Ubiquiti Edgerouter X SFP - Router - Desktop - Black (ER-X-SFP)

I thought I understood home networking, but this router proved I'm but a babe in the woods. What I say now is that I understand typical consumer router options from D-Link, TP-Link, Netgear, etc. but I have really had to make this old brain work hard to understand what I needed to configure this router. Keep in mind, Ubiquiti products have generally been produced for commercial applications and administered by network professionals. This is commercial-grade product with a few consumer-friendly features added, but you still really need to know what the crap you are doing.I'm not kidding. If you have only a basic understanding of DHCP, port forwarding, AP and bridging, DNS, and NAT like I did, you will really struggle setting this router up. I thought I would simply be able to make copies of all my old D-Link router settings and copy them over to the new X-SFP but it was not even close.Ubiquiti offers a bunch of guides and forums, but I found that most of them are geared toward someone who has more knowledge than an average home user. This makes sense because an average home user is not going to be bothering with VPNs, multiple LANs, POE equipment and exotic networking scenarios. However, once you discover this whole other world that's available, and you want a better router, you quickly realize that you don't know jack about how to do all this.I have Gb Uverse and I wanted to remove my old wifi router and use this X-SFP router and a separate wifi router as AP. It literally took me DAYS trying to figure out exactly how to configure this successfully. I have a Plex server and needed to open and forward ports, create static and dynamic DHCP assignments, etc. I also had to figure out the right way to use OpenDNS name servers.I thought I had it correctly configured but then it would lose connectivity and I could not figure out what was wrong. I finally wiped everything and started over following some YouTube tutorials and got everything working.HINT: Make sure you save your configuration often, it will save you tons of time if accidentally screw something up.HINT 2: Keep it physically accessible at the beginning. For some stupid reason, Ubiquiti only allows you to use one ethernet port to do the initial connection and setup. That same port then becomes your Internet port, and you move the network cable to a different port to continue administering it. So if you have to do a factory reset and you have had your Internet connected, you will need to physically move the cable back to the "Internet" port and go from there. Since my router is in the basement it was a pain in the butt to make a lot of changes like that. Note: every port is completely configurable to act in any capacity (LAN vs WAN, for example), but not in default state.HINT 3: You must manually enable hardware offloading to allow Gb speeds. This is disabled by default.I'm still tweaking things but slowly. I look forward to getting to know this router, but it's taking some effort.

Not for beginners with little patience.Having used Cisco and FortiNet. All for work.So I have a Linksys LRT2x4 for my house and it just didn't allow enough configuration for my desire. I had several UAPs and just bought a 8 port POE Ubiquiti switch and was very happy with the ease of use and low price for my home setup.Bought this router and found it to be a great little device. Was very easy to update the firmware and get it running. The wizards are easy to use but the syntax is different from others so it took me a little reading to understand what the device wanted to do.Once running, I had my network configured with VLANs for wireless guests and secure network for my home equipment with proper ACL (firewall) settings for access between networks for printers etc. Remote management is not wizard-based (as of this review) and it took a forum search to find the suggested way of enabling it for your setup. Easy to do, once I found the method they want to be used.Throughput is near GB speeds. The router is handling the traffic very well. My Linksys router often had issues or delays while I was accessing my Armcrest NVR. With this router, the load time is noticeably faster and HD video is clear instantly. (no real buffering noticed like from Linksys)If you want to get this router or any Ubiquiti products, I would point you to a YouTube channel, Crosstalk Solutions. He does a very good run down of several products (this router as well) and how they are used/configured.Only weakness (in terms of configuring) I would note is the Remote VPN access. I am surprised a wizard or better configuration page doesn't exist. I'm sure it will come out, but not as of this review.Very impressed. I will buy a couple more to use in my work locations to see if they can handle networks of 100 and 500 stations. However for home use, this is a fantastic buy.

I had one of these for several years and switched to a netgear. After about a year, bought this to replace the netgear as it gave me much more flexibility in setting up vlans and creating firewall rules.It is definitely not something I would recommend to the average person for home use. But if you love networking and/or want to learn, great product at reasonable price vs. CISCO or something of the like.I also have a ubiquiti unifi wifi access point, further allowing me to work easily with splitting my house into multiple vlans!