Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Lawrence Systems"
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Yeah UniFi routers are a bit difficult to understand. They aren't useful that much for either homes or businesses. If I were to recommend a Ubiquiti router to someone who ran UniFi for his WiFi at home, I would recommend ER-X. The thing is dirt cheap, is stable like a stone and a lot cleverer than any USG. From business perspective UniFi routers don't make a whole lot of sence either, because there are features missing from it, which a company could need, like the timeframe or openVPN. Where do I see use for a USG? Well, only in isolated areas with relatively good infrastructure, where you don't need much from a router, and can't have technician on site or in reach. Say a hotel chain with HQ in a city and remote sites throughout countryside. I perfectly see a PfSense at HQ and a bunch of USGs connecting to it via VPN, but outside of that scenario? Not much. USGs and Dream Machines are overpriced for end user and insufficiently robust for general business. Oh and USGs vs Dream Machines? Well, you can't integrate a Dream Machine in to another controller and can't controll more sites from it...
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I'm sorry, no, Tom, you are wrong on those reusable ties... they are indispensable! As someone, who actually has a cupboard for networking equipment, I can't stress enough how important these are even for very messy installs. Why? Simple, there is so much slack, especially coming from all the power bricks, that not tying them, make's it impossible to work in the lab itself! And since it's a lab, it has to be flexible. That was a lesson hard learned on my part.
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Man I have to say, if I were to work for you, I would have problems with the kitchen all the time. One, I don't like boss looking at me from work, as I'm eating, I find it demoralizing, but more importantly two... Damnit I'm not a Nazi to torture boss with food when he's working! And there is the added problem of the room being in use for rercording vidoes. So, what I would do, when time called for it and expansion happened. I would eventually buy that building and add a floor to it, move the contact person, studio and your office to the upper floor. Your current office would turn in to extra storage (as more stuff would need to be held on hand), kitchen would likely move up too and production stuff would be on first floor (maybe restored front office, if there were a shift in customer behaviour) and I would have the rest on the enxt floor... Just for inspiration. ;)
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My words. Why Windows won't ever leave, even in multiple versions? Simple. Legacy sotware.
Want to play original TTDL? Need XP. Wanna play Atomic Bomberman? Either emulator, or, you've guessed it, XP. And that's just legacy games! Sure, I'm running my SW Rebellion on a Win7 machine, but I doubt it would run on my "work" driver, which is a Wn10 laptop. So I'm stuck like this. A lot of companies are technologically stuck too. My uncle works in Romania in a factory, they still have and use machines from 1930, because nothing more precise came to the market in their particular field of manufacturing (given what they make, I'll not provide further details). But the same works for us. Sure, upgrade, but that's useless waste of money, unless you actually need to upgrade, because you can pay for it. Say you have an old CNC being run by a Win95 machine, which is integrated in to a network and which is recieving it's tasks from a Linux server, which in turn recieves the work files from a work station running Win10... All you need to achieve, is for that legacy machine to be able to read properly output of more modern software. You can run that granny and keep your company afloat for tens of bucks, while a replacement could easily cost hundreds of thousands and that is exactly the mindset, which smal businesses as well as huge megacorps will gravitate to.
You think this is not the case? Not feasable? Not normal? Well, In June of 2019 (those were the days...) Chip magazine came up with an article stating that banks and institutions were still running on COBOL based software in 2014...You know... programming language that saw the assasination of JFK. There is a looot of interoperability of young and old out there on the Internet.
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@pabss3193 One, not all of us have twitter, and two, Ubiquiti need's to see, that they stand a lot more to lose, than just standing customers. The last thing they need is nation wide, heavily publicised controversy. The problem is, when things get big enough, only equally big things have effect on them. For instance, someone at a bank might see that report, and deny them loan as a result. That is why Ubiquiti and all businesses are so hush hush, when rolling out something, that could result in reduced revenue. Eg. something like this.
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I have to say, unless we are talking isolated remote sites, I don't find use cases for UniFi. Why? Companies are money hungry and, if they are clever, they use the cheapest, but reliable, gear. There are comparable switches out there, that are somewhat cheaper. Edge series is more easily integrateable, because it has fairly similar GUI logic to other manufacturers. UniFi being too different harms it in switching.
There is a rule out there, that say's "Always use what you need, where you need it.". So when designing a network, one has to ask, "Do I need ES8-150, something larger, or will non-PoE switch suffice?". As long as less than half of the switch is populated by PoE, there is no need for it and thus no need to buy EdgeSwitch and say Netgear will suffice (well, if only one switch can be installed). But, if the switch get's populated with PoE over half the ports, one has to ask himself, "Do I actually need capabilities that make EdgeSwitches unique, specifically passive PoE?". If yes, it usually is better to go with EdgeSwitch, if not, Other manufacturer will likely be cheaper. There is little benefit of having all gear from one manufacturer.
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I have to say, I had one hell of a headache when I was deciding betwene USG and ER-X... I so desperately wanted self-hosted Radius, which USG can do, but I'll most likely have to move to a place, which has rather unstable Internet access, so secondary Internet access based on different technology would also be great... I just need that freaking failover function of Edge series, which USG doesn't support! Man, it was agony! Went with ER-X in the end and I say and will always say, worth it.
Personally I see USG these days best suited fo hotels. Just as was said in the video. Just need VLAN separation and no fine tuning for the rules, I do see this working perfectly, radius is a plus with USG, and captive portal, thanks to UniFi cnotroller being present, should also come very handy. And if you're a chain? No problem, IPsec site-to-site VPN and central controller got you covered.
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Man, that IRL is so damn true! Look at my network, My ER-X is my primary gateway, At first, I thought, that I would go from it to a wireless bridge to get internet in to our garage directly... Well, nope. Dad wouldn't let me run enough cables to the kitchen, which has direct line of sight and is the only such place, plus I needed to add second AP in the kitchen to cover surrounding rooms. Because of this, I had to go with UAP-AC-Pro for coverage (I know, hillarious overkill for five wireless stations at a time max), because it has passthrough port. So now, when I want to go on the Internet from the garage, say for some video tutorial, I have to go ER-X > Zyxel 1900-24E > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Pro > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > Ubiquiti NanoM5 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > PoE injector > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Lite. That's three switches and five different APs in a row.
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@michaeljaques77 Well, it depands. If you want to run captive portal for guests, then controller is required 24/7, otherwise, no.
The controller is not just an interface, but APs, switches and gateways from UniFi family can work without it, once they're set up.
I personaly believe that on premisis controller is the best choice, but, controller software has trouble with power outages, so unless you're willing to buy Gen2 cloud key, or go cloud, you would need UPS to make sure, that nothing bad happens to the controller, while it is running. The biggest benefit of controller running 24/7 is that you see your network performance and thus can better handle your network better. Another benefit lies in automated updates of your APs. But, you can run it only when configuring new equipment and then turning it off too, in which case, Raspberry Pi would be the best choice for platform for the controller.
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