TP-Link TL-R605 vs Ubiquiti Edge Router X

Okay, so I bought this about four or five weeks ago. It was like $59-$60 bucks. Willie did a video on it. He did an overview on it and I was impressed...

Hey, what's going on everybody? So today I'm going to show you how to set up a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X from scratch for use with your home network. So f...

The result? Well my top speed capped out at just over 600MBs down and 830MBs up. Now I do believe that is due to some other configurations that I have in place. The Omada app, is a joke. The limitations of the Omada app compared to the web interface is a night and day difference, and not in a good way

The "wizards" don't reflect current configuration, and they all have the same UI (and silently ignore things they don't want to pay attention to, so you'll think you've set things up when you, in fact, haven't). Also, the wizards do only very minimal setup---you have to drop down into the utterly non-intuitive CLI to do anything useful. The router is lightning fast, though. Has no problem handling GBit fiber

I live in a rural area with no physically connected internet, so I rely on cellular-based internet. I also work from home, so I need a reliable internet connection. For redundancy, I have multiple modems connected to different carriers in case a tower goes down. I have four connections that I use

So, due to Ubiquiti's lack of a suitable offering in the range I'm willing to spend, I buy the ER-4. Overall, this thing is great - I've never used an EdgeMAX product, but I setup UNMS and I'm happy with it. Overall, it just works - a great device. Setup was a breeze

I WFH full time now and Comcast has cost me several days work so I got a 5G backup and needed a way to connect both of them. This has done a great job, wasn't hard to set up, and has a bunch of features that I'm not using if I want to geek out later.

I'm using a Ubiquiti Edge Router X w/ Smart QoS and it's a plug 'n play solution if you don't want to deal with a more of a technical fix.

I was able to figure out what to do with minimum difficulty (I had printed the manual ahead of time, and I had uploaded the controller software to my NAS ahead of time as well (you can also buy the controller, but I decided to just use the NAS to run it)). While I am comfortable with computer hardware (I installed ethernet throughout my home as a COVID project, with 68 cables running to patch panels and switches), I am not a system admin by trade, but I was able to figure this out without phoning a friend. The only difficulty I had was in getting the controller to "adopt" this device, but when I changed the security settings on my browser, it worked just fine. I don't have gigabit speed in my home, so I'm not pushing the limits of the router

I have enough faith in Ubiquity products that I just sent it back and ordered another one. I've been running their radio panels for several years now and they just work - period. No reboots, etc. Set and forget

So we're going to log in as admin and I've already changed the password. And a lot of this information that you're going to see here, you can do this ...

Let's see, firewall slash NAT. So if you need to do port forwarding and such, different firewall policies, NAT, NAT groups, this is where you do it, s...

We've had the provider's techs come out and they've restrung the cable to the dmark among other changes, and the answer is always the same -- we're in a rural area and we get what we get, which is considerably slower than the ISP's marketing department claims. We bought a Starlink and bridged the cable ISP with the Starlink using the TP-Link ER605. We set up the device in load-sharing mode. In this mode, traffic is routed over both cable and Starlink

1 ??? April 1 observation, of ER-4, using firmware version 1.10.9: This router performs well, as an IPSec VPN endpoint. But it goes into never never land if the power goes out and back on