Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1
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The question I always ask when I see these devices is - WHY? Why does it need to be pretty? APs I can understand, they are on your wall/ceiling, desktop/laptops - they are generally right in your eyesite/reach, but the router? Do you really want that thing sitting on the coffee table?
So let's assume you do want it on your coffee table, now what? How do you get your ISP connected to it? That's typically another box, one that's definitely much more industrial in look, that has either a coax or phone running to it.
But let's say you're going to provide remote access to the cable modem by leaving it in a closet, basement, etc. I suppose this isn't that bad if you have no other hardwired devices - and I know they are trying their damnest to push us there - you just connect the single ethernet to the wall jack which goes to the cable modem. But if you're like me, and you want most things hardwired, now you need two wall jacks. One to bring the internet to the router, and another to take the LAN to your distribution point (switch in the closet/basement/etc).And now we're going to look at cost.
Most of us here know that we can get some great performance and enterprise type protections from an ER-X ($57 shipped - bought one this morning) and a UAP AC Pro ($130) (trying to compare apples to apples - JB I'm looking at you) brings us to $187.
Now, UBNT claims they are throwing in a good UI to control it, admitedly the ER-X and UAP can be a challenge for the non technical, so there is definite value there.
I can't see this thing being less than $250.
OK enough of my rant.
For those that didn't realize it... this isn't a rant against UBNT, it's against the need for a living room device like this.
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@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
That's what I was thinking. Places where you don't have the option to hide things like apartments.
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@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
That's what I was thinking. Places where you don't have the option to hide things like apartments.
Which is a lot of people. Owning a house is only for something like 50% of the population. And for some reason, there is some weird cultural thing that I've found that non-technical people seem to love having gadgets and cables laying all over the place, no idea why. Maybe they think "tech guts" look cool? Technical people, like @Dashrender and myself, seem to almost always want technology's underpinnings to be hidden and out of the way. TVs on walls, cables in walls, APs mounted, servers hidden, cabling plants in back closets. @Texkonc just bought a new house and had to have custom work done to have all of his cabling and gear stored out of site. Every new construction I see designs the houses to have all technology just out in the middle of the living room like it's the center of display.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
That's what I was thinking. Places where you don't have the option to hide things like apartments.
Which is a lot of people. Owning a house is only for something like 50% of the population. And for some reason, there is some weird cultural thing that I've found that non-technical people seem to love having gadgets and cables laying all over the place, no idea why. Maybe they think "tech guts" look cool? Technical people, like @Dashrender and myself, seem to almost always want technology's underpinnings to be hidden and out of the way. TVs on walls, cables in walls, APs mounted, servers hidden, cabling plants in back closets. @Texkonc just bought a new house and had to have custom work done to have all of his cabling and gear stored out of site. Every new construction I see designs the houses to have all technology just out in the middle of the living room like it's the center of display.
Ya I don't understand that either. Even when we had an apartment I did as much as possible to hide everything but they always ran the cable right through the middle of the wall somewhere.
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@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
That's what I was thinking. Places where you don't have the option to hide things like apartments.
Which is a lot of people. Owning a house is only for something like 50% of the population. And for some reason, there is some weird cultural thing that I've found that non-technical people seem to love having gadgets and cables laying all over the place, no idea why. Maybe they think "tech guts" look cool? Technical people, like @Dashrender and myself, seem to almost always want technology's underpinnings to be hidden and out of the way. TVs on walls, cables in walls, APs mounted, servers hidden, cabling plants in back closets. @Texkonc just bought a new house and had to have custom work done to have all of his cabling and gear stored out of site. Every new construction I see designs the houses to have all technology just out in the middle of the living room like it's the center of display.
Ya I don't understand that either. Even when we had an apartment I did as much as possible to hide everything but they always ran the cable right through the middle of the wall somewhere.
Because you are techie... you don't like tech all around the place.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender I have the same thoughts but I think these things make more sense for apartment dwellers.
That's what I was thinking. Places where you don't have the option to hide things like apartments.
Which is a lot of people. Owning a house is only for something like 50% of the population. And for some reason, there is some weird cultural thing that I've found that non-technical people seem to love having gadgets and cables laying all over the place, no idea why. Maybe they think "tech guts" look cool? Technical people, like @Dashrender and myself, seem to almost always want technology's underpinnings to be hidden and out of the way. TVs on walls, cables in walls, APs mounted, servers hidden, cabling plants in back closets. @Texkonc just bought a new house and had to have custom work done to have all of his cabling and gear stored out of site. Every new construction I see designs the houses to have all technology just out in the middle of the living room like it's the center of display.
So the 70's and 80's are back where people want to have a glass wall on there datacenter so they can give tours of all the blinking lights.
Only now it's in the middle of their living room. LOL -
Nope, I don't even like the APs hanging on the ceilings (other then for necessity). I want all technology hidden away where possible.
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@coliver said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
Nope, I don't even like the APs hanging on the ceilings (other then for necessity). I want all technology hidden away where possible.
So your phone never comes out of your pocket?
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@coliver said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
Nope, I don't even like the APs hanging on the ceilings (other then for necessity). I want all technology hidden away where possible.
So your phone never comes out of your pocket?
j/kWhen possible.
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lol
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
lol
Can't wait for the smart contact lens.... or a brain to machine interface.
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@coliver said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
lol
Can't wait for the smart contact lens.... or a brain to machine interface.
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@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@coliver said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
Nope, I don't even like the APs hanging on the ceilings (other then for necessity). I want all technology hidden away where possible.
So your phone never comes out of your pocket?
j/kThat's why I like the Apple Watch. Reduces that too.
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@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@coliver said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti on the Evolution of Home Wifi Part 1:
lol
Can't wait for the smart contact lens.... or a brain to machine interface.
Yep pretty much...
