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Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro
395,32 EUR

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro

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  • DaveWh

    4 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Do not buy. This has major weaknesses that mean it is not ready for real-world use.

    This is, without doubt, the worst piece of networking equipment that Ubiquiti has ever produced.

    Let's count the problems.

    1. There is no physical power button, so if (rather, when) there is an issue, there is no way to     reliably shut the device down without either yanking the power cable out the back, or performing a factory reset.

    2. The WAN routing mechanism ALWAYS uses NAT, and it can't be changed. So forget using this with a second router unless you want the joy of double NAT (not good for certain devices, and generally not ideal for performance).

    3. The device forces open REMOTE access management from the web. Yes, you read that correctly, the UDM Pro is so poorly coded that it has an open back door for hackers to come in and manage the device remotely. Sure, they might need to have obtained your UI.COM account details, but think on this... the Ubiquiti system is now a perfect honeypot for hackers because they know that if they can hack that, then they can gain access to any network which has a UDM on it. THIS IS POSSIBLY THE MOST STUPID THING THAT I HAVE COME ACROSS IN 30 YEARS OF WORKING WITH NETWORKS.

    Not only that, the UnifiOS is very flaky and the implementation on the UDM Pro is, well, not good.

    This is clearly (in June 2020) an alpha release, and perhaps in a year or so's time, when they Ubiquiti team have worked through all the bugs - especially in their thinking - then the product might be great.

    But right now, it is a very expensive paperweight that you simply cannot risk adding to your network.

    Do NOT buy.     

    Contra

    • Force the use of NAT, so can't be used as a second router.
    • Remote management via UI Cloud is mandatory.
  • malkovich

    4 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Top device, installation but buggy

    Since two days in operation. Has replaced a USG Pro 4 and a Cloudkey version 1 with me. Replacement, because the Cloudkey has dived me several times with SD card damage, and because the Dream Machine Pro with max 30w in operation needs much less power than the USG Pro 4 + Cloudkey.

    Installation was tricky - my UPC modem on the RJ45 WAN port was not recognized or internet connection could not be established. After a few hours of googling and trial & error, the whole thing was due to the wrong system time. SSH in, time updated and after two more reboots it worked :-) (should a layman come on it...)

    Since then, most things work fine with software version 1.7 (the latest, at the time of this review). The only bug I've found so far is that individual countries can't be blocked via the graphical interface - that's currently only possible via the old settings.

    I have a gigabit connection with UPC. I usually get around 900 mbit/s out of it. Even with IPS enabled, there is no drop in performance - I'm more than happy. We don't have a big house, but thanks to reinforced concrete it is difficult to cover - despite 4 APs, various managed switches, two Protect cameras, there is no noticeable drop in performance. Ubiquiti has really done a great job!      

    Pro

    • low power consumption
    • fast performance
    • comprehensive security features

    Contra

    • price in Switzerland
    • installation
  • raphakaram

    3 years ago •
    purchased this product

    Well

    The Dream Machine (hereafter: UDM-Pro) replaces an EdgeRouter for me. Unfortunately, it supports only a fraction of the functions of the much cheaper EdgeRouter:


    * For init7 IPTV it needs the IGMP proxy for multicast. With     the EdgeRouter, this was configured with a few lines. On the UDM-Pro I can't even run the IGMP proxy manually because the Linux kernel was compiled without multicast support.
    * init7 assigns me a /48-IPv6 subnet. With the EdgeRouter I could partition this as I wished (into 65536 /64 subnets). The UDM-Pro, on the other hand, uses the :0: subnet (i.e. /48 subnet + :0: = /64 subnet) for all VLANs on which I turn on IPv6.
    * Speaking of IPv6: UDM-Pro enables DHCPv6 by default even though I don't need it at all, SLAAC + Router Advertisements with prefix would suffice.
    * With the EdgeRouter you could easily set up an OpenVPN server. The UDM-Pro only supports L2TP.

    I contacted Ubiquiti about these shortcomings and was advised to open a feature request. However, surfing through the Feature Requests opened so far, one cannot get rid of the feeling of an abandoned tomb.

    I think I should have taken this: https://www.digitec.ch/de/product/mikrotik-ccr1009-7g-1c-1spc-router-6079505     

    Pro

    • Nice GUI
    • Setup problem-free

    Contra

    • Many of the features (e.g. Threat Management) are Beta
    • No IGMP proxy
    • IPv6 support poor
    • VPN server supports only one protocol
    • Firewall rules relatively confusing to configure
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