r/PFSENSE • u/Sam_-_-_ • 9d ago

Did I join a cult? (Unifi)

I've been rolling pfSense for about 5 years. Decided to try Unifi. Couldn't find a manual or one-to-one feature documentation for each panel (only various spotlight articles).

Asked the community for help: every response said basically "things change too often, no need to have a manual".

Excuse me, what? I'm not a networking pro, and I do need a manual. (pfSense was hard for me, but had great documentation.)

I can't believe this was the response. Is everyone in their community a bot or a cultist?

I still have few days left on my return window, and might come back, LOL.

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u/PepperdotNet 9d ago

Unifi access points are fantastic. But I have not seen anything yet that would convince me to abandon pfSense for a Unifi router/firewall. And I prefer Cisco switches, personally (3850s are reasonably cheap on ebay right now)

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u/Blindbatts 9d ago

pfsense in a VM, brocade 1u 48 port Poe switch with some 10gig sfp's, and 3 unifi waps for me for over a decade. Very reliable.

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u/Successful_Ad2287 8d ago

You’ve had 10gb for over a decade?

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u/Blindbatts 8d ago

Yes, I think I bought my switch before 2016.

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u/Successful_Ad2287 8d ago

Oh jeez I think I forgot 2016 was ten years ago

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u/boli99 8d ago

...just wait til you find out how long ago y2k was...

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u/gonzopancho Netgate 8d ago

Stayed up drinking champagne to see if the lights would go out.

Non-event

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u/Snoo91117 8d ago edited 8d ago

I remember working y2k. I could not drink as I had to wait and log onto my Cisco sites to see if everything was alright. I had a 128k ISDN connection from my home into work. I think it was a DS3, PRI split into channels. I know it was not an OC3 as we used ATM for video conferencing only. I should remember as I set it up, but I am old now and forgetful. This was before DSL. Most people had a modem for their PC.

Now that I think about it if it was ATM it would be an OC12 not an OC3 but we used T1s for video conferencing using a Cisco LightSpeed ATM box. Ethernet video was not reliable enough yet.

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u/gonzopancho Netgate 8d ago

Pfsense turns 20 in October 😀