Brand | Ubiquiti Networks |
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Item model number | ERLite-3 |
Item Weight | 1.52 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 3 x 5 x 9.5 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 3 x 5 x 9.5 inches |
Manufacturer | Ubiquiti |
ASIN | B00CPRVF5K |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | May 9, 2013 |
Ubiquiti EdgeMax EdgeRouter Lite ERLite-3 512MB Memory 3 Ethernet Ports Router
Brand | Ubiquiti Networks |
Special Feature | WPS |
Compatible Devices | Personal Computer |
Recommended Uses For Product | Home |
Connectivity Technology | Ethernet |
Number of Ports | 3 |
Control Method | App |
Data Transfer Rate | 3 Gigabits Per Second |
LAN Port Bandwidth | 30000 megabits per second |
About this item
- (3) Gigabit routing ports
- Compact, durable metal casing
- 1 million packets per second for 64-byte packets
- Silent, fanless operation
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User interface | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
Tech Support | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | — | 3.5 |
WiFi signal | 3.6 | — | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
Value for money | — | 4.1 | 4.2 | — | 4.6 | 4.4 |
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connectivity tech | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet |
number of ports | 3 | — | 1 | — | 5 | 5 |
data transfer rate | 3 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | — | 1000 megabits per second | 1 gigabits per second |
wireless standard | — | 802 11 A | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AC | 802 11 A | 802 11 AC |
frequency band class | — | single band | single band | — | dual band | dual band |
lan port bandwidth | 30000 megabits per second | 10/100/1000 Mbps | 10/100/1000 Mbps | 10/100 megabits per second | — | — |
frequency | — | — | 5 GHz | — | 880 MHz | 5 GHz |
Product Description
Model: ERLite-3 Dimensions 200 x 90 x 30 mm (7.87 x 3.54 x 1.18 in) Weight 345 g (12.17 oz) Max. Power Consumption 7 W Power 12VDC, 1A Power Adapter (Included) Power Input 9 to 24VDC Supported Voltage Range Button Reset Processor Dual-Core 500 MHz, MIPS64 with Hardware Acceleration for Packet Processing System Memory 512 MB DDR2 RAM On-Board Flash Storage 2 GB Certifications CE, FCC, IC Wall-Mount Yes Operating Temperature -10 to 45° C (14 to 113° F) Operating Humidity 10 - 90% Non-Condensing Layer 3 Forwarding Performance Packet Size: 64 Bytes 1,000,000 pps Packet Size: 512 Bytes or Larger 3 Gbps (Line Rate) LEDs Per Port Serial Console Port Power Data Ports Speed/Link/Activity Networking Interfaces Serial Console Port (1) RJ45 Serial Port Data Ports (3) 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports
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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the router. They mention that it performs well, flawlessly handles everything they've thrown at it, and is relatively powerful in terms of routing power. Customers also say that the router has not had any problems and is fast.
"...UPDATE 1/7/2014Both units continue to function to my satisfaction...." Read more
"...So in summary here's my take:Pros Fast, reliable, and more readily configurable and expandable in its feature set than any..." Read more
"...It is fast (I don't know the top speed just that it maxes out my cable connection at 34 mbps) and has a GUI interface that does most of the things I..." Read more
"...+ Small device footprint that uses very little power.+ Functional web GUI that handles advanced tasks typical consumer routers couldn't dream..." Read more
Customers like the quality of the networking router. They say it is a solid piece of equipment, a very strong SOHO contender, and a nicely constructed professional grade router. Customers also mention that it is reliable, stable, and has enterprise features. The case is metal and solid, and it is relatively powerful.
"...So in summary here's my take:Pros Fast, reliable, and more readily configurable and expandable in its feature set than any..." Read more
"...The construction of the device is good (metal) but it does run a bit warm...." Read more
"...Performance rocks, and most importantly to me, it's rock-solid stable...." Read more
"...As it is, my 25/5 connection has never been this fast and reliable...." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the networking router. They say it's a fantastic router for the price, with performance at disruptive prices. Customers also mention that the price/performance ratio is truly incredible. They mention that it'll be a low cost way to get started, and it has flexibility at the price point. Customers say it is a powerful little equipment for cheap, and a good option for any small business.
"...+ Competes well with higher-end offerings (e.g. Cisco) at a great price...." Read more
"...truly set-and-forget products and they're definitely a much better value for the money than the WRT54GL..." Read more
"...This thing is probably a really good option for any small business and at this price, a steal!" Read more
"...And it is cheap for a router that is powered with dual core CPU and running an OS that has a great potential...." Read more
Customers like the features of the networking router. For example, they mention it has a great feature set, a deep feature set and all the capability they need for their small business network. The UI has wizards and interfaces that will get you a working router with basic functionality. It has UPNP2 built-in and can be implemented in many useful ways. Customers also appreciate the enterprise-level features and the ability to add rulesets to interfaces.
"...Although they provide an excellent GUI interface - frankly the best of any consumer router I have ever seen, they are short when it comes to Wizards..." Read more
"...and has a GUI interface that does most of the things I need it to do...." Read more
"...not a negative, but a positive, because it gives this router tremendous versatility...." Read more
"...The toolbox gives you some diagnostics options such as - Ping, Traceroute, Packet Capture and "Discover"...." Read more
Customers like the support community of the networking router. They say it has a fantastic support forum with lots of useful information. Customers also say that the support forums are extremely helpful and should be used as your first line of action. Overall, customers are satisfied with the support provided by the product.
"...As expected, the GUI keeps getting better with time...." Read more
"...TONS of community help/support out there that is mostly accurate...." Read more
"...This is an embedded Linux system running a fork of Vyatta. The GUI isn't bad, but this is no Linksys/D-Link product...." Read more
"...Coming from a little bit of Juniper experience, the CLI made a lot of sense to me quickly...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the networking router. Some mention that it's very easy to achieve completely in the GUI without using CLI at all using Firmware, and that the wizard makes setting up a breeze. However, others say that it is slightly harder setup for some people, daunting for non-technical people, and difficult to navigate the GUI.
"...+ Simple setup wizards that cover a majority of use cases.+ Competes well with higher-end offerings (e.g. Cisco) at a great price...." Read more
"...Where it suffers is only in that it is difficult and confusing to configure if you are trying to do anything for which there is not already a canned..." Read more
"..."language" or "node structure" if you will is very easy to self-learn. When in configure mode, one can type "show"...." Read more
"...As I said, it is not too difficult to configure this into a basic NAT router, and unlike consumer routers, this can be configured to do many other..." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the connectivity of the router. Some mention that it has an unbelievable wifi range, has no problem with the high bandwidth, and can handle more users and higher bandwidth than any home router. However, others say that it's fairly easy to use, but requires some familiarity with networking and is not for beginners. They also mention that the config is very proprietary and there was no default config.
"...to VPN into work, I eventually received often and repeatable disconnects from SSH sessions into my work servers...." Read more
"...kind of gotten a feel for it - for last few hours the internet does seem more consistent, lag free, so to speak from all the devices that go online...." Read more
"...more statistics, a little better layout, etc... There was still no default config but there were now 2 configuration wizards to help with some basic..." Read more
"...Note that this is not for the regular home user, as it takes a bit of knowing what you are doing to get it configured, and quite a bit more to get..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the firmware of the networking router. Some mention that the software is great and undergoing a redesign, while others say that it was outdated and impossible to update. The router comes with fairly minimal and old firmware that is very buggy and has a lot to be desired.
"...This version of firmware is very old. Make sure to update the firmware to at least 1.9.0 before you begin the setup...." Read more
"...Positive things about the AP, were that the software interface is top notch, really like the ability to customize the names of connected devices..." Read more
"...Nothing else. And the shipped code base was way out of date...." Read more
"...cost effective to target a constantly changing firmware, but the firmware is so old that it doesn't support the wizards that mere mortals need to..." Read more
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The problem which drove me to continue experimenting in routing equipment was with HD video streaming through both an Amazon Fire TV box and a Google Chromecast dongle and an Amazon FireTV stick. On the gateway/router boxes I had tried up to buying this ERLite-3, I would frequently see pauses in the buffering of streamed video although mostly in evening primetime when the web is full of people streaming TV shows. I had previously experimented with managed switches to try to route traffic for the streaming devices more optimally. And that helped a little. I had isolated all wireless traffic into separate Wireless access points for each floor of my house, including disabling wireless activity on my main router so that it only worked on routing and not managing wireless accesses. Since that did not clear the problem I started another investigation into equipment that might better do the job of purely routing traffic. But the market is dominated by single box solutions focusing most strongly on ease of use and fancy-looking boxes designed to get fashion awards. Trying to find a gateway/router without wireless in today's network hardware market was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The few options mostly revolved around small-to-medium businesses looking for industrial grade solutions at higher price points - above that of the fashion-oriented wireless-included click-and-go solutions. But in that more commercially oriented group, the ERLite-3 stood out because of its price point under $100. So I did a more thorough search and found that it was generally highly-regarded for performance but somewhat cranky to configure. That evaluation is justified now that I've used it for four weeks - but its feature set and price point makes it, to me, a uniquely valuable product.
First - it is generally flawless in performance - once you do your initial setup so that it's running at all - it never fails. My streaming issues still occasionally occur in primetime but they never cause a problem with the router - it keeps humming along and resumes broken streams without a hitch. It has never locked up on me and required a power recycling to get working again. You can screw up the configuration and make it fail to connect or route properly but you can't make it freeze up, at least I haven't been able to do that - and I've experimented with at least 25 different configurations. The 3 previous consumer/router gateways I had used could all be made to lock up under some combination of video streaming and online game play, again mostly in prime time.
So from a performance and robustness of the base operating system, and its underlying hardware, perspective, this device is nearly flawless.
Where it suffers is only in that it is difficult and confusing to configure if you are trying to do anything for which there is not already a canned solution from Ubiqiti. This product has a much smaller user base than it deserves. And what that translates to is that the number of people who may have tried to do what you might want to do are few and far between or possibly non-existent so finding answers via support forums doesn't turn up that many hits. To do what I initially set out to do, use one of the 2 LAN ports for a high priority network for the video streaming devices and set up a second network out the second LAN port for regular traffic turned out to be impractical - but not because the box couldn't do it but because I could not find an answer that I could make sense of and I was in a hurry to restore the internet before my family started pounding on my door!
Although they provide an excellent GUI interface - frankly the best of any consumer router I have ever seen, they are short when it comes to Wizards that will help you with anything out of the ordinary. You can get it up and running with the Wizards they provide easily enough but to get it to sit up and bark you're going to have to go editing its master config.boot file - which is an XML-like plain text file describing the configuration. Unless you are familiar with the UNIX/LINUX vi editor, you're going to want to take that configuration file over to a familiar editing environment to experiment with changes and try out solutions others, including Ubiqiti suport, might want you to run for your specific issue.
But while this is a technical issue requiring some care to go through, ubiqiti has provided the tools in their GUI to make getting a copy of the current configuration copied to your PC and then restored to the router easy and straightforward.
To make changes to the configuration that are not covered by someone else's example config you might find on the internet, or if you want to apply suggested changes yourself, the process is simply this:
Use your browser to go to the router Web GUI at the base IP address of the router - I think it's 192.168.1.1 by default - mine I set differently. On each page of the interface you'll find two tabs at the bottom of the page on the left side named Alerts and System - click on the System tab and scroll to the bottom. There you will see the two options you'll need to fully control the configuration of the router. The download option will package up the current configuration and store it on your PC at the location you designate. The resulting file is commonly used in UNIX/LINUX software distributions consisting of a tar file that is gzip'ed. If those terms scare you, then you should probably not be looking at this router if you need to do anything out of the ordinary. For the most part, all of the options you will use for most operations are available somewhere in the GUI and could be set there but you will be going back and forth to multiple screens or alternately using their command line interface to set things up. After horsing around for a week trying to get my configuration where I wanted it I concluded the download/restore method was best. So you use the download method to get a copy onto your PC or MAC portable or desktop. You then use a free tool like 7-Zip to first unzip the file and then use 7-zip to de-tar the resulting tar file. Be aware that you should de-tar that file into it's own private subdirectory where nothing else exists. The tar file contains a complete copy of the configuration file structure with a lot of files and directories you will not likely ever touch. But when you're done editing config.boot you have to go thru the same 2-step process in reverse to create the file to restore the configuration file to the router. Sounds difficult and tedious but it's really not. it boils down to this - download using the GUI to your local machine in an empty subdirectory. Extract the tar file from the gzip, un-tar the tar file, which creates a 'config' subdirectory. Open the config subdirectory where you'll find a lot of stuff but all you care about is the config.boot file. Edit that with a plain text editor like notepad or it's plaintext Mac equivalent to see how things are currently set and then make your changes. Then close the file after editing. Now go back up one directory. Run 7-Zip to create a tar file from the entire contents of the config folder - 7-zip defaults to gzip - you need to change the type of file to tar. That should create a file called config.tar - you can rename it if you like - the name isn't important, only how it is created is important. Now run 7-zip or your favorite gzip creator program to zip up the .tar file you just made. Then use the configuration restore function of the ERLite-3 Web GUI to restore the file you just created. The Web GUI will ask you if you want to reboot the router after you restore and, of course, answer yes. Your changes will be applied during the reboot which takes a full minute or more. I've been thru this process a few dozen times now as I experimented with IPV6 configurations, bridging IP ports, putting in MAC address fixed assignments, enabling and disabling protocols and firewall features and so on and it was actually faster than using the WEB GUI overall and has the advantage of ensuring you always have a backup copy of a working router configuration.
Now if you've lasted this far into this review, here's the really cool part. The Web GUI will show you the traffic demand of any user on the system in a continuously updated moving stacked bar chart. It lists by color code each of the heaviest users active on the system so you can see who's using the most bandwidth - there are two parts to the display - the Dashboard tab with the vertical moving bar graph showing bandwidth by user over time - and the Traffic Analysis tab which shows a circle bar graph showing by color code what percent of total thruput a user is taking. And if you hover on a particular users Circle graph color, it will give you a list of the applications that user is running which are using the most bandwidth.
I have two kids - both adults, one of which still lives at home and the other is away at college. I've noticed that they tend to have something like 20 to 30 open windows on their desktop at any time when they're at home. I was amazed when I looked at the circle graph display and could see how many of their open applications were taking bandwidth when they were not actively being used. Easily the most useful traffic analysis display I've seen on any router at any price point. That display alone made the other "features" pale in comparison. You do need to enable "Operational Analysis" on the GUI to see the application details - a feature they caution you results in deep packet inspection which potentially slows packet delivery marginally. But that also shows another aspect of this hardware - it is truly high performance. If you search the web you find the ERLite-3 and its bretheren are some of the highest performing routers out there. In part because of the dual core processor used and in part because of the large buffer memory. They actually have excess processing capacity for the normal work so adding deep packet inspection doesn't slow them down. I'm pretty sure that it was slow internal CPU performance in my earlier routers that would eventually get them to lock up under load. So far, this guy hasn't hiccuped once.
Ubiqiti appears to be very proactive in keeping the software improved too. When you read reviews and comments and go to forums looking for information you find that are steadily adding features to their GUI to make it do more of the configuration management without having to resort the the method I currently use. So far, I have only done one upgrade after first receiving it. But when I read a lot of other posts regarding this equipment I read complaints about missing features and attributes that couldn't be seen that I now do see in the version I'm running, 1.7.0.
So in summary here's my take:
Pros
Fast, reliable, and more readily configurable and expandable in its feature set than any other router available at this price point.
Real-time traffic display unsurpassed in my experience.
Cons
Smaller user base than the big name products and definitely expert-friendly. I think the current Wizard for configuring it will accommodate most simple networks. But if you want to play with all the things it will do be ready for a very technical exercise.
Conclusion
I'd buy another one of these in a heartbeat based on reliability, configurability, and performance. It solved my problem and gave me more control of what goes on inside my network so I know what changes affect which behaviors.
I work at an ISP and have a basic grasp on routing even if I'm not the guy setting up BGP to major carriers, so I was looking to invest in something a little more complex and therefore more customizable than the offerings from typical consumer grade stuff from Linksys or Netgear. I had looked into routers that supported custom firmwares, but I wanted something that had all of the features I was looking for stock in a small home network router (Dual WAN, custom static routes, VPN, and traffic shaping/profiling); the EdgeRouter met my needs and even exceeded them. This device can shovel packets at one gigabit with no problems, which is great, because my primary home connection is only 90 megabit and I now have plenty of room to grow when ISPs decide to up the speed in my area. Using the built-in wizards, I was able to set up a dual WAN connection with load balancing without any headaches. I combined my Comcast cable and AT&T DSL connections, and now my large downloads on Steam or any other service that leverages multiple connections take no time at all. I've had to do some maintenance to fix a few things I broke (mainly added firewall rules that prevented me from getting into the thing locally), but it was my fault for not paying attention, and it was on some level fun to figure out (I'm sick in the head like that). A few other issues were fixed and possibilities were opened up by upgrading the firmware (do this as soon as you get it), and I find that most tasks can now be completed purely using the functional and aesthetic web interface.
A few things need to be stated up front, and the main ones are these: this does not come with a built-in switch for connecting multiple LAN devices, and there is no wireless capability. For normal home usage, a cheap, generic gigabit switch will do you fine if you're not worried about VLANs or any other advanced features like that. I have a simple TrendNet switch which I use to enforce separation between the Comcast and AT&T networks by VLAN as I have a few static IPs on the AT&T side that I use for Internet facing servers. I have noticed no speed penalties and am still constrained by the disk speeds of my servers when transferring between the two networks. As for the wireless, you'll need to pick up an access point, so I grabbed an Ubiquiti Unifi Ap-AC Lite to go with it. I honestly prefer this separation, as wireless technologies will come and go, but Ethernet will always be a standard, and I'm free to upgrade the WLAN side at will without changing anything about routing. These two "downsides" are an advantage as it keeps my network modular and extends the usable lifetime of the EdgeRouter. You won't pay for features that will be obsolete in 5 years.
Pros:
+ Small device footprint that uses very little power.
+ Functional web GUI that handles advanced tasks typical consumer routers couldn't dream of.
+ Deep packet inspection allows determining the most used devices and protocols.
+ Gigabit speeds that are actually gigabit in practice and not best-case theory thanks to hardware offloading.
+ Powerful Linux (Debian) OS with iptables based firewall for the most paranoid of power users.
+ Simple setup wizards that cover a majority of use cases.
+ Competes well with higher-end offerings (e.g. Cisco) at a great price.
+ Does everything you should ever need unless you're in charge of networking a Fortune 500 company.
Neutral:
= With great power comes great responsibility; it's easy to break something if you're careless.
= No WiFi or hardware bridging capabilities. Bridging the three ports in a 1 WAN + 2 LAN in same subnet scenario incurs a speed penalty.
Cons:
- Sparse manual and documentation that assumes you know what you're doing.
- GUI sometimes seems to be an afterthought for the developers and doesn't always show or keep up with command-line capabilities.