Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine All-in-One Router

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UniFi can also be self-hosted on a Windows/macOS/Linux machine, but this is only recommended for users proficient with network administration, because it requires constant and precise attention. You’ll need to manually configure your network for sufficient communication between UniFi Network and all of your networking devices. Success hinges on your ability to continuously navigate various third-party software, firewalls and other networking devices. As a network controller, the UDM-SE has everything the UDR has and much more. You can run multiple applications with the UDM-SE, of which the Network app is the default.

Overall, if there’s something the UDM doesn’t do yet, do not count it getting added in the future. UniFi Dream Machine Competitors You can do virtually anything you'd want to do with the UDM-SE's ports or connected clients, and in comprehensive ways. And the console has everything you can think of regarding network, Wi-Fi, and mesh configurations. One benefit I hope it has is that it can trigger a graceful shutdown of the UDM-SE if it detects the battery is about to die which I wasn’t sure how to do with the cheaper setup. I’ll have to research what it does but if you can confirm that would be great as well. P.S. I’ll be sure to use your link as always since you are providing so much advice, it should be worth your while

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The UDM supports common networking features like port forwarding, SIP, uPnP, mDNS, Dynamic DNS, and custom DNS filtering. It supports IGMP snooping, DHCP snooping, and some custom DHCP options. Adding networks, VLANs, static routes and firewall rules are all pretty simple. If you want to setup a separate network for IoT or untrusted devices, the UniFi software makes that easy, too. You can customize your DHCP scopes and the DNS servers on a network level. I have my own internal DNS server, a Raspberry Pi running as a Pi-Hole. This provides DNS for my main wireless network, and is set under the “DHCP Name Server” network setting.

The point is: a non-Wi-Fi router's relevancy is independent of Wi-Fi. And you can easily add Wi-Fi to it via an access point. Here's my UDM-SE being tested with the U6 Enterprise access point. The two work well together, but you need a Multi-Gig PoE switch to maximize the AP's performance. We were also able to use the iOS app to add the USW PoE switch to our account, and were blown away by its clever augmented reality (AR) feature: point your device camera at the ports and a live overlay immediately pops up, showing which ones are active and what’s connected to them. Create new RADIUS profile. This will allows you to enable a RADIUS assigned VLAN for wired or wireless networks, and specify a RADIUS server if not using the UDM. The point is L2PT/IPsec is great when it works. And it does in most cases, which ultimately depends on whether the local network of the remote device allows it to pass through. PPTP And using a router and a few access points is the best way to build a serious Wi-Fi network. Ubiquiti UDM-SE: A powerful network controllerThe UDM-SE was released in the first part of 2022, around the time of the home-friendly UniFi Dream Router ( UDR). Despite the name, The UDM-SE is more related to the UDR than the UniFi Dream Machine ( UDM) that came out in late 2019. On the other hand, the AmpliFi family, represented by the HD Wi-Fi system or the Alien, is for the home environment. They are simple Wi-Fi routers, easy to use but with a limited feature set. UniFi and AmpliFi are two major networking product lines from Ubiquiti. They serve two demographics and have different architectures. I'll get this out of the way before starting with the review. The UniFi Dream Machine does not have Wi-Fi 6— it is based on the older Wi-Fi 5 standard (802.11ac Wave 2). And before you point out that Netgear has a Wi-Fi 6 router that costs half as much, that particular model has less than half the range you're getting here, and in real-world usage it is nowehere as reliable.