
At roughly $200, many routers are cheaper, but the price is an amazing bargain for a business class router. There is even a Downsides section below (it has shrunk over time). There is nothing sexy about it, in fact, it's somewhat ugly. I recommend it for professionally written, well supported, reliable as heck firmware - without the slew of security problems that affect consumer routers. I do not recommend the Surf SOHO for its speed (its rated for 120Mbps), price or Wi-Fi range. Why I recommend the Pepwave/Peplink Surf SOHO Others in the Forum also report that it works. I have used the specially patched firmware and it works. If only desktop operating systems were this sophisticated. It seems that if the new firmware can't boot, the router falls back and boots into the known good copy of the firmware. Still, the router rebooted just fine into the known good firmware, without my having to do anything. On Sept 15th, I downloaded firmware 8.1 build 4941, which was current at the time, and experienced this problem. More good news: Peplink has a modified version of firmware 8.1 that works around the problem. The good news is that it does not matter, the previous firmware boots just fine. The bad news is that firmware 8.1 would not boot at all. Starting in early August, some people installing firmware 8.1 on the third generation (aka MK3) Surf SOHO are experiencing problems.
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As with any massive software update it is always better to wait until there have been a couple subsequent bug fix releases. Firmware 8.1 was a massive update not just a bug fix update. Finally, there are the many problems that I have personally experienced using firmware 8.1 on a Balance 20x. Then too, in my case, firmware 8.1 will not talk to my modem. While not fatal, this is indicative of the sorry state of firmware 8.1. For one, some people with the third generation (MK3, the latest) Surf SOHO had problems installing firmware 8.1 as described below.
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You an download older versions of Peplink firmware at their firmware archive. Instead, stick to the latest edition of firmware 7 (which is 7.1.2). I would not use firmware 8 on the Surf SOHO at this time. It is the only version of firmware version 8, I can recommend. Firmware version 8.1.1 was released just a few days ago. It is still the only version of firmware version 8, I can recommend. Firmware version 8.1.1 has been trouble-free, for me. Falling back to v8.1.1 does not fix the problem. There are Wi-Fi connection issues on the 2.4GHz frequency band. See SOHO-MK3 2.4GHz Wi-Fi AP Connection Issue There is a new fix for the third generation (MK3) of the Surf SOHO and the Wi-Fi problems on the 2.4GHz band with firmware 8.1.2. Both firmware 8.1.2 and 8.1.3 have been stable for a long time. I would avoid firmware 8.2 for the time being. There are initial setup and configuration instructions here for the Surf SOHO. My only relationship to Peplink is as a customer. There are some links on this page for purchasing the router, but they are not affiliate links. The company has not contributed to this page at all. To be clear, I am not selling this router. Note that the Surf SOHO is only a router, it does not include a modem. I gambled on it, was impressed with the security features, and have used it ever since.

At the time (2011) I bought their cheapest multi-WAN router (a Balance 20 for $300 without WiFi) and it had performed great forīy 2013, the Balance 20 was no longer the cheapest Peplink router, the company had introduced the Pepwave Surf SOHO which offered WiFi at roughly half the price of a Balance 20 but could only talk to one ISP at a time. I had run across them in 2011 while looking for a multi-WAN The first company I considered was Peplink.

Professionally done firmware without paying a huge price. In 2013, I couldn't take the security flaws in router firmware any more and went looking for a low end business class router hoping to find
