in some aspects (OpenVPN version support being a obvious issue). In terms of hardware £60-70 gets you a i3 6100 SFF that’s pretty power efficient and silent, if you prefer rack mount the R210-II or R220 are £100ish and a decent Intel NIC is anything from £10-40 depending on how modern you want to get.
If you can ween yourself off the Ubiquiti single pane management, pfsense has a slightly higher learning curve, but offers a much better level of functionality for free, Untangle has a free option or an inexpensive home subscription, Sophos Home gives a lot of features for free, but is quite backwards in some aspects (OpenVPN version support being a obvious issue). In terms of hardware £60-70 gets you a i3 6100 SFF that’s pretty power efficient and silent, if you prefer rack mount the R210-II or R220 are £100ish and a decent Intel NIC is anything from £10-40 depending on how modern you want to get.
Agreed re the single management pane.
I flip between Untangle and Sophos XG at the moment, both run absolutely fine, but I haven't bottomed out which one I'm going to run for the long term. My Untangle HomePro license expires April time I think.
I have a Pondesk E3845 running Untangle at the moment, an Intel 6100T SF PC build with 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 2 port Intel NIC in the spares pile, it was running ESXi, Windows 10 VM and Unifi Ubuntu build for the controller. Sophos is sat on a Dell R220 with a 25W TDP Xeon Chip and Intel 4 port VT1000 NIC
Really should eBay the Pondesk at some point with the 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD
What exactly weren’t you going to have to learn with a USG? Whatever you buy is a new UI etc. to learn.
I guess I have the ubiquiti uaps already - is it not similar?
It depends. Untangle is fully secure straight out of the box. PfSense doesn’t need a lot of configuration.
This is what UPS tracking says on my order from Ubiquiti stuck in Czech Republic.
Held in Warehouse
UPS is holding the cargo at a secure facility, pending instructions and agreement.
Glad I didn’t order from the UI store either then. Bugger
when did you place the order?
Last week.
What are you on about? UBNT products come from China, not the EU. There is no UK support beyond the approved resellers. We had a delivery yesterday. Do you mind if I ask which reseller this was? A lot of the popular online stores are actually based in Poland, Slovakia and Latvia. They’re stuffed because they’ll pay import duty when the container lands at Rotterdam and they’ll pay it again when it comes into the UK by courier.
The official UBNT EU store is in the Czech Republic but I’ve had confirmation from them that there is no issue getting anything into the UK short-term as the UK hasn’t implemented the border controls INTO the UK. They are now sending customs declarations so if you were buying for business and weren’t paying the VAT you will now need to pay the VAT to HMRC as usual. And yes, there might well be a UK UI store in the near future.
What I call “casual resellers” like OcUK will struggle because they buy from a European middle-man and they just won’t be economic in future.
The real UK resellers (LinITX as an example) get whole containers delivered into Felixstowe so they’ll only pay the duty once and supply will continue as now. Certainly, the prices may go up a little but let’s be honest, a lot of people are using Brexit as an excuse to jack up prices.
That’s very odd. You placed the order after 1/1/21 so you will be importing from the EU. I take it it’s a personal purchase and you paid VAT in the Czech Republic? Or was it zero-VAT because it was an outside of EU purchase? If it was the former, and it’s under £135 then there should be nothing more to pay. Over £135 and they’ll want the import duty from China. If it’s the latter, they’ll want import duty and VAT plus a handling charge.
I don't recall actually updating but yes I somewhat gambled my network on that!Rolled the dice on that one didn't you?!Updated firmware without checking the release notes and recommendations.
I did mine the other week and prepared for it to go **** up, but so far so good.
Over the past 2 months I've had 3 orders from UI EU store and they were shipped from Czechia
So guys, 2 of the new lites Vs 1 LR access points? I am only buying the new wifi6 ones because I just moved house and I'm building network from scratch so why not. Virgin router will be placed into modem mode and I will run a pfsense box probably. I have an end of terrace 4 bed town house (3 floors) with a shed/office in the garden. Internal walls have no brick/concrete apart from one bit between kitchen and lounge. Currently the virgin superhub can't reach the back of my kitchen or shed and is awful anyway as we all know.
And the next paragraph in my post said what?