Yea, they must have gotten new management or new marketing or something. I recently heard they were forcing marketing pop-ups on the XG series management portals, causing a ton of issues for installers/resellers who had to deal with customers calling about these ads which were often not even applicable. I personally use a number of Unify devices, and it used be nice and solid. Lately I had to turn off auto-update as their latest firmwares have issues, for example had to roll back my AP firmware for the last little while (until this week) because it causes major issues with iPhoneX devices (fast-roaming related). I just took the plunge and updated to the latest this week, and while the iPhoneX issues seem resolved, I'm running into some possible switch issues (possibly related to this, my WAN internet had a hickup late at night, but somehow this caused 2 large unify switches to malfunction - maybe it was trying to upload data and because internet was down it crashed something???). Started running some monitoring on the switches, if they die again I'm rolling back the firmware on those too. Their latest controller software also has a bunch of regressions, such as Unify AP's showing up as unidentified devices on the network, in addition to showing up as AP's, so for example I get notifications about AP's joining the GUEST network when actual guests are joining. They also show up in the Map Topology view (each AP shows up as an AP and as an unidentified device with the MAC address of the AP).
Warning to all, once you start, it's hard to stop
. I also started with just USG and a single AP (and existing non ubiquiti switches), but over time moved to all unifi gear and expanded my WiFi 5GHz coverage resulting in this setup.
I've had my USG4P on for months at a time without any issues. I have setup my parents with a USG3P, also have not had any issues yet. USG4P runs 500Mbps WAN (and some inter-VLAN routing), USG3P runs just 5Mbps WAN (smart queues really help in this setup). There was a time long time ago, for few firmware versions, that the USG4P memory utilization kept on creeping up so I would reset it every 30-60 days, but that lasted only about 6 months and I never had it go down on me, I was being proactive resetting it. I've had some issues with AP and switch firmwares (see post #90 above) but they went away after a couple of releases - lucky Ubiquiti allows rolling back to older versions (unlike Tesla).
Correct. The only side effects would be if you have any devices on LAN that utilize broadcast of multicast and you want to see those boradcasts on the WLAN, or vice versa. These are most commonly used to auto-discovery mechanisms (windows machines tend to broadcast their names for example). Personally I haven't ran into any devices which could not do without it. Notice that you can define exceptions (right under that checkbox, if you check it) if you need to, or worse case just re-enable it in a time it takes to reprovision the AP's.
I am not sure if this requires the grammar police nor not. This could just be a typo, like when you wrote "boradcasts"
Bored during the covid lockdown? Maybe ask the moderators to designate you the official TMC volunteer spell checker?
