I recently got a tplink wifi AP. I needed just a little more punch for wifi to reach the porch and my old netgear wax620 was becoming temperamental. I got a wifi 7 AP.
Looking around, everything at microcenter was leaning heavily into ubiquity but I won’t trust something that needs a controller on a seperate device in my network. I also don’t like how it’s push so heavily, and has been found in Russian warfare repeatedly. It feels like “the only backdoors are the one the US approves of. Here ya go!” I don’t trust it.
So I get the TP link and it’s as janky as I remember and unstable and fuck I likely will have to install an omada controller on my network somewhere anyways and holy fuck is that Java? And the range improvements lasted a week before it gave up on the back porch again so I likely will have to get an outdoor AP anyway or put the old netgear in the garage and dig a line to that.
I manage an omada network at work and hadan omada at home (controllers and APs).
Work is okay-ish. Multiple hardware models (and versions - wtf, tplink?) make firmware updates a PITA).
Home was always a wreck, unstable AF, and required regular reboots. That one was full-stack - router, switches, controller, APs. Thankfully, it’s in an e-recycle bin now.
I’m trialing a few different small/remote office cloud-managed firewall / AP products (that work is paying for, fortunately). Unfortunately, not the usual prosumer grade stuff, meaning if I ever separate from the company, I gotta find something else.
I’m running Omada switches, APs, and controller at home with an OpnSense router and haven’t had too much trouble aside from an Iot device drop issue with the APs that has since been fixed. But I have all cloud stuff turned off, everything is local. If I drop Omada I need to find another SDN ecosystem that can work entirely offline
I recently got a tplink wifi AP. I needed just a little more punch for wifi to reach the porch and my old netgear wax620 was becoming temperamental. I got a wifi 7 AP.
Looking around, everything at microcenter was leaning heavily into ubiquity but I won’t trust something that needs a controller on a seperate device in my network. I also don’t like how it’s push so heavily, and has been found in Russian warfare repeatedly. It feels like “the only backdoors are the one the US approves of. Here ya go!” I don’t trust it.
So I get the TP link and it’s as janky as I remember and unstable and fuck I likely will have to install an omada controller on my network somewhere anyways and holy fuck is that Java? And the range improvements lasted a week before it gave up on the back porch again so I likely will have to get an outdoor AP anyway or put the old netgear in the garage and dig a line to that.
Fuck I hate tech anymore.
I manage an omada network at work and hadan omada at home (controllers and APs).
Work is okay-ish. Multiple hardware models (and versions - wtf, tplink?) make firmware updates a PITA).
Home was always a wreck, unstable AF, and required regular reboots. That one was full-stack - router, switches, controller, APs. Thankfully, it’s in an e-recycle bin now.
What did you switch to?
I’m trialing a few different small/remote office cloud-managed firewall / AP products (that work is paying for, fortunately). Unfortunately, not the usual prosumer grade stuff, meaning if I ever separate from the company, I gotta find something else.
I’m running Omada switches, APs, and controller at home with an OpnSense router and haven’t had too much trouble aside from an Iot device drop issue with the APs that has since been fixed. But I have all cloud stuff turned off, everything is local. If I drop Omada I need to find another SDN ecosystem that can work entirely offline