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Ubiquiti today announced the availability of its UniFi Travel Router Long-Range (model UTR-LR). As the name suggests, it’s an upgrade to the original UTR that came out late last year: it’s a UTR with a significant boost in range. In return, the UTR-LR is slightly thicker and a tad heavier. … Continue Reading
Hardly anyone would need Ubiquiti’s UniFi Dream Machine Beast (model UDM-Beast), but many would want it. In fact, I know some who are willing to go the extra mile to get this massive rack-mount UniFi Cloud Gateway. I’m one of them. Here’s the bottom line: For a non-Wi-Fi “router”, the … Continue Reading
If you’re done being impressed by the Dream Machine Beast, Ubiquiti introduced another UniFi Cloud Gateway to behold today: the all-new Enterprise Firewall Core (model EF-Core). In a way, this is the enterprise version of the UDM-Beast. So, this new piece of hardware applies only to large-scale applications. Ubiquiti Enterprise … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti’s UniFi Dream Router 5G Max (model UDR-5G-Max), first announced in late 2025 and now available for purchase, is a unique UniFi Cloud Gateway (a.k.a. “router”). It’s the first among its peers to feature a built-in 5G cellular modem, and for those who’ve used the AmpliFi Alien, it evokes a … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti today unveiled its latest network console in the UniFi family, the Cloud Gateway Industrial (model UCG-Industrial). It’s the first product in the networking vendor’s all-new UniFi Industrial initiative, a platform that includes “ruggedized, fanless hardware built for extreme environments”. I had the chance to spend an extended period pre-launch … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti’s UniFi Travel Router (model UTR), first announced in late December 2025, is unlike any travel router I’ve seen. The little device combines modest specs with a sleek, practical design into an appealing package that ultimately proves to be a little too dated for modern times. While the UTR is … Continue Reading
Ubiquiti’s UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max (model UDM Pro Max) is not a new product. It was first announced over a year ago on April 23, 2024, and at the time, I decided not to review it, as it was pretty similar to the UDM-SE. Physically, the additional hard drive … Continue Reading
Among popular networking vendors, Ubiquiti has a unique approach, UniFi, that suits users across all demographics, from novices to enterprises. If you’ve never heard of Ubiquiti before, you didn’t miss much. Coinciding with the official availability of Wi-Fi 7, UniFi has only recently (since early 2025) become exceptionally relevant to … Continue Reading
