1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:06,240 Look, I get it. Everybody wants faster 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:10,880 internet, right? It's a universally understood principle. People want fast 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,920 internet. You like your games to download fast. You like your movies to 4 00:00:12,559 --> 00:00:19,359 stream well. You like your music to stream well. And if you're looking to upgrade beyond your internet service 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:22,800 providers, Wi-Fi or router, Ubiquiti is a great option and something we've shown 6 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:27,199 off before. But they haven't really had anything on the router side in the price 7 00:00:25,439 --> 00:00:30,640 class that makes sense for normal people. Unless you're like an enthusiast 8 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:37,040 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 9 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,760 fun to tinker with. Well, this is a new 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:46,239 option from Ubiquiti, the Cloud Gateway Max. It's a 2.5 gig, something that has 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:49,360 been kind of missing router, network 12 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:51,840 controller, NVR, all in this tiny little 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:56,000 box. And it's only 200 bucks, which for this feature set is a price point that 14 00:00:53,760 --> 00:01:01,600 has not existed up until now, at least from Ubiquiti. What else we got in the 15 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:04,080 box here? Power brick. Yep. Oh, look. 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:08,560 This is one of those new fandangled ether lighting. Does this have ether 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,200 lighting? I don't think so. Oh my god. If it did, that would be hilarious. 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,760 We'll have to find that out in a sec. Screws, little feeds if you want to put 19 00:01:13,119 --> 00:01:19,920 it on your desk. Power cable. Propaganda. That's it. Now, because this 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:24,880 is a router, it might not be the most visually exciting thing, but it is very 21 00:01:22,479 --> 00:01:29,759 sleek. We've got a little just about one inch sideways. I don't know, probably/ 22 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:34,000 an inch, third of an inch tall LCD screen on the front that'll show some 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:38,000 statistics. Got some ventilation on the bottom. On the side, this is huge 24 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:42,880 because the other options in this price point, like the Dream Router, which is 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,560 also $200, might have Wi-Fi, but if you 26 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:50,799 want to expand the storage for your UniFi Protect security cameras, it only 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:53,200 had micro SD, which is kind of crappy. 28 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:57,600 This is an M.2 slot. It can fit up to a 22 1110 I think which is a full size 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:04,479 like enterprise SSD. I will say that at $200 it doesn't come with the sled that 30 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:07,840 makes an SSD fit in here. Uh if you buy one of the more expensive options which 31 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:13,120 come with included storage, it does come with a sled. I'm not huge on this one. I 32 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,520 mean I get it. If somebody doesn't need it, don't charge them for it and don't 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:22,480 include it. But also, it seems like a part that would cost like a dollar and 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,440 uh they charge 20 bucks for it if you don't buy the option that includes it. 35 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,959 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 36 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:35,599 go with the $200 base option, we've got a little reset button to reset the 37 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:38,640 config. USBC power in. And then this, 38 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:42,080 the star of the show, 2.5 gig WAN port, 39 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:43,280 and four 2.5 gig LAN ports. I can't tell 40 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,680 you how many times I've seen this. So, you get a 1.5 gig or 2 gig internet 41 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:51,680 connection and the Wi-Fi router that you get has a 2.5 gig in and only one gig 42 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:56,080 out. So, you're not even taking advantage of it unless you have like a billion Wi-Fi devices streaming at the 43 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:02,319 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 44 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:06,319 the ports and you can actually configure one of the LAN ones to also be another 45 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,680 WAN port, which is a nice touch. I mean, that's pretty much it on the outside. 46 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:13,599 It's a router, it's an NVR, it's a network controller. It supposedly can 47 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:17,120 handle 30 Unified devices under control, which is sick. I mean, for a small 48 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:21,599 business, one of these things would be freaking awesome. It also has intrusion 49 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:26,000 detection and protection at speeds of up to 1.5 gig, which is not the full line 50 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:31,040 rate, but remember, this is also a $200 device, which is pretty sick. Let's get 51 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,159 this thing plugged in. All right. I'm not sure why they didn't just stick 52 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,360 these on from the factory. I know that they have an optional wall mount 53 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:40,879 accessory, which also seems like something that probably should have just 54 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:46,159 been included. I don't know. I'm conflicted because I like that this is 55 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,680 very cost effective. It's not that 56 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:51,760 expensive for what you're getting. I don't know what the equivalent from 57 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:57,599 other providers looks like. But even just buying like a 5 port 2.5 gig switch 58 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,959 from a bigname brand is not that cheap. 59 00:03:57,599 --> 00:04:04,080 Let me look online really quick. All right. TPLink 5 port. They say multi- 60 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:08,640 gigabit, but it's a 2.5 gig switch. 100 bucks US. This one's got 10 gig on it. 61 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:12,799 That's cool. 125. That's like half the budget right there. Gone. This one has 62 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:17,600 two 2.5 gig ports, which is better than what we've seen so far, but the rest of 63 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:22,160 them are gigabit. And it is $200. At least on raw specs here. We're looking 64 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,639 better than that. And this is also an NVR, so this does quite a bit. Get our 65 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:33,199 cables plugged in here. We got our WAN cable. Bam. Oh, look at that. It's a 66 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:37,040 message from our sponsor, Pulseway. Managing your IT systems doesn't need to 67 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:39,840 be difficult, and our sponsor, Pulseway, makes performing important actions on 68 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:44,639 your systems simpler while having complete visibility into your network from anywhere. All you need is Pulseway 69 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:49,120 on your phone, and you can monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your workstations. So, take control of your 70 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:53,280 servers, patches, and IT systems with Pulseway today by using our link down in 71 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:56,240 the description to save 40% on plans, or start a free trial today. Here's the 72 00:04:54,880 --> 00:05:00,320 little tool that they include to open the M.2 slot. I kind of like that it's a 73 00:04:58,479 --> 00:05:04,560 security thing. I also think it would be very annoying to get this open if you 74 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:08,479 didn't have this and you lost it. Is this 75 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:14,560 uh Yes. All right. Oh, cool. Look at that. It's a 512 gig. $279. So, they're 76 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:18,479 charging you $79 for a 512 gig SSD. $80 77 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:20,800 over the cost of this, which when you 78 00:05:18,479 --> 00:05:24,960 consider the $19 for this nice metal housing. I mean, it is a nice metal 79 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:30,080 housing, but my god, guys, there is no special connector. You totally could 3D 80 00:05:27,039 --> 00:05:33,360 print this. $80 is not gouging. 1 TBTE 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,360 is $150 premium. So 350 and the two 82 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:40,560 TBTE. It's two 280. 83 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:44,080 This better be a good SSD in here. Ubiquity. I swear to God. Let's 84 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:49,840 find out. This isn't actually even available yet. So if you buy the no SSD 85 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:54,160 one, you're not going to be buying this drive sled thing till September 23rd. So 86 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:58,160 keep that in mind if you are ordering one. Swear to God, this better not be a 87 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:06,080 cheap SSD. I'm going to be mad. Okay, Kingston Gen 4 NVMe drive, not a generic 88 00:06:03,919 --> 00:06:10,720 crappy one, which is a good sign. However, how much does this SSD cost? 89 00:06:08,479 --> 00:06:17,120 Okay, I actually found the exact SSD on Mouser. To buy one, it's $90. 90 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,560 If you buy 105, the pricing goes down to 91 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,960 72. I imagine they probably bought 92 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:28,160 thousands, so I suspect the pricing would be cheaper, but I would have to 93 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,080 call for a quote. 94 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:33,919 It's cool that it's Gen 4, though, and at least it is a good quality drive. I 95 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:40,720 don't know what the compatibility is like. I suspect that it's only going to 96 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:43,360 be PCIe SSDs, but it doesn't say on 97 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:47,680 their website. It also says only up to 2 TB, but I don't see any reason why you 98 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:53,360 couldn't put a bigger drive in here. I mean, you can get M.2 SSDs that are 8 99 00:06:49,919 --> 00:06:54,880 TB, but obviously pretty expensive. 100 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:59,520 Maybe not the most cost effective thing ever, but it is an option. You know 101 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:02,319 what? This has this PCIe connection. I wonder if you could break this thing 102 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,520 open and stick one of those little like adapter doohickeys in there and then put 103 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:10,960 like a 30 TBTE Kioxia drive. That would be ridiculous. I'm not recommending 104 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:16,400 that, but it probably would work. I don't I don't see why not, right? Holy 105 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,080 The floating mount is $30. That's 106 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,759 literally a piece of plastic with a magnet in it. Uh, that's why you just 107 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,440 get the magnetic cable organizers from ltstore.com. You could totally just 108 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:29,520 magnet this to one of those. Wait, is this magnetic? Hold on. Hold on. It's 109 00:07:27,759 --> 00:07:34,160 not magnetic natively. How does that mount work then? Oh, I know what it is. 110 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:38,639 This has a metal plate in the bottom. And that thing is a magnet. That's so 111 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,759 cheeky. I guess magnets cost money. So, that's probably another way that they're 112 00:07:40,479 --> 00:07:46,080 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 113 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:49,280 dollars on the magnet in here. Instead, you buy it in the plate. I guess that 114 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,919 makes sense. Let's set it up. Oh, it's not even ether lighting. It just has a 115 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:57,120 little blinky light. Why did they give us ether lighting? Maybe this is just the default now. Okay, here. Let's see. 116 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:03,520 New devices. Hey, there it is. Cloud gateway max tap to set up. Test internet 117 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,479 speeds. Hey, look at that. It is connected to a 2.5 gig port. I don't 118 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:09,680 know how good the speed test server is, but that is pretty close to 2.5 gig. 119 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:16,400 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 120 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,560 quad core ARM Cortex A53 at 1.5 GHz. 121 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:21,919 It's got 3 GB of RAM inside of here, which is part of why it can handle all 122 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:26,960 these different apps. They don't list the storage capacity without the SSD 123 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:30,479 installed, so I'm not sure what that is. I guess we can probably see once it's 124 00:08:28,479 --> 00:08:35,760 on. And it it's a max power consumption of about 16 watts. Pretty effective in 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,959 terms of the power draw. It's lower than some of the other things like a dream 126 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:42,800 machine which might have a PoE switch integrated. So that is one downside of 127 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:47,680 this. So if you are looking to set up a full UniFi network, you're going to need 128 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,920 a PoE switch or at least PoE injectors 129 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:54,160 on anything that needs PoE power like an access point for Wi-Fi or security 130 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:58,720 cameras. This one does not provide it. It is also only $200 and they have some 131 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:03,360 pretty cheap PoE switches. So you could set up a pretty inexpensive ubiquity 132 00:09:00,959 --> 00:09:07,360 setup with this as the core. Oh my god, the firmware update. 20 seconds left. 133 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,360 Come on. This console has been set up and is ready to transfer. Oh, so they 134 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:15,120 added an option for your like remote hands and you're setting this up for 135 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:18,720 somebody else. Once it's done updating and everything, you just click and you 136 00:09:16,959 --> 00:09:21,680 enter their Ubiquity account and it transfers the ownership, which I'm not 137 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:28,800 going to do right now. On the website, it actually lists only one WAN, but here 138 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:33,360 I can Can I click the second one? Maybe not. So, it does look like confirmed. 139 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:36,720 You can have two active internet connections on this thing and fail over 140 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:40,240 or load balance between them, which is pretty awesome. It's disabled by 141 00:09:38,959 --> 00:09:44,080 default, which makes sense. You probably want to use those as Ethernet ports. And 142 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:48,560 if you're a newbie, having that already set up as a backup WAN could be 143 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:52,800 confusing. Otherwise, this is basically a fullyfledged like a dream machine. 144 00:09:51,519 --> 00:09:57,200 These are all the different settings you can do. You can run VPN on it. You can 145 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:02,320 use IDS and IPS. You can actually have a third WAN. And I just found out using 146 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:04,959 the UniFi LTE backup, if you wanted that 147 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:08,560 much redundancy, that's a lot. The only thing I feel like is missing here is 148 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:13,839 being able to set these up in shadow mode and have failover on these. So you 149 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:16,720 could have a redundant 2.5 gig setup for 150 00:10:13,839 --> 00:10:22,079 400 bucks. That would be pretty nuts, but doesn't appear to be an option. Let 151 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,959 me plug in my laptop here. Let's get some juice going off this machine here. 152 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:31,360 And if I go to here, look at that. 2.5 gig. So, if I go to like fast.com here. 153 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:36,160 Yeah, 2.5 gig. Look at that. I mean, there's going to be a tiny bit of overhead, but generally speaking, you're 154 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:40,079 pretty much there. And also, I don't know how reliable. I feel like fast.com 155 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,680 is inconsistent for me. This honestly seems a little slow, and I'm not 156 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:48,240 actually sure why. It must just be that speed test is just being crappy. I don't 157 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:54,320 I don't have a better explanation cuz here, fast.com, we're clearly getting 158 00:10:50,959 --> 00:10:58,240 2.5 gig. Look at those boys right there. 159 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:59,920 And we got the Hi. 160 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:05,200 Wow. Radical, dude. Overall, this thing seems 161 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:08,160 pretty sick. I don't know why the SSD tray is $20. Oh, yeah. Look at the 162 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:12,160 little screen. There's stuff on the screen. Oh, does it automatically 163 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:16,720 Yo, it automatically 164 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:21,680 flips the screen. This thing's sick. If you got 2.5 gig, like I would totally 165 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:26,959 buy this. I wish it had PoE, too. To be able to run like one access point of one 166 00:11:23,839 --> 00:11:29,839 port with PoE would be pretty sick. But 167 00:11:26,959 --> 00:11:34,240 for 200 bucks, just buy a PoE injector or buy an AP that comes with a PoE 168 00:11:32,079 --> 00:11:39,279 injector, like a U6 Mesh. Those are great. This thing's sick. I like it. Get 169 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:46,720 subscribed. Comment. Tell me what you think about it. I think very cool. 170 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Thumbs up. Goodbye.