Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra

The UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra is an absolute beast for its size. Setup was quick and seamless, and the performance jump compared to older gateways is huge. Routing is incredibly fast, UniFi OS runs smoothly, and remote management is effortless. It handles multiple VLANs, CCTV networks, and high-demand traffic without breaking a sweat. For anyone invested in the UniFi ecosystem—home or business—this is a fantastic upgrade. Small, powerful, silent, and extremely reliable. If you’re upgrading from a legacy Cloud Key, this is a massive step up and absolutely worth it. Highly recommended.

This is one of the best home / SME routers I have used - it is easy to setup, has enterprise level features, and offers excellent value. The first thing that struck me about the Cloud Gateway Ultra was its size - it is about 150mm square and 25mm deep. And on the front is a very small screen to display essential information without having to look at the console. It feels and looks like a high quality item, and won't look out of place in a living room (it doesn't like a bit of IT kit ... for one thing all the ports are on the back!) Setup was a breeze (although at this point I must admit to over 20 years experience in this field of work ... ). It really was as simple as plugging it into my Virgin Hub 5 (setup in modem mode) and and switching it on. It took about 5 minutes for it to complete its self setup and get online. Despite the easy setup, this router is not really aimed at a typical home user. If you don't need the advanced features of this router then there are probably better alternatives. However, if you want something that gives you complete control over your network setup - VLANs, port forwarding, DHCP and lots more - then this is worth a look. Management is via a local web interface, cloud console or mobile app. This makes it easy to manage both locally and remotely, and gives excellent visibility of network performance. Integrated with Ubiquiti's own range of wireless access points, this router has everything even the most demanding home user or small office could wish for.

I bought this to act as a modem and wired router in place of a BT Homehub. This followed years of suffering flakey internet using a variety of mesh wifi systems, the latest of which (Deco 75Pro) has now been demoted to act purely as a wireless access point attached to this gateway. I can't praise it too highly - simple to install, great UI, staggering data and insights down to device level, and up to monitoring ISP performance - and I've likely only scraped the surface of its full capabilities. I struggle to believe what you get for the price; perhaps it's a gateway drug designed by Ubiquiti to get you hooked so that you buy loads of their other kit (in which case it's worked with me).

Very pleased with the device. for £95 this is one of the best routers out there. I already had 2 APs and these connected seamlessly. Has content filtering and lovely graphical interface. Only thing is it came with 2 pin plug

The UCG-Ultra delivers exceptional performance in a palm-sized form factor. Powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 and 3GB DDR4, it easily handles gigabit routing with IDS/IPS, VPN (WireGuard, L2TP, OpenVPN), and VLAN segmentation. ✅ Highlights: 1x 2.5GbE WAN + 4x 1GbE LAN Full UniFi integration (adopted via UniFi OS) Supports up to ~300 clients, 30+ UniFi devices USB-C powered; silent and fanless Ideal for SOHO, MSPs, and lab environments It’s a robust edge device for anyone seeking UniFi centralization without stepping up to a Dream Machine SE or UXG-Pro. Highly efficient and rock-solid for 1Gbps networks.

Got this to replace an old USG-3P, the power brick (and possible USB stick) of which died. I had to change the DHCP IP range, but would otherwise just upload my old config from my self-hosted console, but I had to go through it's graphical nonsense, including coming up with a 12-character (temporary, I vainly hoped) password, skipping speed test, and accepting terms and conditions for a service I had deselected (the UI.com account). Sadly the user credentials for ssh must have changed and I was too lazy to search for them online. I'm not a fan of it forcing me to use the internal controller that's backed by a flimsy 16GB eMMC, I expect it will limit the lifespan of the device significantly (though it shouldn't be worse than the USB key in the USG it replaced), but I guess that's a good thing for Ubiquiti, and probably something I can give up hoping they will change their minds about. Restoring from my old console was a challenge. When you go to your UCG's website, you're presented with two independent UIs: One, represented by a round AP icon, is the controller. The other, represented by a rack mount server icon, being the "device UI" that you generally don't need to do much with. When restoring from the restore menu in the controller UI, there's no feedback that a restore is in progress, but it will work eventually. The 12 character password you picked earlier is still in effect, it doesn't restore the old password, but surprisingly all my devices were adopted quite quickly, even though the inform URL clearly changed. The display showing number of connected clients, etc, is gimmicky and a waste of money, that could appropriately have been used on screw holes to allow wall mounting. All that said, the migration was an hours time with minimum outage and it's nice knowing I now have add'l headroom. When I update my other USG, I should be able to use wireguard between the two sites instead of IPsec (through SD-WAN, site-to-site VPN still only offers IPsec and OpenVPN). I hope, but don't trust, that this router will last the six years that my old USG did.

Ubiquiti UniFi is used at all levels. From home use to cafes and even stadiums. The ability to scale and apply what would be incredibly complex firewall rules has been simplified without watering down. This is not a product that you just plug in and it solves all your problems, you still need to learn the interface and underlying technologies involved in running a network, but the tools available at the consumer level to secure a network and troubleshoot make this incredible value for anyone who understands it. The seller dispatched promptly and it arrived well packaged and on time.

For the price this router is amazing. It can comfortably route gigabit connections with IDS and IPS enabled. The build quality is excellent which is to be expected from a company like ubiquiti. I would recommend this product to anybody who has an Internet connection of one gigabit or less. It does not have Wi-Fi built-in. This is purely a router and it does that job very very well.