After hours of troubleshooting with no success, this video finally answered all my questions. Straight, to the point, and no fluff. Amazing work. Don't ever delete this piece of internet history!
I moved to a new apartment with a network box that has connections that terminate in each room. I know a router like this is over kill but i couldn't resist. You saved me hours of potentially soul crushing work with this video I don't ever smash that like button but i am today. Thank you sir!!!!
Finally, after watching a couple of other different tutorials and not getting anywhere, I FINALLY got this thing up and running, thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Thanks a lot. I used to have like 300mb/s upload and download speed on my edgerouter but because I made those settings from the end of your clip now I am back to the 900mb/s !
I never comment on ytube videos but after saving me 5yrs later again with this video and fixing my bandwith speed to maximum! thanks alot for having this vid still up!
Picking up one later this week, searched for a video ahead of time and this was perfect. Easy for a novice, straight to the point, and anyone who works in IT can just hit the ground running. Great Video!
Excellent explanation on how to do a very basic setup for this EdgeRouter! I purchased it for a small network at a church with existing Ubiquity Access Points for WiFi - just needed a router with hard wired connections. This video provides clear and concise instructions to get it up and running. Thanks so much!!!
Perfect. I wish I had seen your video before sending my first router back and ordering anther! Your simple 10 minute video made set up very very simple. Many thanks for this.
After failing many times, sitting new in the box for many years, I had a need to get it to work... Your video lead me to the setup solution! Yay!! One thing I could suggest, for us old-timers with old eyes... Somehow, make critical numbers, easier to see... on the other hand 1080p full screen, and replaying a few times worked too. Thank You!!
I really appreciate that you put this up, it helped me out a lot! You have my sub for sure, because this and that setup video for port forwarding on the ERX was so simple!! I had to buy another one of these yesterday due a power issue AND internet connectivity issues in my lab on my last ER-X. Definitely waltzed me right through it all
Great! Love the little tidbits of info you provide (reset button, set static IP first time). Mine is coming this week and will be using your other videos to set it up.
Great video. I have had one of these for years and just now configuring it to work well. thanks for taking the time.😁
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Thank you so much! Very thorough and direct but importantly, very concise! No frills in this video! You're right though, I came to this router with the mindset of a typical consumer-level combo wifi router and become frustrated when I thought I was following the instructions to a tee. Got irritated and found your video... that's when I realize I would have never figured it out within a day's time. Thanks again!
This was super helpful, thank you! I got stuck on the IP assigning thing... I didn't know how to manually assign a different IP to my computer so that the router could take its default IP. Your video showed how to do that, and it was smooth sailing from there.
If you're having problems after saving the settings, try rebooting your modem, I had the same issue where I couldn't connect to the internet after saving and this worked. Make sure you reboot correctly so you don't have to reactivate your modem w/ your provider (for example with Cox, restart from the Cox app). Hope this helps anybody who needs it.
Thank you very much, have spent almost the whole day trying to get it to work after a day offline due to electricians working on my house. Now to get the Unifi "puck" to work again...
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Great video, you did an excellent job at explaining things. Truly liked your entire approach. but FYI- you can’t ruin non POE ports by connecting them to POE devices. It’s part of the standard, all Ethernet devices non Poe will ignore (and not be ruined) otherwise a Poe network would be a mine field. Think of if you have a separate Poe switch in your home, it would be a disaster if it could break your router just by using the wrong ports.
Thank you for the warning about the reset button on this router. I need to look into that some more. That has always been my "go to" when I screw up the config on home routers.
@Davy Yes, you can reset if you mess up the configuration, but you have to start over from scratch. Your router won't be usable until it is configured again since the default settings are not made to work "out of the box".
@@ToastyAnswers Thank you for the clarification. I was looking for that answer. You made it sound like I could not go into the beginning of setup and start all over again. Thanks again for clarifying it.
Just a little warning I connected my newly configured ER-X to UNMS and it tried to firmware update my ER-X running 1.10.7 firmware to 2.0.8.. it failed 3 times ...then I rebooted the device but it never came up again ... even a hw reset did not bring it back... I'll return my device and stay clear of ubiquiti products.
@@jowjowosv 1.10.7 is stable. Adding, Toasty Answers video Edgerouter X Speedtest 2.0.1 mentions Ubiquiti has recalled this firmware due to instability. I Updated firmware, had zero issues
Awesome tutorial. I have numerous items coming into my current TP-Link router including a WiFi router. Some items pass through a switch before hitting the TP-Link. Device>Switch (or direct)>TP-Link Ethernet Router>Arris Cable Modem. I assume I connect the same way with with the ER? Use the available LAN ports? Also assume the Edge Router 4 is identical setup?
Great Guide, one of the best, except a tiny flaw. ER-X DOES "create POE" if you feed it with a stronger 12V supply. The 12V suply which comes with it, can only deliver 5W, and the ER-X uses between 3 and 5 W... Therefore a more powerfull suply is needed, to feed another device also. But one guy, in another guide on TH-cam, tried to attach some Unifi unit, and it did start up, even when only the 5W 12V supply fed the ER-X. Ubiquiti writes: To deliver POE to another unit, feed the ER-X with a 24V POE supply, OR a more powerful 12V supply, (like ~ 12W from a 12V 1A suply) to the ER-X Best regards :)
awesome setup guide - thanks! I'm replacing my crappy verizon router with this router - looking for better performance and I don't want to keep paying $12 month rental for their POS.
This video helped me greatly tonight. Thank you. If you do need to reset this back to factory, you mention at the end not to use the reset button. What do you do?
You should use the reset button if you want to return to factory defaults. I was just trying to clarify that the "reset" button will cause you to have to re-configure the entire device (it works as intended). My point was you can't just factory reset and expect it to function without going through the entire setup again (other routers will still provide connection with factory settings, but these do not).
This was incredibly helpful. Can you add more context to your comment about resetting the device at the end? Does it basically brick the device? I didn't understand the difference between what a reset does on this device versus a consumer device. Thank you!
That comment at the end is something I should have phrased better. It does not brick the device. What I meant was that you will have to re-configure everything once you reset it (go through the basic setup wizard again or restore from a backup configuration). This is in contrast to other consumer devices that comes out of the box with a working configuration (plug and play).
Great video! Thank you for making this, it was very helpful. I especially loved the part about using the Command Line Interface to do: $ configure $ set system offload hwnat $ set system offload ipsec $ commence $ save
Sorry, that part has always been a bit vague. I clarify it in the newer version of the video, but the reset button just reverts everything to the factory defaults. You have to go back through the configuration and setup if you reset the device. My main point was that you can't just use the reset button as a "refresh/reboot" and expect it to work without re-configuring the device.
It kind of does, but it isn't very reliable for historical data. UNMS (UISP) would offer more insight into historical data, but this is a separate piece of software. The device does have traffic monitoring built-in, but it doesn't show offloaded traffic and the history is very limited.
Hello. Thank you for this post, excellent lesson! I bought this equipment precisely to improve online games. My ISP provides 400Mx400M, and using QoS I got A+, but it hurt the speed; I applied this configuration and it really worked. Now I need to activate IPv6, I'm having trouble. Do you have any suggestions?
I like your style. None of that annoying background music or wasted time with self serving intro.
After hours of troubleshooting with no success, this video finally answered all my questions. Straight, to the point, and no fluff. Amazing work. Don't ever delete this piece of internet history!
I spent hours trying to figure out why my edge router wasn’t working. Thanks to this video it’s now working great!
Useful video even in 2023. Watched all of them from Edgerouter Tutorials, thanks.
I moved to a new apartment with a network box that has connections that terminate in each room. I know a router like this is over kill but i couldn't resist. You saved me hours of potentially soul crushing work with this video I don't ever smash that like button but i am today. Thank you sir!!!!
Finally, after watching a couple of other different tutorials and not getting anywhere, I FINALLY got this thing up and running, thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Thanks a lot. I used to have like 300mb/s upload and download speed on my edgerouter but because I made those settings from the end of your clip now I am back to the 900mb/s !
I never comment on ytube videos but after saving me 5yrs later again with this video and fixing my bandwith speed to maximum! thanks alot for having this vid still up!
Picking up one later this week, searched for a video ahead of time and this was perfect. Easy for a novice, straight to the point, and anyone who works in IT can just hit the ground running. Great Video!
Straight to the point, no fuss. Thanks for the introduction.
Excellent explanation on how to do a very basic setup for this EdgeRouter! I purchased it for a small network at a church with existing Ubiquity Access Points for WiFi - just needed a router with hard wired connections. This video provides clear and concise instructions to get it up and running. Thanks so much!!!
2 year old video, still relevant and to the point. Best video, you'earned a sub and loyalty from me. Thank you for solidifying my choice.
You Sir are a freaking genoius... the offload was exactly what I needed... thank you..
OMG thank you! The offloading was the one thing i kept missing! Great video appreciate you!
Perfect. I wish I had seen your video before sending my first router back and ordering anther! Your simple 10 minute video made set up very very simple. Many thanks for this.
Thank you for this video! Those offload commands fixed my bandwidth issues.
No Bull straight to the point....you will make a great teacher. Thank you
After failing many times, sitting new in the box for many years, I had a need to get it to work... Your video lead me to the setup solution! Yay!! One thing I could suggest, for us old-timers with old eyes... Somehow, make critical numbers, easier to see... on the other hand 1080p full screen, and replaying a few times worked too. Thank You!!
I've taken note... I always forget to change the font settings in Putty and other applications. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the HW accel tip. I just got fiber and was running into speed limits. That did the trick. Cheers!
I really appreciate that you put this up, it helped me out a lot! You have my sub for sure, because this and that setup video for port forwarding on the ERX was so simple!!
I had to buy another one of these yesterday due a power issue AND internet connectivity issues in my lab on my last ER-X. Definitely waltzed me right through it all
Glad it helped! Thank you!
Ok wow! These two Settings just trippled the iperf Speed! 😳😳😳 from ~200 Mbit to ~650 Mbit! thank you for this Perfect Video. On Point 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great tip on the CLI offload commands, took the router from 500-600mbps to 1+gbps, nice.
Got my EdgeRouter X, and thanks for the video! I will watch the speed test next :D
This was so helpful - without the hwnat offload and IPSec offload commands my 900/900 mbps WAN runs at about 400/400 mbps
Thank you so much Toasty.
I found this video via a comment on your other video. Turning on the hardware offload took my gig internet from 300 up/down to over 900 up/down.
Excellent video. Thanks. Got my router up and running in a few mins.
Great! Love the little tidbits of info you provide (reset button, set static IP first time). Mine is coming this week and will be using your other videos to set it up.
Thanks - good explanation. I was up and running in no time at all.
Great video - many thanks. I am fully up and running with my ERX in
Man I wish I watched this first since the quickstart guide was no help getting me to the configuration page. Thank you.
So many helpful troubleshooting points... Thank you!
I swear, can there be a video more relatable than this?😊
Great video. I have had one of these for years and just now configuring it to work well. thanks for taking the time.😁
Thank you so much!
Very thorough and direct but importantly, very concise! No frills in this video!
You're right though, I came to this router with the mindset of a typical consumer-level combo wifi router and become frustrated when I thought I was following the instructions to a tee. Got irritated and found your video... that's when I realize I would have never figured it out within a day's time.
Thanks again!
perfect video, up and running with no issues. Thanks man!
Wow, what a great video. You got straight to the point and still explained your work.
This was super helpful, thank you! I got stuck on the IP assigning thing... I didn't know how to manually assign a different IP to my computer so that the router could take its default IP. Your video showed how to do that, and it was smooth sailing from there.
Awesome well kind of sold me that I need this to use on my home network.
This is great! thanks for taking the time to post this.
If you're having problems after saving the settings, try rebooting your modem, I had the same issue where I couldn't connect to the internet after saving and this worked. Make sure you reboot correctly so you don't have to reactivate your modem w/ your provider (for example with Cox, restart from the Cox app). Hope this helps anybody who needs it.
Thanks for this video, and your warning about resetting at the end. Looks like this is the start to setting up my own home network!
Good luck!
Great suggestion with the CLI Hardware Offload Commands My speed test went from 400Mb/s with 100% CPU usage to 850Mb/s with less than 10% CPU usage!
Thanks for the setup class, I just bought this router and hope it is better than my last setup.
Thank you very much, have spent almost the whole day trying to get it to work after a day offline due to electricians working on my house. Now to get the Unifi "puck" to work again...
Puck? Lol 😂
Thank you! Wonderful walk through!
Excellent tutorial, thank you!
THANK YOU, THE INFO IS PRICELESS I feel like an expert now !!
This video really helped me today. Thank you!
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lol!
I was over-sold this piece of hardware and was stumped at how to set it up.
Your to-the-point, no bs, "how-to" got me connected in minutes.
I fucking LOVE YOU! :D
All the best wishes for you and yours!!!
Thank you Toasty! Great simple video. Much love
Great video, you did an excellent job at explaining things. Truly liked your entire approach. but FYI- you can’t ruin non POE ports by connecting them to POE devices. It’s part of the standard, all Ethernet devices non Poe will ignore (and not be ruined) otherwise a Poe network would be a mine field. Think of if you have a separate Poe switch in your home, it would be a disaster if it could break your router just by using the wrong ports.
Thank you for the warning about the reset button on this router.
I need to look into that some more.
That has always been my "go to" when I screw up the config on home routers.
@Davy Yes, you can reset if you mess up the configuration, but you have to start over from scratch. Your router won't be usable until it is configured again since the default settings are not made to work "out of the box".
@@ToastyAnswers Thank you for the clarification. I was looking for that answer. You made it sound like I could not go into the beginning of setup and start all over again. Thanks again for clarifying it.
Great easy to follow setup video. Quick and straight forward. Subscribed and thank you!
Fantastic. Thank You For Your Time!!!!
This was Perfect mate! Great introduction for a great little product!
Thank you!
Thanks man, excellent explanation. I appreciate the step by step approach. This little thing is a beast
This video was really really helpful !!! Many thanks !!!
Perfect, thank you for your support!
Thank you so much. 100% accurate information that help me out a ton.
I'd like to thank you for making the video, it really helped me!
Thank you so much! This saved my life!!!!
Great explanation! thanks
You're a lengend! Thank you for making this video, helped alot!
Good video bud! Str8 to the point.
Clear, concise and straight to the point. Thought I would have to wade through a bunch of info to set it up. But this was all I needed. Thank you!
Thank you very much! So easy to follow your instructions, I'm new to this. Bought mine few days ago has Firmware 1.10.7
And that's an almost 6 month old firmware too
@@Taylexwow And that firmware is 15 months old . Using the American Calendar based on the Gregorian calendar hanging on my refrigerator )))
Just a little warning I connected my newly configured ER-X to UNMS and it tried to firmware update my ER-X running 1.10.7 firmware to 2.0.8.. it failed 3 times ...then I rebooted the device but it never came up again ... even a hw reset did not bring it back... I'll return my device and stay clear of ubiquiti products.
@@jowjowosv 1.10.7 is stable.
Adding, Toasty Answers video Edgerouter X Speedtest 2.0.1 mentions Ubiquiti has recalled this firmware due to instability.
I Updated firmware, had zero issues
@@greatdayitis8788 If that is the case... Then why do UNMS suggest upgrade to 2.0.8.. Thats just stupid... I dont get the Ubiquity hype..
Fantastic video. Exactly what I needed
Awesome tutorial. I have numerous items coming into my current TP-Link router including a WiFi router. Some items pass through a switch before hitting the TP-Link. Device>Switch (or direct)>TP-Link Ethernet Router>Arris Cable Modem. I assume I connect the same way with with the ER? Use the available LAN ports? Also assume the Edge Router 4 is identical setup?
You are correct. The Edgerouter would sit in the same place as the TP-Link Router and downstream devices would just connect to the "LAN" ports.
Thank you so much, it helped me a lot!
Excellent Video. Thanks
This was awesome, thanks very much
Thank you so much, works like a charm!
Great Guide, one of the best, except a tiny flaw.
ER-X DOES "create POE" if you feed it with a stronger 12V supply.
The 12V suply which comes with it, can only deliver 5W,
and the ER-X uses between 3 and 5 W...
Therefore a more powerfull suply is needed,
to feed another device also.
But one guy, in another guide on TH-cam,
tried to attach some Unifi unit,
and it did start up,
even when only the 5W 12V supply fed the ER-X.
Ubiquiti writes:
To deliver POE to another unit,
feed the ER-X with a 24V POE supply,
OR a more powerful 12V supply,
(like ~ 12W from a 12V 1A suply)
to the ER-X
Best regards :)
awesome setup guide - thanks! I'm replacing my crappy verizon router with this router - looking for better performance and I don't want to keep paying $12 month rental for their POS.
Thank you for the video!
fantastic video! thank you, helped me out a lot!
Perfect video on setup - thanks!
Great video. Thank you for making this!
Great video! Thanks.
This video helped me greatly tonight. Thank you. If you do need to reset this back to factory, you mention at the end not to use the reset button. What do you do?
You should use the reset button if you want to return to factory defaults. I was just trying to clarify that the "reset" button will cause you to have to re-configure the entire device (it works as intended). My point was you can't just factory reset and expect it to function without going through the entire setup again (other routers will still provide connection with factory settings, but these do not).
Great Video. right on point
This is exactly what I needed thank you
Bruh. Got so close to getting done until that note at the end about the reset button. Kinda needed that info upfront !
Great stuff bro, thanks
Thanks!!! Just set mine up I’m so excited. I’m a dev getting into home networking. Hope there’s some way to manage all this stuff with terraform.
Thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you so much for this tutorial.
You are the man. 👌
Thank you. VERY helpful. I am new to using some Ubiquity Unify products
This was incredibly helpful. Can you add more context to your comment about resetting the device at the end? Does it basically brick the device? I didn't understand the difference between what a reset does on this device versus a consumer device. Thank you!
That comment at the end is something I should have phrased better. It does not brick the device. What I meant was that you will have to re-configure everything once you reset it (go through the basic setup wizard again or restore from a backup configuration). This is in contrast to other consumer devices that comes out of the box with a working configuration (plug and play).
Thank you so much Toasty! Liked and subbed! :)
Great video! Thank you for making this, it was very helpful. I especially loved the part about using the Command Line Interface to do:
$ configure
$ set system offload hwnat
$ set system offload ipsec
$ commence
$ save
Thanks
Commit, not commence
Perfect - Thank you!
👏 👏 amazing
Very explanatory. But I didn't understand the part of the factory reset. When should we press the reset button?
Sorry, that part has always been a bit vague. I clarify it in the newer version of the video, but the reset button just reverts everything to the factory defaults. You have to go back through the configuration and setup if you reset the device.
My main point was that you can't just use the reset button as a "refresh/reboot" and expect it to work without re-configuring the device.
Your video has help me so mush thank you
Thanks for this. Does this have a traffic monitor? I like to keep track of my data use daily/monthly.
It kind of does, but it isn't very reliable for historical data. UNMS (UISP) would offer more insight into historical data, but this is a separate piece of software.
The device does have traffic monitoring built-in, but it doesn't show offloaded traffic and the history is very limited.
Thanks, I got it. I misunderstood one of the commands
Awesome video thank you
Hello.
Thank you for this post, excellent lesson!
I bought this equipment precisely to improve online games. My ISP provides 400Mx400M, and using QoS I got A+, but it hurt the speed; I applied this configuration and it really worked.
Now I need to activate IPv6, I'm having trouble. Do you have any suggestions?
Unfortunately, IPv6 is something I have very little experience with.