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Does anyone know if Ubiquiti's edgerouters are any good?

In my experience, no, they're not. Their wireless gear is great but when it comes to wired, I'd avoid them. There's a serious bug [0] on the ER-X-SFP that's been around for over a year without any serious action from Ubiquiti. Their support when I tried to get an RMA for said issue was utterly abysmal.

[0]: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/EdgeRouter-X-SFP-le...

Agreed, I run MikroTik on the wired side and UniFi for the AP side; have many installs in my charge and this is our default deployment when “more WiFi” is requested.

I have an EdgeRouter X and I'm searching for a replacement.

EdgeRouter X issues:

* 3.10 kernel. This is out of LTS support.

* Poor IPv6 support. The GUI has practically 0 support and you instead have to learn EdgeOS config, and it's awkward.

I'm happy to use EdgeRouter X as a switch, so I'm looking for a SBC that can act as router/firewall and run vanilla Debian.

Scratch that. Upon reading VyOS's docs for the EdgeOS config (which has relatively poorer docs), it has strong advantages: commit/rollback, single config file, and Ansible has an EdgeOS module included by default to coordinate that.

The latest development release updates the ER-X to kernel 4.4, which is LTS until at least 2022. The base OS is updated to Debian Stretch also.

I think that's a pretty good level of support for a $49 device.

They are. They run a fork of Vyos (https://vyos.io/), and get regular updates.

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