Reddit mentions of Ubiquiti Networks - ERPOE-5 - EdgeRouter POE 24VDr C 1.25A Power Adapter

Not OP, but we've deployed Ubiquiti products in a few of our enterprise customers and it is running great. I am not sure how much you already know about networking, but I'll explain for anyone else reading.

First, some background to fully understand what it is you are trying to do. The thing that most consumers call "routers" are really three things: a router, a switch, and an access point. TLDR the router portion is the thing that actually moves traffic between machines, the switch extends how many physical ethernet ports you have, and the access point gives you wifi.

The Ubiquiti Access Points (UAP) are just access points. You will still need a router to route traffic, and your consumer one will work just fine for most people. If you are looking to get something more SOHO, Ubiquiti also makes their own router/firewall (check out USG, or ideally EdgeRouter). For all intents and purposes, it is a pretty good idea to separate the roles of your network (physical appliances for the router, firewall, wireless, etc...), and you can have as many UAP's as you'd like for wireless. The UAP's run off of Ubiquiti's 24V Power-over-Ethernet (POE), which can be provided via a POE injector or with a Ubiquiti Switch (either Unifi or EdgeMax). So for a basic network, you'll disable the wireless functionality on your consumer router, and plug a UAP into a port (obviously you'll need to pass it through the POE injector first). Rinse and repeat for however many UAP's you want, maybe another one on the other side of the house for example.

The UAP is pretty useless on its own, though. It needs a piece of software called the Unifi Controller. The software is free, and you can run it on Windows, Linux, or with Ubiquiti's appliance called the Cloud Key. Within Unifi Controller, you'll setup the UAP's; e.g. setting the visible wifi name (SSID), security, channels, etc... It isn't too complicated, the interface is really intutive and anyone who is even slightly technical could figure it out. The controller also serves another really important feature, which is zero-handoff. As long as the controller is running, your device will connect to the access point with the best signal. This is the seamless switching you asked about.

Ubiquiti also is focused on mesh networking, although we are generally pretty against that for businesses for reliability reasons. Of course, the exception to that is Cisco Meraki, which is a hybrid that will self-heal. If you lie and say you are an IT professional, you can get a free Meraki with a 3 year license. Just make sure that you follow the rules.

As a note, I would stick to the UAP AC's. They are the newer version and run great. For consumers, the UAP-AC-LITE is going to work fine. Obviously there is more to networking and wireless solutions than what I went over here, but this is the general gist of it.

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter POE

or any OpenWrt-compatible router and a couple of POE Injectors

I have a edgerouter lite at home. I think it would work fine for a small business. If that is a bit small though for your needs, they sell higher end models of their edge router. Just search amazon for edgerouter.

I have heard rumors the next release of pfsense will have images that will run on these as well.

Someone else already got freebsd running on one, here

They have a nice cli configuration via a modified version of vyatta, so even the cisco fans should feel fairly at home.

The webui is probably the best I have seen, if that is your sort of thing.

It should be good. It's a little faster than an Edgerouter X (that I use) but still very affordable. How many wired connections do you need?

Other options include the Miktrotik Routerboard RB2011 and the ERPOE-5.

http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-Routerboard-RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN-Port-Ethernet/dp/B00BGIXOHQ

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-ERPOE-5-EdgeRouter-Adapter/dp/B00E77N3WE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1449684980&sr=8-3&keywords=ubiquiti+edgerouter

I'm sorry to hear about a brand new router doing that. If you can, put DD-WRT on it before you return it. In addition to flaky routers, connectivity loss can be caused by buggy factory firmwares. If that doesn't fix the problem, then for sure return it.

I recommend enterprise equipment for just about everything, so I think you'd be making a good choice. Ubiquiti is one of my favorites for routing equipment as well. Assuming you take this route, my recommendation is a five port EdgeRouter with a UniFi AP three pack.

The Ubiquity Edge Router POE has 3 Poe Ports, but its a bit more complicated than the unifi stuff to configure. But if youre comforable with a bit of CL you should be fine. And there are probably plenty of tutorials on youtube.

As an update I own these two switches - right now my setup under cable is modem - router/wifi/switch - NAS/5-Port Switch/8-Port Switch/Free (I think, I cannot recall, I do not think I have a 4th device hooked into it).

So their modem - pfsense - I am assuming this EdgerRouterPOE/8PortSwitch/5Port Switch/Ubiqiti AP

Am I missing something?

Skip the consumer crap.

Ubiquiti POE Edgerouter + Ubiquiti UniFi AP (assuming you want wireless capabilities).

If you need a 3rd LAN, the ERL that I linked won't work, but the next model up should work. http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-ERPOE-5-EdgeRouter-Adapter/dp/B00E77N3WE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416496041&sr=8-2&keywords=ubiquiti+edge

It's hardly an ideal home router, but I'm absolutely loving my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter but at around $175 US, and with NO WIFI, it's probably not what you're looking for. I recently picked up an Asus wifi router though, and I'm loving that as well, though I wish I had spent more and gotten the RT-AC68U, but at about $200 that's also probably not ideal. I have the AC1200 (RT-AC56R) model and picked it up at walmart for about $100, it lacks exterior antennae, but coverage at my apartment seems good, and it will function as just an access point if you do end up getting the EdgeRouter from Ubiquiti, or just want to later extend your wireless coverage. Here is an image of my current networking setup taken with my potato. The SMC box beneath the EdgeRouter is the modem charter has given me, with the Asus RT-AC56R next to it on the right.


Edit: Forgot I was in /r/wireless... Even lacking wireless, with the POE (Power Over Ethernet) that the EdgeRouter provides, you can relatively easily add a ($70...) wireless access point to the thing, but then you'll be over budget if you just got the wireless Asus router. You could also just get a cheap wireless router to use with it, but if you just get the Asus you'll get a very pretty looking dual-band wireless router.

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-ERPOE-5-EdgeRouter-Adapter/dp/B00E77N3WE

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XXMUCQ/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1535523722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00E77N3WE&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0MR4S94F29JD093071FH

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UAP-LR-3-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B005SHQ644/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1409677912&sr=1-5&keywords=ubiquiti+unifi

Is that the correct router? And which AP would you suggest?

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If you want to insist this is a business topic then go with one of these:

UBNT EdgeRouter PoE

Sophos UTM Free Edition

Any pfSense Appliance


No appliance you can buy will defeat a bandwidth DoS/DDoS attack.
Some appliances may be better able to mitigate a resource exhaustion DoS/DDoS attack.
But you don't make it clear what you are being hit with

This model right?
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-ERPOE-5-EdgeRouter-Adapter/dp/B00E77N3WE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

What'd you end up doing for Wifi since it's just a 'pure' Ethernet router?