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What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by early_riser@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVR	Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
Plex	Brand of media server package
PoE	Power over Ethernet
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
Unifi	Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN	Virtual Private Network
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

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