gillbot Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 Yet another WiFi router has died. I don't know why but here in my house, i'm lucky if they last a year. Last was a TPlink Archer C3200, now it was an Archer C5400X. For some reason, on both, there is no LAN to WAN communication. They seem to work ok as an AP by turning off DHCP but they are still overall flaky needing reboots about daily now. With that rant out of the way, I installed my EdgeRouter Lite and put the old routers both in AP mode to handle wifi. The problem is the ERL is garbage. I was getting 600Mbps throughput, then I tied it to UNMS cloud or some shit like the interface recommended. Then I updated the firmware and boot loader is some shit that was also recommended but now the throughput is around 90Mbps... This thing is terribly slow. It was WAY snappier and much better throughput before all their BS updates. Any ideas? What the hell kind of router can I buy that is a tank? I'd prefer something wired and robust so I can just leave the setup as it is but why pay for gigabit service if this trash router throttles it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted August 31, 2020 Report Share Posted August 31, 2020 You have to enable hardware acceleration in the CLI to get the full performance out of Ubiquiti products. I agree its horseshit we have to do that as well, but I feel your pain. I have an Edge Router X. Probably going to put together a pfSense box or configure a Cisco router to take it's place, then I'm going to punt this piece of shit into the ocean. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRouter-Hardware-Offloading Edit: Look in to seeing if "netflow" is enabled too, which I read gets enabled by default when UNMS is connected to it or something. Apparently that will also cause hardware offloading to be disabled. https://community.ui.com/questions/Cant-enable-hardware-offload-on-EdgeRouter-Lite/fc63cef0-8426-4395-b4c7-b973af776f2b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted August 31, 2020 Report Share Posted August 31, 2020 You have to enable hardware acceleration in the CLI to get the full performance out of Ubiquiti products. I agree its horseshit we have to do that as well, but I feel your pain. I have an Edge Router X. Probably going to put together a pfSense box or configure a Cisco router to take it's place, then I'm going to punt this piece of shit into the ocean. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRouter-Hardware-Offloading Edit: Look in to seeing if "netflow" is enabled too, which I read gets enabled by default when UNMS is connected to it or something. Apparently that will also cause hardware offloading to be disabled. https://community.ui.com/questions/Cant-enable-hardware-offload-on-EdgeRouter-Lite/fc63cef0-8426-4395-b4c7-b973af776f2b As a ubiquiti whore...this. Otherwise I'd tell you to go bigger as the ER-L is aging. ER-4 or USG-PRO-4. I have the USG-PRO-4 right now and can push 970/970 during off hours w/ AT&T gigabit. Or Fortigate, which if I can get them to send me "demo" units I'll switch to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted August 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2020 It's already been done. Thought I mentioned that in the OP but guess not. I suspect I screwed something up somewhere but I can't seem to find the hiccup. IP offload module : loaded IPv4 forwarding: enabled vlan : enabled pppoe : enabled gre : enabled bonding : enabled IPv6 forwarding: enabled vlan : disabled pppoe : enabled bonding : enabled IPSec offload module: loaded Traffic Analysis : export : disabled dpi : disabled version : 1.480 I also signed up for the UNMS thing on their website because of the nag screens but it'll get deleted because I don't have more than 10 devices or something... Anyway, I keep getting this warning. CPU on device gbt-ubnt has been over 90% for over 5 seconds. EDIT: I've been looking for an ER4 but seems like everyone else is also because I can't find one reasonably priced. I'm not tied to this thing, only using it because it was here so if I can find a reasonable replacement i'll do that too. Just tired of dropping hundreds on routers every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted August 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2020 Just ran a speedtest, CPU pegs at 100% on 91Mbps download so there has to be a config setting i'm overlooking somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 https://imgur.com/a/EkAWIb0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 https://imgur.com/a/EkAWIb0 fixed? or is it your upload that has been fuxxed all along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 Fixed thus far. Did a reset and reconfigured. Took me two tries but it seems to be back. Still having some config issues with port blocking and etc. but i'll hopefully work them out and not muck it up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodus Posted September 8, 2020 Report Share Posted September 8, 2020 Is the unifi hardware acceleration option for APs as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2020 Not that i'm aware of or have read about anywhere, but I haven't search that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Second Gen Posted September 9, 2020 Report Share Posted September 9, 2020 You have to enable hardware acceleration in the CLI to get the full performance out of Ubiquiti products. I agree its horseshit we have to do that as well, but I feel your pain. I have an Edge Router X. Probably going to put together a pfSense box or configure a Cisco router to take it's place, then I'm going to punt this piece of shit into the ocean. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRouter-Hardware-Offloading Edit: Look in to seeing if "netflow" is enabled too, which I read gets enabled by default when UNMS is connected to it or something. Apparently that will also cause hardware offloading to be disabled. https://community.ui.com/questions/Cant-enable-hardware-offload-on-EdgeRouter-Lite/fc63cef0-8426-4395-b4c7-b973af776f2b Echo the Ubiquiti recommendation as I have been running the (Ubiquiti) Amplifi with a single mesh point in my 2700 sq feet ranch house and can do everything on porches w/out issues. I also had it at the old house (About 2 years) and really like the product. I have heard the newer ones provide additional capabilities (Mostly gaming).. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2020 Probably going to put together a pfSense box or configure a Cisco router to take it's place, then I'm going to punt this piece of shit into the ocean. Just got my pfSense unit and installed the latest pfSense, it's up next and we'll see how it compares. If it can handle the task, i'm also going to punt my ERL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 the ER-L is basically end of life at this point. UI trying to bake in new features has resulted in a lot of broken updates. Keep in mind - this thing launched in 2013? Imagine your smartphone back then, basically same hardware. It's what put ubiquiti on the map, like the OG iphone. Go big dick with ubiquiti and you will have an amazing time. Also fuck pfsense, go vyos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 I've been trying to scrounge up an ER4 but OOS or tater prices everywhere. I like the ubiquiti line but am also having issues with port blocking. Any good tutorials there? Tried the site help and when I applied, it locked down ALL traffic so i'm a tard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGU Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 I've been trying to scrounge up an ER4 but OOS or tater prices everywhere. I like the ubiquiti line but am also having issues with port blocking. Any good tutorials there? Tried the site help and when I applied, it locked down ALL traffic so i'm a tard. I got annoyed with doing port blocking on my ERX. Ive only got the WAP setup now and even then i'm kinda at the point Id like to look at something else but the price is so right for the ubnt stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Yeah, i'm still digging the ERL mostly but there are a few things I can't get it to do or work right. I got this thing like forever ago and it mostly sat on a shelf but i'm over consumer routers as they never seem to last me more than a year if i'm lucky. I got the pfSense unit set up but I haven't tried it out yet. Mainly just installed it and set the IP so I could poke around the web config page. Aside from that it's been sitting on my desk esiting for the ERL to piss me off again, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robochan Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 My USG does these things I think. Going on 3 years of continuous uptime. Dropped the cash because I too hate consumer routers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGU Posted September 10, 2020 Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 Yeah, i'm still digging the ERL mostly but there are a few things I can't get it to do or work right. I got this thing like forever ago and it mostly sat on a shelf but i'm over consumer routers as they never seem to last me more than a year if i'm lucky. I got the pfSense unit set up but I haven't tried it out yet. Mainly just installed it and set the IP so I could poke around the web config page. Aside from that it's been sitting on my desk esiting for the ERL to piss me off again, lol. I have pfSense running as a VM and its controlling my VPN network so anything on that network is going over a VPN tunnel. I was using that to stream Masterchef Australlia but it seems 10play got wise to Express VPN's IPs and blocked it again so it kinda became a bit useless for me. Wish Palo Alto would allow connectivity to OpenVPN but noooo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted September 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2020 That's still on my to-do list is set my open-vpn back up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted September 11, 2020 Report Share Posted September 11, 2020 Just get a cheap VPS in whatever country and set up VPN or SSH tunnel, far less likely to be caught in a IP block ban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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