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This. They make excellent access points and their lite beam/air fibre products are great. But UniFi has serious limitations when it comes to anything beyond th

by stirlo 1y ago

This. They make excellent access points and their lite beam/air fibre products are great. But UniFi has serious limitations when it comes to anything beyond the basics. An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities.

alt227 1y ago
> An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities. This is just not true at all. I agree unifi can be buggy at times, and their super clean interface means they need to hide stuff all over the place, but I havent found any network configuration I couldnt do on Unifi yet. Care to elaborate on exactly which functions standard asus routers have over Ubiquiti gear?
- jtc331 1y ago
  VLAN with an id of 0 isn't possible on the new interface last I checked. Which, granted is a weird thing to do, but...
  - JonathonW 1y ago
    There are off-the-shelf all-in-one Asus home routers that do VLANs?
    - aspenmayer 1y ago
      Many Asus home routers advertise compatibility with and/or run OpenWRT internally, so yes to a certain reading. Here's a random example I found: https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/all-series/5g-be58u/ https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/al... | https://web.archive.org/web/20250704161852/https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/all-series/5g-be58u/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250704161852/https://www.asus....
      - alt227 1y ago
        Installing a custom firmware on a router does not count as 'off-the-shelf' imo.
        aspenmayer 1y ago
        I’m not speaking hypothetically, as I have used VLANs on native stock Asus firmware. https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1049415/ https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1049415/
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  - justsomehnguy 1y ago
    yes, thos is quite rare thong. Could you describe the reason behind it?
  - esseph 1y ago
    That's not a valid vlan ID for most vendors (Reserved) and can also be a security vulnerability, as it can allow traffic to elevate its Class of Service and hop vlans via this method.

by stirlo 1y ago

alt227 1y ago

> An off the self Asus all in one home router actually has more features and capabilities. This is just not true at all. I agree unifi can be buggy at times, and their super clean interface means they need to hide stuff all over the place, but I havent found any network configuration I couldnt do on Unifi yet. Care to elaborate on exactly which functions standard asus routers have over Ubiquiti gear?

jtc331 1y ago
VLAN with an id of 0 isn't possible on the new interface last I checked. Which, granted is a weird thing to do, but...
- JonathonW 1y ago
  There are off-the-shelf all-in-one Asus home routers that do VLANs?
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    Many Asus home routers advertise compatibility with and/or run OpenWRT internally, so yes to a certain reading. Here's a random example I found: https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/all-series/5g-be58u/ https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/al... | https://web.archive.org/web/20250704161852/https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/modem-routers/all-series/5g-be58u/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250704161852/https://www.asus....
    - alt227 1y ago
      Installing a custom firmware on a router does not count as 'off-the-shelf' imo.
      - aspenmayer 1y ago
        I’m not speaking hypothetically, as I have used VLANs on native stock Asus firmware. https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1049415/ https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1049415/
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- justsomehnguy 1y ago
  yes, thos is quite rare thong. Could you describe the reason behind it?
- esseph 1y ago
  That's not a valid vlan ID for most vendors (Reserved) and can also be a security vulnerability, as it can allow traffic to elevate its Class of Service and hop vlans via this method.