 So, is the Edge Router X still a good buy in 2018? I think so. Now, I will cut to the chase so and we're going to qualify this. So, do you have a fast internet connection as in do you have gigabit? Do you have like, let's say Google Fiber? If you're running a gigabit connection, you can, and I've done a video on this device, you can turn off hardware offloading and this will route at that speed. You can get full gigabit speed out of this. It's a wonderful and amazing feat of a device this small and this inexpensive. And like I said, I'll leave the links to my previous reviews and speed tests I've done on this. Now, the way you get that speed is by hardware offloading. Now you're probably asking why isn't it just on out of the box as a default convict? Well, the reason why is because a lot of these are used in like a small business and they want QoS on them. Do you need QoS is the question I kind of want to get to here because I've had people say, Oh, I don't want to do the hardware offloading is I hate to lose the QoS feature. And when they're running it in their house, I'm kind of like, okay, what are your use cases for it? And maybe they're valid. Maybe, you know, it people just think they need quality of service. Now the idea here and here's the quality of service breakdown and how to set it up. They've got really good documents on here. And for example, this would be with a VoIP configuration, which is the most common reason we put QoS in a lot of systems. Now if you need something that can both route it gigabit and have QoS to prioritize your VoIP traffic, then you're probably not looking at this. If you have that high speed of a connection, the majority of people, even us here in my office, you know, we only have a 50 meg circuit here at our office. They do offer faster ones. They are just substantially more expensive. And we already, if anyone doesn't know, pay a lot of money for internet here in the U.S. in general, based on the speed we get. I know it's more somewhere else and it's less in other places. That's a different discussion. But for me, this, we're using PF Sense, but this would work on our office. We could do QoS on it and we only have a 50 meg circuit. So that's fine. If you have a 200 meg circuit, still able to do QoS on here. Once you start getting over there, you start running into the problem of its ability to route at that high speed. So for home users, this is still an excellent device. I think it's an excellent purchase. And, you know, you combine that, because this is just the router, with like one of these Unify APACs. And this is, depending on where you find it on sale, between $50 and $60. I've seen them for less. I've seen them for more. It depends on the price when you're checking. But roughly in the $50 range, and this is roughly in the $89 to $100 range, it's supposedly for $150, you have one of the best home Wi-Fi systems you can set up. This is actually what I, when I'm not doing testing with PF Sense stuff, I put this in at friends' houses and things like that. It just works. It is like the easiest way to get your friends set up with really good internet at home and a really good router. Most of my friends, they're playing some games, they're not worried about QoS and VoIP. They don't have a bunch of VoIP phones in their house, and not that big of a deal. Now that being said, let's go in a little bit about the hardware NAT. And they did a great explainer here, talk a little bit about what else this happens. So if you're not familiar with exactly hardware NAT is, hardware NAT, let me zoom in a little bit for you. Hardware NAT, offloading, and I keep seeing hardware NAT, it's actually more than that, just as the command is HW NAT. But offloading is used to execute functions of routers of hardware directly. And I'm not going to read all this, you can read this, but let me explain to you. The processor in here, what you're getting for this price, is not super, super fast. So when you don't offload the hardware to the very specific, I believe they're ASIC processors that do the routing on here, the processor has to handle it. And it's only able to handle so much at the price point that to fit this in here. So it's a great value, but unless you turn on it offloading, you can't, the processor just can't keep up. Hence it limited to, they said 300 meg here. Now, when you do this, you're going to lose the NetFlow, the ability to do bonding and QoS. But the other functions, VLANs and just general NAT, work perfectly fine. So if you're a home user, that probably doesn't matter to you. And if you're someone who's got gigabit at home, depending on how much bandwidth you're pulling, or if you're maybe doing something like using torrenting, your voice quality will probably still be fine if you don't have a ton of devices behind there. So for the people who are just the home gamers and things like that, great. When it comes to if you're doing to run torrents on there, that's where you may want to run QoS. But most of the time you can probably pause your torrents to play your game, that's another option. So yes, it's still a good purchase. Yes, this is still an excellent device. You can't beat it for the price. But if you have that high speed requirement, you will have to do the sacrifice. And I'll leave the link to the video where I show you how to change the hardware NAT settings in here. You'll have to make the sacrifice of losing QoS and the NetFlow in there. So if that's a big deal to you, you're going to have to bump up to something bigger, more expensive that supports the full QoS and NAT. And this is one of the reasons I like the PF Sense one I recently reviewed. That's really good. The SG-3100, that's a great choice for to step up. Or you can go and look at some of the higher end UniFi stuff. So they make higher end devices as well. But if you're really looking, this is a people that ask me all the time, I'm looking for an inexpensive solution for home. I'm telling you what, Edge Router, it's quality, it's well built. It's the great solution for home. Combine that with, you know, start out with something basic, like one of these UniFi ACs. Generally for home use, plenty. Absolutely great. If you need something beefier, they do have higher end models. But these work great. That's an excellent setup. I've shown how to set up the Edge Router. I've shown how to do that. Shown how to set up the UniFi. Maybe one day I'll do a video where I combine both together, but or put them in a playlist and just watch both. It's pretty straightforward how to set them once you kind of get the idea of how these work. But they're both excellent products. I'm really, you know, a big fan of a lot of the UniFi platform. We deployed a lot of our clients and we've used these at our clients that don't need QoS. They don't have any voice systems or anything special. They just need, you know, a lot of our small businesses are just a couple of few computers. This is way better than the crap that you get from the cable providers here in America, you know, between Comcast and Wide Open West, the two popular ones here. They give you kind of crappy modems that just don't, they're not that great. Bridging them over to this. Easy, peasy solution. Drop these in. Excellent. They work great. They're small. Still a good buy. So they're still relevant in 2018 until the next line of products come out, combining them together. You know, they're not gonna be as easy out of the box as some, you know, the generic routers you see. But I tell you, the quality and routing performance you get out of these are better than some of that consumer grade ones that you'll find like at the big box stores and things like that. So these is helpful. And it's also for me to reply when people ask, should I buy the EdgeRouterX still? Because people see the videos from last year and they go, well, I don't know if I should buy it here in 2018. Yes, it's still a wonderful buy in 2018. Definitely buy it if you need a basic, you know, and if it fits your needs and you don't have that high speed requirement with QoS requirement. Other than that, it's great. All right, thanks for watching. If you like to catch me here, like and subscribe. If you want me to do some more videos on EdgeRouterX, let me know. If not, check out Willie's got a lot of videos in there, Willie Howe. There's a lot of great videos on how to configure these for doing special things because all these ports can be configured to a lot of different network options. Little bit more in depth in configuring it. Maybe I'll do some videos on there, but I think Willie's got a lot of them covered. So go ahead and check his channel out regarding that. Thanks.