Look, I get it. Everybody wants faster
internet, right? It's a universally understood principle. People want fast
internet. You like your games to download fast. You like your movies to
stream well. You like your music to stream well. And if you're looking to upgrade beyond your internet service
providers, Wi-Fi or router, Ubiquiti is a great option and something we've shown
off before. 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
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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.