UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra Setup, Unboxing, Comparison | Ubiquiti Networks UCG-Ultra

ubiquity released another Cloud gway without Wi-Fi but at about $130 it's more powerful than the UniFi Express and the dream router and you guess it it's called The Cloud Gateway Ultra I'll show you its features we'll unbox it set it up both on the web and we can do it through the app and I'll help you decide if this is the right UniFi device for you my name is bog NY founder of Apex One tech all my content is free to you all I ask is that you subscribe and smash the like button okay so we got this newsletter from ubiquity about its new Ultra lineup well we had the army Swiss knife this UK Ultra already but recently They just added the ucg so the cloud Gateway Ultra that we're discussing here and the switch Ultra uh which I have another video on that if you want to check that out but these kind of nicely paired together as you can see the way they Market it well here they're showing how it's kind of a replacement or it's both a Gateway and a cloud key and that's your Cloud Gateway Ultra it's just missing the built-in Wi-Fi not missing it just depends on what you need so ucg Ultra right here has a couple ports and we'll talk about that but just to see what they're you know what they're marketing here UniFi Ultra example deployment and they have it here with the Swiss Army knives these are all Wi-Fi 5 access points connected to the poe switch and to the ucg ultra so it's really marketed as like a powerful device in some sense has full specs at least for networking but it's a much more affordable price like I said starting at well it is about $130 USD and it's a little bit higher than the ux the Express and the UDR the dream router in terms of its networking performance but we'll talk at the end if this is the right one for you to get this is not the only way to deploy this Gateway and before we unbox it let's just take a look at some of its features so this is the gway itself right it has as we'll see well it's showing you there there that's the cloud key and the Gateway together has the 2.5 gab ports wi ports and four land ports so quickly here we can see obviously is perfect for site magic that's unifies side to side VPN that's super simple to set up and it kind of shows you everything here so it has kind of almost all the features one of the powerful things is that you can dedicate one of the lamp ports as a secondary wi and that's time counting the LTE backup that you can have right so the rest of these four are gigabit land ports and just power to USBC and it has the same LCM display actually is this Express as well right this is their all in one with Wi-Fi definitely not as powerful as the Gateway so and this is showing just again another deployment here you have the Gateway that we're talking about the switch LTE backup a SS army knife there for your access points and so it does have 2.5 button but when you turn off all the full suspicious activity options so it has all of them which is the 35 a little bit more or more than the UDR but when we turn all that on it throws you down to 1 GB which again is for mostly everyone is plenty and you can manage 300 plus clients in there no problem and 30 UniFi devices I guess they say 30 plus kind of depends which ones you had but that's more than plenty for most of you so multi-wan like we discussed and full network of course us prowed it has Bluetooth built-in that's just basically for setting up with the app so very easy to do that so let's unbox the next okay so here we have the cloud Gateway Ultra packaging just tells you that right there and of course it's a the ucg ultra okay so here we have a tab here a little tougher to open than the other ones they made all right so this just pops open and they always have installation instructions which are more like graphic kind of no text all right there we go pretty good size here and weight obviously definitely larger than the express Express is maybe just that size this one's so it's 5 and 1/2 in in length it's a little bit shorter this way 5 in and about an inch and a/4 in height nice packaging it is a little Hefty I mean it's only it's about it's 1.1 lb exactly and we have that same LCM display that like the ux has for example and just says there that's the cloud gway Ultra and the back of course have the resets we have the USBC for power so these are the four Lan ports and when right there it does say 2.5 here but when you turn on everything's sus speci activity all the way it's only one GB so definitely tough feels very good in the hand and right here we just have the usual tiny little manual and stuff like that a little separation so they do include about maybe a foot a little over that there little nice flexible ethernet cable okay so most likely from your modem you'll plug it into the W Jack and then the USBC oops power adapter and it is a 5vt 3 amp but the Gateway only draws 6.2 Watts Max so I unravel this and it's actually yeah 6 and 1/2 ft okay and two hands so you can mount those pretty far from your power source and the last thing here you don't want to miss is these little rubber feets so I think we can just peel them off yeah probably stick them on the bottom here so we got to kind of finish uh the manufacturing here on our own so these are definitely not cut out that well but if you set this on some kind of you know sensitive table you might want to put these on yeah it's nice rubber the first thing you want to do is grab plug in of course your power adapter into the wall the USBC into the back here okay so that flash is green we got the logo that'll probably take a minute to boot up so let's grab the ethernet cable from your modem then back here into the W Port okay so we do have a progress bar here I do know this a little bit off level here not horizontal as you can see okay this is probably one of their first units so slightly misalign but you see that progress bar so we're going to wait a minute and then we'll probably add it from our phone or iPad okay it took about a minute or two and actually tells you that's it's ready for setup or it tells you hey download the app right you can set up that way and it should give you also an IP address yeah there we go or web setup for this demo I'm going to continue on the iPad to set up with the UniFi app but you can go ahead and grab the IP address that the the LCM display shows you and just type it into your browser just as you see it and you should be able to set up straight from the browser if you want to do that you just want to connect your computer MacBook straight from one of the land ports with the ethernet cable to the ucg ultra otherwise I get the UniFi app that works on your mobile Android as well so let's go ahead and do that so let's open the app okay so it's finding my last Gateway and we're going to give a minute so you do need to be standing next to your gateway there it is it uses uh Bluetooth so you see my Wi-Fi is actually off so there it is and it's ready to set up I just need to tap on it it's connecting to it should be pretty quick okay so it's ready to go then just click next so it's doing a speed test interesting that's fine so we paid for 200 it's looking like he got 375 uh good for exfinity there that's almost twice as fast wow all right so I guess just for your info to let you know that your one gig will be okay so just click next and it's showing you so after this uh we will go to unify.com to set this up okay so never mind one thing I guess it does want you do a firmware update so we'll let that process happen Okay so it's done okay so there's the cloud Gateway Ultra so just connect to it it looks like it's having trouble okay so at this point it's probably better to continue on the browser or you want to make sure you already have an access point attached to it I think on your mobile will work better if you're actually attached to the internet to your data so we'll try that out okay so I did connect conect to my iPhone and we'll try to reconnect here so let's just try again okay there we go so found it and I I did already plug in a switch and then access points okay so if you go to the devices at the bottom right the second tab there and you see I do have already the ultra Poe switch in here uh saying tap to resolve because I already previously adopted it to the ux the express we can actually tap to resolve and it'll it'll reconnect you here so I'm just going to tap reassign to console otherwise you know you can plug in your devices your switch your access points and just adopt as usual all right so I'll do that to my access point as well I'll probably need to reset it and then we'll continue in the browser okay so I had this running for a little bit I have the access point switch set up with it and we can go to so maybe some things you want to look at right some of it features we probably want to turn on suspicious activity so let's go then click on internet and you see so this is our primary one and we could the secondary one you could designate the fourth land port as a when okay so fail over so basically if your primary one goes out it's going to go over to your fourth one and there's some other Advanced things that you can do distribut and you can even you know say where the traffic is going things like that uh but that's kind of Beyond this video so the the other thing just want to show you you can also so I'll actually disable this and let's go ahead look at the suspicious activity so here under security so same thing settings security and you'll notice so you can you can just go to auto and it has all the other firewall settings here as well Auto it just does its own thing you can go to advance and then here okay so you can select if you have other networks we won't get into that you can select how it's filtering so in detection sensitivity you know low medium high or just click on customize and now as you see by default I guess on medium it has 17 out of 35 selected and in comparison the dream router for example has uh I believe just 11 of the 35 in the ux the express has none okay so that that's the difference so this has all the options you can select all of these and you should still get 1 GB which like in my case when I get 200 that's no problem so let's you know you could you could select all them and I just want you show you that or just use their built-in kind of Easy Settings here okay so I guess low the six and the medium is 17 of them and the high is most likely all of them yeah okay so I won't click save now but that's where you can do that's kind of the main main differences there with the UDR and of course you have your VPN settings here that you can set up side to side VPN just kind of a manual way but as you know if you have this is especially great for business organization if you have a second site the easiest way is actually to get another UniFi Cloud Gateway and go over to to your site manager and then here you can actually do site magic which is the same thing as that site toight VPN it just unifies thing it makes it super easy you can select you know wh which device you want to combine so this one's offline but for example you have to be the admin in both of these accounts or the owner actually and then you can add them together and you can have a seamless VPN connection and finally is this Ultra the cloud Gateway for you so it's starting at 130 which is one of the most in expensive and you can see it's already it's already sold out it was actually hard to get a hold of this so it is going quite popular just like the dream router and it this could be a good device for you if I would say maybe two things if the UniFi Express doesn't work for you and the dream router so let's Maybe cover that and even back up one step so before this you could you could have bought in the Gateway lights so that's not a cloud Gateway but Gateway light about the same price uxg lights now there's kind of no point right well at least if you want the full UniFi experience uh you want the cloud right this combines like the cloud key they had with the Gateway like the uxg light and now for $130 I mean this this is a device you get if you want to go that route but if we compare so we can go here to gateways on the UI ui.com and and I'll have this link for you so you can just find this right away and it gives you has a good little comparison table here so the UniFi Express right they just released this a couple months ago overall it's really like consumer it's it's your most entry level easiest to set up Wi-Fi is built in you just need that one device everything works if you're in a home business under 1250 ft that works for you okay if you don't need that suspicious activity detection you know you're okay with the limitation of four additional unified devices meaning like a Poe switch from them or another access point like the smart power strip right those all count against those four so just keep that in mind and most likely you're you're fine with this one GB througho as well and remember that the UniFi Express that's starting at $150 however again Wi-Fi 6 is built in so one thing to consider though is that maybe if for some homes larger homes this will not cover it uh just the coverage will not do so you could have a router already a Wi-Fi router combo and you could get the cloud Gateway Ultra as a UniFi controller and router and then repurpose your existing Wi-Fi router as the access point okay maybe you have an Wi-Fi router that covers like 2,000 ft and that's great for your house so you can totally do that here now you won't be able to control your Wi-Fi access points if you're going with another brand like but you'll get great coverage and now it's at lower cost right this is a 130 and you get more benefits here such as the suspicious activity detection the multi-wan okay so that is an option maybe I'll make a video on that on how to do that um if I do it'll be it'll be up on the screen right now or in the description okay so now the next level up if the ux the express is not good enough for you the UDR here the dream router this is a great option again it has four ports on the back as well and two Poe ports which the ultra does not have because it's also designed to be like a small NVR and unfortunately in reality you can only run like one or two 4K UniFi protect cameras on here okay this you know this won't work for your other cameras this is just for UniFi protect and there's actually a calculator which here when you click on this just want to show you so if you go to the store and and you search for the cloud gateways this is the Wi-Fi integrated ones what they will have here is a capacity calculator so as the way with it comes it has some built-in you know network is running in it you can add protect and with a built-in it has Believe yeah 120 GB SSD and then you can you can increase it with a SD or micro SD card only okay so something keeping in mind but as it is you know you can only add one 4k camera you can add more a bunch of have HD well four HD cameras uh but if if you're going with with a more powerful camera it's only one it's it's really maybe if you're just like watching your front door and that's all that you need from your MVR otherwise it's it's not really an MVR and you want something like the cloud key plus and that will run you 100 plus I forget like 150 or more uh to get that but you could add that in if you need to and you should know here that once you this is the IDS IPS that's that suspicious activity so once you turn that all on your throughput here goes down to 300 megabits per second so if your internet is faster than that uh you might not want to get the dream router if you want to use that functionality then you need the ultra and in terms of UniFi devices you know 20 plus that's probably more than enough 15 client devices is also great even the express by the way S60 that's playing that's like twice as much as most consumer Wi-Fi combo routers you'll see out there they're usually happy at 30 so I have i' I've tested this one I have no problem I have have like yeah 45 devices attached to it so now finally right if the dream router just doesn't col it for you basically too slow or maybe you can't have Wi-Fi built in maybe where you have your modem and your router situated you just can't have your Wi-Fi access point there or you need it somewhere else then the dream router is not for you right if you need that there little flying saucers up in the ceiling then the ultra is the way to go so you set up the ultra at about $130 you get great throughput here plenty of devices you can add a Poe switch easily add their access points you can add the long range access point which is like 2,000 ft I want to say so obviously it cost you more but especially I would say if you're a let's maybe sum this up in reverse order or maybe mention one more so there's the dream machine pro which is like the cloud cloud Gateway on steroids okay this very more real Pro level that's why it's called Pro so it can run all the applications from UniFi including voice over IP right protect access but you know it cost a little more this is like I believe this one they don't have the price here but it's at 380 it also has you know one one storage rack built in for your hard drive for MVR so this much more professional if you want to go that route you could do this you'll need more devices though so the more Simple Solution the cloud Gateway Ultra especially if you want that more protection suspicious activity protection and you you want kind of Freedom with your access points then probably like for a small business even midsize business this can handle right mze business even with multiple locations you don't have to get the dream machine you can go with the cloud Gateway Ultra and that will most likely work for you without a problem at plenty of devices do sight to sight um or site magic that UniFi has sight toite VPN so that's awesome if I would say now going down dream router again if you don't need that suspicious activity you need more throughput but the believe, 1500 ft coverage with this wi-fi integrated in there if that works for you like for my home dream router is perfect I get coverage outside everything so that one's great for me otherwise if you're in a smaller space or you just you know have a studio something like that or a very small office and you don't need that suspicious activity the express is good for you I'll have all these products Linked In the video description below straight to the iquity store UniFi and if they're available on Amazon cuz sometimes they're always out of stock on ui.com but if they're available I'll have that Linked In the video description as well that's so you can support this Channel and if you found this video helpful you learn something new then please subscribe and hit the like button if you need any help setting up designing your networking wi-fi system connecting maybe 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Published: Tue Mar 05 2024