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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

If you've ever used a Ubiquiti product you'd believe they're just stupid

Really? I haven't used Ubiquiti hardware in a few years, but my recollection was that their stuff was inexpensive, easy to set up, and very powerful. We used their Bullet and Nanostation line of products.

The rule we developed at a previous job for doing upgrades on their products is to reboot twice to avoid bricking it. Yes, twice. Sometimes once isn't enough for an unknown reason.

Also their web interface has terrible memory leaks which causes loads of other issues.

Don't forget the management network interface that just stops being able to be pinged until you reboot. Have seen this on everything up to AirFibers.

Yeah, I like the hardware well enough, but the software is atrocious. It is ugly, slow, counterintuitive with settings in all sorts of strange places, and makes me feel insecure about my own wireless network. The hardware is alright, but it feels like really shoddy software engineering work whenever you need to interact with it.

They certainly do have quality issues. A friend of mine had to mod an M2 to make it work with PoE over long cables. http://hofmeyr.de/PoE%20power%20fix%20for%20NanoStationM2/ The manufacturer obviously didn't test the hardware with 100m cable length.

That really does not sound like a quality issue at all. Or do they encourage providing power via their PoE-like solution over such long distances? Ethernet is specified for 100 meters, I think, but proprietary powering over the same cable not necessarily so.

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