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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
The Omada Access Pro 8-Port 2.5G and 2-Port 10GE SFP+ Switch with 8-Port PoE+ (model SG2210XMP-M2) is completely different from the previous TP-Link switch, the TL-SX1008. It features PoE+ and is designed to work as a standalone switch for any network or, as the name suggests, part of the Omada … Continue Reading
Like most Wi-Fi hardware from TP-Link, the Deco 7 Pro BE14000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Whole Home Mesh System is available in multiple model names. You’ll learn more about that in the hardware specification table below, but right off the bat, keep the following in mind: The two are identical, and … Continue Reading
The UniFi U7 Pro XG Wall (model U7-Pro-XG-Wall) is a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 access point with a 10Gbps PoE+ uplink port. As such, it’s currently the best Wi-Fi 7 wall-mount access point in the UniFi family. Here’s the bottom line: The U7 Pro XG Wall offers the best combo of … Continue Reading
The TP-Link RE653BE is a versatile BE10000 tri-band Wi-Fi 7 range extender that can also operate as a standard access point with a 2.5Gbps uplink port or as an EasyMesh node, when coupled with a supported router. In other words, it’s much more than a simple Wi-Fi “booster”, the type … Continue Reading
The newly released EnGenius ECW515 Cloud Managed Wi-Fi 7 2×2 Wall Plate Access Point is a compact surface-mount AP. As such, it can be handy in many situations thanks to the extra built-in LAN ports. Here’s the bottom line: If you’re looking for a surface-mount, cloud-managed, dual-band Wi-Fi 7 access … Continue Reading
The U7 In-Wall (model U7-IW) is a wall-plate-mount variant of the ceiling-mount U7 Lite—both were first unveiled a year ago. The two are so similar that I originally intended to review just the U7 Lite and called it the representative of the two. And while that has remained largely the … Continue Reading
The ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI has arguably been the most significant Wi-Fi 7 router for the home, thanks to its much-hyped “AI-driven” features. And the router proved to be an excellent Wi-Fi machine in my testing, delivering the fastest performance to date. But like all things, it’s far from perfect. In … Continue Reading
