What Networking Hardware are you using? Specifically your managed switch
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May 10, 2026
Onscreen5341:
> Does this not apply to MikroTik too? Their switches are proprietary too, right?
You are right, Microtik sofware is proprietary too. I don’t see one as good and one as bad. I actually set up the cloud-based version of unifi for my cousin. It was the full setup with router and everything. There was a lot of automation which was good but a lot of abstraction which would have been fine but since things like adblocking are mostly abstracted, it is just a simple yes/no selection, which I found annoying. If you’re used to adguard home, pihole, pfblockerng, etc., then the binary-ness of that is a tough pill to swallow.
I assume that’s just for the router and not switches or ap’s but i wouldn’t know what they’ve abstracted unless i learned about it first somewhere else (like with microtik?).
But sometimes I overthink this stuff lol.
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