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I see a lot of complaints here, but nobody offering any substantive alternatives. Mikrotik is mentioned several times, but always with the caveats that it has glitchy UIs or poorly implemented features. EnGenius... you've got to be kidding.

I've been a UI fan for many years and was also dismayed by the 6.x releases and the switch to Mediatek, but every time I went looking around, I saw the same tire fires at other vendors. At least with UBNT it's "the devil you know".

Cambium is interesting, I've been playing around with their cnPilot stuff and it's been pretty solid.

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Same. There are enough annoyances with UI gear to keep us all here griping for days. But when you try to find an alternative company for your Wireless needs you realize quick that you're perfectly willing to put up with UI's stupid annoyances. Granted a few glitches have wasted days of my life trying to correct. But I'll be sticking with them for the foreseeable future. Over the years I've had satisfactory uptime and performance.

Building your own router with pfSense is one prosumer solution I've considered, by shied away from due to lack of time[1]. Not sure how a pfSense setup would work with wireless APs though.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/i-built-my-own-super-router-out-of-o...

pfSense might have a lot of features, but the UI is terrible in all possible ways. They should stop letting their programmers "design" the UI; dumping the raw database into an HTML table is not a good user interface.

If you want a really nice UI then you need to stop looking at consumer gear and just buy enterprise cisco kit. All of these budget brands discussed here are consumer.

OPNSense might be a better choice, considering recent and not-so-recent events.

I'm just going to cash up and pay for Ruckus for my Wifi6 upgrade

OTOH not sure what i'd recommend to others - there must be 20+ unifi networks out that via recommendations i've made to friends + network

I usually prefer the regular line over the UniFi series of UI and they tend to have less UI polish but that‘s what usually tells that it‘s a product for technical people.

I won‘t switch to the UniFi series for now even though they would provide easier management. But I‘m a bit worried that it‘s going to be an Apple-style product line where the pros are somehow not respected as much as before.

I’m curious, have you used EnGenuis before or just based on people’s responses? I was thinking of using them for a project but wouldn’t mind hearing an opinion from someone familiar with them.

Openwrt runs on lots of Ubiquiti (and other) hardware, and generally runs pretty well.

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