Ubiquiti - Dream Machine (UDM)

A house that size I’d probably go with a ubiquiti UDM in the basement, and a couple wifi 7 APs wired with POE on the first floor Ubiquiti has a tool to help design your layout, it’ll map your home with the phone camera and you can pick and choose equipment to see what it will do for your coverage

I'm curious about this too. I have the old UDM-Base and when i'm maxing out just a 220Mbps internet connection for any period of time then the fan noise is noticeable. I'm considering replacing it soon (should hopefully be getting gigabit internet in the next few months and I also want to move to 2.5Gbps for my LAN) and the UX7 is catching my eye over the UDR7 with it being passively cooled (and what little i've seen so far suggests it doesn't get red-hot under load) and I have little interest in apps besides Network.

A UDM would be a better choice with the need for cameras, etc.

Just get a Unifi setup at home a UDM and a separate AP Pro will be ~$100 cheaper and better

I bought the original UDM & now have the UDM 7. Love it. I want a UDM but can’t justify the jump when this thing kicks ass as is.

I am in the minority here: but I'm super disappointed in mine. Coming from Eero Max 7. Best speeds I can get from it are 850/800. Eero maxes out my gigabit connection. And the range comparatively is also bad. Upstairs on my eero with my laptop on wifi 700 I can still damn near max out my gigabit. The dream machine itself barely gives me 300. So I thought: ok, 4x4 on 6ghz isn't fair vs 2x2. So I direct wired an Wall AP7 upstairs in the same room I test from... and at best I can get 650/600 on 6ghx/Wifi 7. I think I'm giving up and returning the Unifi equipment. I ABSOLUTELY HATE the eero and that I'm limited to an app for it and no real control. But I can't give up 30% performance even with dedicated AP's upstairs and downstairs. :(

Ubiquity is great value with enterprise features. Dream Machines. Best if you use the whole platform with APs and stuff

I’m not so familiar with home equipment over 1gig, but i think some of the Dream Machine products do that. I’ve had a couple versions of Ubiquity, most recent the regular Dream machine…the round one that looks like a coffee can. I’m an enterprise guy and this thing has really nice features and visibility right in the phone app. Surely does more than your typical linksys and other residential devices. For that space it should be fine alone with its built in wifi6. Check Amazon.

Ubiquti dream machine. Best choice I've made and I went through all of those consumer devices

I’d just get a dream machine for the base station. E7 is pretty overkill it’s for enterprise. Also you probably don’t have any devices that support Wifi7 but I understand if you want to future proof.

You can use UniFi either with their router (Cloud Gateways or Dream Machines) or with their controller (Cloud Key) and let your ISP Router manage the routing part. The Cloud Key can manage the network (switches, APs), the surveillance (acts as a camera recorder) and the door access control (can open doors remotely, through rfid tags, cell phone, QR code, local face recognition, license plate, etc. ). All the Cloud Gateways give you full control of the network and can take over your ISP routing functions by putting the ISP router in bridge mode. The most advanced Cloud Gateways, like the UCG-Max and the UCG-Fiber, and the Dream Machines can also do what the Cloud Key does plus acting as a router. Once you try an wireless distribution system like UniFi’s, you’ll never want to revert to single center point systems.