Never configured one of their NVR’s, I gave up Unifi about 5 yrs ago and never looked back moving to Grandstream. But anyhow now we are installing a full stack Unifi network with Unifi NVR. If power and communication goes threw network switch we like putting our cameras with our NVR camera system on a static IP or DHCP reservations. I have put reservations for the cameras themselves in but is this the best way or should I use static’s?
Hopefully you get a few opinions on here, but my experience would be DHCP reservations will be a lot smoother with UniFi cameras. If you are going with a separate NVR, a dedicated VLAN would also be very beneficial. Ubiquiti has change a LOT in the last 5 years, and really in the last 2 years. It will be interesting to see how you feel about it when you’re done.
I have been on a year long journey of trying most other choices out there, including Alta Labs. This week I chose to move back to full stack Ubiquiti.
We always static stuff but we run into a LARGE majority of folks who don’t – probably 90% of the people we work with don’t.
I ended up just using reservations. Between 16 of their cameras, 2 of their doorbell buttons and four of their chimes just seemed easier. In my opinion, It was a little hard to navigate to find where they move certain thing moved to like vlan’s but after figuring that out it was a breeze. Not liking the fact that in there software I doesn’t specifically say a port is trunked and what vlan’s it passes, or am I missing something? How do like the Alata Labs? interesting that it has 10g on it for the price. Personally I feel like they are to new and really no one I have seen really put it thru its paces.
I’m either/or but this depending on product and what works the best for the situation. Normally we statics and close off the the server at 150 and have statics starting from there. But since I’m installing and configuring it and not handling the day to day operation (The homeowner son who thinks he is an IT guru in which he is not) using reservations might be a better way to go.
TLDR: The hardware has been solid and good. The software and features are work in progress.
For Alta Labs, it has been a very positive experience. Their gear is very solid and stable. Their support has been top notch and very responsive. They have an active forum, and a free tech support number to call. We will see how well that level of support scales as they grow. That being said the whole product line is very new and is going to need time to mature. I think they released their router way too soon VS the feature set it released with. It is important to note though that they are steadily adding each and every feature they said would be “coming soon”. So far they are making good on their word. Speaking of steadily adding features, I think it is going to take them some time to feel out exactly what / who they are as a company. They started out with extremely minimal settings and a stance of “we want it to be plug and play and as easy as possible”. Since then they have slowly added more options and configurations as the community has asked for them.
Sorry for the scattered review, but they are a new company figuring themselves out LOL.
Thanks for the review of Alta. Yeah I have heard the same thing from other techs that they are releasing features regularly and actually doing what they said with “coming soon”. And I totally agree with you on their support. Ubiquity had that level of support in the beginning of their product 2013-2014. Now good luck unless you want to pay.
They stole coming soon from Ubiquiti - and most of the employees are from there too. They were supposed to send us a Route 10 router for view but so far, no dice.
I feel like lately, Ubiquiti has seriously stepped up their game. Not just hardware eye candy either.
I think a lot of the vendors are stepping up their game. I can’t even get TP Link to give me a straight answer about the ban. The safe list for what we use so far is Grandstream, Ubiquiti, Synology. Gotta hear from QNAP and some of the other vendors.
I tried contacting TPlink last weeks also, still no reply. I have some switches from them here at our store that are in production and some wifi routers in the wild. Just received GWN7822P to replace the switches at the store and have contacted customers a set schedules to replace those Tplink routers with GS. I would rather be ahead than behind if the band goes threw.
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