3 ms·

My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches a

My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches and now I really regret my decision.

favorited 3y ago
UDMs are discounted right now for the holidays. I'm in the process of migrating my home networking/server stuff into a rack, and I was tempted to pick one up because my current little PFSense box isn't particularly rack-friendly. This thread is cooling my heels a bit.
snom380 3y ago
You can run your Dream Machine without cloud access, though?
- panopticon 3y ago
  You can, yes. The bigger problem is that I also bought into their Protect products at the same time. And you lose a ton of functionality if you turn off cloud access. I'm going to try to replicate notifications and stuff using Home Assistant and shut off the remote access completely, but I might as well have purchased a cheaper and better NVR + camera setup if I need to set up all of this stuff myself anyway...
  - notyourwork 3y ago
    What do you lose with protect when clouds disables?
    - panopticon 3y ago
      Mostly remote monitoring capabilities. You don't get motion/detection/doorbell notifications, and the Protect app needs to VPN in to view cameras when you're not on the local network. We were using Nest before and these would be huge UX downgrades for my not-tech-savvy spouse.
zzyzxd 3y ago
When I bought the UDM-SE, I too was excited thinking it as an "upgrade". Only later realized it couldn't even do BGP like their entry level gateway products.
emilburzo 3y ago
> My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust Do you still have it? You might just have one with an on-board USB stick which is user-replaceable. Literally a USB stick in a USB type A port. It seems that was the only part they cheaped out on, since it failed for multiple people I know that have models with the USB stick. Source: erlite-3 wouldn't boot up, changed usb stick (with their downloadable OS image of course), good as new. Bonus: quadrupled the available storage.

My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches and now I really regret my decision.

favorited 3y ago

UDMs are discounted right now for the holidays. I'm in the process of migrating my home networking/server stuff into a rack, and I was tempted to pick one up because my current little PFSense box isn't particularly rack-friendly. This thread is cooling my heels a bit.

snom380 3y ago

You can run your Dream Machine without cloud access, though?

panopticon 3y ago
You can, yes. The bigger problem is that I also bought into their Protect products at the same time. And you lose a ton of functionality if you turn off cloud access. I'm going to try to replicate notifications and stuff using Home Assistant and shut off the remote access completely, but I might as well have purchased a cheaper and better NVR + camera setup if I need to set up all of this stuff myself anyway...
- notyourwork 3y ago
  What do you lose with protect when clouds disables?
  - panopticon 3y ago
    Mostly remote monitoring capabilities. You don't get motion/detection/doorbell notifications, and the Protect app needs to VPN in to view cameras when you're not on the local network. We were using Nest before and these would be huge UX downgrades for my not-tech-savvy spouse.

zzyzxd 3y ago

When I bought the UDM-SE, I too was excited thinking it as an "upgrade". Only later realized it couldn't even do BGP like their entry level gateway products.

emilburzo 3y ago

> My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust Do you still have it? You might just have one with an on-board USB stick which is user-replaceable. Literally a USB stick in a USB type A port. It seems that was the only part they cheaped out on, since it failed for multiple people I know that have models with the USB stick. Source: erlite-3 wouldn't boot up, changed usb stick (with their downloadable OS image of course), good as new. Bonus: quadrupled the available storage.