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Comment by Enginerrrd | Hacker News Reader

Yup... it seems like everyone has turned on ubiquiti lately, but I wasn't totally convinced. I was holding out despite some of the irksome changes, but this move right here is a nail in the coffin for me.

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I'm on the same page. We just need to see a compelling alternative appear, and they'll lose their segment pretty quickly. Meraki could have been that until the Cisco acquisition and now $$$$ (and they make it extremely hard for SMBs/ProSumers to buy in). Some say that Aruba's "Instant On" stuff is one to keep your eye on as a direct replacement.

Ever since they fired their domestic development staff and shipped those jobs overseas it has been getting worse and worse. And it isn't because foreign developers cannot develop, it is because the company then and since has prioritized cost (and flash half-baked features) over quality.

No-one shipped jobs overseas. m of the teams at UI have always been and remain located in the EU.

> Meraki could have been that until the Cisco acquisition and now $$$$ (and they make it extremely hard for SMBs/ProSumers to buy in).

Meraki competes against Ubiquiti and Aruba InstantOn with Meraki Go, not mainline Meraki.

I'm in the same boat. The issue is... what great alternatives are there? I'm not interesting in investing the time required with pfsense / custom stuff. I want a similar experience to Ubiquity... does it exist?

I did a bunch of research when all of this first came out with the intention of moving off Ubiquiti and found nothing worthwhile. I'm in the same boat, no interest in the time/money investment to roll my own solution. Aside from one UDM Pro software update that enabled a schedule to disable my WiFi out of the blue, I haven't had any issues with my stuff. So I continue on with them.

pfSense doesn’t require much time for a basic setup. Stick with defaults, roll out some Ruckus Unleashed APs, and you are done.

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