It’s such a shame what Ubiquiti has become these past 3-5 years. Their product used to be fun and reliable. Nowadays, just feels like corporate greed and just another Cisco. I eventually switched out all my Ubiquiti stuff due to it.
I have an outdoor shaded box with a USW Flex in it. That one box kills them quickly. I doubt it gets over 110-120F, so the root cause is a bit of a mystery. Any suggestions for a more robust model?<p>The box has a long PoE run and then it redistributes out the PoE to 3-4 other PoE devices. The wattage is well within spec, but they usually drop to 100MBit from 1GBit a few months before permanently failing, so there could be some sort of signal integrity problem or over-driving of the phy, etc.<p>I'm kind of considering trying a Flex Mini, since at least they're cheaper. (The box is waterproof.)
I can't really get into my parents attic rn to grab a photo, but very similar install.<p>I've had a Netgear* switch running up there non-stop since roughly 2000! Have never had to reboot it. Granted, power outages have rebooted it, and I have no way of actually checking its up-time.<p>*Those were the days when Netgear products were solid
> All it took to wire up my garage were some cheap gigabit SFP transceivers (pretty sure I used these ones right here), 40 meters of aqua-clad multimode fiber, and a $75 appointment with a contractor to actually run the fiber.<p>I'm puzzled as to why someone writing for ArsTechnica would need the contractor to run the fiber. Any idea?<p>They already said they didn't want to pay to run a conduit and I can't imagine a contractor doing anything at all that involves both a shovel and a fiber run for $75, even 8 years ago.
I wonder if putting the switch behind a UPS or more substantial surge protector/line filtering would help it last even longer. The batteries in a UPS at those temps might give up before the switch does.
I am hearing a several people saying "they are moving away from Ubiquiti" but none say exactly what they are moving to or in past tense what they moved to.<p>What are you all moving to?
Meanwhile, I've had two USW-Lite-16-POE's fail just outside their two year warranty period, alongside a CloudKey and other equipment from them. It's just junk and they don't stand behind it. I'm transitioning away from them as best I can. The only thing I have left is my gateway and some APs.
Still got my USW-8-150 laying literally my feet. Dirt and dust everywhere, I accidentally kick it all the time. I should feel bad for having my network equipment heaped in a pile under my desk but hasn’t bothered it one bit. I was always nervous about it because it runs really warm but really it’s been fine.
Do you remember the time when Ars Technica didn't only publish reposts from the Verge, Logitech press-releases, and covid articles but actually posted hands-on technical and sysadmin tutorials (like the original of this switch from many years ago), and did hands-on reviews instead of generating it with a template?<p>Pepperidge farm remembers (but only very vaguely, it was a long time ago).