Mike Burger wrote: > On 2018-02-16 9:29 am, hw wrote: >> Mike Burger wrote: >>> On 2018-02-16 8:16 am, hw wrote: >>>> William Warren wrote: >>>>> I would just buy a cloudkey and not have to bother installing the software >>>>> onto your machine directly. If you do not have a power over ethernet >>>>> switch you'll need a micro USB cable and power supply adapter to run it but >>>>> after that it takes care of running your software for you you don't have to >>>>> install anything on to your machine >>>> >>>> One would have to be insane to give the maintenance and administration of >>>> their wireless infrastructure out of hands. >>> >>> The cloudkey is a device that one purchases and runs the same management software, on your network, rather than installing the software onto a Linux server...it's literally the difference between an ethernet connected (and powered, if you have a PoE switch) device running the software or running it on a full fledged computer. >>> >>> There's no giving of the maintenance to someone else's hands. >> >> You mean it´s an access point controller Ubiquity makes? Why don´t >> they call it just that ... > > Because that's not the only function...it's the control center for your entire Ubiquity Ubifi network...APs, switches, routers, I guess. > Has anyone tried it? I´d like to know if it´s more helpful than the cli and the GUI built into their routers. For the lack of documentation, it hasn´t been possible to set up things the way they should be, and nobody on their forum is able or willing to answer questions. Thus Ubiquity is a dead end. I can only recommend not to buy anything they make before they come up with decent documentation.