Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mel Beckman
Hertz car rental has the #1 product in its industry, even its major competitor Avis agrees (“We’re number two“:-), and yet Hertz stock is plunging towards zero even as we speak. Stock price has nothing to do with product quality. Theranos, for example, had a completely fictional product, yet it

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Etienne-Victor Depasquale
" stock value is a terribly inaccurate way to measure if a company is "excelling." " That requires qualification. Stock value might be a "terribly inaccurate way" in the short term but in the long term, it reflects whether you have a marketable product or not. On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:20 PM Mi

Re: Did I miss a problem: FCC and CISA stress need for access during pandemic

2020-05-26 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On May 27, 2020, at 3:40 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: > I have not heard of any problems with access for ISP and communications > workers in any U.S. state or locality during the pandemic. > Did I miss a big problem requiring the FCC chairman and CISA Director send a > letter? That was one of th

RE: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Phil Lavin
> Even the big guys like Juniper fail at basic functionality. Our brand new > MX204 fails to select the correct source address when doing ARP requests and > apparently that is a known will not fix. Apparently EX2300/EX3400 doesn't support STP when using Virtual Chassis and QFX51XX don't support

Re: Did I miss a problem: FCC and CISA stress need for access during pandemic

2020-05-26 Thread Benson Schliesser via NANOG
Good question - Of the listed “key points” the first and second, regarding designation as essential employees, has been explicitly included in the several state and county orders that I’ve personally read. By no means a complete survey, but at least some locales are aware of the issue. The only o

Did I miss a problem: FCC and CISA stress need for access during pandemic

2020-05-26 Thread Sean Donelan
I have not heard of any problems with access for ISP and communications workers in any U.S. state or locality during the pandemic. Did I miss a big problem requiring the FCC chairman and CISA Director send a letter? https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-cisa-stress-need-communications-industr

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Baldur Norddahl
tir. 26. maj 2020 17.04 skrev Tom Beecher : > Mostly agree, but the "your pet bug" argument has validity. > > When the thing that isn't working is basic functionality, (e.g. IPv6) , > there is no excuse for that not to work, and a company that tries to spin > 'basic functionality" as "feature requ

Re: [External] Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Josh Luthman
What are you looking for OP? If it's a vulnerability you should have no problem with the provided link. If it's something else, let us know. Most of my contacts have left there but there is still someone I can get you in touch with. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wa

NANOG 79 - Lightning Talks submissions extended to 5/31

2020-05-26 Thread Vincent Celindro
Hello NANOG community, The Program Committee has extended the deadline to submit Lightning Talks to May 31st 2020 10pm EDT. Lightning Talks will be presented virtually on Tuesday June 2nd 2020. A lightning talk is a very short presentation/speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG

Re: [External] Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
All of the traditional POCs are gone, most of them not replaced. There may not be anywhere to send the OP, other than to wish them luck on the forums. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Hu

How to Make the Most of a Virtual Conference

2020-05-26 Thread NANOG Marketing
*Ten tips from Angela Reyna of Kentik* “We’re all longing for more connected times with less distance. For now, the best thing we can do is be present, and make the most of these virtual opportunities." While nothing can totally replace the experience of gathering IRL, virtual conferences are sti

Re: [External] Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Hunter Fuller
This thread has taken a very NANOG turn. Whether the company has or hasn't fallen apart, I'm sure someone is still there to contact. Some say the poster is still looking for a contact at Ubiquiti to this day... -- Hunter Fuller (they) Router Jockey VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Informa

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Joe Greco
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 02:44:40PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > JG, > > I empathize with your BGP problems. I???ve had problems with BGP > on anything other than Cisco for my entire networking life. It???s > just the nature of the beast, although that???s not an excuse for > ubiquity not fixing

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:44 AM Mel Beckman wrote: > Your or my pet bug may never get fixed, based on market demand. > Gonna have to disagree with you there. I'm not sure if it was a cashflow issue or what, but they launched the Unifi Dream Machine Pro after a very short testing period. A client

Re: Network issues in Israel/Middle East

2020-05-26 Thread John Von Essen
Yeah, this is bad default GeoDNS logic. I'm overriding Israel now to use Europe now, and things are much better. -John > On May 26, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Dovid Bender wrote: > > John, > > As others have mentioned you should be going to Europe we have a POP in Rosh > Hayain, IL and in Nicosia,

Re: Network issues in Israel/Middle East

2020-05-26 Thread Dovid Bender
John, As others have mentioned you should be going to Europe we have a POP in Rosh Hayain, IL and in Nicosia, CY. Both POP's backup to AWS Ireland. Almost all of your traffic in IL is going to go through Western Europe so it makes no sense to send it to India. Israel does not have any peering with

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Tom Beecher
Mostly agree, but the "your pet bug" argument has validity. When the thing that isn't working is basic functionality, (e.g. IPv6) , there is no excuse for that not to work, and a company that tries to spin 'basic functionality" as "feature request" tends to dig their own grave. But many, many bug

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Cummings, Chris
For the carrier side of things Mikrotik is a fairly standard replacement for UBNT stuff. — chris From: NANOG on behalf of Ben Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 09:55 To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks? Agree 1000% with the sentiments expressed by Mike. Unfortunately des

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Ben
Agree 1000% with the sentiments expressed by Mike. Unfortunately despite much research I’ve been unable to find a suitable replacement vendor. All the other vendors seem to want to ram cloud-management down your throat which I absolutely do not want. My network, my control, not under the ausp

Re: Network issues in Israel/Middle East

2020-05-26 Thread Arie Vayner
Most (if not all) of Israel's capacity is served from Europe. There is no real reason to serve users in Israel from India... You should most likely be using instances in Frankfurt or London for best results. On Mon, May 25, 2020, 12:46 Martijn Schmidt via NANOG wrote: > Hey John, > > Do you have

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
I've been deploying Ubiquiti products since Robert was going around to the conferences himself, peddling his mini PCI card radios. I've deployed most of their product lines. I'm familiar with how they operate. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mel Beckman
JG, I empathize with your BGP problems. I’ve had problems with BGP on anything other than Cisco for my entire networking life. It’s just the nature of the beast, although that’s not an excuse for ubiquity not fixing it. But what is an excuse is market demand. How many people do you think speak

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Bolitho
>>Your or my pet bug may never get fixed, based on market demand. That’s simply capitalism, not low quality. No, that's low quality, full stop. Bugs need to be fixed in software that you are selling. I bought a product and I expect it to work. If they are going to tout themselves as enterprise gra

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Tom Beecher
For you an I, a hundred grand of reinvestment in the product and business makes perfect sense. Make a good product, you will sell more of it, the customers win, the business wins, the shareholders win. For those who ascribe a different line of thinking, a few hundred grand of reinvestment in the p

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
Kind of OT for NANOG, but stock value is a terribly inaccurate way to measure if a company is "excelling." Wall Street knows nothing of how to run a company, prioritizing quarterly profit over long-term success. Not hiring additional staff makes your quarterly numbers look good, but it isn't goo

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Joe Greco
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:43:02PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > I deploy Ubiquiti equipment quite a bit, both in WLANs and WISP > distribution networks. It???s excellent quality at a dirt cheap > price. As with all software-based products, there will be bugs. > Your or my pet bug may never get fixed

Re: BGPmon alerting me about prefixes being withdrawn from Hurricane Electric attached sites

2020-05-26 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Contacted you offlist to look into this further. Thanks. On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:09 PM Frank Bulk wrote: > I've already emailed the HE NOC, but curious if anyone else this morning > has > noticed any of their prefixes going missing from Hurricane Electric > attached > networks. > > BGPmon se

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mel Beckman
I deploy Ubiquiti equipment quite a bit, both in WLANs and WISP distribution networks. It’s excellent quality at a dirt cheap price. As with all software-based products, there will be bugs. Your or my pet bug may never get fixed, based on market demand. That’s simply capitalism, not low quality.

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Matt Hoppes
Except, you could argue they are exceling. Stocks are going up up up, and folks buy the product. I really wish stock holders would ask the proper questions in the quarterly calls. On 5/26/20 8:53 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: That is a big problem. In terms of their UniFi product line, there are

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Mike Hammett
That is a big problem. In terms of their UniFi product line, there are no reasonable alternatives. Upper management is the biggest problem. They have severe ADD. A ton of companies have these kinds of issues. They just plain don't hire enough people in the right areas to really excel.