Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 (ER-4)

I ordered from a third-party due to time and availability constraints. The router is new, unopened and factory-fresh. It performs better than the ERL-3 it was replacing.

This is everything I wanted it to be. Upgraded to this from an Er-x and this meets all my expectations. I'm sure with the wizard that this would be a good device for a non technical person, but it really shines if you have a bit more technical knowledge. I have a bunch of VLANs in my setup, some to purposefully restrict devices, and so you need to be comfortable with firewall configurations to really secure it, but if you can think like the router, you'll do fine. I also run a VPN so I can get ad free pi-hole browsing away from home, and between the niceties like dynamic DNS updates from this router to the aforementioned VLAN managing through the firewall in order to feel safe having something opened to the outside world, I'm entirely satisfied with this device. The extra selling point for me is that it doesn't involve any sort of cloud account or whatever ubiquiti is doing with their devices these days.

This was an excellent upgrade from my existing ERPoe-5 which was limiting my bandwidth. Easy to install and configure. Speed is excellent and it was an easy in-place swap. The best price was at Amazon.

tl;dr full control router, no recommended for click-next users (if this is you, go to the UniFi line instead). Great value for a nice almost corporative grade router with enough power to truly handle 1 Gb bandwidth thru WAN-NAT-LAN while providing DHCP and DNS services. The Ubiquiti EdgeOS is based on the outdated Vyatta 6.3 router OS, but Ubiquiti has updated and regularly post security patches. This means this router could be configured and customized by using the unix CLI. Of course it has a web GUI, but the real power is on the CLI. If you feel comfortable on unix, you can even install extra packages and services. Now on COVID time with high VPN requirement demands, I have been able to deploy this router on a medium size business (60+ clients). The build-in VPN server can be authenticate using the intranet Windows Domain Server (Active Directory, NPS (RADIUS) , DNS, Certificate Authority). The workstations use the build-in Windows VPN client. Ubiquiti documentation is lacking on how to use the advance features. These can be better documented on the Vyatta documentation. Also YouTube has plenty amazing tutorial videos for beginners and how to start with the advanced features. Once you learn how to use this router you will be glad that you choose this over the easy click-next, but limited UniFi line.

6 months in and still running good no downtime.