5.0 out of 5 stars Efficient, Compact, and Enterprise-Grade at a Budget

K. · 21 April 2025

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Device

W.W. · 11 June 2025

Was fed up of ISP provided routers being terrible, so decided to bring work home and configure my home network myself. This gateway is fantastic for building and managing your own internal home network. It is very intuitive with all aspects and has realtime updates on your network. Fantastic bit of kit.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic router for Gigabit internet connections.

A.C. · 24 April 2025

For the price this router is amazing. It can comfortably route gigabit connections with IDS and IPS enabled. The build quality is excellent which is to be expected from a company like ubiquiti. I would recommend this product to anybody who has an Internet connection of one gigabit or less. It does not have Wi-Fi built-in. This is purely a router and it does that job very very well.

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality bit of kit!

T. · 16 June 2025

Quality, easy to set up, works really well, looks great and discreet. Coupled with ubiquiti's seamless software and security, makes for a substantial product.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product, really impressed. Upgraded from a network hosted client and the original USG

R.S. · 31 August 2024

Had been using a network based version, running in proxmox. Which had been great and I later added the USG as my router.This version allows me to upgrade and have the software running on the device and is hopefully (seems to be) more reliable but also opens up more of the features, only possible when using the actual Unifi hardware.Important part for me was the ability to clone a MAC, so I can just add my ISP supplied fibre router MAC and it works, without having to ask the awkward ISP to allow it to be used. In my case there is no user/password, the router just self configures so long as the MAC is the one the ISP is expecting.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, powerfull, simple to use.

F. · 4 March 2025

Excellent home networking solution with great admin software giving details visibility and control of home networks. Supports multiple lanes, and with associated mesh WiFi, multiple ssids. Simple to administrate.

4.0 out of 5 stars Annoying setup, but a fine product when done

h. · 3 August 2024

Got this to replace an old USG-3P, the power brick (and possible USB stick) of which died. I had to change the DHCP IP range, but would otherwise just upload my old config from my self-hosted console, but I had to go through it's graphical nonsense, including coming up with a 12-character (temporary, I vainly hoped) password, skipping speed test, and accepting terms and conditions for a service I had deselected (the UI.com account). Sadly the user credentials for ssh must have changed and I was too lazy to search for them online.I'm not a fan of it forcing me to use the internal controller that's backed by a flimsy 16GB eMMC, I expect it will limit the lifespan of the device significantly (though it shouldn't be worse than the USB key in the USG it replaced), but I guess that's a good thing for Ubiquiti, and probably something I can give up hoping they will change their minds about.Restoring from my old console was a challenge. When you go to your UCG's website, you're presented with two independent UIs: One, represented by a round AP icon, is the controller. The other, represented by a rack mount server icon, being the "device UI" that you generally don't need to do much with. When restoring from the restore menu in the controller UI, there's no feedback that a restore is in progress, but it will work eventually. The 12 character password you picked earlier is still in effect, it doesn't restore the old password, but surprisingly all my devices were adopted quite quickly, even though the inform URL clearly changed.The display showing number of connected clients, etc, is gimmicky and a waste of money, that could appropriately have been used on screw holes to allow wall mounting.All that said, the migration was an hours time with minimum outage and it's nice knowing I now have add'l headroom. When I update my other USG, I should be able to use wireguard between the two sites instead of IPsec (through SD-WAN, site-to-site VPN still only offers IPsec and OpenVPN).I hope, but don't trust, that this router will last the six years that my old USG did.

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing for the price

C. · 1 December 2024

I’ve been in tech 20 years in enterprise networking. This is incredible, 1gbs native networking with all security enabled! This was only possible with higher end Cisco, Aruba, fortinet gear only a few years ago with appliance that cost £1000s. Unbiquity have managed this at under £130 with no licensing or any overhead costs. Truly a game changer. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would.I’ve bought one of these for myself, my parents and my sister so I can manage all the family networks in one dashboard.

Perfect Solution For Small Businesses, And A Great Upgrade For Large Home Systems. Read more --

B.i.C.O. · 24 February 2025

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Excellent

L. · 21 September 2024

Delivery was perfectly on time.The router was properly packed, it works as expected and I am very happy about it. I would recommend this router to a friend.

Beste vervanger voor oude USG

I. · 8 June 2024

Goede router en makkelijk instelbaar, ideaal met ingebouwde controller voor al uw UniFi randapparatuur.

Very impressive product

M. · 2 June 2025

I have more than 100 IOT and was very frustrated with my set-up (asus mesh). The 2.4 band keep disconnecting all the time. Impossible to find on many iot i could use with Asus. I concluded i had to go more professional products. Well it works after weeks i can say no more disconnect. I also bought Unifi AP for indoor and one for Outdoor. I strongly recommend the Unifi products. Be warn it is a bit more complex product than a standard mesh system (It needs a lot more reading).

finally my entire house runs on Ubiquiti!

A. · 4 May 2025

I replaced the EdgeMax router with this. What a huge difference in UX! Very easy to set up. The app is a delight.