Having read about Ubiquiti about a year or so ago I got an AC-LR AP to give fast connectivity to my laptop in living room and then bought a 2nd to help give overall house coverage. I still had an Asus RT56 that I'd used before connected to a VM SH2 in modem mode. Over past few days internet connections had been dropping regularily + PCs seemed to be losing/failing to regain DHCP settings so I suspected RT56 was failing so switched the SH2 to router mode and eliminated the RT56 and things do seem to have improved. So I'm thinking about replacing the RT56 as it had the useful feature of being able to run a VPN connection so when I've been overseas on business/holiday I've been able to connect via it and appear to be in the UK for connections to iplayer etc. As I no longer really need the wifi connection from where the RT56 was (the AC-LR's are sufficinet now) I'd wondered about going further down the Ubiquiti path with an Edgerouter X ... I'm assuming it must be possible to configure one of these to have the same functionality (and doubtless much more) - had a search to find any guides how to do this but not had a great deal of success - so (a) anyone know where to find the incantations that would be needed and (b) is it really worth the hassle or should I just get something like my previous RT56 that already has the VPN setup availlable on its settings page (while having something I can play around with and customize is very enticing there comes a point where maybe something that does the job out of the box might be less hassle - sort of like why my wife used to complain about the way I upgraded our PCs and asked "why can't you just buy a ready built PC like everyonbe else"!)
I think the EdgeRouter X will suffer a little when using it as a OpenVPN server, its not really that powerful
as a router its a solid choice though, as its just a router, it doesn't have fancy cloud services, no printer server, no built file server options, no built in wireless so it will be more stable
I have a EdgeRouter Lite and use an old atom netbook with ubuntu and have OpenVPN on it which works perfectly fine.
The EdgeRouter can be a little daunting at first but its a good OS to learn and plenty of help out there
this chap is great:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD-QkofF-bFBAcI83U8ZZeg