Comment by cromka

6 months ago

> TP-Link is less expensive and better performance. WiFi 7 and 10gbit for less money.

Thanks, they really seem like good alternative.

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zmix  6 months ago

Not sure, how active development is right now, but EdgeOS got forked from an open source devian based distro after that went commercial.

But EdgeOS was not the only fork, another one was VyOS (vyos.io). Pretty sure, that EdgeOS has done larger steps forward, especially, since it was bound to the hardware's developer.

  • stephen_g  6 months ago

    The distribution was called Vyatta. VyOS is now very actively used and developed, it's way ahead of EdgeOS since that's been basically dead for years. EdgeOS was basically just a nice web UI over Vyatta but the one key point was that the EdgeRouters had hardware acceleration (Cavium CPU with offload, but Cavium got acquired by Marvell since) and only EdgeOS has the proprietary binary blob and integration that you need to use that on the EdgeRouter hardware.

    So even though VyOS exists as the modern day Vyatta fork that is active and fully-featured, you can't really run it on the EdgeRouter hardware and since Ubiquiti stopped development, they're basically e-waste.

    I still run one in a network but really shouldn't, since Ubiquiti are very rarely shipping security updates...

    • inferiorhuman  6 months ago 

         the one key point was that the EdgeRouters had hardware acceleration

      The EdgeRouter Lite used a Cavium SoC, the EdgeRouter X family used a 32-bit MediaTek SoC. Hardware acceleration was buggy on both and is/was known to cause packet corruption.

      The main problem with the EdgeRouters was that Ubiquiti was basically just assembling off the shelf stuff. They didn't have the ability to fix SoC issues (or motivate the manufacturers to fix them). For years they didn't have the ability to do much Linux dev work either so the ER families languished on an end-of-lifed'd version of Debian. That experience and realization only motivated me to avoid future Ubiquiti products.