Is Unifi actually any good??? - UDM Pro Upgrade

I may have different thoughts in 6 months...we'll see.

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0:00 Intro
1:18 Upgrading to Unifi from pfSense
3:52 Things I liked about Unifi
7:58 Things I do not like about Unifi
13:53 Some neutral thoughts on Unifi
16:17 Overall thoughts

[parl-]

Hey Unifi, LISTEN TO THIS MAN, he is actually making sense and taking the time to help you IMPROVE your product! Raid Owl, thanks for your effort. Cheers!

[LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

UNIFI PLZ! They are finally getting the VPN features more like other firewall but how they did those firewall rules is just a mess!

[kcnyy]

Glad to see someone finally call out the dhcp & dns limitations.

[MactelecomNetworks]

Great overview. The port thing is a little annoying in the firewall rule. I always just add it to the description

[bentownsend]

2:00 Instead of moving the devices one by one, there is an option to do a site migration to move them all over at once seamlessly.

[jonathan.sullivan]

"Holy Shit the Firewall Rules..." Had me 😂💀😂💀

[unpass]

100% agree with the awful firewalling UX. I had to make a DMZ with a UDM Pro and absolutely struggled.

[KiwiSix]

UniFi PLEASE
Thanks for the review. I’ve been on UDM for a almost 2 years now. Love the ecosystem! I have been slowly migrating to Protect from a hodgepodge of cameras and love being able to see everything in one place. I have been frustrated by some of the things you mentioned but my network is not yet as complex as yours - so I have a heads up on things to come. There have been massive improvements during my time on the system so I have hope that many of the gripes will be addressed.
On Protect, it is nice but pricey and is missing some features of my previous setup.
Keep on milking the vids for us 😂

[krzychaczu]

Thank you for sharing your experience with it! 👍

[itsmrpaddy]

Installed a UDM-SE last year, and I agree with you on the firewall rules part (I forgot what I did with DNS). I managed a lot of different brands of firewalls in my job, so I'm used to configuring firewall rules ... But seeing this GUI, confused me. They should up their game in certain aspects, and it'd be even nicer to use.

[ZRubidium]

I do agree that it's definitely a great product for those that do want the simple solution. I use it for my family and my networks while I'm moving around a lot (in the Navy) so it's easy to use. When I eventually retire and have a more permanent home I might buy something more "technical"' ; but for now it's very user friendly when at the end of the day I want it to just work.

[Mikeee]

I was running a full TP-Link Omada setup, which is basically a Unifi clone at half the price and in some cases I found more stable. The firewall was great to have in a single interface VS using OPNsense and then everything else controlled in Omada. But, they have the same weird static IP, DNS, firewall rules, and VPN issues. Used it for 4 months and then I donated the firewall to local small business and went back to OPNsense. Only thing I changed this time around was to virtualize OPNsense VS bare metal like my original setup since part of the reason I tried to switch was also saving electricity by eliminating a few hundred watt space heater in my collection.

[MrJmannik]

I love this video because you didn't love or hate Unifi.
For me I love my UDM Pro because it does what I need, how I would like for it to be done.
I don't have a lot of firewall rules, vlans etc. I have a few vlans, I have multiple external IP addresses (which weren't supported when I first got my UDM Pro), and have a few basic port forwarding rules.
I moved from a PFSense box to the UDM Pro because I didn't want to work on firewalls after spending all day working on firewalls.
I wanted something that was nice and easy to manage that did what I needed it to do, the UDM Pro ticked those boxes for me.
Having said the above, I don't recommend the UDM Pro/SE to everyone, its about the needs/wants vs the capabilities of each router option.

[jejsun]

Interesting topic, you did exactly the thing I´m thinking about, thank you for the opinions and information!

[npoitevin]

Good content as usual, keep up the efforts

[robc]

Good synopsis. 2 years ago I would have said no to their Gateway products. Now though after having using many firewalls (PFSense and OPNSense included) I would say they can finally compete at that level. Though yes more interface work is needed. I also like the way they have separated out OPENVPN and Wireguard VPN's. Traditional Site to Site is a totally separate animal for creating links to traditional firewalls. The DNS request would be a nice feature add.

[captainhitz]

100 percent. I work for a very large tech company that may have wanted to do a hardware partnership perhaps but dang the firewall section coupled with the QoS settings and how there devices do NOT allow you to properly configure Dante/NDI traffic....

Unifi has much potential and could literally softball so easy wins into there platform but who knows.

Anyway great video sir. You gained a new follower.

[chrismallia]

Agree with you on the DNS really need it.

[Jamesmtz]

I had the same WAN setup, ATT fiber as primary and Xfinity as my backup. Fiber is more reliable than cable so I ditched Xfinity and went with T-Mobile Home internet. I figured a 5G backup made more sense, since cable would be more likely to go out than fiber. Just my thinking. My TMHI isn't bad. I get roughly 180 down 20 up. Enough for a backup internet plan and it's $30/month.

[JackSprattt]

You can move them from the cloud key gen 2 pro to the udm pro, I had to do this at work from a cloud hosted unifi appliance to a cloud key gen 2 pro, the option is kinda hidden, but it's there and it works as long as both unifi network appliances are online and on the same unifi account. Took about 5 minutes to transfer everything then reboot and adopt the devices.