I’ve been looking to improve the home network in my home lab. It seems that Ubiquiti has everything I could want in their various products.
However, it seems too good to be true. How much snooping does the router/firewall/APs do on my traffic? If you have a similar case, what has been your experience with Ubiquiti?
If you are looking for a future proof, snooping free and secure solution for home routers, there is most likely no way around installing open source firmware like openwrt. I would just pick a device with good openwrt support, some ubiquity models have that, if I remember correctly. But there are many alternatives by different manufacturers. I would just chose one with good hardware specs in your price range, install openwrt and call it a day.
Ubiquiti is business oriented, not consumer. It’d be very foolish for them to snoop on the traffic of their business customers.
Ubiquiti is also a traded company. Their stock would crater in lieu of such news.
As a consumer, besides reliability, privacy is another main reason to paying extra for enterprise gear.