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A Ubiquity ERX with 1 gb wan support can be bought for $60. CM4 compute modules are hard to find or overpriced at the moment. Not sure what the point is spendi

A Ubiquity ERX with 1 gb wan support can be bought for $60. CM4 compute modules are hard to find or overpriced at the moment. Not sure what the point is spending close to $100+ on this when there are cheaper options out there.

joshka 4y ago
I'm looking to upgrade from this specific router - likely towards a NanoPi R4S / R4SE running OpenWRT which clocks in around $60-80 with a case and seems to be better spec. The RaspberryPi advantage is its ubiquity. This means more eyes on any problem as well as being easy to reuse when no longer fit for purpose. (e.g. one of my Pis has been an adblocker, a kodi / plex box, and a few other things at various times). My ERX is and will forever be a router at the mercy of ubiquiti releasing new firmware fixes.
- MaKey 4y ago
  > My ERX is and will forever be a router at the mercy of ubiquiti releasing new firmware fixes. The Ubiquiti ER-X is supported by OpenWRT. Since you're planning to use OpenWRT in the future, why not run it on your ER-X?
  - joshka 4y ago
    I missed that - thanks! Edit: or maybe not? https://forum.openwrt.org/t/raspberry-pi-4-vs-edgerouter-x/103873/19 https://forum.openwrt.org/t/raspberry-pi-4-vs-edgerouter-x/1... > The bad is that the ER-X CPU speed is decidedly mid-range. If you run SQM to tame bufferbloat, it will top out somewhere between 130-185 Mbps depending on OpenWrt version. It is good for ~20 Mbps running OpenVPN, and ~90 Mbps running a Wireguard VPN. So you are going to outgrow it sooner rather than later, if it is not already too slow for you. I've also noted it's getting pretty expensive to buy, which is strange. But I haven't found many alternatives as small as an ER-X with 5 ports included. So far, it does the job for me. This seems like it might be still a little underpowered for some of my future plans (adblock, 1Gbps symmetric fiber for remote NAS access, etc.) I'll give it a whirl though.
blutack 4y ago
I've been running openwrt on one for a year or two and it's been totally rock solid. LuCI is a huge upgrade over the Edgeos UI, hardware acceleration is supported and zero faff wireguard (plus all the other owrt goodness).

joshka 4y ago

I'm looking to upgrade from this specific router - likely towards a NanoPi R4S / R4SE running OpenWRT which clocks in around $60-80 with a case and seems to be better spec. The RaspberryPi advantage is its ubiquity. This means more eyes on any problem as well as being easy to reuse when no longer fit for purpose. (e.g. one of my Pis has been an adblocker, a kodi / plex box, and a few other things at various times). My ERX is and will forever be a router at the mercy of ubiquiti releasing new firmware fixes.

MaKey 4y ago
> My ERX is and will forever be a router at the mercy of ubiquiti releasing new firmware fixes. The Ubiquiti ER-X is supported by OpenWRT. Since you're planning to use OpenWRT in the future, why not run it on your ER-X?
- joshka 4y ago
  I missed that - thanks! Edit: or maybe not? https://forum.openwrt.org/t/raspberry-pi-4-vs-edgerouter-x/103873/19 https://forum.openwrt.org/t/raspberry-pi-4-vs-edgerouter-x/1... > The bad is that the ER-X CPU speed is decidedly mid-range. If you run SQM to tame bufferbloat, it will top out somewhere between 130-185 Mbps depending on OpenWrt version. It is good for ~20 Mbps running OpenVPN, and ~90 Mbps running a Wireguard VPN. So you are going to outgrow it sooner rather than later, if it is not already too slow for you. I've also noted it's getting pretty expensive to buy, which is strange. But I haven't found many alternatives as small as an ER-X with 5 ports included. So far, it does the job for me. This seems like it might be still a little underpowered for some of my future plans (adblock, 1Gbps symmetric fiber for remote NAS access, etc.) I'll give it a whirl though.

blutack 4y ago

I've been running openwrt on one for a year or two and it's been totally rock solid. LuCI is a huge upgrade over the Edgeos UI, hardware acceleration is supported and zero faff wireguard (plus all the other owrt goodness).