{"video_id":"shDtJw5doco","title":"Why get anything else? - Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Max","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":705,"segments":[{"start_s":1.28,"end_s":6.24,"text":"Look, I get it. Everybody wants faster","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.48,"end_s":10.88,"text":"internet, right? It's a universally understood principle. People want fast","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.2,"end_s":13.92,"text":"internet. You like your games to download fast. You like your movies to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.559,"end_s":19.359,"text":"stream well. You like your music to stream well. And if you're looking to upgrade beyond your internet service","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.8,"end_s":22.8,"text":"providers, Wi-Fi or router, Ubiquiti is a great option and something we've shown","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.199,"end_s":27.199,"text":"off before. But they haven't really had anything on the router side in the price","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.439,"end_s":30.64,"text":"class that makes sense for normal people. Unless you're like an enthusiast","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.039,"end_s":37.04,"text":"like me and you like to spend money on things that really don't net you that much more but might be kind of cool and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":33.76,"end_s":39.76,"text":"fun to tinker with. Well, this is a new","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":37.04,"end_s":46.239,"text":"option from Ubiquiti, the Cloud Gateway Max. It's a 2.5 gig, something that has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":43.12,"end_s":49.36,"text":"been kind of missing router, network","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":46.239,"end_s":51.84,"text":"controller, NVR, all in this tiny little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":49.36,"end_s":56.0,"text":"box. And it's only 200 bucks, which for this feature set is a price point that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.76,"end_s":61.6,"text":"has not existed up until now, at least from Ubiquiti. What else we got in the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":58.079,"end_s":64.08,"text":"box here? Power brick. Yep. Oh, look.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":61.6,"end_s":68.56,"text":"This is one of those new fandangled ether lighting. Does this have ether","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":66.0,"end_s":71.2,"text":"lighting? I don't think so. Oh my god. If it did, that would be hilarious.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":69.76,"end_s":75.76,"text":"We'll have to find that out in a sec. Screws, little feeds if you want to put","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":73.119,"end_s":79.92,"text":"it on your desk. Power cable. Propaganda. That's it. 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It's a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":270.88,"end_s":277.04,"text":"message from our sponsor, Pulseway. Managing your IT systems doesn't need to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":275.28,"end_s":279.84,"text":"be difficult, and our sponsor, Pulseway, makes performing important actions on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":278.56,"end_s":284.639,"text":"your systems simpler while having complete visibility into your network from anywhere. All you need is Pulseway","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":283.36,"end_s":289.12,"text":"on your phone, and you can monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your workstations. So, take control of your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":287.36,"end_s":293.28,"text":"servers, patches, and IT systems with Pulseway today by using our link down in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":290.8,"end_s":296.24,"text":"the description to save 40% on plans, or start a free trial today. Here's the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":294.88,"end_s":300.32,"text":"little tool that they include to open the M.2 slot. I kind of like that it's a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":298.479,"end_s":304.56,"text":"security thing. I also think it would be very annoying to get this open if you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":302.639,"end_s":308.479,"text":"didn't have this and you lost it. Is this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":306.32,"end_s":314.56,"text":"uh Yes. All right. Oh, cool. Look at that. It's a 512 gig. $279. So, they're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.12,"end_s":318.479,"text":"charging you $79 for a 512 gig SSD. $80","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":314.56,"end_s":320.8,"text":"over the cost of this, which when you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":318.479,"end_s":324.96,"text":"consider the $19 for this nice metal housing. I mean, it is a nice metal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":322.32,"end_s":330.08,"text":"housing, but my god, guys, there is no special connector. You totally could 3D","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.039,"end_s":333.36,"text":"print this. $80 is not gouging. 1 TBTE","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.08,"end_s":335.36,"text":"is $150 premium. So 350 and the two","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":333.36,"end_s":340.56,"text":"TBTE. It's two 280.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":338.08,"end_s":344.08,"text":"This better be a good SSD in here. Ubiquity. I swear to God. Let's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.32,"end_s":349.84,"text":"find out. This isn't actually even available yet. So if you buy the no SSD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":347.6,"end_s":354.16,"text":"one, you're not going to be buying this drive sled thing till September 23rd. 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I imagine they probably bought","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":380.56,"end_s":388.16,"text":"thousands, so I suspect the pricing would be cheaper, but I would have to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":385.12,"end_s":390.08,"text":"call for a quote.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":388.16,"end_s":393.919,"text":"It's cool that it's Gen 4, though, and at least it is a good quality drive. I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":392.319,"end_s":400.72,"text":"don't know what the compatibility is like. I suspect that it's only going to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":397.28,"end_s":403.36,"text":"be PCIe SSDs, but it doesn't say on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.72,"end_s":407.68,"text":"their website. It also says only up to 2 TB, but I don't see any reason why you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":405.6,"end_s":413.36,"text":"couldn't put a bigger drive in here. 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But they haven't really had anything on the router side in the price class that makes sense for normal people. Unless you're like an enthusiast like me and you like to spend money on things that really don't net you that much more but might be kind of cool and fun to tinker with. Well, this is a new option from Ubiquiti, the Cloud Gateway Max. It's a 2.5 gig, something that has been kind of missing router, network controller, NVR, all in this tiny little box. And it's only 200 bucks, which for this feature set is a price point that has not existed up until now, at least from Ubiquiti. What else we got in the box here? Power brick. Yep. Oh, look. This is one of those new fandangled ether lighting. Does this have ether lighting? I don't think so. Oh my god. If it did, that would be hilarious. We'll have to find that out in a sec. Screws, little feeds if you want to put it on your desk. Power cable. Propaganda. That's it. Now, because this is a router, it might not be the most visually exciting thing, but it is very sleek. We've got a little just about one inch sideways. I don't know, probably/ an inch, third of an inch tall LCD screen on the front that'll show some statistics. Got some ventilation on the bottom. On the side, this is huge because the other options in this price point, like the Dream Router, which is also $200, might have Wi-Fi, but if you want to expand the storage for your UniFi Protect security cameras, it only had micro SD, which is kind of crappy. This is an M.2 slot. It can fit up to a 22 1110 I think which is a full size like enterprise SSD. I will say that at $200 it doesn't come with the sled that makes an SSD fit in here. Uh if you buy one of the more expensive options which come with included storage, it does come with a sled. I'm not huge on this one. I mean I get it. If somebody doesn't need it, don't charge them for it and don't include it. But also, it seems like a part that would cost like a dollar and uh they charge 20 bucks for it if you don't buy the option that includes it. I'm sure somebody's going to 3D print a thing that'll make it work or something like that, but for now, no bueno. If you go with the $200 base option, we've got a little reset button to reset the config. USBC power in. And then this, the star of the show, 2.5 gig WAN port, and four 2.5 gig LAN ports. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this. So, you get a 1.5 gig or 2 gig internet connection and the Wi-Fi router that you get has a 2.5 gig in and only one gig out. So, you're not even taking advantage of it unless you have like a billion Wi-Fi devices streaming at the same time, which let's be honest, it probably can't even handle that either. In this setup, you've got 2.5 gig on all the ports and you can actually configure one of the LAN ones to also be another WAN port, which is a nice touch. I mean, that's pretty much it on the outside. It's a router, it's an NVR, it's a network controller. It supposedly can handle 30 Unified devices under control, which is sick. I mean, for a small business, one of these things would be freaking awesome. It also has intrusion detection and protection at speeds of up to 1.5 gig, which is not the full line rate, but remember, this is also a $200 device, which is pretty sick. Let's get this thing plugged in. All right. I'm not sure why they didn't just stick these on from the factory. I know that they have an optional wall mount accessory, which also seems like something that probably should have just been included. I don't know. I'm conflicted because I like that this is very cost effective. It's not that expensive for what you're getting. I don't know what the equivalent from other providers looks like. But even just buying like a 5 port 2.5 gig switch from a bigname brand is not that cheap. Let me look online really quick. All right. TPLink 5 port. They say multi- gigabit, but it's a 2.5 gig switch. 100 bucks US. This one's got 10 gig on it. That's cool. 125. That's like half the budget right there. Gone. This one has two 2.5 gig ports, which is better than what we've seen so far, but the rest of them are gigabit. And it is $200. At least on raw specs here. We're looking better than that. And this is also an NVR, so this does quite a bit. Get our cables plugged in here. We got our WAN cable. Bam. Oh, look at that. It's a message from our sponsor, Pulseway. Managing your IT systems doesn't need to be difficult, and our sponsor, Pulseway, makes performing important actions on your systems simpler while having complete visibility into your network from anywhere. All you need is Pulseway on your phone, and you can monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your workstations. So, take control of your servers, patches, and IT systems with Pulseway today by using our link down in the description to save 40% on plans, or start a free trial today. Here's the little tool that they include to open the M.2 slot. I kind of like that it's a security thing. I also think it would be very annoying to get this open if you didn't have this and you lost it. Is this uh Yes. All right. Oh, cool. Look at that. It's a 512 gig. $279. So, they're charging you $79 for a 512 gig SSD. $80 over the cost of this, which when you consider the $19 for this nice metal housing. I mean, it is a nice metal housing, but my god, guys, there is no special connector. You totally could 3D print this. $80 is not gouging. 1 TBTE is $150 premium. So 350 and the two TBTE. It's two 280. This better be a good SSD in here. Ubiquity. I swear to God. Let's find out. This isn't actually even available yet. So if you buy the no SSD one, you're not going to be buying this drive sled thing till September 23rd. So keep that in mind if you are ordering one. Swear to God, this better not be a cheap SSD. I'm going to be mad. Okay, Kingston Gen 4 NVMe drive, not a generic crappy one, which is a good sign. However, how much does this SSD cost? Okay, I actually found the exact SSD on Mouser. To buy one, it's $90. If you buy 105, the pricing goes down to 72. I imagine they probably bought thousands, so I suspect the pricing would be cheaper, but I would have to call for a quote. It's cool that it's Gen 4, though, and at least it is a good quality drive. I don't know what the compatibility is like. I suspect that it's only going to be PCIe SSDs, but it doesn't say on their website. It also says only up to 2 TB, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't put a bigger drive in here. I mean, you can get M.2 SSDs that are 8 TB, but obviously pretty expensive. Maybe not the most cost effective thing ever, but it is an option. You know what? This has this PCIe connection. I wonder if you could break this thing open and stick one of those little like adapter doohickeys in there and then put like a 30 TBTE Kioxia drive. That would be ridiculous. I'm not recommending that, but it probably would work. I don't I don't see why not, right? Holy The floating mount is $30. That's literally a piece of plastic with a magnet in it. Uh, that's why you just get the magnetic cable organizers from ltstore.com. You could totally just magnet this to one of those. Wait, is this magnetic? Hold on. Hold on. It's not magnetic natively. How does that mount work then? Oh, I know what it is. This has a metal plate in the bottom. And that thing is a magnet. That's so cheeky. I guess magnets cost money. So, that's probably another way that they're trying to keep the cost down on this thing. If you were to put the magnet in here, they would have to spend a couple dollars on the magnet in here. Instead, you buy it in the plate. I guess that makes sense. Let's set it up. Oh, it's not even ether lighting. It just has a little blinky light. Why did they give us ether lighting? Maybe this is just the default now. Okay, here. Let's see. New devices. Hey, there it is. Cloud gateway max tap to set up. Test internet speeds. Hey, look at that. It is connected to a 2.5 gig port. I don't know how good the speed test server is, but that is pretty close to 2.5 gig. That's good. While we wait for this to firmware update, I'm just going to throw in a couple of the specs here. It's a quad core ARM Cortex A53 at 1.5 GHz. It's got 3 GB of RAM inside of here, which is part of why it can handle all these different apps. They don't list the storage capacity without the SSD installed, so I'm not sure what that is. I guess we can probably see once it's on. And it it's a max power consumption of about 16 watts. Pretty effective in terms of the power draw. It's lower than some of the other things like a dream machine which might have a PoE switch integrated. So that is one downside of this. So if you are looking to set up a full UniFi network, you're going to need a PoE switch or at least PoE injectors on anything that needs PoE power like an access point for Wi-Fi or security cameras. This one does not provide it. It is also only $200 and they have some pretty cheap PoE switches. So you could set up a pretty inexpensive ubiquity setup with this as the core. Oh my god, the firmware update. 20 seconds left. Come on. This console has been set up and is ready to transfer. Oh, so they added an option for your like remote hands and you're setting this up for somebody else. Once it's done updating and everything, you just click and you enter their Ubiquity account and it transfers the ownership, which I'm not going to do right now. On the website, it actually lists only one WAN, but here I can Can I click the second one? Maybe not. So, it does look like confirmed. You can have two active internet connections on this thing and fail over or load balance between them, which is pretty awesome. It's disabled by default, which makes sense. You probably want to use those as Ethernet ports. And if you're a newbie, having that already set up as a backup WAN could be confusing. Otherwise, this is basically a fullyfledged like a dream machine. These are all the different settings you can do. You can run VPN on it. You can use IDS and IPS. You can actually have a third WAN. And I just found out using the UniFi LTE backup, if you wanted that much redundancy, that's a lot. The only thing I feel like is missing here is being able to set these up in shadow mode and have failover on these. So you could have a redundant 2.5 gig setup for 400 bucks. That would be pretty nuts, but doesn't appear to be an option. Let me plug in my laptop here. Let's get some juice going off this machine here. And if I go to here, look at that. 2.5 gig. So, if I go to like fast.com here. Yeah, 2.5 gig. Look at that. I mean, there's going to be a tiny bit of overhead, but generally speaking, you're pretty much there. And also, I don't know how reliable. I feel like fast.com is inconsistent for me. This honestly seems a little slow, and I'm not actually sure why. It must just be that speed test is just being crappy. I don't I don't have a better explanation cuz here, fast.com, we're clearly getting 2.5 gig. Look at those boys right there. And we got the Hi. Wow. Radical, dude. Overall, this thing seems pretty sick. I don't know why the SSD tray is $20. Oh, yeah. Look at the little screen. There's stuff on the screen. Oh, does it automatically Yo, it automatically flips the screen. This thing's sick. If you got 2.5 gig, like I would totally buy this. I wish it had PoE, too. To be able to run like one access point of one port with PoE would be pretty sick. But for 200 bucks, just buy a PoE injector or buy an AP that comes with a PoE injector, like a U6 Mesh. Those are great. This thing's sick. I like it. Get subscribed. Comment. Tell me what you think about it. I think very cool. Thumbs up. Goodbye."}