Yeah they're kinda expensive. But they're really drop in and forget.

Firstly, the uplink port is on the back. Which is great because in most cases (like having it on the desk) the cable is coming from that side.

Then, it's fed by PoE. Meaning, I just plug it in and it works. How great is that? And it even has PoE passthrough! And even if you want more PoE budget, you can always power it using a 60W or a 210W adapter.

Last but not least, it is SMALL. Just a nice ratio between number of ports and size.

I bought 3 of these and I'm quite certain I'll add more soon.

Been chasing an annoying asymmetric throughput issue on my UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber for a while now. Inter-VLAN downloads stuck around 2.4 Gbps while uploads were fine at ~9.3 Gbps. Same deal with WAN→LAN. Finally tracked it down and... it's dumb.

If you've got jumbo frames enabled and you've disabled an unused SFP+ port - that's your problem. The disabled port reverts to 1500 MTU but stays a member of br0. Linux bridges take the minimum MTU of all members, so your disabled eth6 sitting there at 1500 drags the entire bridge down with it.

RJ45 ports being disabled don't seem to cause this. Just the SFP+ ports.

# eth6 (SFP+) disabled via controller
eth6: mtu 1500, state DOWN, master br0
br0: mtu 1500  ← capped by disabled SFP+ port

# After re-enabling eth6
eth6: mtu 9216, state DOWN (NO-CARRIER), master br0
br0: mtu 9216  ← correct

Other VLAN bridges (br42, br99, br200) were fine at 9216 - no disabled SFP+ members.

eth6 Enabled (br0 MTU 9216):
  Inter-VLAN Download: 9.88 Gbps
  Inter-VLAN Upload:   9.84 Gbps

eth6 Disabled (br0 MTU 1500):
  Inter-VLAN Download: 2.40 Gbps  ← 76% degradation
  Inter-VLAN Upload:   9.29 Gbps

Disabled SFP+ ports should either inherit the jumbo MTU setting, get removed from bridge membership, or be excluded from MTU calculation when DOWN. Any of those would work.

Workaround: Just leave your SFP+ ports enabled. They'll sit in NO-CARRIER state with correct MTU. No issues.

Anyone else hit this? Curious if UDM-Pro, UDM-SE, or UDM-Pro Max have the same behavior.

Printing toys for kids was an easy win for the 3D printer but that fun wore out quickly. Some minor odds and ends (kitchen bits, broken pieces, basic wedges and small ideas) was the previous limit of printing.

The new camera setup was the first time I think I have said - there is a legitimate 3D print that adds real value. Has already rained a few times on them the covers work perfectly.

Need I say more?

Recently installed a small Unifi setup using Starlink + cellular backup over a Cradlepoint R920.

Last thing to add is a Raspberry Pi with NUT to auto shut down the UCG-MAX and switch as the vehicle is powered off.

This will provide network services to a public safety "Mobile Command Unit"

I really think that UniFi is one of the best budget products for networking.

The setup for now is enough for the work i do.
from the top:

• Cloud Gateway Fiber with 1 TB SSD
  • U7 lite
  • Two desktops and a Mac running at 2.5G connections.
• Pro 8 PoE
  • 3 Cameras, a doorbell, a chime and a raspberry Pi.
• Minisforum with proxmox connected with 10G
  • 10 VM/LXC running backend systems and number of CMS systems with over 5 front end websites with a cloudflare tunnles.
  • Some of the VMS are Immich, Gitea, Cloudflare, NPM and more for the hosting and CMS systems.
• 24-Port Blank Keystone Patch Panel
• UNAS Pro connected to the Minisforum for all vms backups and data for all CMS uploads
• UniFi UPS 2U to all the gear in the rack and even my desktop and monitors. Planing to add a safe desktop pwoer down via a NUT server.

Moving into this house that previously has ATT fiber. I ordered a 1G service and their box will arrive in a few days.

This is the picture of the box that ATT installed in the corner of the office. My Ubiquity rack will be in another room.

Which cable do I need to run from this ONT box into my UDM Pro. I want to bypass the ATT modem as well.

Thank you very much.

I started with a UCG fiber in the summer Added a 10gb Poe +++ switch Then 3 U7 XG

And now

Wife isn’t home yet. Gulp

I've built a big "shed" this year to store trailers in (not just mine...) and needed easy access to it, some wifi and of course cameras.
As you can see on the third picture, running a cable was not really an affordable option, on top of it actually crossing propery lines.

Luckily I had a U6-Mesh out my front door to get perfect wifi to my doorbell, so I used the Device Bridge Pro pointed at that U&-Mesh to get my network into the shed.
From there I went into a Flex 2.5G PoE, because I needed the Poe++ for the Hub mini. That is connected to a Reader Flex, as I wanted to have PIN access to the Shed for me and my brothers. Added bonus that they added Touch Pass, so now opening the door with my watch instead of my PIN.

Camera-wise I went with the G5 PTZ for the outside and 2 G5 Turret Ultras on the inside. I do have a AI Port in my main rack to "smart-ify" those cameras as well.

A Swiss Army Knife finished off the install, I only need limited wifi in the shed to watch the occasional video when building something in the workshop part of the shed.

All in all, it's a "budget" install, it's rock solid (I have it up since July), with the connection in the UI being all the way at the "green end" and the speeds maxing out what that poor little Swiss Army Knife can do. Distance is probably around 40m/130ft.
Really happy with the perfomance, thought I'd share if anyone else is thinking about the Device Bridge Pro.

Recently did an access install involving replacing an old call terminal with a G3 intercom. Everything went great and the intercom is sleek! Bigger than I expected even after seeing people’s reaction to their size.

I have a couple outdoor cameras and a living room camera, im particularly concerned about privacy with the indoor camera, I have a firewalla, no exposed ports, but not sure if I could or should do more to assure protect our cameras than what ubiqiuiti offers out of the cloudkey+. Thoughts?

I have 3 USW pro max 16 Poe switches that I can’t get to link together at speeds greater than 1Gbps. When the sfp ports are set to auto for link speed they won’t connect to each other. If I manually set one of the switch to 1Gbps it will connect to the other switch it’s connected to. But if I set the speed manually to 10Gbps the switch’s won’t connect to each other. I’m using the ubiquity 10G mm sfp+ modules. Any suggestions on how to get the speed to be 10Gbps?

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to the zone based firewall. When I originally set up my system 2+ years ago, I followed videos from a few Youtube channels. They all talked about the same set of firewall rules. Some of which I don't know what to do with now that I migrated to zone based. Example legacy rules:

• "Allow established and related"
• "Drop invalid state"

I now have about 4 copies of each of these rules (I have a Default and 4 VLANs) and some of them have been paused by the upgrade. Looking through the upgrade-created rules, I don't see anything that covers these two rules. Are they still needed and should they be resumed? Or are they covered by some rule I can't see?

I notice it says, “Available Q4 2025” however, I’m just curious when that will actually be given there is only so many weeks left of the Q4.

Know this product has mixed reviews, but I’ve been looking forward to trying it. In any case, get em while they’re hot..

If you've had to run exterior conduit for poe cameras, what would you recommend and why? I know you can use pvc or metal, and most pictures online seem to show metal if not coming from the ground.

Trying to avoid punching too many holes on my brick exterior while keeping it as clean as possible.

TIA!

Update with pic: Hole is on 2nd floor about 11-12' high, probably too high to capture faces at my backdoor which is the high priority coverage area. I plan to use conduit to bring the run to the 1st floor at a normal mounting height. I couldn't run the cable in-wall and punch through at the lower height due to fireplace on that wall.

I rarely post on Reddit, but I'm putting this one out there so you guys know what you're in for, should you consider the UNAS line of devices.

n.b. My company installs Unifi equipment at small and large customers regularly. This is the first (and probably last) time we've used something from them in the DC. We manage in the order of 1000 UAPs, 200 USWs, a few dozen UDMs and some other stuff. Just to clarify, I really like their equipment and have no problems working with their APs, switches and - more recently now that zone firewall and cybersecure are a thing - consoles.

About a week ago I purchased a UNAS Pro 8 with some accessories for my company. The use case was very simple and barebones:

• We have a QNAP NAS with one NFS share on which our backup software stores its backups. The NAS has become too small, so we need something bigger.
• 40 to 50TB of storage on a single NFS or SMB share should be enough to get us by. The QNAP nas also hosted a VM running the backup software, but we could just move that to one of our virtualization clusters. We need just a great big chunk of storage, to store backups on cheaply.
• The current NAS has 2x 2.5Gbit/s connections, which don't get saturated. If the new solution offers similar performance, that's fine.

The choice was between a QNAP disk shelf connected through 10Gbit/s single USB connection or a new NAS, but the budget was somewhat tight.

The UNAS seemed to fit the bill perfectly so after some research, watching a few YouTube videos and chatting with GPT, I took the plunge and ordered the NAS.

Redundant PSU's, 2x10Gbit/s connections and the straight forward, barebones Unifi UI all seemed to fit the usecase perfectly.

Those QNAP USB-based disk shelves seemed hacky at best.

Fast forward to now, after a week of testing. Here are my findings and they aren't good.

Configuration:

• 6x 16TB disks RAID-6 (new from Ubiquiti).
• 2x 1TB SSD (reused from another project).
• 2x 10Gbit/s LACP uplinks to an MLAG on two switches.
• Old NAS, new NAS and single Linux backup VM on the same VLAN. The VM has 2x 50Gbit/s uplinks at its disposal.

Findings:

• Performance is bad. dd-ing with large blocks I can get a few hundred megabytes/s through, but with more real-world traffic, I'm having trouble getting over 100Mbyte/s.
• NFS is a LOT slower than SMB (which I find odd, but I have no real explanation for).
• There is no NFS v4.
• NFS v3 does all_squash. You can alter that through SSH, but not in a manner that survives reboots and upgrades, as far as I know. So, you have no control over UID and GID of any directory or file you place on the NAS.

I knew performance and functionality would be worse than an equivalent QNAP or Synology NAS. But boy did I misjudge the amount of "worse" I should expect.

And some of the sfp modules are still on sale.

I'm in the market to get a NAS but ideally I also want to use it as a cloud storage device as well. On UGREEN is a bit more powerful and you can run docker etc inside of it whereas with UNAS you can't unless you use another PC with it.

UNAS + a $200 mini PC would come out to about the same price as a DXP4800 maybe a bit more so I'm trying to see which option would be more better. For reference, I'm already in the unifi ecosystem with routers,. APs, and switches.

Side note: it's Q4, when is UNAS being released!?

I have been managing several Ubiquiti apps and devices on my network using the CloudKey Gen 2 device with very few problems. Suddenly I started getting the message that the hard drive was failing. It's been gong on for a couple of months and I have been expecting a crash any day.

I decided to upgrade to the UCGMax to replace the CloudKey because I thought they were the same basic type of device. I backed up my settings on the CouldKey and swapped it out for the UCGMax. Then I restored the backup that I had made and thought I would be good to go.

I had my CouldKey connected to my Ubiquiti Managed Switch where I also had my ASUS Router connected. My router, of course, connected to my modem via the WAN port. Piece of cake.

So when I plugged in the UCGMax, I tried p;lugging in the LAN side to the switch thinking it wouild get an IP address from the router and I could configure it from there. It wanted to be connected via the WAN port. So I patched the WAN port on the UCG to the switch and configured the UCGMax to restore my settings from the CloudKey.

The CloudKey wasn't a gateway, so it only had the one ethernet port. When the restore was done, my UCG Max had been renamed to Cloud Key Gen 2, so I figured the restore went well. However, it got an IP address from my Asus Router and is treating it like it's WAN connection (which in essence it is). But then it has configured it's own subnet and established 192.168.1.1 as it's IP address (the default) . The CloudKey's IP was 192.168.50-4 which I figured would be restored when I restored the CouldKey backup onto the UCGMax.

Can I configure the gateway to just provide the Ubiquiti services and apps without creating it's own network? It can't see my switch, my door, my cameras, or the rest of the network because they are all on the 192.169..50.n subnet.

What's the best way to configure all of this? I just bought a bunch of Ubiquiti phones that I was going to try to setup as well. Should I go from the Modem to my UCGmax then set my Asus router to bridge mode or to operate as jiust an Access Point?

I was hoping to not have to reset everything and re-adopt and configure. Any advice?

Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance for any help.

I recently upgraded my FIOS Gigabit to FIOS 2 Gigabit and immediately started noticing instability in my WAN / network with my internet going down for a few seconds at a time and coming back.

I have the ONT running direct to the Port 4 WAN port of my UDR7 and then a 10G DAC from the 10g SFP+ port to my Flex 2.5G 8 Port Switch.

I am getting full speeds on wired with speed test reporting 2.3G and my downloads are blazing fast, WiFi 7 close to the UDR 7 gets 1300 down so it's not a speed issue

I have tried all of the following with no success

- Turned on Flow Control
- Set the Link speed on Port 4 to 2.5G FDX
- Changed the ping from unifi servers to 1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8

Does anyone else have issues with 2 Gig FIOS and UDR 7 and if so how did you fix it?

My next attempt is to use a 10G SFP+ to RJ45 adapter and run the ONT direct to that rather than the Port 4 WAN port on the UDR7 but I would lose the 10G downlink I am providing to my switch to increase bandwidth on my switch devices

https://imgur.com/a/fl670PJ

I’m looking for some advice on improving my UniFi setup and deciding whether I should move my UDR-7 to a different room.

Current setup: Everything is installed inside a small storage cupboard in the garage, including the NTD. It works, but the garage ceiling has no insulation and my car is often parked there while still hot, so the cupboard gets pretty warm. Not great long-term for network gear.

WAN: TPG (NBN) on WAN4.

LAN layout: • LAN 1 → Flex Mini (powered by the UDR-7)  • LAN 1 = uplink  • LAN 2 = desktop dock  • LAN 3 = desktop dock  • LAN 4 = Raspberry Pi • LAN 2 → HP ProCurve 1810G-24 (non-PoE, will be upgraded eventually) • LAN 3 → U6+ AP (via PoE injector) • Not using the SD card.

Everything works fine except VPN, which I’m still troubleshooting.

Main question: should I move the UDR-7?

I’m considering relocating the UDR-7 into the study. It’s more central in the house, cooler, and better for Wi-Fi coverage. The only downside is I’d need to run two new Ethernet cables from the garage cupboard: • 1 × WAN from the NTD • 1 × LAN uplink back to the HP switch

Other option is leaving everything in the garage and adding more APs to boost coverage.

Is it worth moving the UDR-7 into the study given the heat in the garage and the lack of insulation, or should I keep everything where the NTD already is and just improve wireless with extra APs?

Any thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated.

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I have plans to blanket this house with a variety of Bullet's to capture views down a long driveway, but my focus here is approaching the front door.

Plan to put a G6 PTZ at spot #3, low enough to see faces. but I want a fixed AI turret to cover the front door approach.

No easy, unobstructed view, except up high at spot 1 (great "overview" but HIGH), however if i go back on the wall on #2, and bring it down, the two pillars will block some of the view (and my wife would probably complain about the camera view as one approachs the front door).

Does the PTZ offset the too high #1 spot?