TWO YEARS With UniFi - Time For Another Upgrade? 

Been running a Unifi setup for years, I just keep upgrading as needed. It's been fantastic. The only issues I've ever had were caused by myself and not the hardware or software. i.e. making changes that were not understood or needed.

Great video - just in the process of installing unify with a Dream machine pro SE, so was glad to get reconfirmation that I was on the right path.

Ubiquity guy here . I’m old lol , 61 , and installed the UMD pro , 24 port switch , 5 G4pros , 2 AC Pro AP’s , and an additional 8 port switch in the garage . 6 months and no issues so far . I’m hoping someday they design a doorbell camera with a direct Ethernet connection , as I’m not buying one till then . Not a fan of using wireless unless I absolutely have to, like my iPad .

great info BUT.....since you are not planning on upgrading anything anytime soon, you should really get a rack

Eagerly waiting for the UDM-PRO SE too. Saw one on Ebay 2 weeks ago and final bidding price was $900+.

Really great video and YT suggested it to me at the right moment. Just yesterday I started asking which way I should go? Ubiquiti or Mikrotik. A little bit of mix and match will be the answer. The Mikrotik 10G switch is now also on my shopping list. 🙏

Great video. I have done nearly the same as you have except 10 Gig switch. If you have access to coax and do not want to run cable, you can use MOCA adapters. I have used the Gocoax models and they are simple to install and very stable. I installed a dream machine for a friend and they are pretty good. The new version with Poe may be worth waiting for

Planning on replacing my USG Pro 4p with a Dream Machine Pro, maybe i'll go for the SE now.

Hello. we thank you for good videos, a short question Is it possible to administer the Ubiquiti USW-PRO-24 in any software without a Dream Machine or similar hub for incoming internet. Am in the phase of learning how Ubiquiti works and the only place I find to ask questions about Ubiquiti products is youtube. we thank you in advance and warm greetings from Sweden

Great video. Are the ubiquiti APs mesh network capable

Any idea when Unifi is releasing WiFi 6E Access Points? Any leaks as to when they’ll be released or if they even plan to release anytime soon?

Got a sub! Make more videos mate.

The UDM-Pro SE PoE are only PoE not PoE+, ok for U6Lite but not U6-Lr or U6-Pro.

May be good for bigger installations, but for home unifi is not worth of it. Basic cheap devices can do the same with fraction of unifi price.

The unifi bug is more like an infection....

bro great stuff.. but get a bigger shirt, stop wearing kids size tshirt

Hey great upload. Im from Australia, we are in lockdown, and what a great time to upgrade the network. I ran CAT6 threw out the whole house and spent nearly the whole day in the roof, that was painful. I also put together a home network rack all loaded with Ubiquiti UniFi Gen2 24 Port POE Switch and the Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro Enterprise Security Gateway w/10G SFP+ and a Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite WiFi 6 Access Point, what a difference it has made. Myfirst set-up was very similar to yours stock NBN modem with a netgear modem/router mixed with a netgear switch. So glad i did it. I also invested in a 24TB NAS for the whole family. And yes, i spent countless days staring at the unifi dashboard, you do get over that after a while. SUBBED/LIKED/THUMBS-UP.

Great run down, I run an IT consulting company and we use a lot of Ubiquiti gear. Their protect platform is great for a lot of my clients who have made the switch from Hikvision, Amcrest, Reolink etc. Those other camera platforms are great but for a lot of small business owners they seem to prefer how the protect app functions. Aside from Unifi, Ubiquiti's airMAX line is also fantastic. We use it a lot for point to point shots to link up remote buildings. U6 Lites and U6 LR are both great, down the road I'm hoping they release a UAP-AC-IW 6 version, it's a clean form factor and easy to retrofit existing drops with.

After 7 month but still SE not in stock…. I want it as well

Great video and explanation. I went through the same issues as you and got bit by the Ubiquiti bug and went full onboard with their eco system. The only thing I would be able to suggest to you is to buy a 9U rack and move your equipment into it and it will be perfect. Great video!

Wow, only 1.5k subs. I thought you were at 100k. Really underated and great content!

I have Synology. You know, you can just bridge any ports (even two of 10g) so you can connect your desktop pc to one port and other port to lan. So both of syno and pc will get lan access and will be in one broadcast segment

@4:50 about working on your NAS while editing, it's more a workflow thing. Edit locally on your SSD or external SSD. Then archive and store on your nas after your done.

I use Ubiquity kit on the site I run. I have a network of over 60 AP's and i'm in the process of moving the L2 & L3 distribution onto Ubiquity switches. Will be looking to use their new 25Gb SFP28 capable switches as the backbone & hub switches with 10Gb SPF+ switches in the local cabs. I was looking at the U6 lite AP's but they are very difficult to get in any quantity so that'll have to wait.

look at all those cables etc in the closet. don't wonder why average people just get orbi or eero.

I love my unifi system. Like you said investing in unifi is like aa black hole lol. I got three bugs with my setup. 1. G3 instant shows error in protect on web browser but not on Android app. 2. Wifi roaming isn't working well and I get stuck on my l6 lr around 500' away. 3. Wifi-man does not show access point pictures, names currently unless browsing my guest wifi ssid within the app.

@2:13, I've been debating on doing something similar but using a keystone like patch panel inside the wall, not slightly outside like you did. Any reason you didn't do that?

We are in the middle of building a crypto mine. 3 immersion tanks, 18 miners. We have been using Ubiquity for years and years and for a small business setup it is outstanding. Rarely if ever goes down, wifi is flawless. We are building our mine on a 10gb backbone. 10gb from each tank into the aggregator. into a 8x2 SFP switch and off to the internet. I do love this Ubiquiti hardware. Very reliable and cost effective. I will be able to see all the data coming out of the entire mine right down to the port level on each miner on each switch on each tank. Epic.

Very informative, thank you Samir! I'm considering putting a Unifi setup in my home. What's your experience with signal strength on the 2nd floor from those ceiling mounted AP's? I have a standard 2 story stick framed house in the northeastern US with 8 ft ceilings, sheetrock ceilings and hardwood floors. Do you think one AP one the ceiling of the lower floor would provide enough signal for a similar sized area upstairs or am I better off by placing AP's on both levels?

So for a new home network would you recommend DMPSE and the SA 10GB switch and some in wall access points as I cant have ceiling ones. anything else needed? would you put your symbology and battery back up in a rack with all this next to where the internet comes in the wall. Please reply thanks

Unifi Hardware + Controller + UniFi Poller + Grafana (InfluxDB) = ♥

I like unifi stuff even though it's not perfect it's good enough for most power users I would say

How are you finding switching? I run Web servers and since I switched yo unify I have noticed switching is slow

I have recently been looking to upgrade my home network aswell. I think i will either go with the new UDR that ubiquiti recently announced for EA soon or a UDM-Pro-SE I'm a little bit concerned with the IPS throughput of the UDR since i expect it to be just like the UDM which is about 850mbps, which is ofc great... just not if you have 1000/1000 fiber.. And then I'm not a 100% sure about the fan in the UDM/UDR since i've heard they can be pretty noisy... at least with the UDM-Pro-SE you can upgrade them to a set of noctua fans if they become noisy. Besides that i will probably go with a USW-Lite-8-POE switch and 1-2 of the new Wifi 6 AP Pros when they come out of early access aswell(depending on if i go with the new UDR with wifi 6 or go for the UDM-pro-se without wifi)

WIFI 6E waiting to make the jump.

First off...TOP QUALITY video! took a look at your channel, love your thumbnails and your editing style. Did you do them yourself or do you work with a vender/partner to do it all? My question is, do you know if Ubiquity has a Mesh Wifi 6 setup? I use Netgear Orbi today...and have no issues at all, but it is Wifi 5 and I am moving to a new larger house and I need to upgrade...so why expand Wifi 5 when I can get 6 😁 Thanks...and I loved everything...you've got another Subscriber!

thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

Could you do a video comparing Unifi vs Omada for home setups?

With the UDM Pro selling for $379, I don't know why anyone would buy Asus and Trend Net routers. UDM Pro is #1. No competition.

the shirt pulled me in....the info kept me

I've been researching the same for home. I need to also be future proofed. So the ability to have up to 10Gbit WAN, at least three 10Gbit PoE ports to go to WiFi 6 (hopefully 6E soon) APs, another 10Gbit for Synology NAS, and a last 10Gbit to run to a 24 port, 1GB switch. The thing people are missing. VPN or firewall traffic shaping past 1GB requires a lot of CPU power. Most devices are not ready for that. People also forget about backhaul to WiFi 6APs. Who cares if you get a 6Gbit WiFi signal if your backhaul is only 1Gbit. And finally, I'd like to get it all being affordable and with the same vendor for management tools. This is a huge ask I know, but this is what it will take for serious home networks for professionals working from home.

Obsessing over the dashboard is a real thing when you first install your Ubiquiti devices!!!

I had much the same experience with UniFi - adopted the system and never looked back. Great video!

Still waiting for UI to come out with the WIFI 6E AP's. That way we can get higher bandwidth on the new RF bands. That will be a big help as more clients have 6E built in.

Very good and fancy video about UniFy but how about to tell viewers about negative things from unify ?!? for example end of life =end of support = end of ability to use the unify device = buy new ubiquity device for $$$$ !!! how about such stories ?!?? ubiquity ecosystem = Aplle ecosystem = nice design for tons of money !!!

Great video I totally agree if it ain't broke don't fix it

I recently upgraded from the USG to the UDM Pro SE, I couldn't get the speed that I was offered by my ISP because the USG was the bottleneck, I'm happy with my investment to the Pro SE as it will future proof any network speed upgrades from my ISP AND still running IDS/IPS without even more bandwidth bottlenecks, I since decided to slowly start upgrading my cabling to minimum Cat6 and looking to get the XG 16 which has 4 10GB RJ45 and 12 SFP+ as I bought 2 dual 10GB RJ45 cards, it is a bit overkill for me at the moment but this should last at least the next 5 and more years and future proof any expansion needs I have. The USG still is a great little Gateway device but unfortunately due to it's capabilities "outdated". Tricky part might be the Pro SE only supports one site so if someone has multiple sites it will not work with that, I only use it for 1 site and succesfully restored the backup from my hosted controller so far I haven't come across issues except my VPN setup but vlan and all seems to work fine from the backup and the networks/wifi settings.

Thanks for your UniFi video. I just ordered the Dream Pro SE, and I'm excited about using it.

My current setup is really simple a couple unifi ap lites. a unifi poe switch and pfsense as my router. Really quite beautiful what you can get going for $500-800 bucks depending on your router needs. I splurged with a J4125 processor and can do gigabit over wiregaurd for the whole network.

I installed 1 AC Nano AP, used Netgear 24 port switch and patch panel. Works flawless. Never an issue. I may need a 2nd switch as I only have 4 ports left though, lol. Ethernet jacks in every bedroom, office and home theater/ living room really chews through them ports quickly. I always recommend UniFi APs to anyone that needs to up their game. Easy install, easy seamless integration with any setup. Damn near plug and play.

"Hello everyone. I'm Phil and I'm an addict" I've been in the Unifi ecosystem since early 2017. It's awesome but man it's like a narcotic.... I started with the USG, a first generation cloud key, a US-8-150W and 2 x UAP-AC-PROs. That little setup was my gateway drug and after moving to a house with solid concrete walls and adding more and more IoT devices...my network expanded. "Oh please god forgive me...I was just a middle aged man who wanted perfect network client connectivity...." and I got it ;). I built an 8 RU 'RAST rack', installed a 16 port patch panel, moved to a USG-4, a cloud key gen2 plus and a USW-24-500W. Then I began adding edge switches, additional access points and Unifi cameras through the cloud key gen2+. I even went so far as to create a wirelessly bridged camera outpost in my garden using a US-5-FLEX, two cameras and an older access point. It was all worth it. I have no regrets...only that I didn't do it sooner.

I litteraly *just* upgraded to an SE, and I love it so far, went from 662 mbit throughput to 1150 mbit. 16 hours in, and can't believe I waited so long.

Running an UDM with 2 8-port poe switches and 2 pro aps I have no needs for a chamge yet.

Thanks bmnice video

I would like to add something to your "do you need 10G port(s)?". Not only look at the need right now, also look at the (near) future. If you're in the market for a new switch, it is a good idea to think about a 10G version nowadays. You might not need it today, however, you buy a switch for 5, 10, maybe even 15 years. Especially if you just want a decent one. I would surely look into multiple 10G ports with POE. As POE also might be something that will be used more often in the (near) future.

Great video, just brought an entire Ubiquiti setup, let's see how it goes.

I just upgraded from the USG to the UDM SE and love it. Using the old USG and Cloud Key at my mom's house now and upgrading her network which has more modest requirements. Nice thing is that I can remotely manage everything.

just found your channel, keep it up, love your work

I like the wood carving on the wall cabinet @2:34

great speech

You can use the 10g wan as lan.....

I'm currently building a system for my house under construction. Very frustrated in the process of picking out the AP's. Any suggestions? Additionally, if I went by the heat map on the designer tool, I'd have to have a ton of AP's.

Hi Samir. I’m renovating my house now and am wondering if CAT 6 is sufficient or if I should go for CAT7? Great video btw

Good video

Good job. Real world practical information.

You must not have the threat management/prevention turned on your USG. I am looking to upgrade my USG because I have the full threat prevention package turned on and with that you can only get about 110-120Mbit through the USG, which is better than the 85Mpbs it's rated for with threat prevention turned on, but it's still not enough for my needs. When I've got mutiple TVs running 4K streaming along with both my wife and I working and all the phones, tablets and smart tech in the house, the Internet can lag. Not bad lag, but sometimes I'll be on a conference call and the people will tell me I'm dropping out or sound like a chipmunk. This is even with my work PC plugged into Ethernet. My setup is 2x UAC-AP-Pro, US-8-60W PoE switch, USG-3P, CloudKey Gen2. Running the latest controller software 7.x, 6.x firmware on the switch and APs, and the latest available on the USG (4.4.53 I think). I'd like to upgrade to the Unifi Dream Router which is in EA now and sold out on the page, but they're only asking $79 for it and it has 2 PoE. I signed up for the wait list/restock list. This would replace the USG and the Cloud Key. I'll still need my little switch because I have 7/8 ports populated currently, but if some other person out there was only running their APs off the switch they could potentially replace that too with the UDR. I have no need for 10G at home because I store all my photos in the cloud. I don't know what the threat prevention throughput is on the UDR but as long as it's in the 300-400 Mbps range that will be fine. The UDM threat prevention throughput is 850Mbps but that device costs $299. In a small house or apartment the UDR would probably be all you needed because it has WiFi 6 built in. I will keep my APs even if I get the UDR because I have a large 1 story house, and as noted I have 7 ethernet drops in usage so I need an external switch regardless. Note that, in order to see the UDR you have to sign in and be authorized for Early Access.

I'm curious to know if you have updated or upgraded anything in your home network?

I am in the exact same situation... bought the aggregation switch and i love it... good buy... just want another one for a synology too

This is the system I am implementing in my new home.

PFSense is currently my firewall/router which is awesome

The problem I have with Unifi is how rapidly they upgrade / obsolete devices. The USG router that you have has essentially disappeared.

Going to 10GbE, did you notice a major difference when grabbing data from the Synology? Which Synology DS did you get? Did you aggregate the link to give higher speed? My Synology is only 2Gb when aggregated. I am considering upgrading to 2.5GbE because I am not sure the 10GbE is going to help. I recently updated my AP's now and I went with the U6-Pro's. Not sure they were available at the time this video was released. In hindsight, very few devices take advantage of WiFi 6 and even less take advantage of 4x4 MIMO and I probably would save the money, albeit small amount, and get the U6-Lite or even the older AC versions and there would be very little difference. You are right that the USG will not handle GbE WAN, the USG-Pro is barely able to do Gb WAN. I still use a USG-Pro I got second hand because I can't justify a Dream Machine for home use and there is currently no replacement for the old USG. Not sure how viable GbE WAN is, even now in 2022. I can only see Gb WAN useful if you are using a lot of data in the cloud, rather than local on NAS, so the USG Pro may do me for quite a while yet.

I sold all my Unifi gear, had issues with the updates, locked out of my UDM-Pro. My family was down for 1 day, wife and kids. Was not a good day for me. I sold everything, now researching Ruijie Network gear and TP-Link.

I wonder what are the fire wall features with the Dream machine pro edition

Jumping to unifi... so I subbed.

Yes upgrade to wi fi 6 access point

Company I used to work for had high traffic 10Gb network ran over cat5e for video production use. It worked fine with cat5e cable

How did you find the performance of the MikroTik CRS305? I tried one of those too for 10GBE and found the performance was very poor, managing around 3Gbps with occasional peaks of 5-6.

Nice Video, thanks for the tips

I like very much the access points, but I don't trust the routers.... many people complain about them

Unifi is my absolute go-to when it comes to wireless installations. thank you for promoting what I love!

Nice video Samir, Cheers!

With the Poe injectors that come with the AP. Don’t use shielded cables from the switch to the injector. Not sure why, but it worked for me and my issues with the AP getting data.

Thanks for the video, i have some external assurance now :) I’m having a new 3 story large house, and i’m investing about $ 4k in Unifi gear, UDM pro, in-wall access points (i hope it will be enough as i have no possibility of ceiling mounting) , poe switch and some cameras. The largest installment i had was a 3point mesh network from google, which was fine, but with this larger home and with the camera requirement i figured ill go uniif, especially that i have ethernet wired already to all rooms. Thanks again for the video

Unifi addict…. Yeah I need a fix once in a while too…

Unifi is great however Ubiquiti has already made changes to some of their icosystem that was just plain greedy. Specifically the change they made to Unifi video. They migraded to unifi protect forcing the rest of us to do the same while many consumers were left hanging with devices that no longer work. Based on that I would not be surprised if they do the same thing to the rest of their devices. They always claimed in the past that their devices are "democratic" meaning no license fees for their controllers setting them apart from cisco however as like many businesses that grow into massive corporations its obvious that it's only a matter of time before the take away all the cool things about their devices and locking everything down. Pretty soon they will start charging for the use of the controller or remove it as a downloadable option all together. The unifi pro SE is a perfect example of this. They released the unifi dream machine which was great for a simple home setup however when they released the unifi UDM pro it was a sham. Half the casing is empty and no POE only to release the SE 2 years later. If this is not greed I dont know what is. I would proceed with caution cause Ubiquiti is turning into another Elon Musk. Great start but just crazy greedy afterwards.

Omada and tp Link is better

Hey, I used that USG for my gigabit internet connection and had no issues :)

Wireless is so much easier.

I’m selling my UDM and WiFi 6 Lite AP, cause it worked alright apart from causing lag spikes on my Xbox Series X in COD, and made it lag. Even connecting directly to the UDM did it. This was over wireless as I don’t have the means for wired, my original Google WiFi worked fine, I bought the Google Nest and Amplifi Alien to test and I’m keeping the Alien as it’s the smoothest, outperforms the UDM and AP for sure. I tried everything I could think off but couldn’t stop the lag, asked on Ubiquiti forums and no one really helped so what can you do?

"Intuitive ways to set up firewall rules" - LOL

My only two small suggestions for future growth, the doorbell cam is pretty good, and I'd buy a floating rack for all your gear. Get it off the carpet and home-made shelf (esp. that UPS. They get warm/hot, and could cause a fire if it were to fail). Personally, I'd also wait for the Wifi 6 standard AP, as the range would make a big difference over the lite. I have the UDM Pro currently, and its mostly good. Albeit, it crashes sometimes with no apparent reason, and no output to log. I find it kind of frustrating tbh. I also run a Synology NAS, 2 APs, and have wired most of my house with Cat 6. Albeit, my APs are the older gen's, but I have nothing that is wifi 6 yet, so they'll get replaced when the time comes.

Your claim that the usg can’t handle gigabit speed is not true. I’m using fiber at 1 gigabit and it is very able. Please check your facts before spreading misinformation. Bad Apple!!

Watching his videos make me sick. Why the constant zoom in/out. That's bad camera work or editing one of the two.

As an IT consultant that primarily deals with Cisco, Sonicwall, Fortinet, and even Araknis, I love the UniFi software, but absolutely hate the range on the APs, specially the older UAP Pro, and even the new HD and NanoHD. Horrible, horrible range compared to other offerings (Cisco ME and Aironet, FortiAP, etc.)

Looks like what you need is a rack for your equipment.

Not sure why you think your synology or anything else you have needs 10g. . . .I have 8 synology storage NAS units and video cameras all over this place like fort knox. 1gb networking is rocking it all with plenty to spare. In a few talks will run talk. In a week or two I setup access for someone else. The kit is very solid for the price. Now. . .with that said. . . get a rack you cheap skate and protect that gear and show it some love!