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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by izacus on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:34AM (#21432964)
Yes, I fully understand that it was built for company admins to have fun and cover their use-cases.

But unfortunately I constantly see those admins recommend them for prosumer, unmanaged small business and home use-cases. In those cases they're horrible to manage and lack features users expect.

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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by stiray on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:01AM (#21433040)
What features? I have heard a lot of complaining over mikrotik, but lack of features was typically not one of them.
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by milankragujevic on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:23AM (#21433104)
An easy to use, user friendly WebUI is a feature. The only part of that MikroTik has is WebFig, which is neither easy to use nor user friendly.
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by mopsi on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:17AM (#21433685)
Everyone uses either CLI or WinBox GUI app, which is excellent. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Winbox#Work_Area_and_c...
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by milankragujevic on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:14AM (#21433968)
Which is covered by

>horrible to manage and lack features users expect

Users expect WebUIs, and WebFig is horrible to manage.

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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by mopsi on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:11AM (#21434274)
Users expected faster horses, got cars. WinBox is so much better than any web UI I've ever seen, didn't know I wanted it before I had it.
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by milankragujevic on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:39AM (#21434467)
1. WinBox only works on Windows. 2. Android version of WinBox is buggy and also only works on Android 3. It may be better if you have expertise in network administration and know RouterOS inside and out. Most people who buy Ubiquiti gear do not, but their needs aren't met by regular consumer routers which do not allow any kind of "prosumer" settings.

MikroTik may well be better for you (I used it for 5km PTP links, but that's because it's cheap, if I had the budget I would've gotten LiteBeam or AirGrid), but that doesn't imply it's a suitable replacement for everyone. And it is most certainly not a suitable replacement of airOS for most people who use airOS.

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