Was: Ubiquiti edgerouter lite support? / Now: random hate
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@cmb:
It wasn't "deleted by accident", multiple people reported it as spam, I glanced at it, seemed a lot like spam, deleted it. If I see spam reports from multiple people, I don't necessarily look extremely closely at the thread. I will from now on.
Google archive probably has the thread, they're pretty much constantly crawling this site, you can copy/paste re-post if you'd like.
Once a mistake is made, it was either done on purpose or it was done by accident. So are you telling me you had the time to send me a message saying the thread "seems like spam or blatant self-promotion", but you didn't actually have the time to read the thread?
What happened was hours was spent to help people here discover new and useful things (the few thank you messages I received in such a short time proved the thread was helpful), and I had almost all the angle covered, posting links to multiple shops that had the same item, posting the actual keyword used to find those links, making it obvious it'd be almost impossible for me to have financial gain from the thread, but I made one mistake, I assumed the people who run things here were professionals who actually wanted to help people.
So some idiots got bitter and jealous and reported bullshits to a clicking robot so it can ruin things for everyone, well it's not like I was going around every god damn thread posting about the finds, there are hundreds of eBay links left untouched in this forum so I don't know what kind of broken logic they used to justify that crap.
Yeah and that strategy worked really well too, now the two items in the original thread are separated into TWO threads attracting even more clicks in less time, and the links to Taobao agents are included so people don't even have to ask how to buy them this time. And I am going to set up mechanisms to alert me every time these two threads disappear from page 1, I have plenty of information on unique and useful hardware for this community to keep the thread fresh and useful so those threads are going to stay up for months until I am satisfied or of course until the bitter idiots manage to find more excuses to get the threads deleted.
"404. That’s an error.", there is your Google archive.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin
I ran across your thread(s) earlier, and pointed them out to the person responsible for sourcing new hardware. Hint: it's neither cmb nor I, though we do have some credible opinion.
I never considered deleting them.
If Chris made a mistake, he's owned up to it. Don't feel attacked.
While he CPU/SoC inside the ERL is the same architecture as that found in some of the underpowered routers you name, it is expressly NOT the same CPU. Cavium and Atheros are different companies.
Also, the ERL is $99, in a box, with 512MB ram and 2GB USB storage. Your Celeron will be considerably more than $99 when equipped with RAM and storage. Your allocation of costs "$15 marketing, $15 rent, $15 salary, $15 accounting and legal fees" seems a bit out of whack, but at least you understand that there are costs. That's good.
Perhaps you'll become an advocate for pfSense Gold. :-)
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I am using 12 of the ERLite ($88 when I picked them up) at sites with back to an ERPro-8 at our main site, running 2 subnets at each site with voip on one and a total of 4 tunnels between each single site in a full mesh and squidguard filtering. These are amazing little boxes for the price and would just like to +1 them in this out of control thread. Before I discovered them I tested reflashing the bios on an $179 Asus chromebox and since I couldn't bring up pfsense directly brought it up in a virtual machine on ubuntu server on the chromebox with 3 virtual nics. The ERLite was a much cleaner and easier solution (3 physical nics, wall mountable) and would be really nice to have the option of pfSense on them. These were easy to come by on newegg or B&H, couldn't find any comparable x86 boxes in the price range that fix the need this well. Ordering from newegg is much easier for me than ordering from some random seller in China also and I have an actual company I can RMA to if need be and I can see tons of previous reviews on the product.