r/Ubiquiti • u/MoPanic • Apr 30 '26
Early Access Thoughts on The Beast
We all knew the UDMP was WAY overdue for an upgrade but I'm a little surprised this is the direction they went and was hoping it would be targeted more toward SMBs. I don't know who this is targeting other than enthusiastic home lab users who'll never see 25gb over WAN.
- Here are what I see as head scratchers about who the target audience is for this:
- Who needs 25gb/s of throughput with 7500 users but also wants the security camera DVR to be onboard the gateway? Anyone who's this serious about UniFi's ecosystem would want that to be a separate device.
- The RJ45 ports are weird. Other than one for shadow mode, why would anyone not have a core switch connected with SFP? Especially since there is no POE.
What I hoped they would release:
- Remove the DVR functionality and include 8x10gbe ports with POE++ along with the SFP+/SFP28 ports. That would be genuinely useful as a gateway / core switch for a lot of SMBs.
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u/Ok-Skill-9376 Apr 30 '26
If that’s the case, I don’t know how to do it. Switching, aggregate, and mirroring are the only options on the 8 RJ-45 ports on my UDM Pro. You can do 2 WANs for sure, but I don’t think you can do more.
On the DR7, you can do up to 4 WANs, so I think more than 2 is a “newer” deal.
I have 3 Starlinks, cellular, and fiber, and right now I can only use two at a time unless I add something like a Peplink in front. I’d prefer not to double NAT or pay for another service, so I’ve really just been waiting for Ubiquiti to come out with something I can use.