We have had almost zero problems with UBNT gear and lockups. However, most people disagree with me on my setups.
1.I run zero encryption on the Aps. Several reasons but the short is 1)UBNT has had issues with WEP/WPA/WPA2 code. 2) my upstream provider is not encrypted so why should I? See my blog for more rants on this. 2.We run Airmax only. No 802.11 clients. 3.We invest heavily in clean power to the Aps. Conditioned batteries. 3 Stages Chargers/power supplies. Fiber up the tower, etc. 4.We are religious about the Client firmware being the same as the AP firmware. The version is not as important as everything has to match. If the ap is 5.3.5 then all the clients have to be 5.3.5, even if we have to downgrade. 5.We use the priority on the client side. If you have a weak client set them lower. By doing this we have grown from 0 clients to 1500 in just shy of 2 years on an all UBNT wireless network. 40+ towers with probably 150+ UBNT devices (aps, backhauls). I can't remember a lockup problem due to something not related to the above. Justin From: Doug Clark <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:29 PM To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti next product.... another router? > Matt, Have to disagree with you here. UBNT equipment does not just run...... > It locks up for no reason and requires a power cycle in order to come back. > > If you want equipment that " JUST RUNS " and requires no baby sitting that > equipment has a Cambium logo on it. > You pay dearly for it and I have a significant amount in my network but I am > not deploying it because the cost is too high and > the bandwidth is too low. UBNT equipment is very high maintainance and super > hard to diagnosis what the problem is when you have one. > > With all that being said I am still currently only deploying UBNT and actually > taking down Canopy FSK to replace it with UBNT 2X2 > > > > > ~Doug > -------Original Message------- > > From: Matt Hoppes <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: 9/14/2012 9:42:32 AM > To: WISPA General List <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ubiquiti next product.... another router? > > Greg, > I don't ever recall seeing bleeding-edge firmware with bugs released > from Ubiquiti.... unless you mean the betas? But that's what they > are... betas. Since 5.3.3 up to the current 5.5.2 release I haven't > had any problems with the final releases of software. > > I can't count the number of Linksys, DLink, Hawking, whatever wireless > routers we've replaced for customers because they had problems with > their Internet. We put in a Power AP-N, or an AirRouter and we never > hear from them again. > > Truth be told... Ubiquiti equipment just runs... it doesn't need > rebooted. It doesn't need babysat. It just runs. > > No I am not being paid to make these statements. I just have many years > working in IT. I've used Cisco, MikroTik, Alvarion, Motorola and now > Ubiquiti. The Ubiquiti equipment just works. I have a backhaul that's > been up for over a year with no reboots.... and no problems. > > Matt Hoppes > Director of Information Technology > Indigo Wireless > +1 (570) 723-7312 > > On 9/14/12 11:20 AM, Greg Ihnen wrote: >> > Are people going to be able to tolerate the bleeding-edge cycle of >> > bugs/firmware updates that has been the history with their wireless gear? >> > >> > Once again they're breaking new ground, this time with low cost/high pps >> > throughput. Will they be able to make it powerful (rich feature set) >> > /and/ easy? >> > >> > It's going to have to be really good to make people switch. >> > >> > Maybe they're going for a niche market of people who want only features >> > relevant to the WISP market (bandwidth management, bandwidth accounting >> > etc, vlans) and not people who want a do-all box like MT which has a lot >> > of features most WISPs probably don't use (BGP and the forwarding >> > protocols come to mind). >> > >> > Greg >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Paolo Di Francesco >> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi all >> > >> > I see that Ubiquiti is launching a new product, a router. >> > >> > Well, personally, I do not think that it's a good idea, hard market and >> > I really do not see a real reason why I should buy the Ubiquiti router >> > instead of other well knows products >> > >> > From my perspective the value or a core/edge router is not only in >> the >> > number of packets, it's more into the number of bugs and instabilities. >> > >> > A new product has less or more bugs/instabilities than others working >> > since years in my network? >> > >> > I am not sure that I want to restart thinking new workarounds for a new >> > brand. >> > >> > Comments? >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > Ing. 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