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Comment by JaimeThompson | Hacker News Reader

Aruba has some 'instant on' units which might be a decent replacement but I don't have nearly enough experience with them to say for sure.

https://www.arubainstanton.com/products/access-points/

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My employer switched from Ubiquiti to Aruba. Much, much better. Far easier to manage. The Ubiquiti APs had very little range and below-threshold subscriber loads would cause them to become unstable and require a reboot. No good when 500 employees and guests are attempting to get work done. We issue primarily laptops with only certain people getting docks for Ethernet. Quite a few people have purchased the Anker USB-C dongle docks from Amazon and use their IP phone's secondary Ethernet port for a connection if they want a solid Ethernet connection.

At home I'm happy with Google WiFi mesh all around my house.

Thanks for the tip on Aruba. Right now my all Ubiquiti home network is awesome because I have a docker controller image. As spoon as something goes out though, I am done with these clowns.

Wasn’t sure where to look next… note taken on Aruba

+1; exactly my case. I have a handful of Ubiquiti APs and the network is now rock solid, so my plan is to wait until WiFi6 becomes mainstream (or they mess up with updates) - and then I'm gone forever.

After they bungled reporting the hacks last year, I promised to never purchase anything from Ubiquiti again. Good to know Aruba may be an option.

My understanding is that Instant On APs drop their wifi clients when they lose internet access and that this is billed as a feature. Maybe that's changed recently.

For an Instant-on AP, that sounds … maybe useful? If I am connected from my phone? Why do you hate the feature?

My internet frequently (although less lately) stalls out for minutes at a time, once or twice a day. I don't want my AP to kick me off wireless when I'm refreshing my monitoring app waiting for internet to come back up, or for me to be locked out of my security cameras, or for wifi-only IoT things which don't talk to the internet at all to get kicked off and have to reconnect.

Oh so you want to access your network while the internet is down?

Right. Yes.

The access points are cloud managed only (I believe the switches can optionally be managed through a local webui) but very solid hardware, quite easy to set up, and probably feature rich enough for basically anyone who isn't trying to mess around with an enterprise environment at home.

Instant On has several limitations like maximum APs in a site or maximum clients. I don’t want to say they are bad products but it’s only useful for a small network.

TP-Link Omada is a very similar system like UniFi in this price range. Their Controller GUI almost looks the same as UniFi‘s.

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