They can sniff all they want. It's no different than some unscrupulous
tech plugging into a switch upstream. SSL banking is encrypted, google
passwords are encrypted, etc. Anyone who is sending unencrypted traffic on
the public Internet can be sniffed any number of places. I choose to not
waste my CPU cycles on encypt/decrypt. We have other forms of
authentication to keep users off the network.
Some things from the UBNT change log:
- Improvement: WPA/WPA2-TKIP security stability improvements in noisy
environments
- Improvement: WPA/WPA2 EAP-TTLS improvements
- Improvement: Connection stability improvement when using WPA/WPA2
security
Some of these are older but we definitely saw the bugs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Hoppes <mhop...@indigowireless.com>
Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:47 PM
To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Cc: Justin Wilson <li...@mtin.net>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti next product.... another router?
>I've never seen encryption issues when using UBNT gear to UBNT gear.
>Regardless, you should run it because it limits the paths where someone
>COULD sniff your customer's traffic. Even if your upstream isn't
>encrypted, you not being encrypted just gives someone more space to
>sniff in. If I was your customer I'd be bailing ship quickly.
>
>
>Matt Hoppes
>Director of Information Technology
>Indigo Wireless
>+1 (570) 723-7312
>
>On 9/14/12 2:07 PM, Justin Wilson wrote:
>> We have had almost zero problems with UBNT gear and lockups. However,
>> most people disagree with me on my setups.
>>
>> 1.I run zero encryption on the Aps. Several reasons but the short is
>> 1)UBNT has had issues with WEP/WPA/WPA2 code. 2) my upstream provider
>> is not encrypted so why should I? See my blog for more rants on this.
>>
>> 2.We run Airmax only. No 802.11 clients.
>>
>> 3.We invest heavily in clean power to the Aps. Conditioned batteries. 3
>> Stages Chargers/power supplies. Fiber up the tower, etc.
>>
>> 4.We are religious about the Client firmware being the same as the AP
>> firmware. The version is not as important as everything has to match.
>> If the ap is 5.3.5 then all the clients have to be 5.3.5, even if we
>> have to downgrade.
>>
>> 5.We use the priority on the client side. If you have a weak client set
>> them lower.
>>
>>
>> By doing this we have grown from 0 clients to 1500 in just shy of 2
>> years on an all UBNT wireless network. 40+ towers with probably 150+
>> UBNT devices (aps, backhauls). I can't remember a lockup problem due to
>> something not related to the above.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> From: Doug Clark <d...@txox.com <mailto:d...@txox.com>>
>> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org
>> <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>>
>> Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:29 PM
>> To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti next product.... another router?
>>
>> Matt, Have to disagree with you here. UBNT equipment does not just
>> run......
>> It locks up for no reason and requires a power cycle in order to
>> come back.
>> If you want equipment that " JUST RUNS " and requires no
>> baby sitting that equipment has a Cambium logo on it.
>> You pay dearly for it and I have a significant amount in my network
>> but I am not deploying it because the cost is too high and
>> the bandwidth is too low. UBNT equipment is very high
>> maintainance and super hard to diagnosis what the problem is when
>> you have one.
>> With all that being said I am still currently only deploying UBNT
>> and actually taking down Canopy FSK to replace it with UBNT 2X2
>> ~Doug
>> /-------Original Message-------/
>> /*From:*/ Matt Hoppes <mailto:mhop...@indigowireless.com>
>> /*Date:*/ 9/14/2012 9:42:32 AM
>> /*To:*/ WISPA General List <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>
>> /*Subject:*/ Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti next product.... another router?
>> Greg,
>> I don't ever recall seeing bleeding-edge firmware with bugs released
>> from Ubiquiti.... unless you mean the betas? But that's what they
>> are... betas. Since 5.3.3 up to the current 5.5.2 release I
>>haven't
>> had any problems with the final releases of software.
>> I can't count the number of Linksys, DLink, Hawking, whatever
>>wireless
>> routers we've replaced for customers because they had problems with
>> their Internet. We put in a Power AP-N, or an AirRouter and we
>>never
>> hear from them again.
>> Truth be told... Ubiquiti equipment just runs... it doesn't need
>> rebooted. It doesn't need babysat. It just runs.
>> No I am not being paid to make these statements. I just have many
>>years
>> working in IT. I've used Cisco, MikroTik, Alvarion, Motorola and
>>now
>> Ubiquiti. The Ubiquiti equipment just works. I have a backhaul
>>that's
>> been up for over a year with no reboots.... and no problems.
>> Matt Hoppes
>> Director of Information Technology
>> Indigo Wireless
>> +1 (570) 723-7312
>> On 9/14/12 11:20 AM, Greg Ihnen wrote:
>> > Are people going to be able to tolerate the bleeding-edge cycle of
>> > bugs/firmware updates that has been the history with their
>>wireless gear?
>> >
>> > Once again they're breaking new ground, this time with low
>>cost/high pps
>> > throughput. Will they be able to make it powerful (rich feature
>>set)
>> > /and/ easy?
>> >
>> > It's going to have to be really good to make people switch.
>> >
>> > Maybe they're going for a niche market of people who want only
>>features
>> > relevant to the WISP market (bandwidth management, bandwidth
>>accounting
>> > etc, vlans) and not people who want a do-all box like MT which
>>has a lot
>> > of features most WISPs probably don't use (BGP and the forwarding
>> > protocols come to mind).
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Paolo Di Francesco
>> > <paolo.difrance...@level7.it <mailto:paolo.difrance...@level7.it>
>> <mailto:paolo.difrance...@level7.it>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > I see that Ubiquiti is launching a new product, a router.
>> >
>> > Well, personally, I do not think that it's a good idea, hard
>>market and
>> > I really do not see a real reason why I should buy the
>>Ubiquiti router
>> > instead of other well knows products
>> >
>> > From my perspective the value or a core/edge router is not
>>only in the
>> > number of packets, it's more into the number of bugs and
>>instabilities.
>> >
>> > A new product has less or more bugs/instabilities than others
>>working
>> > since years in my network?
>> >
>> > I am not sure that I want to restart thinking new workarounds
>>for a new
>> > brand.
>> >
>> > Comments?
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > Ing. Paolo Di Francesco
>> >
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>> > web:http://www.level7.it
>> >
>> >
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