kvic wrote:
fireboy wrote:So you might ask why, if my crap TP-Link supports all these features I noted, I don't use it? Cause it's crap.
I have to routinly reboot it if using it as an all in one, since I think it actually gets bogged down, since rebooting it seems to fix it. I DID NOT by a MicroTik for the very reason that their web front end is crap, and I didn't want to learn THEIR CLI to do just about anything. I don't have that kind of time.
I'm sure UBNT treasures your love and diehard fans share your passion. But don't be harsh on other brands, especially on irrational side.
Not hating on them. I like the TP-LINK router I have and I'm still using it as my primary WAP at the moment. It's just that like my previous 2 ASUS routers, they are just do not seem to be powerful enough to do everything they imply that they can do AND serve anything over 20ish wireless connections at the same time it seems without severe performance degradation over time.
Since offloading all 'router' functions from it to the ER-X and using it only as an AP, I've had signficantly less issues with it so far. This seems to be a growing issue for those of us in the prosumer/light industrial/SOHO space. The 'home' routers are getting more and more expensive, adding new features, but at the continued expense of common functions and even overall system stability in some cases.
I looked at Cisco SOHO products (almost none of them get good reviews on Amazon or elsewhere), MicroTik (I didn't want to learn their CLI to just be functional), a number of the current mesh products (eero, Orbi, Google, etc.) and discounted everyone of them for various reasons of high start up cost, low current expandability, etc.
I did a lot of research on the UBNT products, and knew largely what I was getting myself into (a product that works great, but still lacks some polish), and I'm willing to put up with that to some extent to be able to grow my replacement network out over time and under a cost curve I can support for my home investment money and still keep the wife happy. 
Many of you are more industrial users in your day-to-day job, and as a guy who used to design an lay down decent sized fiber and Gig to the desktop networks, I can respect that. You want a product you can flash upload a solid config too, manage remotely, and have the system basically get out of your way. That of course doesn't negate those of us who have a different use case (not implying that you were negating it BTW, just stating some context for my overall drive in my posting.