Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra (UCG-Ultra)

Finally ditched the Nighthawks, Decos, Alien AmpliFi, etc. Bought 2 Unify Pro 7 access points and this Cloud Gateway. Unplugged the Spectrum provided router and made the Gateway my router and firewall. The difference was night and day. Ubiquiti devices clearly work together very well and they even improved over time (probably refined the clients to the right access point). This is for a 5000 sq ft home. 400-600Mbs consistently. Gateway is sporting 1GB up and down from the fiber source. The UniFi Network interface is amazing! Easy to understand what's on the network and shows every kind of diagnostic with insights. It's worth the money!

Very solid product. This is a must-have if using Ubiquiti AP. It supports UniFi software ( like the cloud key but all-in-one gateway). UniFi is also nice, easy to use. It has all feature/data display on your phone make you feel the controls of your network. It has been running for a bit more than a year now. Zero issue. If I would say 1 thing to improve, it will be nice if it could powered by POE switch. I have a USW lite 8 PoE switch (4 PoE + 4 Ethernet port) which powers 2x U7 Pro and USW Flex Mini (5 ports). Total PoE usage is about 23W out of 52W. If UCG can be powered by the PoE switch, I will have less wiring. Price? Yes. It is more expensive than 2 WiFi routers. My setup is about $670 (UCG, 2x U7 Pro, and USW-lite-8-PoE). But, every ubiquiti product can last more than 5 years, unlike others only last about 2-3 years (usually because of weakened WiFi signals and end-of-life firmware updates). If you want a cheaper setup, try the "dream router 7" with additional AP (with a PoE injector). You could do it with $500.

Best bang for your bucks. Makes life easy! Makes network segmentation easy. Great features. Can be pared with a layer 2 vlan aware switch. I'm getting another one!

Went from a TP link to this, wow what a difference, sorry but it was easy for me to setup and get online. The hardest part of the setup was figuring out my password for my UI account. What this allows you to control and monitor through the app is amazing. If you have ubiquiti hardware and want or need remote management this is the perfect piece of equipment. So far the stability is the same as the older hardware. The tiny screen actually has the up and down speed on it and thats pretty handy for quick troubleshooting at a glance and its a very clean box, but why can't they stick the feet on it?

Great features for a router at this price point. Been flawless for over 6-months now. Needs some network experience to use full feature set.

We've had Ubiquiti networking pieces for a while now. It started with a couple AP's managed via a Raspberry PI, added an EdgerouterX when a prior Security Gateway turned out to be not so secure. With a local available upgrade to gigabit internet service, it's again time to upgrade for the higher throughput, plus this cloud gateway ultra bundles Unify the management tasks with some security functions the EdgerouterX isn't quite as good at. Instant plusses include no-subscription access to a listing of known-bad sites to block, with a few levels of filtering available. It also supports VLANs natively, a nice feature that lets me segregate business, entertainment, and guest access pretty easily. The Unify console manages more than enough Ubiquiti devices to support our SOHO operations with two separate professional service businesses operating out of our home. The capabilities list includes multiple options for VPN access, which when paired with the VLAN capabilities completely isolates the two businesses and the rest of our home needs. Al in a compact and low-power package that lives in my server closet. I'm still learning all the capabilities, but plenty of info and support is available through Ubiquiti's own support resources and a fairly robust online user support base. So far I'm pleased with how it's working and how easy it is to configure. If you are working on a system that demands security and performance well beyond what my ISP describes as, [cough], "robust", but don't care to go all the way to a Meraki or similar with a subscription model, this may be the answer for you. At barely over $100, it's a fraction of the cost of those Cisco options even without the subscription costs added on. After some of the hard-coded backdoor access options revealed in our last 'security' gateway, I'm a little skittish about a few of the other mid-grade pro-sumer options available now. After a few years with the Edgerouter, I'm pretty comfortable staying in the Ubiquiti product family, especially with being able to consolidate so many functions into the one little package. Are you looking for a more secure and comprehensive upgrade from typical consume routers and wifi products? Got a range of user access needs? Got a small to medium business where you want to closely maintain user access and security for both staff and guests? This may be your answer. It has been for us so far.

I've never been a huge fan of the unifi routers they have historically always been security prone nightmares. When your in a pinch these are amazing for getting you up and running very quickly. They do the job just wouldn't use them for anything past a home or very small business. Anything past 15 employees it's time to start looking for a real enterprise setup not enterprise lite like Unifi. As with all Unifi stuff it looks very pretty! One of if not the best web interface of any ecosystem in current IT landscape. It's simple to use has a few nerd nobs not enough to scare a new person away but not enough to keep most IT people for long. Pros // Cheap Can do the 1Gb IPS it says "give or take a few mb" Pretty GUI Took them a few years to stop responding to SSH and ICMP on the WAN interface but it's fixed now. Did not require that stupid web account! Can run local hell yeah that's how it should be. Use the remote stuff if you wish. \\ Cons // Running a container on the edge. Horrible firewall rule set configuration talk about confusing. Permissive rules by default! If your controller dies "this devices" you loss 100% of control over your network. Ok for home not for business. \\ Overall it's actually not a bad unit wish it had 2.5Gb nics on all ports but that's the next version up which I will move to to when a decent 16 port 2.5Gb PoE VLAN capable switch exist that doesn't kill the wallet. A few do exist but are well above the reasonable price for home use devices. Would love to see UniFi come out with an updated version of the 16 port lite.

Have extensive IT experience but didn’t want to spend an arm and a leg on a dedicated firewall such as Sonicwall or similar, plus those can get troublesome after/during broadband outages, when replacing broadband routers, etc. This device worked flawlessly and even those with no tech experience will appreciate the simple setup. There’s also an optional security service you can purchase and add to the OS (yes, got that after install). I would like some additional LAN Ethernet ports (8 would be perfect) but I added a switch and Eero to complete the setup. Please note that this is WIRED ONLY. The device is smaller than my Ring alarm base station and has a pretty small footprint. Overall highly recommended based on feature-set, optional add-on security service, performance and price.