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Why an edge router over unifi, for smaller setups (Triplebyte is what, 30 office people?)
by basch 8y ago
Why an edge router over unifi, for smaller setups (Triplebyte is what, 30 office people?)
- walrus01 8y agoI wouldn't recommend an edgerouter for a small office, maybe something a bit more serious. I was describing what I'd recommend for a residential/personal small home office setup. Mine is basically a 32x8 capable DOCSIS3.0 cable modem that is a dumb L2 bridge to the cable ISP's CMTS, an ER-X router, a managed mikrotik fanless L2 switch for the LAN, and several $79 UAP-AC-Lite (802.11ac not wave2, 2x2 MIMO, dual band APs).
- basch 8y ago>residential/personal small home office setup. Home/Offsite - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/ https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/ Office - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/unifi-security-gateway-pro-4/ https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/unifi-security-gateway-pr... Large Office - https://unifi-xg.ubnt.com/usg-xg-8 https://unifi-xg.ubnt.com/usg-xg-8 (sweet 1U screen!) $110, and same management interface as the AP's and switches. As you can tell, im prioritizing all-in-one management very heavily. One, managed, cloud, location for all my devices (minus sdwan, hosted by that vendor.) But the USG can do Auto IPSEC, so if you have 5 of them, you can tell all 5 to automatically keep connections to each other open. I havent fully tested a complex mesh of USG's yet, but id like to. It's getting close to even sdwan being expensive, compared to what these things can do. One of the things I like the least about the Unifi management interface, is having to edit each site separately. If i want to make a router or ap/ssid change, I have to open each site.
- slantyyz 8y agoFrom what I understand, some features on the USG aren't available unless you manipulate some JSON files, whereas they're exposed in the UI in the Edge Routers.