<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>The recommendation I&amp;#x27;ve seen around is to run opnsense or pfsense for the router, then unifi APs. (I first found out about it from a YouTube channel as being a way. 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;TheTecknowledge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;TheTecknowledge&lt;/a&gt; . They are PFsense resellers, which is why they talk about it. But they could go straight unifi but they don&amp;#x27;t. After running PSNs myself for the last 4 years, I like opnsense being a little more open to community involvement, versus the control that PFsense has.).&lt;p&gt;Opnsense forums have lots of recommendation for hardware, which is the path I went recently. I went with &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;protectli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;protectli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, which are just some rebranded hardware sold on Alibaba, but they provide support ontop of the hardware.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn&amp;#x27;t see any similar products.&lt;p&gt;Are there any other &amp;quot;prosumer&amp;quot;-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like I&amp;#x27;ll be going with them for a replacement.</text></item><item><author>ex_ubiquiti</author><text>As a former Ubiquiti employee, I&amp;#x27;m sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.&lt;p&gt;The saddest part is that we had many good engineers who could have continued to do amazing things with the UniFi momentum. So much time was wasted on dead end products like FrontRow. Most everyone I know left for jobs where we were treated better and paid more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>floatboth</author><text>If you only need to VLAN-tag the 4 ports on that one device, you can do it with like… about literally anything? e.g. an Archer C1750 with OpenWRT does that easily.&lt;p&gt;The benefit of UniFi is that you can centrally control a bunch of switches. It&amp;#x27;s definitely overkill and overpriced if you just want an all-in-one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn&amp;#x27;t see any similar products.&lt;p&gt;Are there any other &amp;quot;prosumer&amp;quot;-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like I&amp;#x27;ll be going with them for a replacement.</text></item><item><author>ex_ubiquiti</author><text>As a former Ubiquiti employee, I&amp;#x27;m sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.&lt;p&gt;The saddest part is that we had many good engineers who could have continued to do amazing things with the UniFi momentum. So much time was wasted on dead end products like FrontRow. Most everyone I know left for jobs where we were treated better and paid more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story>