Ubiquiti Home Network Part: II

20 Jan 2021

This post is all about setting up my Ubiquiti home network and will serve as a personal resource/journal for the various devices.

EdgeRouter X (ER-X) router set up

Connect computer to the Eth 0 port on the ER-X
Open the network settings on your PC and set the IP address to 192.168.1.2 since the IP address of the ER-X is 192.168.1.1 (also the default gateway)

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Log into EdgeMax Web GUI. usr: ‘ubnt’ pwd: ‘ubnt’
Commence basic set-up
Settings

Port: eth 0 Internet connection type: DHCP Firewall: enable the default Firewall One Lan: check

Leave default address and enable DHCP server

Create a new user with a new password
Apply changes and reboot the router
Plug modem into eth 0 and move client connection to eth 1
Change IP and DNS settings to automatic on the client
‘ipconfig /release’ to release the old IP address. ‘ipconfig /renew’ to get a new IP address
Log back into the EdgeMax Web GUI.
Bring up the CLI on the GUI. Log in with the credentials
type ‘configure’
set ‘system offload hwnat enable’
set ‘system system offload ipsec enable’
type ‘commit’ and ‘save’.

Credit to Toasty Answers for the easy to follow set-up.

Updating the ER-X

Download the latest firmware from Ubiquiti.
Access the EdgeMax Web GUI and click on system and head to upgrade system image. Click ‘upload a file’.
Upload the image and reboot and let it apply the update.
Log in again and the new version should be reflected on the dashboard.

Other functions

Smart Queue

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