So, I was busy with moves and other issues for about two years. When I went offline I was still pretty happy with my Unifi's (home network with three AP-AC-LR's) but when I came back online, betweehn the cloud hack, company lies about the cloud hack and the unceremonious discontinuation of Unifi Video it has me wondering if local Unifi Controllers will also go away, and if I will be forced onto the cloud.
For those reasons and more, I too am unhappy with Unifi. They used to be the good guys 10 years ago, but they have now turned into Meraki.
After some preliminary research Ruckus is the leading contender (but I am also researching if I can make Fortinet's AP's work), but damn they are much more expensive.
Currently, I have the three Unifi AP-AC-LR's and a Unifi Controller running in a dedicated LXC container on my server. The new digs are a bit smaller than the old, and from reading this thread Ruckus is much better at dealing with interference (which is amazing to me, as the reason I first went to Unifi back in ~2010 it was because they sliced through the noise like no consumer wifi solution could, like some sort of black magic) so I am thinking I can probably get away with only two Ruckus AP's, I'm guessing in an Unleashed configuration, so I don't need to pay for a controller license.
The original plan was to just to make the switch when I was ready to upgrade from ac to ax (or Wifi 6 or whatever the stupid new naming convention is) but looking around I can't seem to find any Ruckus ax AP's that are affordable.
I'm trying to figure out if it is really worth it to invest in older R710 ac units at this point, or if I should just keep using the Unifi units until more ugly Ubiquiti behavior forces me off them. (the hack bothers me, but doesn't affect me directly, as I don't use their cloud services, but if they force me to, I'll shut off my AP's the same day, and keep them off until replaced with something that doesn't)
Any thoughts here? Are older R710 ac units a bad buy today? It really feels wrong to spend money on previous gen tech, but maybe it doesn't matter, especially since our Wifi use is limited (most work done on desktops, everything that isn't a laptop oe a phone is hardwired, very little "smart" devices)
Can anyone tell me how many SSID's these devices support? And do they support a trunked multi-VLAN upload and then assigning different VLAN's to different SSID's, like I am currently doing with my Unifi devices? Switch on the other end would be Mikrotik.
Also, what kind of PoE injectors would be recommended?
Greatly appreciated!