I always enjoy reading about these but man that is a lot of work to set up even if maintenance is simple. Ubiquiti has lost trust but to their credit even a simple UDM base (that is not connected to the cloud) can do VLANs with another device running pihole/wireguard works great. You even could run the pihole on device with podman and use their baked in VPN.
I'd like to plug Ubiquiti also. I'm not a networking guy and I just want my network to work. I don't want to worry about it or try to guess am I having problems due to Comcast or my home network setup.
Switching to Ubiquiti, from high-end Asus gear, has been awesome. Everything just works. Networking is now a non-issue, and when my wife tells me the "internet isn't working", I can respond, "it's not my fault!"
I heard some horror stories with new ubiquiti gear, but my ERPoE router has been serving me gbit and PoE for AP since 2016 and 0 issues, it even handles WireGuard using some hoops.
While I will say that our Ubiquiti AP seems to work, configuring it was hell. It involved the management app installing its own nginx instance on my laptop, and then it makes a weird differentiation where if something's a guest network it asks what URL you want to redirect them to when they connect, but if it's not a guest network it doesn't have client isolation. (I eventually found the tickbox to enable it on a non-guest network, it had some weird Ubiquiti-specific name). It was just an ongoing series of problems.
I've been meaning to give out different DNS servers via DHCP on the guest network vs the internal but I just can't face trying to configure that thing again.
I'm glad you're happy with yours but replacing mine with Mikrotik kit is super high on my home-network todo list.
My ubiquiti UAP-Lite was great, until it became flakey. I swapped it for an ancient router that supported an old build of ddwrt, and everything wireless started working again.
Retrospectively I think the ubiquiti AP’s flakiness was caused by a firmware update. This Reddit post is ~2 years old:
I’ve been meaning to do a hard reset and/or change the firmware, and put the ubiquiti AP back into service, but the old & slow ddwrt router works fine for everything not an Ethernet cable.
