Ubiquity Cloud Fiber Gateway

[t84a]

Anyone have any experience with these?  I'm looking to migrate from OPNSense to one. Thanks

[JamesFrisch]

I have. They suck.
Great switches an APs though

[patient0]

Anyone have any experience with these?  I'm looking to migrate from OPNSense to one. Thanks

Maybe the UI community forum, https://community.ui.com/ ?

Having said that, I do use a not-cloud Fiber Gateway (UXG-Fiber). Price/performance is great but of course not as many features as OPNsense. I use Technitium for DNS and don't use IDS at all + some region blocking (but not really necessary since I don't have any web services accessible from the internet). IPv6 is missing features but generally works.


What features are using on your OPNsense?

[nero355]

I have. They suck.
Great switches an APs though

The more I think about it, the more I would only keep their In Wall Accesspoints and replace everything else with a different brand :)

Now if I could only somehow ditch the UniFi Controller too and have a webGUI on each In Wall itself...


Some new hack to flash EdgeSwitch Firmware on UniFi Switches would be fine too by the way!

[t84a]

Anyone have any experience with these?  I'm looking to migrate from OPNSense to one. Thanks

Maybe the UI community forum, https://community.ui.com/ ?

Having said that, I do use a not-cloud Fiber Gateway (UXG-Fiber). Price/performance is great but of course not as many features as OPNsense. I use Technitium for DNS and don't use IDS at all + some region blocking (but not really necessary since I don't have any web services accessible from the internet). IPv6 is missing features but generally works.


What features are using on your OPNsense?

Not many. I'm not having the success with OPNSense as others and haven't had luck getting help. Thanks

[JamesFrisch]

and haven't had luck getting help.

said the person who asked about switching fro OPNsense to Cloud Gateway, in the OPNsense forum and not the Unifi forum ;)

But hey, I get you. The Unifi community forum is a pita to even get to it.
And they make the same mistake as this forum by not using Discourse as forum software.

[nero355]

And they make the same mistake as this forum by not using Discourse as forum software.

I am VERY HAPPY with that decision !!! :)

Discourse is pure crap!

Everytime I visit one i think to myself : Is this the future ?! I sure hope not! :(



But yeah...

The Ubiquiti Forum isn't exactly great either so it can be done even worse than Discourse :P

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I am VERY HAPPY with that decision !!! :)

Discourse is pure crap!

+1 :-)

[JamesFrisch]

Don't know what you are talking about. Maybe bad setup selfhosted discourse?

Anyway, forums like TrueNAS or level1tech are IMHO far, far superior to this forum here.
Like it is not even a competition. Discourse is in a league of its own compared to this.

[nero355]

Don't know what you are talking about.

You don't know either apparently : Discourse for example blocks certain browsers because they think they are "Outdated" while they are absolutely NOT !!!

Maybe bad setup selfhosted discourse?

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/ is hosted on the Discourse CDN and something I visit very often, but would rather see Discourse NOT being used if I am completely honest!

Anyway, forums like TrueNAS or level1tech are IMHO far, far superior to this forum here.
Like it is not even a competition. Discourse is in a league of its own compared to this.

After about 30 years of "Forum Experience" I can tell you that there are plenty of alternatives that are A LOT better !! ;)

[JamesFrisch]

Not sure if we are talking about some problem back in 2025 or now. Discourse works fine on Safari, Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox.
So 95% of browser share.


But either way, that is missing my main point.
For an active and healthy community, you need a good forum software.
And good forum software does not mean that @nero355 can visit the site from Opera Mobile ;) , but that the average user likes to use the software. And this without a doubt boiled down to two plattforms; Discourse and reddit.


OPNsense might get away with a clunky forum software and still have a healty community because it is niche. But it could be a barrier to entry for newcomers. Or it could end up in disussion always only involving the same five oldtimers from the forum. Which is totally fine if you consider yourself a "people come in, drop a question, get it answered by regulars, and drop out again" support forum. But this is not really a healthy community IMHO. That is just a support forum.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The single page endless scrolling interface of Discourse sucks. Plus there are not even buttons to jump to the first or last post.