Comment by dmoy
2 days ago
> There's no better prosumer option - good, bad or otherwise
Mikrotik maybe?
I run both ubiquiti and mikrotik stuff. The mikrotik definitely has... a learning curve, but you can do some stuff with it that's pretty difficult with ubiquiti.
I think the Mikrotik learning curve is very fair for the level of complexity of what you're trying to do with it. It's like 1:1 time to configure:how weird the thing you're trying to do is.
> There's no better prosumer option - good, bad or otherwise
That’s why I just had to buy new Ubiquity gear two weeks ago after an update bricked an older ubiquity switch and router (purchased in 2019). Spent a ton of time on the console but both were stuck in some sort of boot loops and were not salvageable.
Ended up buying replacements from ubiquity, but I feel pretty dumb buying new stuff from the company that just screwed my weekend and wallet. I could also swear that I had auto updates off for firmware but maybe that part was on me.
There are a bunch of new offerings in the wireless access point but as soon as you need more than 8 or 12 switch ports, it's basically down to microtik and UniFi unless you have enterprise budgets.
Zyxel GS1900 are quite nice managed switches for reasonable money.