One thing of note, I believe the 2 lan ports are *not* for separating, but rather to bond together to reach the advertized 1.5GB wifi speeds. Other than that I agree, unifi is the way to go.
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Greg Sevart <ad...@xfury.net> wrote: > Yep. To your other questions: > > You could use one or multiple to cover your home, depending on its layout. > Yes, you would just any other regular router. Ubiquiti does make some that > seem fairly well received (e.g., the EdgeRouter series), but I've only used > their wifi kit. I'm a pfSense fan for routers/firewalls, though with the > new > ownership I'm considering switching to the opnSense fork. > > Yes, the Ubiquiti supports multiple SSIDs (4 per radio on the linked > model), > and can even VLAN tag them if you wanted to apply different ACLs--but you'd > need something (either a switch and/or at the firewall, depending on your > use case) configured appropriately. The PRO as linked actually does include > 2 Ethernet ports, so you wouldn't have to mess with VLANs if you didn't > want > to. > > Ubiquiti's UniFi kit is more SMB to Enterprise class, so don't expect it to > be as turn-key as an Asus or Netgear solution. I think the equipment itself > is definitely superior, but depending on your own expertise and comfort > level, it may or may not be the best solution. Only you can make that > determination though. :) > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf > Of Winterlight > Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 8:26 PM > To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Netgear X10 router > > At 07:16 PM 5/5/2017, you wrote: > > >...something like this? > > <https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-802-11ac- > Dual-Radio-UAP-AC-PRO-US/ > dp/B015PRO512/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494033082&sr=8-1&keywords=UAP-AC-PRO > >U > biquiti > Networks Unifi 802.11ac Dual-Radio PRO Access Point (UAP-AC-PRO-US) > > > > >
