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As somebody who runs Ubiquity UniFi gear, it’s all flash and very little substance. Its dashboard will dazzle you with charts that either aren’t accurate, aren’t meaningful, or are generally unhelpful. It has a “new” (half a decade old now) and classic interface you can choose between, but neither interface gives you access to every setting you’ll need. I still to this day find myself swapping between them.

If you just need basic devices to make packets go, they do the job. But an average day in the life of a UniFi-enjoyer consists of things like trying to troubleshoot some kind of network issue only to find that the data collected by the devices doesn’t mathematically make sense, so you go to the UniFi forums just to find out it’s a bug that’s existed for years and has never been resolved. And on days like that, I find myself wishing I had something less flashy that would just allow me to see what’s going on with my network, accurately.

Ubiquity is trash with fickle support based on the whims of what sells wide adoption. TP Link IMO is a decent value for the money if you want easy "prosumer" level networking gear. I have I have 3 TP Link APs as well as a 16 port 10g core switch and its great for my needs.

Mikrotik offers more features per $$ but its not as easy to use.

I migrated from OPNSense + 3 omada EAPs + two omada switches to a full Unifi system + UDMP Max, feel free to ask away.

Mostly I was tired with the bugs both for Omada (sometimes I had to restart the switch to change the VLAN on a port bc just changing it in the controller didn’t work; yeah) and OPNSense (OSS vs proprietary complaints in general about “it just werks”).

Unifi really has come a long way, they have proper switch ACLs, real BGP (!!!) by you just uploading whatever frr.conf you want, policy based routing, and more stuff that I can’t remember.

It’s not perfect but I would say it’s very good value for money.

I go for OpenWRT devices from any brand

Check out Mikrotik friend...

If a security flaw is discovered and patched, it is a good sign the manufacturer is standing by their product and providing support. AFAIK, tp link does push regular fw updates for their omada gear. I've had two in the last month.

In your case, I'd open a support ticket with that issue and see what tp link thinks directly. If you don't like their reply or are ignored, you will have your answer on whether or not you should switch.

I can't recommend unifi more. I moved into the ecosystem about 10 years ago with a USG and AP.

I run UCG with 3 WiFi APs at home and about 100+ devices, Inc 4 servers and 2 NAS.

Never have issues and it keeps up to date.

I have a separate WiFi for the guest house that is isolated and speed limited.

For a while I ran a controller to manage my home and my parent's farm network, they have a Starlink into Express with 2 U6LR and loco wireless bridge to cover 1KM of farmland with pretty impressive speed WiFi.

I typically take an express on holidays with me now which vpns home to keep our lan where we go, I just need hotel LAN for the WAN.

You can try seeing if you can set the speed/duplex of NIC/ports manually if auto-detection keeps getting it wrong.

Unifi I like the APs for mesh & multiple SSID+vlans but I keep them on dedicated vlan with zero internet access because I don't trust that I properly followed instructions to disable opted in analytics/telemetry. The mgmt software is alright but new UI wastes a lot of space. The PoE switch was alright until it stopped being able to keep a config last year. USG router I kept less than a year because it was too slow with any useful features enabled. I've glanced around at replacement APs here & there but pretty much waiting until I have more wifi 7 compatible devices and that'll be another couple years.

I may be wrong here but the tp link issues were in the more consumer based hardware and not the eap and switch

I've got 4 Omada APs and a virtual controller. There was a bug I experienced where a Google home mini could initiate a broadcast storm. TP-Link got me in touch with engineers very quickly and they fixed the bug in less than a week.

I'm in the (long) process of migrating a mix of PFsense + Tplink switches + Aruba Instant On APs to a fully unifi infrastructure. Even with the mix of devices, my network has been way more solid than ever with a Unifi Gateway Ultra, a few NanoHD APs (still mixed with some Arubas) and 1 unifi switch assisted by the rest of the tplinks.

I should finish the migration next week, no regrets.

The level and ease of control I have now would not have been possible with the previous infrastructure.

If you can still return the Omada devices, I suggest you do and go Unifi.

Ubiquiti?

You can't give me that garbage. I despise it, after setting up a single access point (plus also watching friends deal with it at client sites).

Besides the discovery issues and slow performance when trying to manage it, I had a random open network on it after setup. This network didn't appear anywhere in the control panel. I could turn off the access point and the network disappeared.

It didn't show up in the guest network config (which was turned off anyway). It had the same name as the WPA-protected network, it was just open - no security at all.

I had to reset the access point to get rid of this weird random open network.

What kind of garbage product does that?

Now let's look at cloud keys. One has a hard drive in it. Just one drive, 3.5", which besides storing data also stores the OS. What? Why is the OS not on some firmware or at least an M2, since the drive is really for storing surveillance data (did I mention it's a single drive?), what a joke. Why would I bother with such an expensive device that has zero fault tolerance, when I could simply buy a cheaper real machine, run multiple drives, and host the software there?

I lack the vocabulary to describe how bad Unifi is.