I have been using the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X and a couple of their Unifi Access Points. For the most part, I enjoy them more than the Netgear Nighthawk I was running before. There are times that I am tempted to flash them with WRT though. For the price, they are hard to beat for a home environment. And even for a small office Ubiquiti products work quite well.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:40 PM Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/21 7:22 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> My only complaint, is that I haven’t been terribly impressed with its > >> ability to filter unwanted sites. Probably need to just play with it > >> more, but it hasn’t been very intuitive to setup. > > Yeah, but filtering is getting harder to do anyway with everyone going > > to SSL. The only filtering that works these days is purely DNS > > filtering, which can be done with your own DNS server, or with a service > > like OpenDNS. Definitely something I'll explore as if this works out > > well, I'll be deploying a similar network for my house and yard. > This has been a thorn in my side as well. When we first went into lock > down, my kids were constantly watching irrelevant (and annoying) youtube > videos. That's when I decided it was time to look into my Ubiquiti > router's content filtering/classification and QoS abilities. > > After some time playing with it, I wasn't real impressed. The class > categories are pretty static, and seem to be driven by lists of IP > addresses/networks, with no content inspection. I've heard the USG is a > little better, but yeah, encryption has made content inspection much > harder too. > > I then pivoted to just QoS-ing my kid's Chromebooks to non-streamable > bitrates (14.4kbps, 28.8kbps, even 256kbps). That just broke all of the > school's required web apps (including Google Docs and Gmail). I > wouldn't think those systems would require such a high bandwidth, but > apparently web apps are not as network efficient as I expected. > > ;-Daniel > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
