Networks Edgerouter Lite 3-Port Router

This is an extremely powerful router for a small office/home office situation. This router would be sufficient and appropriate for a larger office/branch office situation and can easily support several dozen concurrent users - total overkill for my house and home office - but at the same time absolutely perfect for that application. Think of this router as a miniature commercial router rather than a hardened residential one. In my experience, many aspects of this device are more akin to "real" Cisco-type iron than the type of router you might buy in a consumer electronics store. Don't let the price point fool you - this is a serious piece of computing hardware. With that stated - it's not just plug and play. If you expect it to work just like the consumer routers you're used to, you might be frustrated or disappointed. It takes some configuration - probably an hour so initially, though I could do it much faster now that I've done it once - and some planning about how you want your network to work. Here are some things to consider: * It's a router. It routes packets from one place to another. * It routes packets fast. Really fast. * It's happy to just work with almost everything - VPN, etc just work * You can configure it to work with IPv6 just fine as well * The web interface is nice, but there may be features that you want that can only - or are best - configured from the command line * It features hardware offloading for some types of routing - making it even faster and keeping CPU loads quite low in my application * It features a "configuration wizard" which works well to get your initial configuration up and running Please do think a bit about your needs, because it's important to remember what this unit is not: * It's not a "plug and play" solution - you need to configure it to do what you want * It's not a wireless router. It's not a wireless access point. It's just plain not wireless in any way. Regarding the wireless item above - in my opinion, that's a feature, not a bug. In terms of capability and reliability, I am now a big advocate for separating my routing from my wireless access. Initially, I am using my old wireless router - an ASUS RT-AC66U - as just an access point. As an access point, my old router seems to work well and has not had to be reset, etc for over a month. The Edgerouter has never had to be rebooted since I first got it configured and working. Using my old router as an access point was actually more complicated - and required more configuration and programming - than getting the Edgerouter configured. If you don't already have a wireless access point or solution, I'd strongly recommend looking at the Ubiquiti Unifi access points - you can find the AC-capable units for under $100 in some cases (model dependent) and these are a real step up from consumer-grade hardware. They work well with the Edgerouter and are easily managed. And best of all, they're designed to just provide wireless access with high reliability and low maintenance. I know that my next step will be to retire my old consumer gear and upgrade to one of these. Online support in the Ubiquiti forums and elsewhere is fantastic for this solution. My summary is that this is a great router and great part of a larger network solution. It's powerful and stable enough for a business environment but the price point makes it appropriate for purchase and use in a home environment. I'm delighted with the purchase!

Wow! Rarely am I this impressed. I bought this for one and only one reason: my primary Internet provider has ridiculously low data caps on our plan, and keep forcing us to "upgrade" to higher speeds (so that we can blow through the cap even faster!). So I recently signed up for a secondary, slower connection with no caps, for the things like backups that require lots of data, but don't need the speed. This led me to the question of how I could manage two internet connections coming into the house in an automated way. Lo and behold, searching turned up that there is a whole class of router devices that have a "dual WAN" feature, meaning they can manage two (or more) internet connections at once. I did a lot of research on the various brands, and almost went with a device from a very popular name brand. However, reading the reviews on these "consumer grade" devices was a real turn off: flaky, cheap hardware seemed par for the course, unless you're willing to pay hundreds for something that's more of a "professional" type device. I hate wasting my time on flaky stuff, so I kept searching. I almost ended up paying hundreds more for a top-shelf (in terms of price) device that could do what I wanted. Then in some search I ran across this. The reviews were mostly stellar, though people were warning that this is "not easy" to set up. I have a computer science background, but not in networking. I also hate wasting time on complex configurations. So I was concerned that it could be a big time suck. But given the low cost and good reviews, I took a gamble. I'm so glad that I did! The device arrived - it is compact, clean looking, and sturdy. No cheap plastic. I fired it up, and within just 10 minutes had my first internet connection running through the device to the residence. I then tried it with the second, and it only took another 10 minutes to get that one working. Then I set out to combine them together into a "load balancing" configuration, where internet traffic to/from our place is split between the two connections. Maybe this used to be a pain years ago, but now Ubiquiti has built-in "wizards" that take you through common configurations like this, step by step. I followed the wizard, and within another 15-20 minutes, I had a full "load balanced" configuration running. That was great. Getting to that point was super easy and hassle free. This would be enough for most users, and can be done by wizards alone. The next step was to configure it so that certain traffic (such as backups) only go through one of the connections, but not the one with the data cap. I was concerned that this might be complicated, because it wasn't part of the wizard. However, some searches at their forum revealed a step-by-step post showing how to do this at the command line. While I've done tons of command line stuff, these days I don't like learning whole new command sets unless I have to. So I figured out that I could do everything they described in the posts through a little-described but powerful feature of the GUI: The "Config Tree". Here's a complete GUI to ALL device settings, with at least a bit of guidance in the form of tool tips as to how to set things. Using the instructions provided in the forum posts for the command line, I was able to browse through the Config Tree to find the same settings, and to set those as described. Then I rebooted.... And it was working perfectly! I started a backup and all the traffic was going through the unlimited internet connection. Everything else was still being load-balanced between the two. I really like the gui - especially the network charts and analyses that show how much data is going where. You can even drill down into the specifics of which devices on the network are using what data - and from what sources. A great feature for making sure we don't go over the caps with our one provider. The speed so far has been great. I did one speed test today, and I got more than the full bandwidth of my faster connection coming through. It's a 150mbp/second connection, and according to speediest, it was running at over 160 to my system. The test system in question was connected to the router via a wired cat6 ethernet cable via the switch. Based on several comments in other reviews, I was worried that enabling some more complex configuration features might peg the CPU, but so far, it has remained low - usually below 20%. I haven't seen any signs of glitches; it's been rock solid so far. The only caveat is that this is a router, not a switch. What that means is that if you have multiple devices you want on the same network, you need a separate device with switching to connect them all. I use a professional grade switch I already had, but it would work just fine to use a home wifi router plugged into this, to provide the switching functions to both wired and wireless clients. I have my own wireless (Airport) base station attached to my switch to provide wireless to the mobile devices, and it works without a hitch. For this low price, to have such a positive experience out of the box, this earns my rare five star review. It's pro grade gear at consumer prices.

i think the equipment is really good, just complicated to setup it is a really solid piece of equipment but you better know what you are oding. it is complicated to setup. if you are an IT admin, go for it. I'm not and it took me a lot of time with grok to get it working. once setup the router is functioning perfectly. if i had known what i was doping i would probably give it 5 stars.

Best home router I've ever owned. I have experience configuring networking and server equipment at an Internet Service Provider, though, so I'm happy to dive into command line configuration and everything else this router offers. Quality of Service functionality works well at maintaining low latency on sensitive devices in the network (such as a gaming PC or console) while simultaneously streaming or downloading on another device, though it slows your maximum throughput to about 60-65Mbps on a 100Mbps Internet connection. I have not finished setting it up for external VPN access but am confident it will work fine, based on other user reports. The GUI is decent, makes basic configuration a snap, and its deep packet inspection function can be helpful for isolating problem devices on the LAN/WLAN. DNS proxy service working perfectly. Dynamic DNS updates are also working well on my Namecheap domain hosting. I do wish it had similar functionality of the Netduma gaming routers, but maybe I can get some of that info from the command line or by installing some software packages on the router. I have yet to have to reboot this router for the old standby reason of "just reboot it and it will start working again" on lesser routers. In fact I haven't rebooted it for any reason at all other than a firmware update, I believe. Rock solid, no-nonsense router. It does get quite warm under load, so you'll want to give it some space to breathe. Only improvement I can think of is to somehow increase that QoS throughput while still maintaining low latency; might need a faster CPU for that (or look into the EdgeRouter X).

OpenVPN y IPSEC/L2TP no se pueden configurar. Incluso utilizando ovpn profiles que han sido validados y funcionan el Edge router lite no los interpreta y regresa una variedad de errores que no tiene mucha logica.

Je l'ai acheté pour apprendre l'utilisation des firewall, du routage, dns, nat... Ce qui a fait la différence pour moi c'est le DPI intégré qui permet de filtrer au niveau applicatif (interdire Skype par exemple). A ce niveau de prix c'est unique et c'est simple a utiliser. Les assistants sont bien faits, mais pas complets pour se connecter à internet. Attention c'est un pur routeur avec deux sorties pour deux réseaux différents il faut coller des switches derrière, si en avez déjà un ainsi qu'un point ou routeur wifi vous pouvez les récupérer. Le produit utilise des softs open source bien connus, on peut se cultiver en lisant les nombreuses ressources sur internet mais ça demande de l'investissement personnel. Le pare feu feu est puissant, outre le DPI, les trois interfaces peuvent être protégées dans toutes les directions (in,out et local pour la protection du routeur lui même), rien à voir avec le pare feu des box ou des routeurs wifi. Ce produit est parfait pour créer deux réseaux chez soi, dont l'un l'un est plus exposé au menaces, réseau invités, serveur ouvert sur internet, cameras de surveillance, domotique et produits dont un port est constamment ouvert sur le net. En créant des règles strictes on peut isoler son réseau "sensible" du réseau exposé. Dans mon cas j'ai un réseau géré par la box, deux par le routeur, l'egdgemax assure la sécurité entre ceux ci. Avec un peu d’apprentissage des réseaux on s'en sort quand on a compris. Ne comptez pas sur Ubiquiti pour vous aider, il faut lire, aller sur youtube pour se former, on trouve une très grande communauté en ligne. Bref, dans un minuscule boîtier toute la puissance des pare feux Linux, si vous êtes prêt à mettre les mains dans cambouis. Parfait pour élargir sa culture technique, avoir le plaisir de maîtriser sa sécurité sans dépenser des fortunes dans un pc ou du matos entreprise.

NO tiene AP WiFi, es solo un router. Cuenta con tres puertos configurables completamente, más uno de administración que no es ethernet de red si no para conectar un conversor a UART como los routers "de verdad" Soporta VLAN, por lo que puedes utilizarlo con cualquier operador, en España por ej con fibra Orange utiliza el ID 832, Jazztel el 1074, Vodafone 100, Movistar el 6... Lo conectas al ONT y configuras lo que necesites. El cortafuegos es sencillo tipo empresarial, reglas de lo que pasa y lo que no, sin florituras ni IDS. Al ser hardware lo bueno es que es menos vulnerable a truquillos software y esas cosas que hacen los malos. Configuración: Al final por A o por B vas a necesitar la consola, tiene un CLI al que se puede acceder tanto por SSH como por la interfaz web, por ejemplo a veces falla actualizarlo mediante la interfaz web pero haciendolo mediante CLI no hay problema. Puedes configurar VPN tanto servidor como cliente y todas las florituras que quieras. También incorpora una serie de asistentes para las configuraciones más habituales, pero vamos que no es amigable si no entiendes un poco de redes, siempre hace falta retocar un poco para dejarlo a tu gusto. El router viene con DPI, una función que analiza las tramas de los paquetes e identifica las máquinas que generan tráfico y de que tipo es (P2P, web, FTP... ) ayuda a gestionar el ancho de banda y ver quien consume más para optimizar un poco, sin embargo hay que decir que esta caracteristica consume bastante CPU del router, y cuando esta funcionando a tope a veces no da a basto y la interfaz web se congela (tiene menos prioridad). Si lo vas a meter en una red "de verdad" más grande tiene soporte de OSPF y protocolos de routers. El soporte de Ubiquiti en su foro es muy muy completo y te ayudan enseguida con cualquier cosa que necesites y encima gratis. Por el precio me ha gustado mucho, normalmente necesitaras también un switch ya que tres puertos, que al final son uno de WAN y otros dos de tu red se hacen poco. Sin embargo es muy buena opción para ahorrar un dinerillo, la versión de 5 puertos de este router se va a los 200€ en el momento de escribir esta reseña y el hardware de este es el mismo, de hecho utilizan el mismo firmware de EdgeOS.

Used this router for about nine months absolutely rock solid. One day it stopped working. Sent it back for a warranty claim and the seller worked with me to get it sent to the service center where they said the internals had got burned out probably a surge in the power line due to lightning. They sent me a replacement unit. Happy with the product and the seller (ICONIC INC).