Ubiquiti Wireless Reviews

The platform provides a straightforward network management process. It is a cost-effective solution offering freeware for all the components.

The technical support services need improvement. 

We have been using Ubiquiti Wireless for three years.

It is a stable product.

It is a highly scalable platform. I rate it a nine out of ten.

The technical support services could be faster.

Neutral

We used HP Aruba, Ruckus, and Cisco before. We decided to opt for Ubiquiti Wireless as we signed a distribution agreement with Ubiquiti. Secondly, we found their product range to be extremely well-priced while maintaining high-quality standards.

As per the technicians' feedback, the installation is straightforward. We have a team of three engineers for the product maintenance.

I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten. There are no additional expenses apart from the standard licenses.

The most recent project involved implementing a Ubiquiti Wireless solution for a large factory. The project encompassed deploying approximately 35 access points throughout the factory premises, including the offices. It provides high reliability and performance. I rate it a nine out of ten.

An area for improvement is availability - I sometimes have to wait weeks for their equipment.

The technical support is less than stellar.

From a pricing point of view, Ubiquiti is excellent. They charge around $180 per access point, and the switches are around $1,100, including support and a limited warranty.

The failure rate is very low on these devices - I've had them installed for five years and have only lost one out of a hundred. I'd rate this solution as nine out of ten.

We use the tool internally and for client portfolios.

We had a client with a power plant. Different wireless devices from various brands caused problems. We fixed it using the Ubiquiti Wireless UDM controller and installed 75 access points and antennas.

The tool's most valuable feature is SD-WAN. It is easy to use and manage. In terms of reliability, we don't get many tickets or a service request after the installation. It's like installing and forgetting the device. In one railway construction project where we installed Ubiquiti three years ago, we've only received two inquiries since then. We provide remote support.

The solution has very good product lines. However, it feels like some models overlap. For example, a new model is announced after three months, and another new model is announced shortly after. So, the release cycle feels too short, and some features overlap. Overall, the products are very good and reliable.

I have been using the product for five years.

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten.

Combining internal users within our organization and clients in our existing managed service, we have approximately 3,000-3,500 users using Ubiquiti Wireless. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

I rated technical support as an eight out of ten because we rarely need to call them. Instead, we usually email the community or local distributors for support, and they assist us. However, in terms of implementation, we don't rely on technical support.

Positive

I used Aruba, Meraki, D-Link, and Cisco before Ubiquiti Wireless. We chose to switch from Cisco, Aruba, and Meraki to Ubiquiti Wireless mainly because most clients prefer cost-effective solutions. While brands like Aruba and Cisco are expensive. Ubiquiti is a US brand.

Our organization handles Ubiquiti Wireless maintenance and troubleshooting internally. We also provide managed services for some clients, managing all the day-to-day transactions and monitoring their wireless networks. We have about eight wireless engineers responsible for all technical aspects, including deployment and maintenance of Ubiquiti Wireless and other technical tasks.

The tool doesn't have any licensing costs.

We don't solely rely on built-in firewall features for enterprise-level security. Instead, we often use another brand or third-party firewall the client prefers as the primary defense. For clients with less sensitive data transactions or those running via the cloud, we trust the firewall features of Ubiquiti's UDM Pro.

I rate the solution overall as a nine out of ten. There's always room for improvement, and we anticipate future developments and innovations.

Ubiquiti wireless is quite good for us, especially in terms of price and functionality. We often provide maintenance services to companies for their internal land areas, and we rent or sell access points to them for Wi-Fi access. Additionally, we provide support for their internal network, which is why we use Ubiquiti access points.

We mostly use Ubiquiti solutions due to their affordable price. We sell to a lot of small businesses that only require basic Wi-Fi functionality in their offices or shops, and they don't need many features or management options. So we opt for Ubiquiti products. 

As for bigger projects and larger clients, we let them choose, and they sometimes go for products from vendors like Aruba. However, bigger companies usually make their own choice, and we are able to provide some vendors but not point them toward a specific system.

Three years ago, we were only selling Ubiquiti access points to small companies that needed only one access point.

They had issues with having more than one access point at the time. However, in the past year, we have been selling more and more Ubiquiti access points because those issues have been resolved, and we can now provide more than one access point. It is due to management improvements or some features currently working together correctly in the office.

Therefore, the most valuable feature is more access points. In the past, getting access points delivered and purchased was quite difficult. One of the options was to use Ubiquiti, which was much easier to obtain than Aruba, which took longer to get access points.

We use a program that creates heat maps for our customers. I'm not sure if Ubiquiti has some features like that, but sometimes we only have a floor plan of the office and need to determine how many access points and which models to propose to the customer. In such cases, we use those programs from other vendors.

We provide managed services, rent out the equipment and take care of the internal network support. Central monitoring is the main functionality that should be included in the product we offer to bigger customers. It could improve the quality of implementation, help in integration, and provide better metrics.

I've been working with Ubiquiti wireless for about two years now.

We have not had many problems with our existing customers who use it extensively.

Currently, Ubiquiti has no issues with scalability, so there are no problems in scaling that network and the conference off.

We haven't had any problems with deployment.

Our team is experienced in networking. Most of our customers already have existing cloud solutions and products with us. Sometimes we know about their network and switches and provide Internet for them, so it's quite easy.

It's just configuring the access point, sometimes at our or the customer's office, and then mounting them under the ceiling or wherever the company wants them.

Our team does the hard work of mounting the access points. We haven't heard of any problems with deployment.

Ubiquiti is one of the cheaper options among its competitors. The company usually does not have much product information when it chooses the vendor. And others choose the solutions, like HP and others, because these solutions have a stronger brand in the market.

Whereas, we have compared with the other providers in our market. And for small businesses, the first option is to choose less expensive products. So, of course, the biggest products we're selling are because of the low price.

We had some issues a few years ago. That's why we were selling only to those customers who needed only one access point, such as small shops or offices with ten people. Now, we don't have any problems. 

We need to provide one vendor access point, and we have some issues with customers with another vendor, like Ruckus. We used to work a lot with Ruckus vendor access points, but we're buying fewer now because they have bad delivery times. If we want to buy a new one and have many customers who now have Ruckus, we have difficulties getting a new one or changing it. We are thinking about changing all the office access points to Ubiquiti.

Currently, I see the best value for price in the market regarding Ubiquiti wireless. Also, the delivery time is quite good, and we haven't had any problems. We are using a few models like Long Range, Pro, Wi-Fi 6, NeoGen, and J2028, and they have everything that small and medium businesses need. So, I would recommend this solution to other people.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. We are happy with the solution and increasing its usage.

The primary use cases of this solution include home use and hospitality, for example: small cafes, etc. It's used in most small businesses where they just need a few ITs and they need simple management, which also means that they're not too worried about the security.

Cost is a big value to the customer and that's the main thing with Ubiquiti Wireless. They don't really have any features that stand out, that would distinguish them from other vendors, so it's all about their pricing. The most attractive thing about them is their cost.

What would make this solution better is improved security. Nowadays, with consumer and enterprise level, most of the access points that I work with, e.g. Aruba, Cambium, or Ruckus, etc., they have firewalls built into the access points and they can do deep packet inspection of data coming through the access point. This gives you the ability to identify applications and you can secure and manage based on application. Ubiquiti Wireless is already simplified, so they don't do that.

The performance of Ubiquiti Wireless also needs some improvement. Though performance is very difficult to quantify because if it's performance based on one or two access points in a home, Ubiquiti Wireless is fantastic, but their performance is lacking in large environments. They end up creating problems in larger environments.

I've had people put this in and because Ubiquiti Wireless doesn't solve tune and they weren't capable of tuning it themselves, they ended up with six access points, but the power and the channel assignments have been all wrong, so they haven't been getting any benefit out of the access points.

Ubiquiti Wireless also tends to turn the access points up to the maximum power, and if you're designing an enterprise network, you need to actually turn the power down on your access point and increase the density of your access points to give proper performance improvements. They're not an enterprise product. They're a home and consumer and small business product.

Scalability is an issue. Ease of manageability at scale is also an issue. For example, looking at one of its competitors: Aruba, you can easily scale that to 500 to a thousand access points and still have it all under control.

You also have the ability to do software-defined wireless networking with competitors of Ubiquiti Wireless, which is something you can't really do with Ubiquiti. Ubiquiti Wireless is a point solution.

I have a long list of things that they've got to do to improve the product. There's so many things that they need to do. One of the things that is quite important is that they get rid of the cloud key and have smart insight and access points.

With the other vendors, you buy the access points, then access the virtual controller which will give you that connection into your cloud management. With Ubiquiti Wireless, you have to buy a separate cloud key, or you have to run a separate software server, or you have to buy a Dream Machine Pro or a Dream Machine just to manage your network remotely. They need to move away from that and move to clustering and Virtual Controller in their IP.

I've been working with Ubiquiti Wireless for two years.

If I we're to rate the stability of Ubiquiti Wireless, I'll rate it a six out ten. They have a reputation of crashing when you do a firmware update sometimes.

Ubiquiti Wireless is not easy to scale. Scalability is a problem. Get your five AP (access points) and you're fine, but if you want to put 50 AP, you'll have a big problem. It's not scalable.

Another thing is from the management perspective with cloud keys and the way that they use cloud keys, it isn't scalable.

It's also not multi-tenanted, so you can't really use it. When you have multiple branches and sites, management becomes a big problem.

Ubiquiti Wireless doesn't have any support that you can call. I've used their online support and it's not great. Part of their value proposition is they're super cheap because there's no tech that you can call. You can't find an engineer to speak to, or to help you.

A lot of the support is done through the online portal, so if you want technical answers on how to fix issues, you have to go to the community. After everything's installed, they make people figure out issues and solutions for themselves. Their support documentation is not fantastic.

Setting up Ubiquiti Wireless is very simple, very basic.

To set up a network: getting access points installed, and depending on what I was using for a firewall, and getting an SSID secured and set up, it takes 20 to 30 minutes. That does not include mounting it anywhere, but just getting it out of the box, connecting it to a switch, then actually getting it configured. It's straightforward.

The price point for Ubiquiti Wireless is really good.

I've worked with Aruba Networks Wireless WAN, Cambium, and Ruckus Wireless WAN.

I'm a wireless specialist. That's what I do. I design wireless and put them in.

Deployment of Ubiquiti Wireless depends on the customers, but it's not deployed on my premises. I sell it and I design it. I'm an engineer who designs for customers, so we deploy it in different scenarios, but mostly it's deployed into the small business type of environments.

This solution requires regularly maintenance. You have to do firmware updates, and that's it.

My advice to people looking into using this product is that first of all, it would depend on what they are doing. What type of network implementation are they going to do?

Before I give advice, I would be asking a lot of questions. If Ubiquiti Wireless will be used in an educational institution, or in an institution that requires a higher level of security, or one that requires ease of management or good scalability, I will tell them not to use it.

If it will be used in a little cafe and they want to put two access points in, and they want a little guest network that people can sign in, and they want people to be able to log in through Facebook, etc., then using Ubiquiti Wireless will be fine.

Ubiquiti Wireless is a seven out of ten for me, because of its target market, and it does what it's supposed to do in the market it's supposed to be in. It's really good for its price point and for its target market.

I work with Ingram Micro and we sell a large amount of Ubiquiti Wireless, and there's a lot of SME that use them quite successfully. It's just that large implementations can become a huge challenge with this solution.

The solution has a user-friendly interface. It has many essential features, including encryption. 

The solution's stability and setup process could be better. Also, there could be a LAN controller feature similar to Ruckus in Ubiquiti's next release.

We have been using the solution for two years.

The solution is stable. Although, we encounter stability issues in crowded areas.

The solution is suitable for small and medium businesses. We have 20-25 users in our organization.

I refer to support documentation in the case of queries for the solution. It is good and helpful.

The solution's initial setup could be more straightforward. It takes half an hour to complete tests and finish the process after installation.

The solution's price is reasonable for a basic device.

Compared with the solution, Ruckus has a lot of software and tools for wireless functionality. It also has a LAN controller feature which is not available in Ubiquiti. I prefer using Ruckus or Cisco products while working for large companies.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I primarily use the solution within small networks.

It's really helped with network management. 

The visibility of the devices and the switches is great. If troubleshooting issues come up, it's easy to deal with things.

We like that there's one pane of glass that we can look at everything through.

The ease of deployment is great.

It is stable. 

The solution can scale.

It offers fair pricing. 

The accessibility to technical support could be better. We'd like to actually speak to a person without going through chat. We'd like real-time assistance when we are trying to resolve issues. 

With our configurations, the UX could be better. With Cisco, for example, there are certain things you can do that you just can't do on Ubiquiti.

We'd like to be able to use COmmand Line instead of the UI. 

I've been using the solution for five years. 

I'd rate the solution eight or nine out of ten in terms of stability. It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. 

This is a scalable solution. I'd rate its ability to scale eight or nine out of ten. 

Technical support needs to be better. They need to be more responsive and easier to reach, especially when we need to speak with someone for troubleshooting. 

The initial setup is very simple. It is not overly complex. 

I have witnessed an ROI. 

The pricing is pretty good. It is reasonable. 

We may use the latest version of the solution. It depends on the client's deployment. 

I'd advise people to do their research and have a good understanding of the product.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. 

We have approximately 60 branches and they all use access points, and they are controlled by one software controller in our headquarters. We use it only for normal Wi-Fi and guests.

The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti Wireless is the ease of configuration.

We have an issue with Ubiquiti Wireless every three to five months for one of the access points.

I have been using Ubiquiti Wireless for approximately seven years.

The stability of Ubiquiti Wireless could improve. We have found there is too much fluctuation in the Wi-Fi and after two to three years you can notice the performance degradation.

Ubiquiti Wireless is scalable. However, the number of access points should be determined. 

When using Aruba ClearPass we discovered the controller is not talking to Aruba ClearPass, but every access point can communicate with the Aruba ClearPass. That means every access point is working alone but the controller only pushes the configuration to all access points. It is not really an access point controller.

We have approximately 1,200 people using the solution.

Ubiquiti Wireless does not have support directly, such as Cisco and Aruba do, you have to rely on community support. However, they do sell support for enterprise companies.

I have used Aruba previously.

The initial setup of Ubiquiti Wireless is easy and the implementation can take up to several hours.

The price of Ubiquiti Wireless is affordable, we pay approximately $100 and $150 per access point.

I would recommend this solution is best suited for small and medium businesses. Small businesses I would classify as 200 to 400 people using the solution. Aruba is a better solution.

I rate Ubiquiti Wireless a five out of ten.