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It’s called Stockholm Syndrome.
I'm using a Eufy 2k camera doorbell. It's ok, but not brilliant, no 4k option yet (I know unifi isn't 4k). It's main problem is that it's slow to react to people coming to the door, and there is no local recording option. Everything goes through their cloud server.
. There aren't many routers capable of supporting a Gbps internet connection with all the additions of the UDMPro though 
. Though I have just noticed that its network ports aren't PoE? Thats annoying.
. There aren't many routers capable of supporting a Gbps internet connection with all the additions of the UDMPro though . Though I have just noticed that its network ports aren't PoE? Thats annoying.No issues with that on my G4, the notifications are instant. It takes a few seconds to load the video feed if you want to speak to them via that but I rarely do.
No 4K isn’t a concern to me but the door bell isn’t looking out over a wide area so I have no reason to punch in.
The SE has a few POE ports. Waiting for it to go general release.I'm using a Eufy 2k camera doorbell. It's ok, but not brilliant, no 4k option yet (I know unifi isn't 4k). It's main problem is that it's slow to react to people coming to the door, and there is no local recording option. Everything goes through their cloud server.
It’s like the UDM Pro launch fiasco is forgotten. Lol.
Or not known about. You don't seem to like Ubiquiti stuff much.
I just like the idea of the router, a couple of APs and a couple of cameras. Nice and tidy.
Au contraire, it’s not that I don’t like UBNT, it’s simply that their routers are awful. The access points are still excellent, their switches work very well. And their routing team has just utterly lost the plot. As a company, we started selling UniFi in 2015. It was really good. Basic, but it all worked. In late 2016 they hired a new head of their routing group. A guy called Chris Buechler. One of the original creators of pfSense. And we all thought WOW! UBNT are serious about making their edge protection world class, like they promised they were. At the time the USG was a basic but very functional router. Chris Buechler made MASSIVE promises. They didn’t come true. He then said that the USG platform was broken. He abandoned work on it and set out on a new platform, UBiOS. This was to be free from the legacy code which was full of kludges etc. And all of us believed him. And the first UBiOS product was the UDM. Okay. Not what we wanted (a USG replacement) but OK. It didn’t work very well, but OK, it was new. Then came the UDM Pro. The expectation was off the scale. And it wasn’t just a product that very few people wanted, it didn’t work. Today, two and a bit years after launch, the UDM Pro is sort-of stable. Sort-of. And the new product? It’s another combination device. The pure router is still sat there somewhere in the background, not quite working properly. And they keep on building up users expectations and they keep launching TERRIBLE, half-finished, products.
The access point group keep turning out great access points. The switches group have made some beautiful products recently. But the routers, nope - still shocking. I’m not a hater, I’m a lover. But even the most besotted lovers eventually spot when they’re in love with a steaming pile of poo.
Buy a QNAP QGD-1600P and run the UniFi controller on that in one VM and pfSense or Untangle in another for proper security on your network. It’s a PoE switch, router and NAS all in one. Very powerful and it just works. They even have pre-configured apps for UniFi controller, pfSense and Mikrotik RouterOS so you can literally click to install them and off you go. You can use pretty much any cameras with it and you’re not locked in to what UBNT want you to have.
I really do like UBNT as a company, I’m just not blind to its flaws.
Thanks I'll take a look.
And of course it’s not the same thing. If you’re just buying one access point then functionally, yes, they do the same thing and when come to add another access point the TP-link has to be set up. The UniFi access point is adopted with two clicks and populated from the controller. Now do that 20 or 50 times and possibly you’ll start to understand the beauty of UniFi. For a home user, it might be twice the price. For an IT department it’s buttons compared to Meraki and it does the same thing. More in some cases. You can’t compare TP-link to UniFi. Even the Omada line is a blatant copy of UniFi controller v3.x - only not quite as good.
@WJA96 I see where you're coming from although the majority of home users probably only have 3-4 AP's at most.
I just find it more economical especially where I have 25-30 AP's myself to use TP-Link.
But yeah defo if it's for a business UniFi makes more sense as the UI is probably a lot nicer to work with especially if you're making changes on a regular basis. In my case I really just set them up and that's it.
I just find it more economical especially where I have 25-30 AP's myself to use TP-Link.
But yeah defo if it's for a business UniFi makes more sense as the UI is probably a lot nicer to work with especially if you're making changes on a regular basis. In my case I really just set them up and that's it.
Had a quick look it says it's a switch not a router?
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Out of the box it has more routing capability than a UDM Pro, plus you can load pfSense up as a Virtual Machine if you prefer to use that as your router/security.
Does it require a license or something for the router side of things. Starting to understand it's software routing.
The 1602P looks good with its 2.5g ports my NAS and main pc both support that.
Yeah the 4K isn't really a concern for me just a "nice to have". The delay in the Eufy is the #1 issue, especially since my office is located at the foot of our garden, ways away from the front door.
I've seen you sing the praises of the Qnap many a time and I'm really tempted. It's just a lot more expensive! There's also that moving away from unifi-fear and how it will work with it, but the advantage of being able to use other cameras..etc. And multigig on the model up - QGD-1602P. I'm virtually sold on it.
E: Can you use unifi cameras with it?
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Look at the 1602P if you need higher speeds.
I'd be more interested if it used unifi cameras G4 Pro for instance.