RAM | 512 MB |
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Wireless Type | 802.11n |
Ubiquiti Networks Networks Edgerouter Lite 3-Port Router
Brand | Ubiquiti Networks |
Model Name | ERLITE-3 |
Special Feature | WPS |
Frequency Band Class | Single-Band |
Wireless Communication Standard | 802.11n |
Compatible Devices | Personal Computer |
Frequency | 500 MHz |
Recommended Uses For Product | Home |
Included Components | Part |
Connectivity Technology | Ethernet |
About this item
- 1 million packets per second for 64-byte packets.
- (3) Gigabit routing ports
- Silent, fanless operation
- Compact, durable metal casing
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User interface | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 |
WiFi signal | 3.6 | 3.4 | — | 3.4 | 3.1 |
Tech Support | — | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
Value for money | — | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 | — |
Sold By | Orange G (SERIAL N RECORDED) | Cudy | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amor Tech |
connectivity tech | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet |
number of ports | 3 | 4 | — | 1 | — |
data transfer rate | 1 megabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | — |
wireless standard | 802 11 N | 802 11 AC | 802 11 A | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AC |
frequency band class | single band | — | single band | single band | — |
lan port bandwidth | — | 10/100/1000Mbps | 10/100/1000 Mbps | 10/100/1000 Mbps | 10/100 megabits per second |
frequency | 500 MHz | 5 GHz | — | 5 GHz | — |
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Brand | Ubiquiti Networks |
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Series | ERLITE-3 |
Item model number | ERLITE-3 |
Item Weight | 12.2 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 7.87 x 3.54 x 1.18 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 7.87 x 3.54 x 1.18 inches |
Color | White |
Number of Processors | 2 |
Computer Memory Type | DDR3 SDRAM |
Flash Memory Size | 2048 |
Voltage | 24 Volts |
Manufacturer | Ubiquiti |
ASIN | B00HXT8EKE |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | June 19, 2017 |
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4.4 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank | #15,210 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories) #613 in Computer Routers |
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Customers like the performance, quality and speed of the networking router. They mention that it performs perfectly for their needs, is very powerful and rock solid. They are also happy with versatility, and configuration. That said, opinions are mixed on ease of installation and ease of use.
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Customers like the quality of the networking router. They say it's reliable, fast, and has a steel case. It's a lot more reliable than the normal consumer grade WiFi routers, and is a solid buy for home situations as well as some business.
"...It's powerful and stable enough for a business environment but the price point makes it appropriate for purchase and use in a home environment...." Read more
"...Top level performance and ease of use, and high reliability, at reasonable, or in the case of the ERL-3, very low, prices." Read more
"..."out there" and never disconnects or hangs, and NEVER crashes the OS or hardware -- that was the crux of my frustration with the old linksys..." Read more
"...The performance of this router has been stellar...." Read more
Customers like the performance of the router. They say it performs perfectly for their needs, is very powerful, and rock solid. The fail-over is working great, and the router handles VLANs very well. It chugs along with no issues, and has lots of control and power.
"...The device arrived - it is compact, clean looking, and sturdy. No cheap plastic...." Read more
"...It's powerful and stable enough for a business environment but the price point makes it appropriate for purchase and use in a home environment...." Read more
"...had it running for a couple of weeks, there have been zero hardware/performance issues even with deep packet inspection enabled...." Read more
"VERY COOL HARDWARE. Does take some time to learn it, but there is VERY good documentation out there to find...." Read more
Customers like the speed of the router. For example,they mention it has a HW chip that accelerates processing, resulting in a nice fast and stable network.
"...The speed so far has been great. I did one speed test today, and I got more than the full bandwidth of my faster connection coming through...." Read more
"...features hardware offloading for some types of routing - making it even faster and keeping CPU loads quite low in my application*..." Read more
"...: This is, as everyone else has been saying, an extremely powerful/fast router. Do not let its small size (and price tag) fool you...." Read more
"...I needed a basic, robust gigabit router that is fast and reliable. This EdgeRouter definitely meets those requirements...." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the router. They mention that it offers a lot of features for a budget-priced product, and is a great value for 10 Gb/s networking.
"...For this low price, to have such a positive experience out of the box, this earns my rare five star review. It's pro grade gear at consumer prices." Read more
"...and stable enough for a business environment but the price point makes it appropriate for purchase and use in a home environment...." Read more
"...Top level performance and ease of use, and high reliability, at reasonable, or in the case of the ERL-3, very low, prices." Read more
"...Summary: More RAM than ER-X, cheaper than ER-5, TONS and tons of official and community documentation and examples for configuration." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the networking router. Some mention that the GUI is easy to use, while others say that it is a bit more complex than your average home all-in-one consumer router. The UI is not bad, but it could be better, and some customers say that the UI does not support OpenVPN configuration.
"...Here's a complete GUI to ALL device settings, with at least a bit of guidance in the form of tool tips as to how to set things...." Read more
"...The web interface is nice, but there may be features that you want that can only - or are best - configured from the command line..." Read more
"...Yes, the interface overall is still a bit more complex than your average home all-in-one consumer router, but with that complexity comes more..." Read more
"...Top level performance and ease of use, and high reliability, at reasonable, or in the case of the ERL-3, very low, prices." Read more
Customers like the versatility of the networking router. For example, they say it's easy to set up and has a lot of features. Some say it works flawlessly and has lots of room for functionality. Overall, customers are happy with the versatility and functionality of the product.
"...my overall setup ended up being at least as performant, far more versatile, and very likely much more durable & long-lasting than the consumer-grade..." Read more
"...There are so many options and the flexibility that this router provides will amaze you.What I don't like:None...." Read more
"...I am still exploring al the power this router has, but it is loaded with features...." Read more
"...It makes them very versatile. I do wish they were a little more flexible like PFSense, but for the price and form factor you can't beat it." Read more
Customers like the configuration of the networking router. They mention that it is highly configurable, with detailed options. The amount of customization on this thing is amazing, and it is easy or as complicated as you want it.
"...Highly configurable* SSH key support* 3rd party Wireguard VPN support allows for a very secure and fast VPN connection..." Read more
"...also allows easy configuration of DHCP services and has configuration options too numerous to detail here...." Read more
"Highly Configurable! Make sure you update this router ASAP, like right when it's out of the box...." Read more
"...basically running an embedded version of Linux, so configuration options are nearly limitless...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of installation of the networking router. Some mention that it was a breeze, while others say that it's a bit difficult to configure. They mention that the router allows easy configuration of DHCP services, and VLANs can be setup, but that it can be somewhat complex for the average user. That said, some say that the online instruction manual is absolutely required and still lacks the specifics to get it up and running.
"...That was great.Getting to that point was super easy and hassle free...." Read more
"...It takes some configuration - probably an hour so initially, though I could do it much faster now that I've done it once - and some planning about..." Read more
"...Setup was a breeze barring two small issues...." Read more
"VERY COOL HARDWARE. Does take some time to learn it, but there is VERY good documentation out there to find...." Read more
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I bought this for one and only one reason: my primary Internet provider has ridiculously low data caps on our plan, and keep forcing us to "upgrade" to higher speeds (so that we can blow through the cap even faster!). So I recently signed up for a secondary, slower connection with no caps, for the things like backups that require lots of data, but don't need the speed.
This led me to the question of how I could manage two internet connections coming into the house in an automated way. Lo and behold, searching turned up that there is a whole class of router devices that have a "dual WAN" feature, meaning they can manage two (or more) internet connections at once.
I did a lot of research on the various brands, and almost went with a device from a very popular name brand. However, reading the reviews on these "consumer grade" devices was a real turn off: flaky, cheap hardware seemed par for the course, unless you're willing to pay hundreds for something that's more of a "professional" type device.
I hate wasting my time on flaky stuff, so I kept searching. I almost ended up paying hundreds more for a top-shelf (in terms of price) device that could do what I wanted.
Then in some search I ran across this. The reviews were mostly stellar, though people were warning that this is "not easy" to set up.
I have a computer science background, but not in networking. I also hate wasting time on complex configurations. So I was concerned that it could be a big time suck. But given the low cost and good reviews, I took a gamble.
I'm so glad that I did!
The device arrived - it is compact, clean looking, and sturdy. No cheap plastic. I fired it up, and within just 10 minutes had my first internet connection running through the device to the residence. I then tried it with the second, and it only took another 10 minutes to get that one working.
Then I set out to combine them together into a "load balancing" configuration, where internet traffic to/from our place is split between the two connections.
Maybe this used to be a pain years ago, but now Ubiquiti has built-in "wizards" that take you through common configurations like this, step by step. I followed the wizard, and within another 15-20 minutes, I had a full "load balanced" configuration running. That was great.
Getting to that point was super easy and hassle free. This would be enough for most users, and can be done by wizards alone.
The next step was to configure it so that certain traffic (such as backups) only go through one of the connections, but not the one with the data cap. I was concerned that this might be complicated, because it wasn't part of the wizard.
However, some searches at their forum revealed a step-by-step post showing how to do this at the command line. While I've done tons of command line stuff, these days I don't like learning whole new command sets unless I have to.
So I figured out that I could do everything they described in the posts through a little-described but powerful feature of the GUI: The "Config Tree". Here's a complete GUI to ALL device settings, with at least a bit of guidance in the form of tool tips as to how to set things.
Using the instructions provided in the forum posts for the command line, I was able to browse through the Config Tree to find the same settings, and to set those as described. Then I rebooted....
And it was working perfectly! I started a backup and all the traffic was going through the unlimited internet connection. Everything else was still being load-balanced between the two.
I really like the gui - especially the network charts and analyses that show how much data is going where. You can even drill down into the specifics of which devices on the network are using what data - and from what sources. A great feature for making sure we don't go over the caps with our one provider.
The speed so far has been great. I did one speed test today, and I got more than the full bandwidth of my faster connection coming through. It's a 150mbp/second connection, and according to speediest, it was running at over 160 to my system. The test system in question was connected to the router via a wired cat6 ethernet cable via the switch.
Based on several comments in other reviews, I was worried that enabling some more complex configuration features might peg the CPU, but so far, it has remained low - usually below 20%.
I haven't seen any signs of glitches; it's been rock solid so far.
The only caveat is that this is a router, not a switch. What that means is that if you have multiple devices you want on the same network, you need a separate device with switching to connect them all. I use a professional grade switch I already had, but it would work just fine to use a home wifi router plugged into this, to provide the switching functions to both wired and wireless clients. I have my own wireless (Airport) base station attached to my switch to provide wireless to the mobile devices, and it works without a hitch.
For this low price, to have such a positive experience out of the box, this earns my rare five star review. It's pro grade gear at consumer prices.
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016
I bought this for one and only one reason: my primary Internet provider has ridiculously low data caps on our plan, and keep forcing us to "upgrade" to higher speeds (so that we can blow through the cap even faster!). So I recently signed up for a secondary, slower connection with no caps, for the things like backups that require lots of data, but don't need the speed.
This led me to the question of how I could manage two internet connections coming into the house in an automated way. Lo and behold, searching turned up that there is a whole class of router devices that have a "dual WAN" feature, meaning they can manage two (or more) internet connections at once.
I did a lot of research on the various brands, and almost went with a device from a very popular name brand. However, reading the reviews on these "consumer grade" devices was a real turn off: flaky, cheap hardware seemed par for the course, unless you're willing to pay hundreds for something that's more of a "professional" type device.
I hate wasting my time on flaky stuff, so I kept searching. I almost ended up paying hundreds more for a top-shelf (in terms of price) device that could do what I wanted.
Then in some search I ran across this. The reviews were mostly stellar, though people were warning that this is "not easy" to set up.
I have a computer science background, but not in networking. I also hate wasting time on complex configurations. So I was concerned that it could be a big time suck. But given the low cost and good reviews, I took a gamble.
I'm so glad that I did!
The device arrived - it is compact, clean looking, and sturdy. No cheap plastic. I fired it up, and within just 10 minutes had my first internet connection running through the device to the residence. I then tried it with the second, and it only took another 10 minutes to get that one working.
Then I set out to combine them together into a "load balancing" configuration, where internet traffic to/from our place is split between the two connections.
Maybe this used to be a pain years ago, but now Ubiquiti has built-in "wizards" that take you through common configurations like this, step by step. I followed the wizard, and within another 15-20 minutes, I had a full "load balanced" configuration running. That was great.
Getting to that point was super easy and hassle free. This would be enough for most users, and can be done by wizards alone.
The next step was to configure it so that certain traffic (such as backups) only go through one of the connections, but not the one with the data cap. I was concerned that this might be complicated, because it wasn't part of the wizard.
However, some searches at their forum revealed a step-by-step post showing how to do this at the command line. While I've done tons of command line stuff, these days I don't like learning whole new command sets unless I have to.
So I figured out that I could do everything they described in the posts through a little-described but powerful feature of the GUI: The "Config Tree". Here's a complete GUI to ALL device settings, with at least a bit of guidance in the form of tool tips as to how to set things.
Using the instructions provided in the forum posts for the command line, I was able to browse through the Config Tree to find the same settings, and to set those as described. Then I rebooted....
And it was working perfectly! I started a backup and all the traffic was going through the unlimited internet connection. Everything else was still being load-balanced between the two.
I really like the gui - especially the network charts and analyses that show how much data is going where. You can even drill down into the specifics of which devices on the network are using what data - and from what sources. A great feature for making sure we don't go over the caps with our one provider.
The speed so far has been great. I did one speed test today, and I got more than the full bandwidth of my faster connection coming through. It's a 150mbp/second connection, and according to speediest, it was running at over 160 to my system. The test system in question was connected to the router via a wired cat6 ethernet cable via the switch.
Based on several comments in other reviews, I was worried that enabling some more complex configuration features might peg the CPU, but so far, it has remained low - usually below 20%.
I haven't seen any signs of glitches; it's been rock solid so far.
The only caveat is that this is a router, not a switch. What that means is that if you have multiple devices you want on the same network, you need a separate device with switching to connect them all. I use a professional grade switch I already had, but it would work just fine to use a home wifi router plugged into this, to provide the switching functions to both wired and wireless clients. I have my own wireless (Airport) base station attached to my switch to provide wireless to the mobile devices, and it works without a hitch.
For this low price, to have such a positive experience out of the box, this earns my rare five star review. It's pro grade gear at consumer prices.
This router would be sufficient and appropriate for a larger office/branch office situation and can easily support several dozen concurrent users - total overkill for my house and home office - but at the same time absolutely perfect for that application.
Think of this router as a miniature commercial router rather than a hardened residential one. In my experience, many aspects of this device are more akin to "real" Cisco-type iron than the type of router you might buy in a consumer electronics store. Don't let the price point fool you - this is a serious piece of computing hardware.
With that stated - it's not just plug and play. If you expect it to work just like the consumer routers you're used to, you might be frustrated or disappointed. It takes some configuration - probably an hour so initially, though I could do it much faster now that I've done it once - and some planning about how you want your network to work.
Here are some things to consider:
* It's a router. It routes packets from one place to another.
* It routes packets fast. Really fast.
* It's happy to just work with almost everything - VPN, etc just work
* You can configure it to work with IPv6 just fine as well
* The web interface is nice, but there may be features that you want that can only - or are best - configured from the command line
* It features hardware offloading for some types of routing - making it even faster and keeping CPU loads quite low in my application
* It features a "configuration wizard" which works well to get your initial configuration up and running
Please do think a bit about your needs, because it's important to remember what this unit is not:
* It's not a "plug and play" solution - you need to configure it to do what you want
* It's not a wireless router. It's not a wireless access point. It's just plain not wireless in any way.
Regarding the wireless item above - in my opinion, that's a feature, not a bug. In terms of capability and reliability, I am now a big advocate for separating my routing from my wireless access. Initially, I am using my old wireless router - an ASUS RT-AC66U - as just an access point. As an access point, my old router seems to work well and has not had to be reset, etc for over a month. The Edgerouter has never had to be rebooted since I first got it configured and working.
Using my old router as an access point was actually more complicated - and required more configuration and programming - than getting the Edgerouter configured.
If you don't already have a wireless access point or solution, I'd strongly recommend looking at the Ubiquiti Unifi access points - you can find the AC-capable units for under $100 in some cases (model dependent) and these are a real step up from consumer-grade hardware. They work well with the Edgerouter and are easily managed. And best of all, they're designed to just provide wireless access with high reliability and low maintenance. I know that my next step will be to retire my old consumer gear and upgrade to one of these.
Online support in the Ubiquiti forums and elsewhere is fantastic for this solution.
My summary is that this is a great router and great part of a larger network solution. It's powerful and stable enough for a business environment but the price point makes it appropriate for purchase and use in a home environment. I'm delighted with the purchase!
Top reviews from other countries
Ce qui a fait la différence pour moi c'est le DPI intégré qui permet de filtrer au niveau applicatif (interdire Skype par exemple). A ce niveau de prix c'est unique et c'est simple a utiliser.
Les assistants sont bien faits, mais pas complets pour se connecter à internet.
Attention c'est un pur routeur avec deux sorties pour deux réseaux différents il faut coller des switches derrière, si en avez déjà un ainsi qu'un point ou routeur wifi vous pouvez les récupérer.
Le produit utilise des softs open source bien connus, on peut se cultiver en lisant les nombreuses ressources sur internet mais ça demande de l'investissement personnel.
Le pare feu feu est puissant, outre le DPI, les trois interfaces peuvent être protégées dans toutes les directions (in,out et local pour la protection du routeur lui même), rien à voir avec le pare feu des box ou des routeurs wifi.
Ce produit est parfait pour créer deux réseaux chez soi, dont l'un l'un est plus exposé au menaces, réseau invités, serveur ouvert sur internet, cameras de surveillance, domotique et produits dont un port est constamment ouvert sur le net. En créant des règles strictes on peut isoler son réseau "sensible" du réseau exposé.
Dans mon cas j'ai un réseau géré par la box, deux par le routeur, l'egdgemax assure la sécurité entre ceux ci.
Avec un peu d’apprentissage des réseaux on s'en sort quand on a compris.
Ne comptez pas sur Ubiquiti pour vous aider, il faut lire, aller sur youtube pour se former, on trouve une très grande communauté en ligne.
Bref, dans un minuscule boîtier toute la puissance des pare feux Linux, si vous êtes prêt à mettre les mains dans cambouis. Parfait pour élargir sa culture technique, avoir le plaisir de maîtriser sa sécurité sans dépenser des fortunes dans un pc ou du matos entreprise.
My old router, an Asus RT-AC68U was starting to show its age with my Gigabit internet connection. Often, my speeds would top out at 350mbps due to the router choking. This router has no such issues and delivers consistent speeds in excess of 900mbps. It's a pain to set up, especially when Amazon is shipping it with an older firmware that has no setup wizards. Once you get it working though, it's powerful and VERY configurable.
Pros:
- FAST. My gigabit connection pretty much maxes out my speeds.
- POWERFUL. There are literally thousands of items to configure in this router. If you're a network admin, you'll find the ability to configure this device to be a blessing.
- Well built. The router is inside a metal casing in it's latest versions.
Cons:
- Hard to setup on older firmwares. Mine came with firmware 1.2, whereas the most current firmware version is 1.9.7 hotfix 4. The more current firmwares have wizards for commonly used tasks. The older firmwares require a lot of command line interface use.
- HOT. These routers get quite warm, so it may be a good idea to place a fan next to them, or run them in a well ventilated area.
- No switch built in. There are 3 ports. One will be used for your WAN connection, one will have to be connected to a switch if you want multiple devices plugged in. By default, the third port runs a separate vlan than the second port, and bridging the two reduces performance greatly. This will never be fixed in firmware as the bridging function between the two vlans disallows you using hardware offloading. Everything is processed in software.
- Can't control Ubiquiti's Unifi Wifi Access Points. This means you need to run a separate piece of software on a PC, running in JAVA, which itself is very insecure.
Overall, I highly recommend this router if you have the ability to troubleshoot problems and search for answers on Google or Ubiquiti's website. Once you set it up correctly, it's fast and powerful. I'm running two internet connections through it on failover (if cable connection dies, it flips to DSL) and am quite impressed by it's abilities.