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I suppose some people might find their use of a cloud based "controller" disagreeable, but I honestly think it's a plus — it's barely ever needed and it's one thing less to maintain.

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> I suppose some people might find their use of a cloud based "controller" disagreeable, but I honestly think it's a plus — it's barely ever needed and it's one thing less to maintain.

Until your network gets pwned because the cloud controller gets breached.

There's nothing to "pwn", you can maybe turn some switch ports off or change your SSID. It doesn't do routing or firewalling, that's on you.

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