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Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

I’d like to replace my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X. It’s performed well for the past 7+ years, but over the last year, I’ve noticed a significant drop in my network performance.

I thought it was my ISP, but I’m getting consistent 1 Gbps down/up at their router, so it’s either the EdgeRouter X, a DLink switch, or the 3 Ubiquiti AP AC Pro units I have (if it’s any of them, it must be all 3, since I’ve connected to each for testing). My hunch is it’s the EdgeRouter X.

Any recommendations?

1 March at 16:31 | Open on phpc.social
13 comments
Chris Hartjes

@ramsey Do you want to stay with Ubiquiti stuff?

1 March at 16:33 | Open on phpc.social
Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

@grmpyprogrammer Not really. Their stuff has gotten too complicated and robust for home use, I think.

1 March at 16:35 | Open on phpc.social
Chris Hartjes

@ramsey I was gonna say get the Unifi Dream Machine β€” it’s what I have but my home setup is a lot more complex than yours β€” dream machine, PoE 24 port switch, 7 in-wall access points, and a smaller edge router in the basement for TV, AppleTV and some other stuff with cabled ethernet

1 March at 16:38 | Open on phpc.social
Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

@grmpyprogrammer I’m not opposed to getting Ubiquiti stuff, but I thought you were going to try to sell me on something else, since I recall you being upset about their move to cloud-managed devices a few years ago. :-)

1 March at 16:41 | Open on phpc.social
Chris Hartjes

@ramsey You only need it for setup and then you can turn it off, with local access only

1 March at 16:41 | Open on phpc.social
Josh Butts

@ramsey @grmpyprogrammer I’d upgrade to their unifi express or similar gateway, unless you want to jettison the AC Pros too.

1 March at 16:39 | Open on joshbutts.social
Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

@josh @grmpyprogrammer I’d love to keep them, so upgrading is probably best, but their stuff seems so complicated nowadays.

1 March at 16:41 | Open on phpc.social
Mike Harrison

@ramsey Consider the TP-Link Omada gear. Like Ubiquiti, you can do integrated management of all the gear. (WiFi AP's, Switches, etc..) but I like how it also has a good option for an onsite controller and it works well without an upstream/cloud management account. All local. - Currently have Ubiquiti at home, have Omada and Ubiquiti at locations I manage, and home may go Omada soon.

1 March at 16:35 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alexey Skobkin

@ramsey
If you're not scared of advanced network configuration, then @mikrotik.

Their devices are very good and they have a good OS which is continuously updated over years, so you won't find yourself with a router which OS is 5 years old.
But they mostly don't have "magic" features like "click this blue button to set up your entire network". Only simple "Quick Setup" and then mostly advanced configuration.

1 March at 16:37 | Open on lor.sh
Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

@skobkin @mikrotik I think I want to get away from the β€œadvanced” configuration, but I do want to be able to manage a guest network with a different subnet, etc.

1 March at 16:38 | Open on phpc.social
Alexey Skobkin

@ramsey @mikrotik
I see.

Then I'm not sure what to recommend because most of vendors with simple configuration I've tried just disappointed me later.

I hope you'll find one that works fine without being complex at the same time.

Don't forget to write about it then πŸ˜„

1 March at 16:42 | Open on lor.sh
Boo Ramsey πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ§Ÿβ€β™‚οΈπŸ‘»πŸŽƒ

@skobkin @mikrotik I’m not opposed to advanced configurations, so, if your experience is that simpler configurations are disappointing, then I’m okay with the advanced recommendations. πŸ™‚

1 March at 16:47 | Open on phpc.social
Alexey Skobkin

@ramsey
I'm not sure that it's an only option, so I'm not going to recommend what I use to you.

I'm not very well informed in the state of the market. I'm sure something should be there which is exactly for you and won't require you reading tutorials or documentation to set up separate isolated WiFi network.

Although I thought earlier that Ubiquiti is exactly that: simplified and well integrated "magic" solution. Maybe a bit overpriced, but still doing their job well.

@ramsey
I'm not sure that it's an only option, so I'm not going to recommend what I use to you.

I'm not very well informed in the state of the market. I'm sure something should be there which is exactly for you and won't require you reading tutorials or documentation to set up separate isolated WiFi network.

1 March at 16:51 | Open on lor.sh
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