I have two sites hosting my home servers so I wanted a solution to have a permanent link between the sites. On site one I have an EdgeRouter POE and on the other site an EdgeRouter Lite and the obvious solution is to have a site to site VPN on a permanent basis. There is… Read More »
I got my EdgeRouter POE from UbiQuiti EdgeRouter, 5-port Router POE and came with the 24VAC power supply. Because the Ubiquity devices are all using the strange low power POE for which 24VAC is enough they ship the EdgeRouter POE with the 24VAC power supply. As a result the device is useless in powering “normal”… Read More »
Starting with firmware version 1.4 EdgeRouter can be configured in a dual WAN setup using a very simple wizard. Then to configure some port forwarding rules to access the internal web server or VPNs there is a nice GUI setup window. Note that I experienced frequent switches between the main WAN and the backup WAN.… Read More »
Everybody hates Add Servers so all my PC and mobile browsers use AddBlock+, but still I do not want the extra traffic that is done even by using ad blockers. The best solution is to simply block from the EdgeRouter Ubiquiti Networks ERLite-3 EdgeRouter Lite the ad sites. The best guide for this is: EdgeMAX… Read More »
To be able to do several CLI configurations administrator (root) account must be activated. By default EdgeRouter has this account disabled. It seems that even if is activated a firmware upgrade will revert it to the default configuration (disabled). To activate the root account follow the tutorial: EdgeMAX – What is the root account password?… Read More »
As more and more “smart home” devices got installed around the house the need to have 24/7 Internet connection was more and more a necessity. The solution I choose was to have a back-up mobile Internet for the home. To make this completly transparent to the “Internet of things” from the house this backup had… Read More »