Mastodawn

I am basically rage quitting my #Netgear Orbi router.

Anyone have recommendations on a fast router/mesh system that:

- Covers a 2000 sq ft house with 2 floors and a basement
- Has fast Wifi to support our Fiber 1GB internet and frequent video meetings
- Has a satellite option if we need more range to reach our detached garage
- Has a decently built app
- Optionally has a full-featured web UI hopefully *not* designed by an engineer from 1982 who believes UX design is stupid and unnecessary

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James Bilsbrough Mar 6

@chartier unifi express 7 - get two of them

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David Chartier Mar 6

@jsbilsbrough Hrm, interesting I haven’t heard of these. Light on LAN ports though, I need 1-2x more than this has. I’ll check out there other stuff too.

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domserio 6d ago

@chartier @jsbilsbrough Yeah, brace yourself for 100 people saying Ubiquiti. +1 from me.

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David Chartier 6d ago

@domserio @jsbilsbrough More I poke around at their site, it seems like nearly all their language involves “enterprise” and “scale” and showing off like 50 other routers connected. Never heard the term cloud gateway before.

Is this stuff really targeted at piddly little home users like me?

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James Bilsbrough 6d ago

@chartier @domserio I’d say so, their marketing push is enterprise because it’s an area they were seen as weaker on.

The Dream Router is an amazing home setup - I run their stuff at home with just the Cloud Gateway Ultra and one AP.

The app is very polished.

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domserio

@jsbilsbrough @chartier dream machine, express, anything with unifi in the name, that's what you're looking for. Ubiquiti has had insane SKU bloat over time as they try to serve everyone, but the bottom of the line is absolutely appropriate for home. It's not "give it to a non-technical person" easy, but only one or two ticks above that. Interface can seem intimidating because it just wants to let you do anything. But there's a lot of ex-Apple DNA there.