Ubiquiti introduces EdgeRouter X
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@scottalanmiller said:
I would never spend a penny on a TP-Link. Worthless garbage. Been saddled with one in Spain and it was hell. Spend the extra $2 to get serious gear.
this...
I use these for cheap gigabit home switches.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I would never spend a penny on a TP-Link. Worthless garbage. Been saddled with one in Spain and it was hell. Spend the extra $2 to get serious gear.
Ouch, really? I have deployed a bunch of them.
Also, we have a bunch of TrendNET switches here that work well for us. Completely unmanaged of course.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I would never spend a penny on a TP-Link. Worthless garbage. Been saddled with one in Spain and it was hell. Spend the extra $2 to get serious gear.
Ouch, really? I have deployed a bunch of them.
Also, we have a bunch of TrendNET switches here that work well for us. Completely unmanaged of course.
Don't know about TrendNet. But definitely not stuff I would be too likely to look at. What's making you use that kind of stuff?
TP-Link is the super, ultra cheap Chinese stuff sold to third world consumers. I've never seen someone buy it in the US before.
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@scottalanmiller said:
TP-Link is the super, ultra cheap Chinese stuff sold to third world consumers. I've never seen someone buy it in the US before.
Get over yourself. TP-Link is super common in retail stores in the US. This is not new.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
TP-Link is the super, ultra cheap Chinese stuff sold to third world consumers. I've never seen someone buy it in the US before.
Get over yourself. TP-Link is super common in retail stores in the US. This is not new.
I knew some low end retailers were starting to carry this to lower prices, have never heard of it being purchased though. I tried it once in the US and the equipment didn't work - thankfully it was just a $10 wireless USB adapter and nothing more. The equipment we had in Spain had to be restarted several times a day.
Are you saying you know of people who are buying this? I never said it wasn't in retail stores, just that I've never heard of someone buying it.
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I did think it was new though. I've only seen TP-Link for about a year.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I did think it was new though. I've only seen TP-Link for about a year.
TP-Link was in the Rochester Best Buy when I was up there for school... that was several years ago.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I did think it was new though. I've only seen TP-Link for about a year.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I did think it was new though. I've only seen TP-Link for about a year.
Yes, I'm quite aware of who they are, hence my description. Cheap, low end Chinese gear. Bulk stuff. This doesn't suggest that they've been broadly available in the US for any length of time.
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Here in Europe they are very common and in Africa. My understanding was that China and other low cost markets were nearly their entire market until just recently making an attempt to move into a lower than previously available slot in the US market. But I was not aware that retailers had been carrying them for long and never knew of anyone buying the stuff in the US.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Are you saying you know of people who are buying this? I never said it wasn't in retail stores, just that I've never heard of someone buying it.
The way retail stores are quickly killing non moving items, it wouldn't be on the shelf any longer if it wasn't selling.
Best Buy has become a pointless trip these days as they only carry the top two, maybe three items in a field that sell.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Are you saying you know of people who are buying this? I never said it wasn't in retail stores, just that I've never heard of someone buying it.
The way retail stores are quickly killing non moving items, it wouldn't be on the shelf any longer if it wasn't selling.
Best Buy has become a pointless trip these days as they only carry the top two, maybe three items in a field that sell.
I'm not saying that they are not selling now. I just don't know anyone who is buying them. I'm not saying that my circles don't tend to be above average for technical spending. Just that I've never heard of anyone in IT or any consumer that I know of buying them. It's just a cross section and that's the information that I have.
That the lowest end stores, like Best Buy and Staples, push them, I assume that they are selling. But I assumed that it was mostly the grand parent set and similar. I've never even come across one in a business, not even tiny two and three people businesses.
Are you guys really seeing these deployed in homes and businesses?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, I'm quite aware of who they are, hence my description. Cheap, low end Chinese gear. Bulk stuff. This doesn't suggest that they've been broadly available in the US for any length of time.
Apparently you are not more than aware of their existance. If you read the article and or source articles you would know they have been in the US market directly via a US based company branch since 2008.
And yes I HAVE seen many many of them out there in the wild, because, you know, I actually do field work.
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@JaredBusch said:
Apparently you are not more than aware of their existance. If you read the article and or source articles you would know they have been in the US market directly via a US based company branch since 2008.
That there was a WAY to get them and that they were broadly available are not the same thing.
How many people here knew their name say three years ago?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I did think it was new though. I've only seen TP-Link for about a year.
Yes, I'm quite aware of who they are, hence my description. Cheap, low end Chinese gear. Bulk stuff. This doesn't suggest that they've been broadly available in the US for any length of time.
They've been hear since earlier in the 2000's
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@JaredBusch said:
Apparently you are not more than aware of their existance. If you read the article and or source articles you would know they have been in the US market directly via a US based company branch since 2008.
You keep changing what I've said to something different.
I've stated that they weren't broadly available. I've said I've never seen them in homes or business. I've said that I've known who they were for about a year. These are all true facts.
You can say I have no expose. You can say my experience is bad or pointless. You can say that being in the field is more important than other types of work. That's all fine opinion. But don't act like you are disputing what I've said, because you are stating things that are not in opposition to what I've said.
I'm shocked that people are deploying these and that you feel that they are super common and apparently that they've been everywhere and common for seven years. I've literally never seen one out of the box in the US (other than the one I bought that was just an adapter from Amazon) ever.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How many people here knew their name say three years ago?
I did. The S side of the SMB sector is full of them because they were at best buy and office max.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
They've been hear since the early 2000's.
Broadly? Like in any major retailer they were there with Netgear, LInksys, D-Link and Belkin?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
They've been hear since the early 2000's.
Broadly? Like in any major retailer they were there with Netgear, LInksys, D-Link and Belkin?
Don't know. But their 5 port switches used to be better quality than the others available for SOHO back then. Now days not so much.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I would never spend a penny on a TP-Link. Worthless garbage. Been saddled with one in Spain and it was hell. Spend the extra $2 to get serious gear.
Ouch, really? I have deployed a bunch of them.
Also, we have a bunch of TrendNET switches here that work well for us. Completely unmanaged of course.
Don't know about TrendNet. But definitely not stuff I would be too likely to look at. What's making you use that kind of stuff?
TP-Link is the super, ultra cheap Chinese stuff sold to third world consumers. I've never seen someone buy it in the US before.
TrendNet is pretty google as far as NIC and wireless. Never tried their switches or any networking gear but for SOHO I'd be willing to take a bet that they are fine.
