Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy
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@matteo-nunziati Ubiquiti is great for IT professionals. It is not meant for home users that are not IT Pros.
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@Mike-Davis I was thinking about my company, here everyone sells aruba+hpe or dell stuff...
then you have "lower level" resellers, those who server smaller companies, and they go all dlink. -
@matteo-nunziati So imagine the price of Dlink with the reliability of the more expensive gear. The only downside is the support. They don't have a call center where you can call in with issues and have someone walk you through your issue. For most of us the money you save makes it worth it.
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@BRRABill said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
@scottalanmiller said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
So I found out today that this was a very silly question to ask. There is a Ubiquiti store on my block, five minutes on foot from the house!
Cough, Google, cough cough.
That won't work, I guarantee. You try Googling Ubiquiti in Noto.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
@scottalanmiller wow! it is not so easy in my area! BTW is Ubiquiti good stuff? how it is comparable to dlink, hp ? where is it positioned?
Somewhere above Cisco and below Juniper
In all seriousness, I don't consider Cisco on par, but they are very different. Cisco you get amazing support of questionable gear. Ubiquiti you get acceptable community or email support of amazing, low cost gear that you can always have two of for 1/10th the price of a single Cisco. So in the big picture, it's so much more reliable based on price because of how you can afford to deploy it.
It is basically the only gear we use anymore, anywhere until we are talking 10GigE switches or faster or special use case stuff. UBNT isn't going after enterprise shops yet, so they lack offerings for that space. But for the space that they play in - SMB, ROBO, carrier... by many definitions they might be the best in the business (because of the way that pricing works.)
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@matteo-nunziati said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
@Mike-Davis I was thinking about my company, here everyone sells aruba+hpe or dell stuff...
then you have "lower level" resellers, those who server smaller companies, and they go all dlink.Better than any of those, but maybe not as many different products. Ubiquiti makes a point of talking about crushing Cisco. They don't even discuss players like DLink. DLink isn't considered a business product really, or at best a home product attempting to see a few business products. I have never heard of a business using them, ever. I know D-Link tries to advertise to business, but it's a silly space.
Ubiquiti is very solidly hitting at the enterprise players, but focused on the medium space.
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@scottalanmiller said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
I have never heard of a business using them, ever
Now you know
we have 2 dlinks. I've found them in place and both are bugged. One even loose config (all: ip, vlan, everything!) in case of power failure. The other isn't able to encapsulate printers packets. don't ask me why. I've had to plug a 10€ spare dlink 5port switch to encapsulate a number of printers.btw, we also have 2 netgear and 1 used hp procurve 3400 cl. for the sake of completeness I was going to by a linksys too... just to have them all
On the opposite everyone in the supply chain who wants to talk about "reliable" stuff offers dell/hpe-aruba now in my area. Cisco is too much expensive, often. And with Cisco if you go SMB you get really bad stuff.
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@matteo-nunziati Netgear ProSafe is actually quite good. Not at all in the category with the ones that you list. I know labs in NYC that use it because it crushes Cisco in performance (latency) for their SANs.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Where to buy Ubiquiti in Italy:
Cisco is too much expensive, often. And with Cisco if you go SMB you get really bad stuff.
No, no... when we talk about Ubiquiti and Cisco, we are only talking about Cisco's enterprise stuff.
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@scottalanmiller yeah, I was aware of the performance of netgear stuff. Simply I was not sure about quality. As a consultant in machine vision I always recommended netgear for small prosafe switches to put on top of machinaries. It was simply reliable "enough", cheap, and fast (which you want with say 4x5+ Mpx cameras and constrained timings)!
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Yup, and cheap enough to swap while someone else is trying to fix something is huge. I'll take two devices that I can swap when one dies for a total price of $600 long before I'll take one of $3,000 that fails "a little less often" but can take a day for someone to repair!
