Tonight's Project: Ubiquiti Router for Home
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Very nice. That is some serious home gear.
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This is a timely thread as I've been considering upgrading the router at the house also. I do have a EdgeRouter Lite for the office - which still needs to be deployed and configured.
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@g.jacobse at its price and feature set it is really perfect for home use.
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You will have to include some unboxing pics. I was looking at the specs yesterday and this would be a great addition to start my home lab off.
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What were you using before you installed this?
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Just using the default Cablevision unit since we left our racked ProSafe gear in the Texas house.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@g.jacobse at its price and feature set it is really perfect for home use.
I already have a Ubiquiti AP already, and have 5 install at the office. Just need to get the router set.
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@g.jacobse at its price and feature set it is really perfect for home use.
I already have a Ubiquiti AP already, and have 5 install at the office. Just need to get the router set.
Same here. The router will be joining the AP for home.
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It is now set up. So far it is pretty sweet.
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Some technical basics for those interesting...
System runs EdgeOS, a custom build of Brocade Vyatta which is built on Linux. EdgeOS 1.5 is Linux 3.4.27
System is a dual core 64bit MIPS processor with 512MB RAM.
Only some features are available in the web console, but in the newer version (1.5) there are noticeably a lot more than on the older 1.3.1 that it shipped with. In 1.3.1 only PPTP VPN was available but now IPSec is as well. This is just through the web interface, it you drop to the CLI you can see that OpenVPN is there too. You get full power of Vyatta from the CLI when needed but a simple to use, very handy web interface when you don't. The web interface has an excellent built-in terminal window too. Plus you can use SSH or you can connect with a console cable the same as any Cisco, Juniper, etc.
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Nice. Sounds like a really good unit.
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EdgeOS is a fork of Vyatta 6.3 I believe. One of the Ubiquiti devs posted their forums confirming the fork version last week sometime. I have been on vacation for a bit and may have forgot the correct version number but that is what I recall.
Confirmed my memory that is was forked from 6.3.
http://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/Edgerouter-Firmware-correlation-to-vyatta-version/m-p/901076#M34610 -
@scottalanmiller said:
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
Those are super sweet for a home setup, great buy! I've heard you can do marvelous things on the CLI/Console with them.
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Yes. Vyatta is wildly powerful.
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@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
Those are super sweet for a home setup, great buy! I've heard you can do marvelous things on the CLI/Console with them.
They are very good gear for any business. They are not super sweet for a home setup outside of IT @ Home. They are definitely NOT good for general home users because the GUI is not simple enough. That is fine, because it is not the target market anyway.
To replace your $45 Linksys with Ubiquiti gear would cost you $160 for a router (EdgeMax Router LITE) and an access point (UniFi AP).
For IT at home, this is a very cost effective method of getting yourself business grade gear.
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@JaredBusch said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
Those are super sweet for a home setup, great buy! I've heard you can do marvelous things on the CLI/Console with them.
They are very good gear for any business. They are not super sweet for a home setup outside of IT @ Home. They are definitely NOT good for general home users because the GUI is not simple enough. That is fine, because it is not the target market anyway.
To replace your $45 Linksys with Ubiquiti gear would cost you $160 for a router (EdgeMax Router LITE) and an access point (UniFi AP).
For IT at home, this is a very cost effective method of getting yourself business grade gear.
I agree, if I had more running at home i would definitely look into getting a Ubiquiti setup however I only have a few VPS and most of my testing is done in a virtual environment. Realistically I have a 0.5dsl connection so I need pinto-level routing (ATT oversells bandwidth in my area).
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So with my recent debacle with my Sonicwall and Untangle.. I have to ask... Can you lend some guidance on how to configure the unit?
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Easily. Can you schedule a time for a meeting?
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@g.jacobse said:
So with my recent debacle with my Sonicwall and Untangle.. I have to ask... Can you lend some guidance on how to configure the unit?
They are a little trickier than the average router for initial setup. But if you update to the latest firmware, there is a wizard that walks you through everything. I think this is part of their preparation for the new UGS unit that will replace the RouterLite.
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it's pretty cool how powerful this low lvl stuff is getting.
