Cloud Gateway Ultra

You can go for fancy tech specs if you want, but in my experience, simplicity, ease of use and appearance are more important. These days I only ever buy Ubiquiti for those reasons, e.g.'good enough for most people' https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NETUBI2208/Ubiquiti-UniFi-UCG-Ultra-Cloud-Gateway-Ul

OP, you may be misunderstanding the advice. You should not get the all-in-one Unifi Dream Router. You should get a Unifi Gateway, connect it to a small Unifi Lite Switch and then connect the switch to two or more PoE powered WiFi 7 wireless APs plus any Ethernet drops to fixed devices. EDIT: The cor

That gateway is pretty old and has reached end of support. I'd recommend replacing with the UCG-Ultra - great bit of kit for the $$. You wouldn't use the cloudkey anymore with a UCG-Ultra, as the controller is built in to that. The switches and APs will be fine, factory reset them and adopt in to th

Do you want a unit with built-in WiFi AP or do you want that to be separate as well? I assume you mean Dream Router 7 (not Dreamer 7)? It is an all-in-one unit like your Asus RT-86U. I took the separate devices for each function approach with the Cloud Gateway Ultra (has a Gigabit 4-port switch), Po

Ubiquiti (one of the 3 current cloud gateways depending on the ports and performance you need) along with one or more of their APs is a very good setup and very reasonably priced. If you need to go beyond what those support, they have higher end devices with more 10G ports and performance, but the p

The Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Max (UCG-Max) is a higher-performance, multi-gigabit successor to the Cloud Gateway Ultra (UCG-Ultra), offering 2.5 GbE speeds on all ports, faster 1.5 Gbps IDS/IPS throughput, and an NVMe SSD slot for running UniFi Protect (cameras). The Ultra is cheaper, limited to 1 GbE

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Your links go to B&H. Pro tip: Buy directly from Ubiquiti as you get double the warranty. If you look on store.ui.com (links below): UCG Ultra $129 USD UCG Max $199 USD UCG Fiber $279 USD You will be amazed at how Network app has changed.

ISP all in ones tend to be very feature limited, making some of the security segmentation you want to do impossible. Also they tend to be deployed, and then never get firmware updates. This is a possible a security hole. Also since everyone using ISP "Acme" has the same modem, they make a juicier ta

If budget is a concern here's the route I would take. I would start with a. Ubiquiti Unifi U7 lite wireless access point. It's $99 so right at the top of your budget, maybe a bit over with taxes. You might be able to score a used one for r/homelabsales. You will need to run the controller software o