u/alidan

so I had an edge router x, after 10 years of life it no longer works, because my brother had me looking into routers a few days ago, I found out this is effectively the only basic router you can buy anymore in the prosumer market without building a router from spare pc parts.

I had the router overnighted, it should be here between 7am and 11am, I am going to have a very long night waiting for it and setting it up.

I have 2 computers and a wifi network to make work with it that is ethernet into an access point. so far all I can really find video wise is very hard to understand (very very thick indian accents)

for now I just want this to work as a basic router that I never have to think about, if I do something a bit more advanced, that comes later, I just need everything to work now.

so I had an edge router x, after 10 years of life it no longer works, because my brother had me looking into routers a few days ago, I found out this is effectively the only basic router you can buy anymore in the prosumer market without building a router from spare pc parts.

I had the router overnighted, it should be here between 7am and 11am, I am going to have a very long night waiting for it and setting it up.

I have 2 computers and a wifi network to make work with it that is ethernet into an access point. so far all I can really find video wise is very hard to understand (very very thick indian accents)

for now I just want this to work as a basic router that I never have to think about, if I do something a bit more advanced, that comes later, I just need everything to work now.

Friend of mine wants an ekit and has about 1000~$ budgeted to it, he is effectively just using whatever head unit it comes with as a midi out into superior drummer (he use to have a fairly high end acoustic kit, but life kicked him while he was down and that made rent for a while, so he has quite a bit of licenses for software he used in conjunction with it) but its been close to 18 years since he was in drumkit market

he was looking at alesis, we think its not a bad option

but millennium was also an option in his price range, he does like the look of an acoustic kit

then we looked at lemon, because I know when things go wrong or need replacing with roland, people look at them first, so quality wise probably above either of those other kits, there was a us wearhouse selling them for 1100 but apparently they cant get stock easily because of iran for whatever reason. I look it up again and find t950 on alibaba for 670~ and that's already 500 less then he was going to pay.

now, here comes the part where we have reservations, I know import and deity's are a thing, apparently this cost is covered in the shipping cost, which is 120-130$, but I know china loves to... fudge numbers on their import prices for what they declare, we are wondering if this is going to be a no nonsense everything is taken care of in the price, or if he is looking at buying it twice to get it in country.

and because we are now looking at ali direct, we have a bit of a concern if something happens to be a 'lemon' on arrival, anyone have experience with their kits as a whole? I know part wise they are fine, but i have little to no idea about their full kits.

im wondering if this is a firmware issue with newer firmware on it and i'm just waiting for a new firmware to come down to fix it or if this is a different issue.

to be fair to him, he barely used it, it was just his tv for movies before he got a samsung tv, so at best it may have seen 500 hours of on time total.

last time I got a router it was a ubiquiti edge router x, and we pair off that with access points.

brother is buying his own place soon and wants a router but remembers the nightmare we had with routers till the ubiquiti, but they don't seem to sell them anymore, is there a current equivalent to what I have?