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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
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      Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.

      I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.

      The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
      I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.

      If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @AdamF
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        @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

        One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.

        No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.

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        • AdamFA
          AdamF @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

          @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

          One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.

          No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.

          Oh right, my bad.

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          • AdamFA
            AdamF @JaredBusch
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            @JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

            Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.

            I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.

            The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
            I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.

            If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.

            I've heard that concern before regarding the Unifi line of products. (the mysterious magic) It makes me nervous as well.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @AdamF
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              @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

              @JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

              Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.

              I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.

              The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
              I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.

              If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.

              I've heard that concern before regarding the Unifi line of products. (the mysterious magic) It makes me nervous as well.

              I should not argue with it and just use it. as it would in theory make life easier down the road for the smaller clients.

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              • AdamFA
                AdamF @JaredBusch
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                @JaredBusch

                This switch looks great for my needs. about 8-10 VoIP phones.. https://store.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch-24-250w.html

                But then again, so does this one, for the same price https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifiswitch-24-250w.html

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @JaredBusch
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                  @JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                  @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                  One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.

                  No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.

                  The USG has the Unifi Controller built in? It didn't in the install I did this summer. I had to install the software on a server, just like everywhere else I have the UniFi APs.

                  The Unifi Switch does integerate with the Unifi Controller though, allowing you to get statistics about LAN based items just like you get from WiFi clients from the Unifi APs.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @AdamF
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                    @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                    @JaredBusch

                    This switch looks great for my needs. about 8-10 VoIP phones.. https://store.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch-24-250w.html

                    But then again, so does this one, for the same price https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifiswitch-24-250w.html

                    A difference (though one your probably don't care about) mentioned in the blurbs is that the Edge Switch has Layer 3 routing, the UniFi Switch doesn't say - it may or may not have it.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                      @JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                      @fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:

                      One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.

                      No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.

                      The USG has the Unifi Controller built in? It didn't in the install I did this summer. I had to install the software on a server, just like everywhere else I have the UniFi APs.

                      That was my mistake. You are correct. I thought the USG had it, but I see it does not. Makes it even less useful.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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                        For a super simple no VPNs network, the USG works great, pretty straight forward and has some nice pictograms in the Controller.

                        The issue I ran into was a VPN tunnel between two endpoints that both had static IPs. This just didn't work. A few people have posted their work arounds on my UBNT thread about putting the IP into the JSON config file and not using the GUI to enter the static IPs and have it work.

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