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This is effectively a Dream Router minus any other app support and the switch. For a typical home user who doesn't want/need Protect this seems decent, but I t

This is effectively a Dream Router minus any other app support and the switch. For a typical home user who doesn't want/need Protect this seems decent, but I think the $50 upcharge for the UDR is absolutely worth it. That said, the UDR is heavily limited in running Protect. I started hitting occasional problems running Network and Protect together when I hit 4 cameras.

Kirby64 3y ago
The dream router can’t route faster than 500mbit, which is a huge limitation. This claims to do 1gbit routing, so pairing with a switch gives you a dream router that can actually route at 1gbit.
- CobaltFire 3y ago
  With IDS and IPS turned off I can get routing at over 800Mbit consistently with my UDR. It has the typical foibles of UniFi routing so I'm replacing it, but I haven't had too many issues with it tapping out the Gb port (when my cable line allows). I wouldn't even try to add any fancy features to it and expect it to hold up though; it just doesn't have the power. Oh, and one of the foibles is that if I do hit the router with a connection that saturates it it drops every other device on the network. So it being able to route above 500Mbit is kind of a non-starter I guess, as it can't do it to more than one client.
  - Kirby64 3y ago
    Not sure what you settings you used, but I never was able to achieve above ~500Mbit even with everything disabled. The other thing I noticed: you literally cannot access or use the management UI when you're saturating the connection. It just straight up will not load.
    - CobaltFire 3y ago
      I'm pretty light on settings, but I don't remember offhand. I agree on the UI. Now that we are running the Protect app on an iPad all the time (my child is special needs so we use the cameras to keep an eye on everything) it has throttled pretty hard. Maybe 400Mbit now? I honestly hadn't tested it in a while, and haven't had the time to do in depth. It's absolutely slower now. I have a Mikrotik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIE that will be my new router when I get around to it, and the UDR will be an AP and run the Network and Protect apps. We've been seeing weird issues ever since leaning on it harder, so I'm going to see how it does just being a Controller and AP.
sebazzz 3y ago
It's annoying, Dream Machine is more powerful but doesn't support Protect. Even not when you could imagine recording directly to SMB or NFS storage.
- unethical_ban 3y ago
  Ubiquiti lost me as an advocate when they stopped releasing Protect software as a software package and required running it on their hardware. I was intrigued to run protect on a cloud server with a 5g failure wan connection. But they got greedy. And now this. I still run a uap6 and will do so until I get a wifi7 router. Currently running opnsense vm on proxmox but that crashes upon occasion and I need to stop start the vm.

Kirby64 3y ago

The dream router can’t route faster than 500mbit, which is a huge limitation. This claims to do 1gbit routing, so pairing with a switch gives you a dream router that can actually route at 1gbit.

CobaltFire 3y ago
With IDS and IPS turned off I can get routing at over 800Mbit consistently with my UDR. It has the typical foibles of UniFi routing so I'm replacing it, but I haven't had too many issues with it tapping out the Gb port (when my cable line allows). I wouldn't even try to add any fancy features to it and expect it to hold up though; it just doesn't have the power. Oh, and one of the foibles is that if I do hit the router with a connection that saturates it it drops every other device on the network. So it being able to route above 500Mbit is kind of a non-starter I guess, as it can't do it to more than one client.
- Kirby64 3y ago
  Not sure what you settings you used, but I never was able to achieve above ~500Mbit even with everything disabled. The other thing I noticed: you literally cannot access or use the management UI when you're saturating the connection. It just straight up will not load.
  - CobaltFire 3y ago
    I'm pretty light on settings, but I don't remember offhand. I agree on the UI. Now that we are running the Protect app on an iPad all the time (my child is special needs so we use the cameras to keep an eye on everything) it has throttled pretty hard. Maybe 400Mbit now? I honestly hadn't tested it in a while, and haven't had the time to do in depth. It's absolutely slower now. I have a Mikrotik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIE that will be my new router when I get around to it, and the UDR will be an AP and run the Network and Protect apps. We've been seeing weird issues ever since leaning on it harder, so I'm going to see how it does just being a Controller and AP.

sebazzz 3y ago

It's annoying, Dream Machine is more powerful but doesn't support Protect. Even not when you could imagine recording directly to SMB or NFS storage.

unethical_ban 3y ago
Ubiquiti lost me as an advocate when they stopped releasing Protect software as a software package and required running it on their hardware. I was intrigued to run protect on a cloud server with a 5g failure wan connection. But they got greedy. And now this. I still run a uap6 and will do so until I get a wifi7 router. Currently running opnsense vm on proxmox but that crashes upon occasion and I need to stop start the vm.