[Cialug] Century link fiber

[John Moder]

I would agree early on (3 years ago), Unifi was a little touch and go.  Features were much more limited, and the Controller GUI was not near where it is today. My Biggest complaint back then was lack of QC, and you’d have to be very careful patching as it would break stuff all the time.  Today its much better, they have a more formal release process, and for the most part if you stay on stable releases, it is fairly painless.

As far as the switches, in my opinion they are some of the best POE switches I have dealt with, and while most POE switches are fairly noisy, these are not above average.  A couple years ago there was a fan issue on the 24 port 500 watt models. That said, I never had any issue with the 30 (varying models) in production now and over the last 3 or so years.

As far as something between the Pro4 and the USG, I disagree there, first the USG is a very capable device, and I wouldn’t hesitate installing it in an environment that is Sub 10 Users. Beyond that, yes, the Pro4 is the next step, but it is very reasonably priced, and as far as the “Ports” go, do note that the SFP ports are “ether or” ports, meaning WAN1 or SFP1, WAN2 or SPF2, not both.  

My Wish is something between the Pro4 and the XG. The XG is their 10Gig Firewall, and is about $2500.  I’d like to see a $300 firewall that can handle a full GB WAN with IPS/IDS turned on.  Right now the Pro4 will do that (And depending on traffic so will the USG), but with IPS/IDS on, it clamps to 250Meg.  A recent Firmware upgrade has upped that to a theoretical 450Meg, but UBNT hasn’t changed their doc’s yet, and I wouldn’t position it to a client that way.  In the end, I don’t need 8 SFP ports or a fancy display on a firewall, I need the silicon that can handle IPS at 1 GB… So, I’d be happy with a Pro4 Chassis with some higher specs.



> On Oct 16, 2018, at 17:45, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:20 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>> 
>> My understanding is that the early versions of USG items were pretty rough.
>> Supposedly the last couple of years its been pretty solid.
>> The poe ap's are nice, but POE switches are insanely noisy.  I've got a
>> netgear poe switch and it sounds like a lear jet. On a plus note, I ordered
>> some quiter fans that I'm going to put in it.
> 
> In my experience the Unify PoE switches are decently quiet. I think
> that the 8 port 150W PoE switches are actually fanless.
> 
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