![]() My own setup is FTTP, and an Huawei ONT that offers me an RJ45 jack to connect to the Internet on. You are either filthy rich, have cable, or you have a FTTP connection and an ONT. Only when you get an Internet connection that is faster than 100Mbps, and you want to do more with it than just surfing eBay and FaceBook, will this really interest you. That is not to say that the EdgeRouter ER-X is in any way bad, it just requires a little more effort to get going than the typical talktalk plastic box. If you press the reset button and hope to still be connected to the Internet afterwards, you are going to be disappointed. The problem for the non-network engineer, is that fresh out of the box, it does nothing. ![]() ![]() There is a lot of information about the EdgeRouter ER-X on the Internet, walking you through setting it up to operate in various environments, but after trawling through endless youtube videos and forums, the crucial thing that was preventing me from setting mine up was noticably absent. If you can imagine a configuration, the EdgeRouter ER-X is probably capable of it. Another way of looking at it is this It is a fully functional linux computer with a built-in 5 port gigabit switch, with SSH and Telnet CLI, and a HTTP GUI that lets you configure it to do what you want it to. It has five, gigabit capable ports that are configurable in a multitude of ways, and is a serious step up from the ISP supplied plastic boxes of yore. ![]() The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter ER-X is still one of the cheapest, decent, router / firewalls around. Important firewall information for PPPoE on EdgeRouter X ![]()
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