Hello, all! Been quite awhile . The email associated with my account (Faust) is no longer active to I created a new account.
Anyways, a few years ago I rolled out a couple Ubiquiti APs and a wired/wireless bridge at work and they've been rock solid. Think it's been 2 years since I bounced them after firmware upgrade.
Fast forward to recently when my ISP flipped the switch on gigabit and being the consummate dork that I am I wasn't about to allow TCP overhead loss robbing me of ~5-15% of what I was paying for in this household (LAN was all GbE). So I splurged on a Dream Machine Pro SE to take advantage of the 2.5GbE copper WAN (also has SFP+ WAN) and the SFP+ LAN which I stuffed a copper adapter into to feed my main system. Needless to say I really like it but before I decide to invest in the whole Ubiquiti ecosystem I wanted to get more professional opinions. I have no interest in their cloud services, though.
I have one of those Intel NUC boxes with 4x 2.5GbE ports on it to run run pfSense to see if that sways be the other way but thus far I'm still digging on what I've seen so far.
Hi Faust! Sent you a PM about recovering your regular account.
My first thought is a purpose-built Ubiquity products may perform better than the NUC, but it depends, I haven't used them much other than a few P2P Wi-Fi bridges and APs. You'd want to talk to YSCat, he has done much more extensive work with Ubiquity products. He comes around, but haven't seen him on the board these days.
As I mentioned, I am very happy with it thus far. It has some nice features like IDS/IPS, ad blocking, VPN server/client, plus a boatload of things I haven't messed with yet. Probably a bit overkill for my needs but its ability to tie together its other products like surveillance and wifi.
A NUC with pfSense or OpnSense can do all these things as well (aside from adopting Ubiquiti devices at the layer the UDM-SE can) with plug-ins IIRC, but I think you're right in that what I have will be a bit faster as well as a bit easier to use (haven't used pfSense for over 10 years so it may be more polished and user friendly now). I'll give the NUC a shot when it comes in and see how it compares. Worst case it I take the Ubiquiti to work to tie together the APs.
. The email associated with my account (Faust) is no longer active to I created a new account.
