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Achieving 2.5Gbps with the UDM Pro

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First off I absolutely love Ubiquiti and UniFi gear. I would like to warn HN readers that the UDM Pro is a always on cloud connected device. You have no other option but to use Ubiquiti’s cloud based auth with the Dream Machine and UDM Pro. You can create local accounts but you must have a UI.com account to set them up. Breach info here[1]. If the service is down you can’t login[2].

Not to mention UniFi has been quite buggy in the past year. It’s almost to the point where I’d stop recommending their gear. I’ve had multiple failures on the Cloud Key Gen 2+ where a power outage or restart messed up the controller or UniFi Protect. Recently a single nanoHD ap was giving me terrible speeds and it took 5 factory resets and forgetting it from the controller like 20 times before I could re-adopt it, SSH-ing into the device and sending it commands didn’t work even after the factory resets. I’m not the only one with reliability concerns[3].

Buy directly from Ubiquiti so you get their full warranty. I believe Amazon and Microcenter are not authorized retailers.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/UNIFI/comments/ku09ii/unifi_cloud_s...

[3] https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2271193-ubiquiti-unif...

I think local accounts still work in case the cloud service is down. But you need the cloud for the initial setup of the local account.

I am also vary since they focus a bit too much on the UI instead on features incl. keeping the existing once alive and up to date.

I still recommend them due to the lack of alternatives.

Agreed, the lack of alternatives and the amount I’ve invested in my devices is keeping me on the platform.

There is an option to disable remote login and allow LAN login only[1]. You can also add local access account with super admin rights[2].

[1]https://unifi/settings/advanced [2]https://unifi/users/users

Yeah I believe it was a relatively recent (~ previous 6 months?) update that allowed for the disabling of remote login.

Source: I disabled remote login on my UDM Pro. Further, they finally patched the Unify Network (iOS) app a couple months later to connect directly to the UDM Pro for management when on the local network instead of always trying the (now non-existent in my case) remote login.

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