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For experienced Ubiquiti users or patient tinkerers only!
If you have no Ubiquiti experience, or can't google your problems, don't even buy this. ABSOLUTELY. DO. NOT.
If you are patient, comfortable with troubleshooting, reading forums to resolve problems, maybe using a little linux command line, and are already running Ubiquiti's UniFi software on a server; then yes, you should absolutely buy this. Why don't you own it already?
The UniFi software makes setup a breeze, if you realize that the USG's default IP address is 192.168.1.1, and set your server to a static IP in the 192.168.1.xxx range. I could have saved about 5 hours of set up time if I had bothered to realize this when installing on a 192.168.0.xxx network. The second one that I installed took about 5 minutes. You'll only need to SSH into the device if you run into problems, which if you're like me, you have created yourself by not following instructions.
