Good deal. I'm glad for the speed bump. Lord knows we need about 1-2 more speed bumps.

That's some good hardware! I got mine smelling the new box smell! Just waiting on the rack kit and the WAP then I can get to business.

Scott how do you feel about PFSense?

@scottalanmiller said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

mple, use the Cisco ASA for $5,000 as a comparison. Suddenly the Nighthawk seems brilliant. If we allow the bar to be shifted arbitrarily, we can justify anything.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

@scottalanmiller Good point

You know I'd personally only do ER but for this guy with the night hawk a USG is nothing short of an improvement but if the owner was being serious about his business then yea I'd stick with ER-4 or 6

@krisleslie said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

USG

But Scott a USG cost 100 bucks. That's gotta be cheaper than that Night Hawk!

I think what they should do is nix the Unfi line and merge it and allow you to choose colors but then other people wouldn't like that. Unifi is pretty cheap and works fine. USG I know has been the scorn for a lot of folks, but it does work for the most part

@scottalanmiller just to match with the Unifi gear

It's not 2x it's more like 3-4x faster. The bandwidth of that port is wayyy more than what we normally get.

@jaredbusch said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

is just an ERL with UniFi firm

Right, but it's just 10 people. The minute something becomes advanced I'd move to an ER-4 or ER-6.

Good eye Pete. I would consider moving to NVME at some point! It's going to be a game changer.

@scottalanmiller said in NAS for file server backup:

y desktops support hot swap drives, few have reasonable RAID options, etc. Desktops are generally not very good for this, and often consumer too much power.

True, but I'd be in business now lol and would be able to switch to a proper server. I mean you know how I feel, if you can afford a NAS you might as well buy a used server. My champion is the Dell PowerEdge R710 which is cheaper up front cost and better than any nas you could name lol!

@storageninja DUDE you were thinking exactly what I was!

The cost of one ubiquiti router is faster and more secure than any home use router. It's also cheaper. If you wanted to pony up and pay for a crappy router for gaming you can pony up and pay for a proper router. I mean that's the whole point of UBNT. Low cost, enterprise grade equipment. Personally since they are tiny, I'd get the USG since performance isn't an issue and neither was their routing lol.

Personally I wouldn't invest in a NAS just because I can go take another desktop and make it a hypervisor /w VM for a backup target for free.

@pete-s said in Purchase options for a small non profit 25 staff:

uters and firewalls you'll find intel cpus with hardware accelerators doing the job. That way the cpu has the brute force to process a lot of packets but things that can be offloaded will be handed to the hardware accelerators.

True. If you want more power you'd have to get one of their two best routers. Which the top of the line infinity is decent. I've already considered moving to it

I stopped doing the Smart QoS and queues a long while ago because my speed never got better than 100 Mbps with it. I have 400 Mbps downstream and up to 40-50 Mbps upstream.

Already been on TechSoup for years. No discount or offering from UBNT there, sorry. I went ahead and actually got the ER-6 and the mount kit

Thanks guys for the quick help. That's exactly what I'll do!