> UniFi Express supports up to 5 connected UniFi Network devices, including other UniFi Express units, switches, and WiFi access points.
What does that even mean?
That it bundles a controller that is not "capable" of handling more than 5 unifi devices? Who comes up with shit like that? Lets punish people that get too dependent on us and tries to buy too many devices. Let's squeeze some more out of them and risk them switching to a competitor instead rather than build a relationship with us.
I've been worried about the future of unifi for my needs. The USG was a good deal. A bit slow (not gbit in routing but decent enough for most, not great VPN performance) but we have been waiting for an upgrade that surely was just around the corner for well over 6 years now YIKES! Feels like it has been out of stock for many years as well so hard to get replacements. The power bricks are starting to die, easy enough to get third party for that but feels like a dead end.
The nicer units are just overkill for most, and are quite hard to justify the cost. The ones targeted for the home do too much.
And just like that, I've missed the replacment(?!): UXG-lite
First glance, seems like it is a direct replacement, perfect! Exact same thing but newer and faster. And you get to host your own controller, that is a relief.
These are cheap enough that you can recommend your immediate family to get and then manage centrally in your own network.
Need to do some more research but for once I'm hopeful about ui.
Because someone will invariably buy this thing and then hang 15 access points off of it, and it won't be able to manage given build of materials this device has.
And then they'll be pissed off because it doesn't "do" what they want it to.
This thing is designed for what 95% of household's need. A router and one or two WAPs. That's really it.
Ubiquiti isn't convinced the hacky mess of MongoDB they run won't corrupt itself when it hits a resource constraint on this device, and they also want to avoid RMAs when the controller either wears out the small amount of our device storage from too many writes, or when the whole unit bogs down from too many paired devices.
The controller should really be off board, or the on-board controller should be tuned to communicate less with the devices it s and write significantly less often to storage.
What does that even mean?
That it bundles a controller that is not "capable" of handling more than 5 unifi devices? Who comes up with shit like that? Lets punish people that get too dependent on us and tries to buy too many devices. Let's squeeze some more out of them and risk them switching to a competitor instead rather than build a relationship with us.
I've been worried about the future of unifi for my needs. The USG was a good deal. A bit slow (not gbit in routing but decent enough for most, not great VPN performance) but we have been waiting for an upgrade that surely was just around the corner for well over 6 years now YIKES! Feels like it has been out of stock for many years as well so hard to get replacements. The power bricks are starting to die, easy enough to get third party for that but feels like a dead end.
The nicer units are just overkill for most, and are quite hard to justify the cost. The ones targeted for the home do too much.
And just like that, I've missed the replacment(?!): UXG-lite
https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/pro/category/all-cloud-keys-ga...
First glance, seems like it is a direct replacement, perfect! Exact same thing but newer and faster. And you get to host your own controller, that is a relief.
These are cheap enough that you can recommend your immediate family to get and then manage centrally in your own network.
Need to do some more research but for once I'm hopeful about ui.