Ideal router

Absolutely, it's something I've been extremely satisfied with. Plus the user friendly VPN and other features are a huge plus for a lot of consumers.


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I meant to quote you fenderman, messed that up. Lol

I haven't looked into their newer models, but once I burn this one up I'll certainly take a look!

The best bang for your buck is the Asus RT-AC68U - I've installed loads of these for friends and family and they never have issues. I always install the Merlin firmware on them which is a slight tweak on the Asus firmware and the guy that devs it works quiet close with Asus.

In this case, you'll want advanced configurability and flexibility. So, as a cost-effective SMB/enterprise solution, Ubiquiti is highly configurable and highly flexible.

The RT-AC68U is a nice 3x3 router, and it does partly support VLANs, but you will always run into not just feature limitations but feature issues with consumer routers once you start moving out of the typical "consumer" behavior. The alternative is open source software on the consumer routers where possible, but while these will sometimes unlock the full hardware potential as much as possible, you still won't have more advanced configuration features available that were not part of that router's original design intent, e.g. strong wireless bridging or wireless backhaul, advanced roaming, etc.

Btw, if you have Gigabit Internet, seriously look into the very latest Edgerouters too.

squeeze said:

Btw, if you have Gigabit Internet, seriously look into the very latest Edgerouters too.

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Do you know how fast the EdgeRouter Lite can handle? I have one setup in a business and they upgraded from 10/10 to 500/500 Internet. Speedtest.net reported 524/569. That's pretty impressive for a $100 router and to be honest, I wasn't sure it would support it.

Unless you are running features that disable hardware offloading, the Edgerouter Lite (not X or X SFP) can handle full bidirectional Gigabit, i.e. simultaneously 1Gbps up and 1Gbps down.

Once you start using more of the CPU instead of offload, that's when the trouble starts since its weak 500 MHz CPU can tank performance tremendously. This is where the latest Edgerouters like the ER-4 suffer much less with 1 GHz CPUs.

I bite the bullet.
Arris modem, ubnt usg, 16 poe switch, cloud key, ac pro aps.
It was weird getting the usg to adopt. Plus the cloud key. But it seems stable now.
Advise for novices like me. I hooked everything up, including the usg. But did not hook up my wan to the usg. I used a port on the switch to connect to my old internet connected router. Follow the direction on the cloud key. It need an internet connection and the usg wont work yet. Adopt and log into ubnt cloud. Once i went into my network through my old router, i could update firmware. I then removed my old router, hooked up wan, and power cycled the modem.
Things seem ok now.
Its not cheap, but the hmi is great. Plus i can npw add ap for my dead zones.
Thanks for all the advise guys.