Using SFP+ modules for 10GbE is interesting, I deployed a full 10GbE network in my home connected by 5Gbit/s symmetric fiber from AT&T and a 1Gbit/s x 100mbit/s DOCSIS 3.1 connection from Spectrum as backup, I did this around August of last year and used UniFi/Ubiquiti for everything. Their new XG and XGS products all support 10GbE natively, without needing SFP+ modules to connect. I'm using the UDM Pro Max with an XGSPON ONU flashed with the community firmware from PON Wiki (see https://pon.wiki/category/att/ ) and the 2.5GbE port as my second WAN link to the Spectrum modem. I'm not doing any sort of bonding/load balancing, just failover so I'm almost always just using AT&T. There's a short DAC cable connecting the UDM Pro Max to a Switch Pro XG 24-POE which serves 10GbE to the rest of the house. The only SFP+ module involved is the XGSPON ONU. Most of the devices in the house connect to WiFi served by the UniFi U7 Pro XGS APs, which take 10GbE w/ POE and give off WiFi 7. I pretty much always get at least 4600Mbit/s both directions over AT&T, and generally cap it out. Spectrum typically gives me at least 800Mbit/s down. The ISPs are definitely the bottleneck because neither provides dedicated infrastructure from each house to the CO, instead you have some sort of aggregation point which has a shared backhaul and that means you compete for resources, but having the largest plan on each at least gives you traffic priority. Realistically, I don't need any of this, I wa…
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Recently switched from a UDM Pro Max to a Firewalla Gold Pro and couldn't be happier about the move. Software that works > software that has everything but requires magic to get checkboxes to adhere to a save state-this is a common issue with UniFi Network options. They need far better QA before I recommend anyone use them as an OS. 1 of numerous examples: https://community.ui.com/questions/Device-Static-IP-Not-Savi...
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Same here, the UDM Pro [1] and any of their U6 WiFi APs [2] are great. I went the extra mile and wired up each room with 2-3 ports, so had to get one of their PoE switches because you quickly run out port space on the UDM. [1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-unifi-os-cons... [2] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless
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> 4-6 years ago things still looked quite promising This is very true. However if you bypass the Dream Machine and just use some other router or an EdgeRouter it’s ridiculously reliable in the home setting. There are a heap of nice features in the UDM line, but wow does it need polish and stability. My wifi is the best I’ve every used by a million miles, but the UDMP crashes and has weird behaviour that requires heroics to repair.
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UDM Pros include their own local Unifi management runtime which will administer the full local network. After the security incident a few years ago, Ubiquiti pushed an update that let's you login to it via a local credential rather than their cloud identity server. I don't see anything in UDM Pro's Unifi that is dependent on their cloud (other than checking for updates)
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I did a bunch of research when all of this first came out with the intention of moving off Ubiquiti and found nothing worthwhile. I'm in the same boat, no interest in the time/money investment to roll my own solution. Aside from one UDM Pro software update that enabled a schedule to disable my WiFi out of the blue, I haven't had any issues with my stuff. So I continue on with them.