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Comment by sotojuan | Hacker News Reader

ATP and Mac Power Users hosts actually own and use Eero routers, though.

Marco mentioned just a couple of weeks ago (at least on the live show, not sure if it made the edit) that he was using Ubiquiti APs at his house. This was in reference to having a dedicated "IOT" SSID in your home.

"This was in reference to having a dedicated "IOT" SSID in your home."

In what way does that matter? Can you vlan them directly on the wireless router that way? Or are these devices 'all in one' routers (i.e. both wireless and wired)?

I think OP just meant that Marco mentioned having Ubiquiti products when he was talking about having a dedicated wifi network for his IOT products. It's not that Ubiquiti has some special IOT mojo.

Yeah but what I meant is that having different ssids doesn't buy you much from a security pov when all traffic is still commingled on the router. But if you can get vlanning for 'free', then all of a sudden it starts making a lot more sense.

Yes, you can map each wireless network to a VLAN with ubiquiti APs. And I'd guess most other APs that allow multiple SSIDs, but wouldn't know.

Oh that's cool. I have a ~5 year old 'prosumer'/small business AP (don't recall brand) and it doesn't let you do that (it's probably different with anything you buy new today). I spend ungodly amounts of time trying to get the vlanning to work on the switch it's connected to and gave up (of course that still wouldn't have let me separate different ssid's into different vlans).

Using a product and hosting commercials for them are two different things though. If Eero stops being a sponsor Im positive there will be another company to fill that slot, its a popular podcast with a large audience reach.

Yeah sure I just meant they aren't just saying it's awesome and not actually use it. I don't know about ATP but a lot of the apps that sponsor Mac Power Users are apps the hosts used before sponsorship was even considered, so I trust them a bit more.

Marco has said plenty of times that you can pay him to do an ad read but not for a personal endorsement if he doesn’t use the product.

Marco Arment is not exactly a starving indie developer and podcaster between the equity he had in Tumblr. Whatever he got from selling Instapaper, running his own successful ad network for Overcast.

On top of that, he was an early investor in Gimlet Media that just got acquired.

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