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rotor said:
Man I keep getting tempted to get a USG. I have an Edgerouter Lite which has served me incredibly well for the past few years, but I have all Unifi switches and APs, and the temptation to have that console all lit up is strong. The problem is I just. don't. need. it... I also have (as backups, so I can't use that as an excuse either), a Draytek 2820 (pretty useless these days, but would still do in a pinch), an Apple Airport Extreme (used solely for backups), and the Fritz box I got from Zen. So many routers!!
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exact same situation as me, is USG really better than the Edge Router Lite?
 
The USG with recent firmware is becoming a very capable router without the need for CLI/JSON for most features. It handles my VLANs and numerous firewall rules fine which mean continual traffic (CCTV) routing via the USG with no problems at all.

The only issue for me is better VPN (server) speed as the USG3 cannot max out my 20Mb upload. However I am waiting for the USG-HD-4 (Unifi version of ER-4) rather than upgrade to a USG Pro as the USG-HD-4 is more powerful than the Pro but should be cheaper considering the ER-4 price. That should hopefully solve VPN speed for my connection speeds for a few years as well as give the option of QoS which although less limited than VPN is still short of my connection speed.

Sadly an upgrade will mean my spare USG3 will probably have never seen service and along with the in service USG will makes 5 routers in the spares cupboard under 4 years old :eek:
 
WJA96 said:
Out of the box the USG is a perfectly adequate router. The firewall is also locked down by default. VPN is now configurable in the GUI and it makes all the bits of the dashboard light up if you have the switch and AP as well.

It still doesn’t do things like white/blacklists very well even though it theoretically has SquidGuard built in. Blocking countries is a pain apparently and it’s not as good as PfSense apparently. UBNT were apparently fully aware that they lagged behind in this area so they hired Chris Buechler (one of the Co-founders Of PfSense) and he’s sorting it out so that it’s the Best Security Appliance $100 can buy apparently. Certainly, it has improved leaps and bounds in the last 9 months.

Is there a particular reason you are going for the US-24 (I’m assuming one of the PoE versions) over the US-16-150W? The only reason I ask is that the US-16-150W is effectively silent whereas the US-24-250W sounds like a jet engine ALL THE TIME and the US-24-500W is even worse. So if noise is an issue, the smaller PoE switches are better.
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Thanks for the info. Seems like the USG is more then adequate for my needs, which at the moment are very basic! I was a little concerned it might be too complex but it sounds as if its mainly GUI driven. My network is mainly going to be serving media around the house/man cave either from the fileserver to htpc's/rpi's or running 3 Sky Q boxes as well as 2/3 WAPs. I'm looking forward to exploring the available options. I'd like to setup some VLANs (probably separating the Sky Q boxes and the main network as well as having a wireless Guest network that keeps guests away from the main network) which the US-24 should do and other then that I just need the USG to do some basic port forwarding for Plex/Sickrage etc and perhaps use VPN for torrents.

I'm going for the US-24 as my network is shortly going to have around 15-20 active devices on it (not being used all at once tho!) plus I want a little room for future expansion. The US-24 isn't going to be PoE, so should be silent or close to it. Initially I will use the included PoE injectors for the WAPs and in the future might add a US-8 or possibly 16 PoE switch, probably when I get around to installing CCTV cameras.
 
Are folks using any UTM device between their USG and network?

How does having none Unifi devices in your network affect the controller display, I am thinking 3rd party switches and firewalls for a mixed environment?
 
Simon42 said:
The USG with recent firmware is becoming a very capable router without the need for CLI/JSON for most features. It handles my VLANs and numerous firewall rules fine which mean continual traffic (CCTV) routing via the USG with no problems at all.

The only issue for me is better VPN (server) speed as the USG3 cannot max out my 20Mb upload. However I am waiting for the USG-HD-4 (Unifi version of ER-4) rather than upgrade to a USG Pro as the USG-HD-4 is more powerful than the Pro but should be cheaper considering the ER-4 price. That should hopefully solve VPN speed for my connection speeds for a few years as well as give the option of QoS which although less limited than VPN is still short of my connection speed.

Sadly an upgrade will mean my spare USG3 will probably have never seen service and along with the in service USG will makes 5 routers in the spares cupboard under 4 years old :eek:
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I really hope this is wrong, but on the Unifi Routing & Switching Beta forums, Chris Buechler (UBNT-cmb) states that the USG-HD-4 was shelved while they work on the USG-XG-8.
 
I missed the post about the USG-HD-4 being shelved for now and that's a shame. However with the various issues with firmware of late as they push to get more features and over a wider range of new devices I understand their decision.
 
Thinking of getting a USG to have a play over the Xmas break.

will replace a Unifi EdgeRouter Lite

I use Open DNS at home for DNS upstream which works fine on the EdgeRouter, does the USG support this?
 
lol :D

About to cave in and get a US-8-60W. I'm still using my Pi3 with Pi-Hole and WOL for my Unifi controller.

@lmfy2k , yes you can define your own DNS server for WAN (and separately for LAN)
 
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Well this is annoying. I've got the Cloud Key set up but every time I try and log in after migrating the settings no username/password combination works. I've tried default and that of the old controller.
 
Flash the new Cloudkey firmware that has been released today via SSH - https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi...re-0-8-7-has-been-released/m-p/2161137#M59775

The update process is a litlle different but it works well.

This should bump the controller upto version 5.6.26, this should migrate the data across from the previous controller.

If you need to at a later date you could always wipe the cloudkey and restore a backup
 
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