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I used to have a UniFi gateway for the nice traffic visualization but Ubiquiti lost my trust when they started running telemetry without consent and I’ve gone back to an OpenBSD’s box as router, thus this device does little for me.

I’m looking forward to the GL.Inet MUDI 7, their first 5G hotspot, which should be running an open-source and hackable OS unlike most hotspots:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e5800/



I have a little WIFI-6 era GL.iNet travel router and it is fantastic, really like their software and hardware.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/


For both home and travel routers OpenWRT is far and away superior to Unifi gear. Usability, configurability, and especially security.


What makes them more so secure? Configurability I can see, usability maybe, as Ubiquiti is all about simplification and ease of use.


- open source and auditable

- support modern VPN protocols like WireGuard and Tailscale


Open source and auditable I can see.

Ubiquti does support wireguard natively. And you can get Tailscale running if you manually install the package through the SSH CLI.


Ubiquidropped all cloud requirements, but I am not sure what you are referring too here.


I haven't paid attention for a while, but this definitely hurt their brand massively: https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_pho...

Pretty sure that's what OP is referring to.


Exactly.


I’ve been waiting for one of these with built in eSIM support


This one has eSIM and dual physical SIM support.


I’m really struggling to understand the SIM side, the page talks about 5G while tethered to a phone?


I think these models can act as router while leveraging RNDIS tethering if you don't have a separate sim card...


Zero mention of anything other than WiFi on its tech specs page :-/

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wifi/products/utr


This is incorrect. No sim support here, and no cellular modem either :-)


I was talking about the https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e5800/, it in fact does have eSIM and 2 physical SIM slots.




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