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I've really been enjoying my Ubiquiti setup that I switched to about 5 months ago. The internet has still gone down but that is due to my ISP and not the hardware.

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+1 for Ubiquiti Unifi. Got 2 AP's and a Router and it has been great with no issues so far (3 months). Upgraded as my previous combo router (with OpenWRT Gargoyle) would silently stop allowing wireless devices from connecting to the 2.4ghz at seemingly random intervals.

How do you feel about the security of the products? 20 year old PHP versions and the company itself was scammed out of tens of millions of dollars. I see good reviews from bloggers on the hardware, but the company doesn't seem to have made security a priority.

One recent example, there are plenty more out there: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/16/ubiquiti_networking...

That’s worrying indeed. But is the track record of Asus/Linksys/Buffalo/etc better? For decent security I guess the best option is to run pfSense or similar, but that seems to require more expensive hardware.

Ubiquiti can get expensive for a home user, but yeah. It's rock solid gear, truthfully advertised and still a bargain at that price point.

Not expensive, a single UAP-AC-PRO is maybe $125, add a mikrotik hEx RB750GL and you're golden.

The 802.11N Unifi gear is <$200 for a three-pack and works of MikroTik passive PoE like the RB260, 5-port gigabit PoE with an SFP cage.

MikroTik and Unifi is an unbeatable performance/price combo for individuals, large homes and business scaling up to medium sized and multi-site deployments.

With those prices and features you can affordably dog-food the setup and support your friends and family.

This is more or less the exact setup I'm using (Ubiquiti AP and RB750). I've only had it for a few months but neither have required rebooting once they were set up and the performance is good enough to make my 150 Mbps connection the bottleneck.

I also enjoy the level of control that comes with having separate devices for cable modem / router / wifi AP, for example being able to ssh into the router to configure things like port forwarding.

I went with a full Ubiquiti setup (USG + CloudKey + UAP-AC-PROs) because yeah. Spent more than I should have, but the USG is actually a great dual-wan router. Already had a PoE switch for the APs though.

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