 I don't know if the name of the device is what has caused so much excitement or the just ubiquity makes some really really nice Wi-Fi products then this is an integration of a Wi-Fi a switch and your router all in one box But there seems to be a lot of people tagging me in this and a lot of excitement around the product And I'm kind of getting wise. I do like products that are nicely designed I like nice UI design, which is something Unify has quite known for But the dream machine didn't have one and then magically one appeared the folks over at ubiquity sent one out and It's a cylinder. It's a really cool cylinder though So let's talk about what this is first This is your integrated with the Unify controller the Unify router and a managed switch and the Unify Wi-Fi all integrated into one I'm not gonna call it a box where you haunt one cylinder and it is Nicely made. It's got a nice. I like the texture to it. It's why I've got my hands around it like this and holding it It's pretty simple Sleek design and I'm gonna say this is aimed at maybe home users or Pro users at home that you know, maybe a small office even that goes You know, I want all the things integrated into one package That's easy to set up that I don't have to go buy components for and I've done plenty of videos I'm like how to get started with Unify and I'm like, alright Do you want the Unify router to USG you buy that then you're gonna have to find out whether you want to host the Cloud key yourself or cloud install into yourself or host it on a cloud key or choose a hosting service And then you got to get your managed switch Now you got to get your Wi-Fi and then you got to adopt all these devices that sounds complicated I know and a lot of home users are looking for I just want to plug it in and get rolling with it And we're gonna show you how you plug this in and get started with it in just a second Now like I said, this integrates Wi-Fi. So I'm I'm guessing it's at the top So I point at the top of it. I'll assume because it does look like a Standard Unify Wi-Fi device if we just looked at it like this Then down below we have the switch. We just have a standard four port managed switch on here So it supports VLANs one WAN port and I already took a look at the software And it does not appear at this time and this is a nice thing about software-defined devices is No, you are not going to be able to reassign this to be land or WAN too. So if you had dual connections It's not really designed for that Just throwing it out there. I did look but it does have a standard WAN port So then we also have your power integrated and this is a feature I like so instead of dealing with the power brick That's separate. We have that in here. We're gonna just open a box up real quick And a nice I like the soft touch again soft touch power cord and fairly long too I believe this is seven seven or eight feet of power cord. Oh Yeah, wow so okay plenty of length on a power cord here. That is nice So with that being integrated, we're gonna go ahead and just pop that in there There's really not much else to show you on the box. The only other thing on here is there is a power button and it I can't even make any noise. It's not it is clicky feeling But it's under the rubber here and it will turn the device on and off I don't know if there's a hold it for so long Maybe resets it but if you needed to power it off you could turn it upside down there But it's got a nice actually it's a rubbery base. So this doesn't if you notice it's sliding this it's Slides here, but it's like super grippy rubber. So this thing won't if you try to drag it It's not easily a matter of fact it feels like it's gonna pull the cord out even try and drag it So it's pretty solid And while we're talking we're gonna plug this in So real quick for those you're not familiar with the unified. Oh, we have a fan So when it first starts up, there's a little fan noise it makes You know little pieces out of the way well packaged. I'm not a big unboxing person I mentioned that before because you know you throw away the packaging but I got him a nice packaging It came really nice and it wasn't anything difficult about taking it apart. Where does this live on your network? Well, here's an example. This is just a prop matter of fact. It's broken by the way in case you ever heard it rattle This is your standard like a cable modem provided by cable and a lot of people in the US do have cable But of course some people have DSL, but this is gonna come out of the cable modem. This is not replace it This is your routing and Wi-Fi and you would plug this into that one offset WAN port like that So it does not replace your cable modem that you may be renting depending on who your provider is for example Comcast here through charges a rental fee You still need to convert the coaxial cable to a RG45 and then you would ideally put the cable modem in bridge mode over to the unify WAN port For setup so that's what's gonna live in your network after that you're gonna get full control So this thing is booting up and while it's booting up. We're gonna drag my laptop over here So here's the details that a lot of people want and this is all under website here So it's a high-performance dual band 802 11 ac 4 by 4 wave to access point And that noise tells me it's ready So I think that's kind of cool there that it has a sound effects that come on to tell you it's ready I thought that was cool advanced security intrusion detection intrusion prevention system with deep packet inspection This has been a challenge when you turn these features on on the previous lower powered USGs They would not be able to get your full one gig this claims to be able to do one gig with full IDS IPS, which is awesome the unify connect network control interface I've done a recent video on their latest version and it that is gonna be loaded on here so that works, too Scalable through additional unify devices connected to the LAN This is an important to the LAN option because this does have the unify controller built in and you can expand it And connect other unify Wi-Fi devices for example But that's through the LAN of this it doesn't act as a controller for maybe like other centralized systems That's not what it was designed for it's designed to so to speak handle itself So unlike where you host a cloud key that's set up to host multiple sites. This is meant just to host itself on here So here's a little bit more detail So kind of a peek inside I am not because I looked at it pierce They have used glue so I'm not tearing this thing apart maybe later I haven't decided if I want to or not But throwing it out there it does it is glued together Let's jump to some real product specifics here the exact dimensions are listed on here It weighs two point three pounds four LAN one WAN does have one re okay. That is a reset button So maybe hold it in it would completely reset it can do one gig routing So great if you have high speed internet maximum power consumption of 26 watts low wattage and by the way We've actually tested this nine factor reset it just for this video I wanted to do a little bit of preliminary testing Even when you're running it and testing it there's not fan noise coming out of it It seems to come on when it first turns on but I haven't heard a fan come on since Supports all your Wi-Fi standards ABG and AC AC wave to WP a enterprise PSK etc So it's your standard unified device there definitely All the supports you're looking for so now let's walk through this setup because that's where things are gonna change a bit here So we're gonna connect it to Wi-Fi now We're gonna turn the Wi-Fi off and plug this device in and get it going when you try to go anywhere Once you're connected to it it Redirects you it actually I'm offline as far as internet goes and it redirects you to the dream machine setup page You know, this is my laptop hardwired in that's kind of a neat feature. I will also point out that it went to 192 168 111 network so it assigned my laptop of 116 and I wanted to do this when 216 8 1 dot 1 It is still uBNT root and uBNT when you have not configured yet because this device is not set up That is going to be what how we log into it if you wanted to so I Haven't dug much into the custom version of Linux that they have in inside of here I can run top and see things running. So I still see Java in here. I see engine x driving it So yeah pretty standard like I said, I believe this is the same thing that they run anyways So what else we have here? There's a Java VM Seeing what else is listening in here. Yeah standard unify stuff. So nothing Nothing groundbreaking here Hi, so I'll excited here and just go through to your setup. Maybe a later video if I find something interesting there I'll dig into it So step one of nine agree to the terms and conditions we can do that Step two create a UI account now This is a one unique feature compared to the other unify systems is they are asking you to log in with your UI Dot-com account This is not necessary for the standard unify software or the cloud keys as over at least as of November 2019 It's not but it is a standard feature of this that requires you to have an account And we're gonna go ahead and sign into my existing account next This is kind of a nice feature as well It's going to automatically because I have to FA on my account that I already have and if you have a UI account I please please please have to FA turned on and That is great that they have that so it automatically has to FA and Auto optimize and this right here for those that are worried send diagnostics and performance information Help ubiquity developers improve diagnostics data will be sent to you ubiquity They ask you and I know this was a sticking point with the recent update They had where they chose to just make it part of the system now you have the option and I Myself when you ask me for diagnostic data I am willing to give it because I like helping improve products that I use Tom's Wi-Fi network. We'll call it dream Wi-Fi All right, and we'll go ahead and just do the basic setup here update schedule daily 12 a.m. Sure It figured out my time zones Detroit install a firmware Wi-Fi name dream Wi-Fi looks good to me starting speed test now This worked once and failed once because this is not Directly connected to the internet. It is connected to my lab network. So the very first time I did this I got an error. So hopefully it's Doesn't air out this time, but it's it works fine if you connect it to a public IP I've actually done a little bit of testing with this I only seen the error once but like I said, it's in my lab network double-naded with some rules. So Take that for what it's worth but it's going to first do a speed test and this is really important because a lot of people get traffic management and traffic shaping Misunderstood one of the important aspects is that when you do traffic shaping that it understands that you're down What your download speeds are and what your upload speeds are the reason why to have proper queuing You need to understand have that number because it's not just about giving priority to one packet over another It's about having those numbers and varying the percentages to make sure that it operates properly done setting up network and The first time I did this it did take quite a while But I think just because it was out just setting it up and doing firmware updates, etc So hopefully it takes a little less time because now it has all the latest firmware on it and the device turned blue Like this so you can see it's now blue and it's doing the same thing Here as it is doing right here. Oh and last pass keeps saying I'm still not actually connected to the internet So it hasn't actually started full routing yet setup is complete now We can manage it through the unified dashboard unified at UI comm or unified at home Which means it's going to manage it directly. So we're going to go the direct route here rather than through the dashboard Proceed because it's a self-signed certificate and the first thing we're going to do is launch the dream machine part of this So we go here Your UI account password hit log in Now this is awesome So I'm going to put my 2FA in here and that means right from the get-go I Have two factor when I log into the actual device itself Now this is something I don't even think is supported on the cloud key right now Not that I'm aware of where you have this full two factor Maybe they've added it and I didn't see it there wasn't there in the past and unfortunately what a lot of people do is leave everything at default Which is UBNT UBNT and never change it Thank you for other IT companies who we've taken over IT for people go We don't know how to get into our controller and I find it at the fault They kind of are forcing their people's hand to change the default. So I do like that Performance wise we're sure we're running at about 49 centigrade CPU low 33% memory usage 7% stored EMMC see and to Back up is 8% here. All right pretty simple pretty straightforward. I like that. They have those stats The controller itself so you can open up the network status active up for 13 minutes latest version 5.12.22 Under general we can change the time We can factor reset it or reboot it and make sure the firmware is up to date and it's up to date with the latest version Now let's go back over here and launch this And you notice up here at the top. It's still doing the same thing What's 8443 your standard port 192 16811 8443 Tom at Lawrence systems calm put in my password and it's gonna prompt me once again for 2FA So we've got now 2FA on this. I like this a lot Some people may find it inconvenient because well security is sometimes inconvenient. So that's that's just gonna be a factor Once we're in though, we're standard unified dashboard But a little bit different and I say that because we go over here devices You have a little pull down here and here is each component of it so we're gonna go here to the edit and We'll do a little pop out. I like the way they support this still But please note so right here I'm on if you're on the device if you're on the gateway if you're on the switch or if you're on the Wi-Fi It changes but doesn't give you separate individual modular windows on there So that's a little bit of a change and if you go to name the device you can name it here We're gonna call it dreamy Cylinder This I can't call it cube. I might keep on a color cube or box, but it's not it's a dreamy cylinder Save and now it gives it a name on here But you can see that it's not Individually naming each component not that I think that really matters because it's all physically one thing But I just know it's a little bit different because of the way they have this showing up in here But it's once again I'm not gonna dive deep into the full features of the Unify software here because that's a plenty of videos on that Particular topic but being able to have easy access to all these features right inside of this is definitely great I mentioned that the switch was managed. So if we do go here to switch and we go to ports and we'll pop that out real quick You still get all those features that you get so you have the Network port if there was other VLANs that show up in here as an option You can create profiles. The only thing I don't see is it some of the other switches have different Extra features on the port like I believe they have egress limits and things like that that appears to be missing from here But not a huge deal in my opinion that it doesn't have that But having all integrated into one place including see The map option here, which is start showing devices that are connected so I can see the device connected. That's cool Link labels that's on here floor plan map if you wanted to add a floor plan for it apparently doesn't have a default floor plan and So does it have an image okay, so you can use Google Maps it will find my location load an API key So it's still the same Unify software for any of those advanced features The threat management feature we can enable on here and Turn that on so It has all the other options. This is the new five This is the beta interface and it seems so defaulted to this where we can go to the more advanced one Which if you like classic mode, that's right here So you can see the controller the dream machine etc. etc site Options very beginning one right here where they have all the site options and everything else So I guess it's pretty much straightforward. You know if I hear From here on out. No one thing I take a quick look at here is Automatic backup apparently by default. It's not turned on so I do recommend that if you get this to turn on the automated backups Just backup for data retention settings only once a month is probably fine once a week But just so you if you ever have a problem with you're able to roll back to those settings without having to reset it up Again, that's important and of course downloading your Backup once you have it configured in case you ever have to do a restore That would be important now like I said you can adopt other devices in here as long as you're connecting them through the Landport of this but the opposite. Let's say you wanted to adopt this to another device like an external controller There seems to be some people that posted some ways to do it. It's not really designed to do that It was ideally meant to run self-contained in itself like it does which I really think is a pretty if you're Buying this product that's more what it's used case for it doesn't mean you can't hack around and do something different But if you're looking for kind of a turnkey solution, which currently has an MSRP of 299 that integrates a powerful Wi-Fi a managed switch So you can do segmenting your network. You can do VLANs on this You can have more than one SSID On this and create the two separate networks or three year up to four separate networks on the Wi-Fi if that's what you Feel is necessary for your devices all integrated for a package for the one low price Not bad. I think it's a good purchase for that if you're someone going it's just not advanced enough for me Then well, maybe it's not for you if you're looking to individually buy each of the components because you're want to set up a larger more Scaled-out network. Absolutely. I would say this is designed for easily the home user So the pretty easy straightforward setup and the fact that it adds some security Which has been very much lacking in the home user market where it's going to put your account information is and I recommend to FAA, but it'll have all that tied in and resets the password from default even on the controller Which is something that gets overlooked even in some of the corporate environments where people leave certain Access control systems the back end of them at default settings if we find that frequently They change all that for you it automatically updates the firmware. So I think for home users excellent purchase I think for people who you know are maybe a small business or small office with a few people working at it That want once again an integrated turnkey package is pretty good for those you looking for something a lot more advanced Well, I like to built-in router. It's basically a USG router That's faster than the standard original USG. So it does have the speed But it's still gonna lack some of those advanced features The fact that only has one WAN port means failover has to happen outside of this if you want multiple WAN and of course multiple WAN IPs well That's a challenge to itself with the USG line of routing But that's not really a home user concern like ever So it comes down to think about your use case and think about how you want to use it So I think the project is good. I think it's a good product for like I said the the demographics I had mentioned and it's kind of a cool-looking cylinder and I think it's pretty neat It actually is aesthetically like sitting it there and looking on the wall with it. 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