ubiquity edge vs r7000 night hawk
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Ubiquiti sells a lot of different products and so its hard to say for sure. In general ubiquiti products are much closer to a commercial device than the consumer ones. Many consumer devices have many features removed to make them simple to use. This is why third party firmware such as dd-wrt is so popular because it puts back some of the features that were removed when dumming down equipment so the people who can't run a toaster can install their own router.
Just from a quick look I am going to bet that the ubiquiti device is not a wireless device it appears to be a very high speed router. So it can likely pass much more data than the night hawk but it does not have the wireless....now they may have a different unit that does do wireless. This is not uncommon with commercial equipment they tend to use multiple devices each customized for the one purpose. If you would compare the ubiquiti AP they would likely outperform the wireless part of the night hawk but of course cannot do routing.
Just from a quick look I am going to bet that the ubiquiti device is not a wireless device it appears to be a very high speed router. So it can likely pass much more data than the night hawk but it does not have the wireless....now they may have a different unit that does do wireless. This is not uncommon with commercial equipment they tend to use multiple devices each customized for the one purpose. If you would compare the ubiquiti AP they would likely outperform the wireless part of the night hawk but of course cannot do routing.
- Aug 31, 2012
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Thanks for the quick response. I was told this router is 99 dollars. I didnt see where the Ubiquity is a dual band router, I read reviews for the r7000 and it looked like it would be good for streaming movies (what I want) and qos for xbox and voip.
thanks again
thanks again
Streaming and VoIP are the absolute worst things you can possibly do over any wireless. There is no way to prevent random data loss do to interference no matter the devices you are using.
Who ever wrote the QoS part of this manual is either a fool or is intentionally trying to be deceptive. They very clearly show that you can set some traffic as high priority from the ISP to your house.
As a example I am the ISP. My policy is any data I get from a remote location being sent to your house I send the them first come first serve. I will buffer a small amount of data but if a packet comes in it must wait for all other packets in the buffer first. Now if the buffer is too full for any more packets going to your house I will just discard them until I get more room.
So how can ANY router claim that they can write software than can change my policies....can it magically recreate the packets I drop or unsend packets it wants to delay over other more important traffic.
This router has NO ability to restrict the inbound traffic really. There are a couple of routers like many of the ASUS and TPLINK that can put hard limits on different traffic inbound. This is really a hack too but it does work in some cases. In these type of QoS they try to discard even more of the traffic you do not want in the hopes the error recovery mechanizes built into TCP will cause the application to slow down. It too can never undo anything the ISP has done already but it can in some narrow situations retrain some applications. It of course does not work if the applications response to data loss is to send even more.
Who ever wrote the QoS part of this manual is either a fool or is intentionally trying to be deceptive. They very clearly show that you can set some traffic as high priority from the ISP to your house.
As a example I am the ISP. My policy is any data I get from a remote location being sent to your house I send the them first come first serve. I will buffer a small amount of data but if a packet comes in it must wait for all other packets in the buffer first. Now if the buffer is too full for any more packets going to your house I will just discard them until I get more room.
So how can ANY router claim that they can write software than can change my policies....can it magically recreate the packets I drop or unsend packets it wants to delay over other more important traffic.
This router has NO ability to restrict the inbound traffic really. There are a couple of routers like many of the ASUS and TPLINK that can put hard limits on different traffic inbound. This is really a hack too but it does work in some cases. In these type of QoS they try to discard even more of the traffic you do not want in the hopes the error recovery mechanizes built into TCP will cause the application to slow down. It too can never undo anything the ISP has done already but it can in some narrow situations retrain some applications. It of course does not work if the applications response to data loss is to send even more.
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