UbiquitiUniFi Dream Machine Pro 1U Rack Mount Appliance Silver

I've had a couple of mesh WiFi products in the past, but I decided to improve my network a little so thought it would be good to move towards the managed switch network setup. I considered UniFi amongst other managed WiFi brands, and given I couldn't find a great deal between them, so opted for this UniFi product.So far the device has been great. I did have a few minor issues during setup in that the WiFi speeds were very poor - but following a factory reset, everything worked as expected. I have around 80 devices connected to my network including the various IoT and the UDM Pro system resources barely registers.Overall a great device, the only thing it lacks is PoE on the ports, however this is clear from the product description so I can't mark the device down for that.Just one word of caution, the device provides NVR capability for CCTV however this is for UniFi branded cameras only. Again, it does state this in the various pages but I had missed it.

I have used Unifi equipment for our home and home-based business for over five years and have been delighted with the experience since day one.The Dream Machine Pro is a fantastic upgrade from my previous Gateway Pro setup and has allowed me to upgrade to 2.5Gbps networking throughout the home and office, doubling the throughput and stability of our network.Anyone wanting to make the jump from the standard ISP all in one box should certainly consider looking at investing in Ubiquiti's kit - just remember, you'll need to add an access point if you intend to use WiFi as well as wired connections.

Bought this to stop my use of AWS as the controller. The AWS hosted controller was reliable and always on but costing £10 a month for all the logging etc. So I bought this, which will pay for itself ina couple of years….Easy to install, just follow the instructions. Easy to use, just leave it in your rack. Easy to setup or monitor with the browser or app.BUT…. It’s reliable at acting as a gateway but the remote access isn’t always working (google it!). Also the UDM Pro has twice decided to not even allow local access via browser or app or any other way! Finally on restarting it tells me it needs emergency recovery which will wipe the system config. Luckily it’s back up and running after unplug/re plug but its still telling me the Unifi console needs to be restarted (which runs the nifty touchscreen).I can’t trust this device to act as the network controller if I can’t reliably access it.I’ve opened a support ticket… let’s see what happens…

My star review is low as this is not something a beginer can setup.You get what you pay for and this is a high quality product.If you have the time to work ot out and setup it's going to run rings around your basic router and I don't care who makes it.With inbuilt threat protection, app connectivity, alerts, ports settings, speed settings and much more if you worried about security at home or in business it's a must.If your looking at the smaller version be aware it cannot do what this does.In these days of increased hacking do yourself and family / business a favour and buy the security gateway.As for why Amazon think this is a wifi unit I don't know.Yes you can add a wifi gateway or potentially use an exalting one.Watch a few videos reviews.

I don't know if the udm pro that was sent was a return but the power cord sent is not the correct one, its like one that goes into a power brick for a laptop.That aside, it was a toss up between this and a pfsense and what would fill my requirements.I have 2x 1Gbps isp connections and wanted 10Gbps between router and switches.So basically I got this as I usually stuck with netgear and cisco gear before (netgear been under the cisco umbrella).So I changed things up abit and went for unifi UDM Pro, so far I am only playing with it on 1 isp connection to see what it can and can not do and I am happy with my purchase so far apart from after updating it I had to restart the unify service via ssh, the next day did the same but now seems to have sorted itself out.I am looking at access points at the moment and the switches they provide to upgrade mine, its not clear what is L2 or L3 switches in the descriptions of the switches.These are a great producer grade equipment, I say prosumer because they have simplified the UI so it's a no brainer how to setup your network.I don't usually put all my eggs in one basket and my gut tells me not to but they seem like a great line of products with reputation of good things along as your equipment is in warranty lol (reading long term reviews).Any how -1 star for sending the wrong power lead.

Excellent value for money, The udm pro comes with enterprise level features without the yearly licencing costs like cisco meraki etc. I will be rack mounting in the future but for now its just as usuable sitting on my table and it looks great.Alongside the ability to view everybit of traffic thats passing through the network and what percentage of traffic that makes up is The IDS/IPS feature which is one of my favourite which i run on the medium setting and the CPU doesnt seem to break 20% useage.GEO IP Filtering is also a fantastic feature.the controller also automatically detects and builds out your network topology for you which makes a great visual medium to assess/troubleshoot network issues.There is so much more that you can do with this but those are my main highlights as i dont have the use for cameras etc so i cant comment on unifi protect etc.NOTE - This does not have built in wifi so you need to by APs seperately if needed and there is no POE ports. these are available on the SE version though.

Does what you expect it to, happy, enough said.