I love unfi system for my home lab it’s feature rich and just constantly getting better
Or after everything, including the gateway trips over itself when I reboot one of the switches.
Or when it decides to run two APs, pretty much next to each other, on the exactly the same channel after a daily scan.
Or when I wake up to the WiFi down because it decided to turn on the automated firmware upgrade.
Yeah, they're almost out of the alpha phase.
I’ve had only a simple / reliable setup experience with a great UX
An elderly friend had high-speed Internet installed in his farmhouse. The lath and plaster walls were reinforced with chicken wire mesh, and ISP’s WiFi router box couldn’t penetrate it. I thought maybe he would need a few UAPs, but a single UAP-LR puck has been serving reliable Wi-Fi for 10+ years with no need for a unify controller. I’ve repeated this installation for other elderly and non-technical friends. I get absolutely zero service calls.
“With intuitive technologies, we optimize IT experiences, secure locations, and seamlessly connect people, places, and things.”
* What they say it means, here: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-ai-ready-enterprise-buildin...
That’s not really an alternative.
If we're talking "homelab", consider TP-Link Omada, or maybe Aruba:
https://evanmccann.net/blog/2022/3/tp-link-omada-overview
But for most homes, Eeros.