raid_dad

That sounds like an issue with Mullvad to me. I haven’t used it personally, but a quick search pulled up some issues with Mullvad leaking location over ipv6 and even disabling it by default.

I’m a certified network engineer so I wasn’t too fussed with their support. I have a Dream Machine, a 24 port PoE switch, two APs (one U6 Lite, and one U7 Lite that I added later), and three cameras. We mostly just use the cameras to check on the cats when we’re out of town, but it’s nice to have the extra security just in case.

Is the setup a little excessive: absolutely. Is it awesome to know within seconds if there’s an issue with my network or if it’s just another ISP outage: also yes.

In the five years that I’ve had this setup, I’ve had exactly one issue with the network and it was just that one of the APs died after four years of continuous use.

I’ve been telling anyone that will listen about my ubiquiti setup. Storing the video data locally is the only scenario that I’m comfortable with. I can still remotely log into my network and check camera footage, but no one else has access to it.

The funniest part about this is that I can’t think of a scenario where I would be asked this.

I did this about two years ago and every door in my house is still completely silent, absolute game changer for not waking up my kid in the middle of the night.