Ubiquiti ER-6P Router

I bought my EdgeRouter 6P as an upgrade from an EdgeRouter POE, and so that I can have two working routers and do not have to be offline while upgrading the firmware. I previously tried an EdgeRouter X for this purpose and found it to be useless because the ER-X has so little storage. Just enable logging, and the ER-X hit disk-full and stop working in two weeks.The ER-6P is another story. It has 4GB of flash storage to the ER-POE's 2GB, 1GB of RAM to the ER-POE's 512MB, and four 1GHz MIPS64 cores to the POE's two 600MHz cores. It is a MUCH more powerful router for not very much more money. It arrived back-rev'd on the firmware, but it is a matter of a couple of commands to reflash it to the latest version.Also unlike the ER-POE, the EdgeRouter 6P has an optional rack-mount kit available (that will fit anything from an ER-4 to an ER-12).Some users complain about the administration GUI. I find it OK, but I don't use it for most configuration tasks, just for traffic monitoring, preferring to ssh login to the router and use the command-line. I also don't use the supplied firewall functionality, preferring to use Shorewall instead, which I find both much more powerful and much easier to configure. (The rule-chains interface used by netfilter is cryptic and pointlessly arcane.) My ER-POE is now a spare; I will use it to test out new firmware releases and while updating the 6P.If you have an older EdgeRouter and want to get more performance, this latest generation of routers is a good upgrade. If you're just getting started, they provide much better performance than anything Netgear or D-Link will sell you — but you DO need to at least somewhat know what you're doing. You will still need a cable or DSL modem; these routers will not do that for you. If you want to have WiFi, the EdgeRouter won't do that either; consider trying one of Ubiquiti's Unifi wireless access points instead. A Unifi WAP will give you much better wireless coverage than almost any wireless router appliance on the market, for less money, and you can add additional WAPs if you need more coverage much more easily than you can add additional consumer wireless routers.

Ubiquiti has a large lineup of wired routers, so it took me awhile to narrow my choice down to this one.This router only does 24V PoE and does NOT have a switch chip. I don't care, I don't need PoE and already had a switch.What I needed was a high performance router that had a decent QOS implementation. My family between all the streaming and devices was overloading previous routers, ASUS RT-AC68A and Netgear (R7800-100NAS) Nighthawk X4S.This router has run for months without issue, exceptional performance with the QOS reducing bufferbloat to nothing. The CPU rarely gets above 15%.Ubiquiti has solid support via their forums, which I relied upon during initial setup as I am not overly technical when it comes to routers.

UPDATE: I found the secret to this router: Do the initial setup with wizard, then throw the web interface away until you have it built. For some reason changes are not reflected right away in the web interface. Changing to 5 stars. I love this router.USE THE CLI = beerI bought this router a week ago. I have dual ISP's, [snip] IoT subnets, and a human one. Setup was simple / trivial but it didnt work. I set eth0 and 1 as wans, then used 5 and 2 as leads to switches. I got on the console, read the logs. Yikes, a lot of f*ed up messaged such as "ioctl blah", "dhcpd blah", "firmware not loaded", etc. reboot, upgrade to 2.01, back on track, but not with the same config. I pretty much had to rewrite my entire network to avoid hitting one of the myriad of bugs the code has . hardware bugs, software bugs, load balancing bugs. Ubiquity should maybe outsource their QA pipeline, because they arent getting it done in-house.

I’ve been a fan of Ubiquity products for a year.This unit is great for my use as an OpenBSD router.My only complaint is unlike the Edgerouter Lite, this unit doesn’t have an easily removable EdgeOS memory module, so it takes more work to flash OpenBSD on. (I am aware I probably voided my warranty, and accept that responsibility.)It’s an awesome little box and I’d buy it again.

As expected, and for a decent price. Speed exceeds my needs of 100 Mbps—high quality and easy to configure.