Comment by a3w

9 hours ago

Ah, this is a Ubiquity product. That explains it.

Why did AVM or Netgear Orbi not get this treatment for "works", though?

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alphager  5 hours ago

AVM is great for single-owner use with sub 20 devices.

Unifi is great for small IT companies providing network services to tens of costumers. Being able to manage everything remotely (and even batch things for all of your customers) is great.

lwkl  9 hours ago

Because Unifi is more focused on the needs of businesses and enthusiasts. AVM and Netgear Orbi are products for the consumer market. So they miss a the advanced features Unifi supports.

Unifi is used by the tech-savvy homeowner that needs PoE for their security cameras and wants to control and configure their network without needing a network engineer.

  • kllrnohj  3 hours ago

    And also Unifi lets you just buy stuff instead of "contact a sales rep". If I go to Netgear and filter primary port speed to 2.5g, which is hardly an enterprise spec, all 3 options are "contact a rep" which... no thanks. Who on earth wants to contact a sales rep for a 10 port 2.5gb switch?

    There is now also TP-Link's Omada line at least which seems like the most comparable alternative.

  • hardolaf  2 hours ago

    I tried out Netgear Orbi and I don't know who it's actually for. It tried deploying it at my dad's place, but had to return it because it just doesn't work. Dropped in Ubiquiti gear to replace it and I had the entire network up and running within 15 minutes of applying power. And it's had zero of the issues that I had with Netgear's system.