I bought this router to replace my old Mikrotik that has died. Bug mistake! Ubiquiti makes decent wireless products, but the EdgeRouter is a joke. The web UI is very basic, for most of the functions you have jump to a command line, google for the commands, and hope they'll work properly. Even for simplest tasks, like creating a VPN connection! Error messages are mostly not informative and disappear from the screen before you had a chance to read them! The router has 5 ports, but these are separate ports! By default, it allows to link just two of them to a bridge, with a huge performance penalty! Even though the speed that this routers...view more
I bought this router to replace my old Mikrotik that has died. Bug mistake! Ubiquiti makes decent wireless products, but the EdgeRouter is a joke. The web UI is very basic, for most of the functions you have jump to a command line, google for the commands, and hope they'll work properly. Even for simplest tasks, like creating a VPN connection! Error messages are mostly not informative and disappear from the screen before you had a chance to read them! The router has 5 ports, but these are separate ports! By default, it allows to link just two of them to a bridge, with a huge performance penalty! Even though the speed that this routers provides is not that high in the first place.
All in all, if you after a powerful system with advanced features - go for *-WRT or Mikrotik.
By: Damien
18/06/21
Verified Owner
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