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It might not be the case everywhere, but in many major cities across the world,

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faster than gigabit internet, 2.5 gig, 3 gig, 5 gig, 8 gig, 10 gigabit internet

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is becoming more common every day. And

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frankly, there's just not a lot of options if you want a router that can

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actually take advantage of those things. And maybe not just take advantage of it

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on a router level with one 1 Gbit port, but take advantage of it for all your

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devices. Pass that 10 GB, 5 GB, however

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faster than 1 GB internet you have to the rest of your network. And this new

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product from Ubiquiti, the Cloud Gateway Fiber is supposed to do just that. And

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you'll see what I mean in a second. A little bit bigger. This is the big

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brother to their Cloud Gateway Max. Kind of looks like you took two Cloud Gateway

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Maxes and glued them together. Maybe like 1.8 eight of them. We've also got a

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power brick. This thing doesn't use USBC. That's interesting. It's just a DC

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barrel jack, but it does Oh, boy. This is a 54 volt 1.1 amp power brick. So,

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that's around 60 watts max. And it just uses a normal barrel jack. Now, how long

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is this cable? I'm jumping the gun a little bit. We've got the Oh, see,

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there's an AC power cable. I like this a lot. See, some companies give you a

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power brick like this, and it's got the prongs on it, and you go right into the wall, which sucks if you have

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applications that don't support that very well, and also doesn't make it very

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uh international friendly. This one, on the other hand, uses a C5 cable and a C6

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socket to allow you to Well, I mean, with this little cable, this looks like

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a little two-footer. Might be a little bit longer than that. Let's just measure it. So, we've

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got a twoft AC to C5 cable. And then

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we've got our C6 power brick with another 5T on there. That gives you

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around 7 ft of power cable, which is a fair bit. And if you for whatever

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reason, we're using this in like a server rack or something, which as you'll see in a minute here, you totally

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could. You could get a different cable and hook right up to your PDU or if you

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were in Europe or whatever. Yeah, easy peasy. We've got propaganda. Wait,

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there's two baggies of feet. Is there supposed to be two bags of feet? And then one of those cute ether lighting

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cables. I don't actually think that this thing has ether lighting, which if

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you're not familiar is RGB lighting on the uh the Ethernet ports of Ubiquiti

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products, some of them. Anyways, they've got these special cables that are translucent that help diffuse the RGB

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and make it look cool. But these ones, not only are they shielded, but it

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actually has sle to it, which looks pretty nice. Oh my god. This isn't a

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drilling template. This template that came in the box is a template for

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putting the feet on. It's not a drilling template.

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Huh. I guess I I screwed up. I put the feet in the wrong spot. We've got the

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signature ubiquity little screen on the front. This is a 0.96 in little display

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there. And then on the bottom, the feet that I definitely applied in a

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symmetrical manner. We've got some ventilation. And then on the back,

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that's what you really want to see. Look at that. Starting on the left, we have a

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four port 2.5 GB switch right here. Look at that. That's beautiful. Lovely. 10 of

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10. very happy to see that one of which

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if you look really closely has PoE PoE

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plus that is so not only do you have a

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bunch of ports to use but one of them can be PoE plus so you can actually run

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an access point directly off this thing no switch required no PoE injector

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that's sick also got another RJ45 this

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is a 10 Gbit one used as a WAN input in case you're not coming off of SFP we've

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got another 10 Gbit SFP P plus port,

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which is a LAN port. That's what I was saying earlier. You can pass your up to

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10 GB internet connection through to another device or to a switch or

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whatever you want. And then we've got another SFP plus 10 GB port, but that is

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a WAN port. Knowing Ubiquiti, you'll be able to reassign these, I'm sure. And I

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bet you you can use this one as a LAN port, but we'll check that later. We've

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got our DC barrel jack input here, and then a recessed reset button. I've been

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seeing on some Ubiquiti products recently that they've been doing like a nice reset button on the bottom that

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doesn't require a pokey bit to get into. Would have liked to see that here, but

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also this thing is just pretty baller. Now, all of this is pretty sick, but it

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gets even sicker when we get to the price, which I'm not going to tell you yet because we still have to look at the

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other side, which has the storage. It's

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got a little sneaky little little sneaky link on the side here, a little little

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little Porterino that you can put an M.2

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SSD in. Um, they don't actually include the tray. you have to buy that

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separately for $19. Um, but you can also buy it with

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storage pre-installed either in a 1 TB or a 2 TB or with no storage at all.

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Although given the fact that it has like the network configuration, I imagine

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there is some amount of storage in here, it's just not enough to run like

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security cameras or UniFi Talk, which is

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their voiceover IP phone solution, or connect or anything like that. And

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that's important because this thing can run all of those things at the same

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time, including being a router and doing your networking. So, why don't we plug

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it in and see? I don't actually know if this one came with storage to be honest.

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They only sell up to two TB and only rate it for up to two TB, but you can

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get 8 TB M.2 SSDs. So, in theory, you

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could put 8 TB of storage in here. It's not as much as you can put in a Dream Machine Pro, which has a hard drive

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port. You put like 30 terabytes in there these days, but 8 terabytes is a lot,

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especially if you're, you know, only got a couple cameras or whatever. So, let's

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plug this bang girl in here. Can you guys guess what's on the

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screen right now? I I think it's going to be Ubiquity logo. I wonder if it auto

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little metal dad lock tool I'm talking about. You take this and you do a little

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Oh, yeah. Hey, look at that. Again, just

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like on the Gateway Max, I really don't love that this port is not useful for

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normies unless you buy that $19 tray or you buy it with storage. You can't throw

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your own M.2 SSD in here if you buy it with no storage. You have to buy the tray. You can 3D print models. I've

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already seen people make models for this, but come on, Ubiquiti. Like, it's

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got to be like a $1 part to make. Like, just include it in the box. What the

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heck, guys? Oh, there's a fan in there.

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Oh, yeah. You hear the air? Yeah. So, it's not just passive. It's got a little

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got a little fan in there. It's incredibly quiet. Look at that cloud

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gateway fiber tap to set up. Damn, look

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at those internet speeds. Internally, it's a quad core ARMbased A73 processor

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clocking up to 2.2 GHz. It's got 3 GB of

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RAM. They don't list the internal storage because I imagine it's not very

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much. And you also have that M.2 slot. Has a 30 W PoE budget of output power

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for PoE Plus. and it can draw a max

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power consumption of 29.4 watts excluding PoE. Let me switch over to the

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laptop and we'll continue from there. I got this Sonet Tech Solo 10G 10 GB to

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Thunderbolt adapter here for my laptop so we can do some speed tests at full

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speed. Let's take a look at this thing. She looks mint there, buddy. So, I've

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got our SFP port using a little SFP to

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RJ45 adapter. That's our internet coming in. And then I'm using the other one

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that is also labeled as a WAN port as a LAN port because I adjusted the

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configuration and it just worked. Sick. So that's plugging in our laptop here.

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Let me turn the Wi-Fi off. And then there we go. Lovely. Okay,

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look at this. We got open speed test running that is on a device that is on

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this network. And if we just we just hit it with some gas here. In theory, this

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should be able to saturate pretty dang close to 10 GB. Uh the port that it's on

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on the other side technically does have some other things running on it. So, I

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wouldn't be surprised if it's more like 9 or 8, but we should get really close.

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8 gig down, 9.7 up. I mean, that's

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basically what I expected. 9 gig. Come

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on, give it to me. I mean, it's pretty

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clear to me that this thing can route at 10 GB, like pretty much without any

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issues. I mean, there's always going to be a little bit of overhead and realistically, who knows what's going on

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in this Thunderbolt dock. And like I said, the port on the other side could

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also be doing some other stuff. But we did successfully do a 9 gigabit download

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test and a 9.7 almost 9.8 gigabit upload

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test. So, as far as I'm concerned, this thing can do what it says it can do.

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This thing can handle a full 10 GB internet connection. Just doing a speed

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test over the internet, no problem. And it also can do, if you're into it and

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you have some network security stuff, IPS and IDS up to 5 GB as per the

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rating. They also rate it for 50 plus UniFi devices under management. That

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could be like 20 switches and 20 access points and still have 10 plus to spare

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and 500 plus active clients connected. That means you could have a ton of

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different people on the network running off this tiny little device which

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honestly is still barely even getting warm. All righty. Look at this here,

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boys and girls. In this little stack I got here, I got a cloud gateway fiber,

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our 10 GB router here running all of our UniFi apps. I got a little camera

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plugged in directly into the PoE port. So that's being powered off of it. You

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can see she's right there. And then we've got the new UniFi Express 7, which

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is like an all-in-one access point gateway kind of device, but it doesn't

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do all the other apps. I'm using it as an access point because I didn't have an

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access point over here, but I did have this. We'll have a video on this soon.

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We go back to our network device here. We can see our Cloud Gateway Max rocks

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here working great. Everything's great. We got our camera adopted. We've got our

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Express 7 access point adopted. So, we've got a Wi-Fi network going off of

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that. We've got this going off that. I have IDS and IPS, which is intrusion

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detection and intrusion prevention, which if you're not familiar, they're

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just security features you can use to analyze the traffic on your network and

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try to block threats at a network level. They're not always the most effective,

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to be honest. Um, there are usually better ways of doing that, like endpoint

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protection, but it is part of a security stack that you definitely can use and

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these devices can run. And in theory, this one can run it at 5 GB, it says.

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So, I want to run a little another speed test here. 7 gigabit download with IPS

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and IDS turned on and in the most maximum annoying blockage hardcore uh

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mode. Look at that. 9.7 9 I'm getting

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full 10 GB upload and like 6.5 to 7 GB

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download with it fully on even though they only rate it for 5 GB. So, if

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you're looking for something that can do IPS and IDS, even with a 5 GB internet

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connection, even with a I guess a 7 GB Ethernet connection, this can do it. And

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that's not even like with it not doing anything. We have this security camera

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running off of it. Hey, go. Hey. But man, this thing is a freaking tank. You

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can have multiple WANs, load balance them, fail them over. In my mind, this

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thing, if you don't need a hard drive slot, for basically everyone, just

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slaughters the base Ubiquiti Dream Machine, which is more expensive. If we

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go to Ubiquiti's website and look under cloud gateways, the cloud gateway fiber

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is $280 and can handle a full 10 GB routing

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setup and IPS and IDs up to 5 GB for 280

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bucks. If we look at the Dream Machine Pro, it's $380. There's another hundred

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bucks on top. It is rated for a bit more. In theory, it can do a,000

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simultaneous users and 100 plus devices, which is double what this is in theory

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rated for, but it has lower IDS and IPS

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throughput. It's only rated for 3.5 GB. It also has a hard drive slot, but it

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doesn't have PoE output. Honestly, for most people's use cases, especially if

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you're going to have a Switch anyways, or especially if you have an NVR, this

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thing freaking kills. I mean, dang, it kind of speaks for itself. If you're

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somebody that has above 1 GB internet

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and you have discrete other devices already, like you already have access

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points or you already have an NVR. I mean, honestly, even if you don't have

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an MVR, you only need a few cameras, you already have a Switch if you need more

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than four ports, like it honestly slays. The only things I could really think I

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would want is like a rack mount accessory for it. So, you could rack

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mount two of these maybe high availability setup, you know? or uh a

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USB port so you could have external storage like an external hard drive if

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you wanted to run protect. Now I know they don't do that because a it has an

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M.2 but there's capacity limitations there and B because I don't want to

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fully cannibalize the Dream Machine lineup but man this thing this thing is

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pretty sick. is making me regret my my decision to build a DIY router cuz for

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$279 USD you you're going to have a really hard time building a router that

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can do 10 Gbit. I don't even know if it's possible honestly. But you know

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what is possible? Hitting the like button and leaving a comment about what

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you think about this thing. I don't know that they have high availability for

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these yet. I'd have to check. But once they do, man, these

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things, even when they don't, like small business, this thing slays.