I’m currently using Eero https://eero.com/ for my home network, as it mostly works well and is easy for my partner to enable and disable our kids devices at bedtime etc. The interface is quite slow, and I worry about being so cloud and Amazon dependant.

I’m wondering if there’s a local-only, ideally open, alternative? Most alternatives eg Ubiquiti seem to be becoming cloud based, and the likes of open wrt isn’t very partner-friendly.

Is there a middle ground? My requirements are modest, just a few wireless access points plus a handful of wired devices. Internet is max 1 gigabit.

  • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    In what way are the eeros slow? If you run Ethernet between them you’ll get full WiFi speed from all of them. Wireless backhaul will destroy your speed with any product unless they have directional antennae

    • qnmOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      To clarify - the interface is slow, and won’t work without the cloud connection.

      The network is great.

      • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Unifi can run the interface locally, via cloud, out both. I have a UDM and most of the time I access the interfaces locally.

        • qnmOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Do you think the mobile app would be easy for a vaguely technical person to enable and disable groups of devices? Last time I looked at ubiquiti it wasn’t really “consumer” oriented.