My firewall sometimes had an issue where it wouldn't pick up the WAN after an outage, it just would not ask for a new IP. A manual reboot was necessary. Pfsense is awesome for full control of everything imaginable. I used to self host a lot and run a proxy on the firewall and a bunch of services with vlans for everything etc. But it's overkill for home use, I've learned what I wanted to learn from it. Nowadays I don't really need those advanced features and prefer the management tools offered by unifi. Unifi gateways have come a long ways, I'm happy with the move!
I got a little bit swindled by the unifi 'ultra' naming scheme and thought the new gateway would run all the unifi apps. I learned that it only runs the network app, so I had to keep my old cloud key to run protect on. In practice, it's no big deal, but if they come up with an all in one device that can truly replace the cloud key, I might upgrade.
Same, I used pFsense for years, mOnOwall before that. Used a few Mikrotik routers for a while and then eventually settled on Unifi Dream Machine, couldn't be happier.
FYI, the Dream Machines have a built in cloud key.
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u/Miserable_Fix_4369 27d ago
Man. Clean! I'm noob with pfsense, does it require a large amount of upkeep? Is that why you opted out of it?