I wanted to reinstall, but I couldn’t get into the BIOS to switch boot devices. I swapped in a spare 2.5" SSD drive and reinstalled OPNsense and OPNsense ran for a week before I discovered it was dropping connections to different CDNs (Akamai, Google and Edgecast) for some reason.
If you buy a Qotom (or other mini PC), do yourself a favor, buy it barebones and add your own components. Then after less than 24 hours of running, the SSD that was in the box died. The Qotom box had an issue where getting into the BIOS was nearly impossible no matter how fast I hit DEL or F1. The whole exercise was frustrating starting with the hardware. Because the Jetway that I was using for IPFire didn’t quite get the performance I wanted with pfSense or OPNsense, I picked up a Qotom Q330G4 box on Amazon to try out OPNsense. But, I wanted more functionality and started looking at OPNsense and pfSense. I originally setup an old Jetway box with IPFire as an alternative to the EdgeRouter 4. But, the 2.x line still has issues like traffic speed performance degredation of between 5-10% and a packet reordering bug that won’t go away. Their focus seems to be on the Unifi side of the house and is clearly shown with the new hardware that they are releasing (like the Unifi Dream Machine and the Unifi Dream Machine Pro).Īlso, finally after a year of releasing the 2.x line of firmware for the EdgeRouter line, it is finally stable enough for Ubiquiti to call it quits on the 1.x line of firmware. I also look at what Ubiquiti is doing and I question if they are really invested in the EdgeMax line up anymore. There are strange quirks about the EdgeOS (based on VyOS) like when hardware offloading is turned on for VLANs, all snmp reporting for VLANs gets merged into the untagged VLAN – making it impossible to see a breakdown of traffic on different VLANs. Outside of the basics though, it either doesn’t have the functionality or it meant adding external hardware – like to replicate some (but not all) of the pfBlockerNG functionality, I would need to setup a Pi-Hole server. The EdgeRouter 4 is a fantastic piece of hardware for all the basics.
But, late last year I started looking at alternatives to the EdgeRouter 4 that was running our home network. For a long time, the home network has been running on Ubiquiti gear – Unifi APs plus Ubiquiti EdgeRouters.
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