Set-and-forget
The 7 year old modem-router (Billion BiPac 7300N) in my wife's shared art studio was getting buggy, with daily drop-outs, failed connections, no internet all requiring power-cycling, hard resets etc. Since we weren't using the wireless access point feature of the Billion I searched for and found the Edgerouter X. The access points were aleady Ubiquity Unifi APs, so it was nice sticking with the one manufacturer. We decided to covert the Billion into modem-only in full bridge mode.
The ER-X was a bit complicated to set up at the start, but once I discovered the Wizards tab, it was a snack! For some strange reason, the more advanced set-up tabs are adjacent to the 'get started' tab, with the 'wizards' tab to the far right! Anyway, setting up with the wizard was a breeze and we were flying in no time.
I used the POE injector from one of the Unifi APs to power the ER-X which then provided pass-through POE to the same AP via eth4. The modem line-in went into eth0, leaving eth1-3 for the rest of the LAN. So far the ER-X has been trouble free, serving about twenty different clients, both wired, and wireless via the Unifi APs.
The features I need to look into are remote access into the router and I have done some preliminary research into this by mostly looking at Ubiquity's support forums, but I have a way to go.
All in all, I find the Ubiquity ER-X a very good option for the SOHO setting where you need to bullet-proof solution with little tinkering, but also want good statistics and feedback, and more configurability than your average consumer grade router will give you. The price speaks for itself, I think!
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