Don't bank on Ubiquiti at sale prices - rarely happens. Black Friday is when they have a clearance sale of older proiducts at good prices however, I have rarely seen switches and gateways discounted.

Now I have said that - switches and gateways will be cheaper in a flash sale! I wish.

It is also worth doing a comparison between the UK and EU webshops - on one recent purchase, it worked out noticably cheaper from teh EU rather than UK, but thelast one was cheaper on te UK site.


And if you are going for a UI switch make sure it is a PoE - I did not several years back and now have a bank of injectors!

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Don't bank on Ubiquiti at sale prices - rarely happens. Black Friday is when they have a clearance sale of older proiducts at good prices however, I have rarely seen switches and gateways discounted.

Now I have said that - switches and gateways will be cheaper in a flash sale! I wish.

It is also worth doing a comparison between the UK and EU webshops - on one recent purchase, it worked out noticably cheaper from teh EU rather than UK, but thelast one was cheaper on te UK site.


And if you are going for a UI switch make sure it is a PoE - I did not several years back and now have a bank of injectors!

Good advice.

I was about to buy when I saw this video about the last Black Friday Sale from around 6 months ago:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvGv9pIu5Q

The Black Friday savings did seem to be quite significant.

Buying from the EU may be good advice and if it was not for that Brexit Rubbish it would likely have been a good option but I am somewhat concerned about possible import duties/UK Taxes that could be applied.

Since we already have around four 1 Gbps 8 port unmanaged Netgear switches; I plan to keep those in situ as they just tend to feed devices that are limited to around 100Mbps by their own internal network cards, (eg. Smart TV's).

However; in order for us to be able to use a few VLAN's on the home network, we will need to buy around four Ubiquiti 2.5Gbps 4 Port Switches, (with at least one PoE Port on each of these Managed Switches), to be used to feed the unmanaged switches and other devices on VLAN Networks. - (I am not sure if 1Gbps Ports would a better option as they are certainly cheaper so 2.5 Gbps ports could be a waste of money but I do not know and would welcome views).

Managed Switches with more ports might be better but as the number of ports rises the cost rises.

There is no point wasting money, so I would consider using new Netgear 1 Gbps Managed switches instead as they would theoretically work but I will need to decide if the Ubiquiti Managed Switches would be needed or if Network manages switches would work just as well. - Also I may just keep the Asus RT-AX88U Pro as a WIFI Access Point instead of buying Ubiquiti WIFI Access Points but I am open minded towards that.

Regards,
Fido

Edited by Fido (Wed 22-Apr-26 19:04:05)

Buying from the EU store is fine - you pay UK VAT but no EU VAT is added. And no additional duties. The porice you see is what you pay. I've done it several times. The only downside is that it is 3-4 days (maybe longer) rather than 1-2. And a very minor rish if the X-rate changes.

Try it .... select some items and put in Leictenstein or Switzerland as the destination. VAT will be at around 8.1%, then Denmark 25% and finally UK at 20%

Ubiquiti U7-Pro-XG (which is what you will likely need) is actually rather cheap at the moment so if you want to invest now may be the time. The prices are likely to go up.

If you purchase from broadbandbuyer then they will provide a cloud controller option which may be useful in your scenario too.

https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/53402-ubiqui...

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Ubiquiti U7-Pro-XG (which is what you will likely need) is actually rather cheap at the moment so if you want to invest now may be the time. The prices are likely to go up.

If you purchase from broadbandbuyer then they will provide a cloud controller option which may be useful in your scenario too.

https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/53402-ubiqui...

Thank you for that.

I am obviously new to Ubiquiti but as I understand it you can either have a cloud controller, (on one of the Ubiquiti devices on your network, eg. The Router), or you can use a remote cloud controller and if that is correct then a cloud controller, (inside the router as part of home network), is what I am thinking of as it seems simpler and it does not need the internet to access it.

Therefore, since the Ubiquiti UCG Fibre Gateway/Router includes an embedded UniFi Network controller. - I should not need a separate Cloud Key or controller as the UCG Fibre it has its own Cloud Controller built into it and this Cloud Controller can be used to control all of the other devices on the home network and the UCG Fibre Gateway can manages up to 50 UniFi devices and supports high-speed Connections.

The plan is;

Router = Ubiquiti UCG Fibre. - (Amazon price about £275.00).

WIFI = Ubiquiti U7 Pro. - (Amazon price about £160.00 each).

Managed Switches = 4 x Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5 5-Port Manage Network Switches. - (Amazon price about £60.00 each).

Total cost from Amazon about £675.00.

If we need another Ubiquiti U7 Pro for WIFI Range the total cost will be £830.00 - (which is why I am considering using my existing Asus Router for WIFI ).

As I understand it I could use my existing Asus RT-AX88U Pro as a WIFI Access Point but if I do that it may be hidden in the Unix cloud menu but since I already have it, the WIFI is already good and we do not yet need WIFI 7, (that may be the better option as we only have a six devices on WIFI, (but family visitors sometimes use the guest wifi).

I will probably wait until the sales or Black Friday.

Regards
Fido

Edited by Fido (Wed 22-Apr-26 21:15:42)

Do not buy the U7 Pro, buy the U7 Pro XG. It is the superior and later model in every way and well worth the additional £20 each.

In reply to a post by Fido:

The plan is;

Router = Ubiquiti UCG Fibre. - (Amazon price about £275.00).

WIFI = Ubiquiti U7 Pro. - (Amazon price about £160.00 each).

Managed Switches = 4 x Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5 5-Port Manage Network Switches. - (Amazon price about £60.00 each).

Worth noting the 'Flex Mini' has some limitation when it comes to Vlans so make sure it can do what you want it to do beforehand.

Do NOT buy from Amazon .... they are not a UI retailer and the devices will have just a 1 year warranty.

Direct from UI comes with 2 year warranty and potential to add to get 5 years.

As for pricing,
UCG-Fibre is £264 direct
U7-Pro £168 each so a little more but warranty counts
Flex Mini 2.5G £47

So overall you would save going direct.

As for WAP - do you need the full U7 pro capabilities including 6GHz? If not, look at the U7 lite. And advice I have heard is not teh U7-Pro but the U7 ProXG. Obviously depending on devices that will be iused in various locations, you could mix teh two.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Do not buy the U7 Pro, buy the U7 Pro XG. It is the superior and later model in every way and well worth the additional £20 each.

Thank you for that its good to know.

Upon checking the main difference between the two wireless access points seems to be that the U7 Pro XG has a 10Gbps port and that version, (which as you say is the latest version), has a heat sync instead of a fan so it should last longer.

I will buy in stages starting with the other devices and for now for WIFI I will use the Asus RT-AX88U Pro as a WIFI Access Point but in the future I do plan to buy the U7 Pro XG when the WIFI needs updating.

Regards,
Fido

In reply to a post by MHC:

Do NOT buy from Amazon .... they are not a UI retailer and the devices will have just a 1 year warranty.

Direct from UI comes with 2 year warranty and potential to add to get 5 years.

As for pricing,
UCG-Fibre is £264 direct
U7-Pro £168 each so a little more but warranty counts
Flex Mini 2.5G £47

So overall you would save going direct.

As for WAP - do you need the full U7 pro capabilities including 6GHz? If not, look at the U7 lite. And advice I have heard is not teh U7-Pro but the U7 ProXG. Obviously depending on devices that will be iused in various locations, you could mix teh two.

Good advice as always; FWIW I did try to buy the UCG Fiber and four 2.5G 5-Port Managed Network Switches direct from Ubiquiti UK today but the Switches were not in stock in the Ubiquiti UK Store so I went to the Ubiquiti EU site and the price was better, (about £10.00 less than Broadband Buyer.com price), but while they were in the Ubiquiti EU basket the price went up by £5.00 but it was still just over £5.00 less than the Broadband buyer.com site so to avoid any Brexit Rubbish risk for the sake of just over a £5.00 saving I bought them from the Broadband buyer.com Website and as I understand it they are Ubiquiti Sellers and it will have the 2 year warrantee. (Total cost just over £452.00. - They may go down in the Black Friday Sale or they may not but once the decision was made there was no point hanging around and a modular system can be added to over time).

Warrantee is always good but I usually take the view that when a device fails within 7 years it was a bad buy as the build quality was not good enough. - I can't remember the last time that electronic goods of this type, (without fans or other moving parts), failed. - (Asus Routers have a 5 Year Warrantee so perhaps Ubiquiti should consider increasing their warrantee periods).

Regarding WIFI: For now; I will use my Asus RT-AX88U Pro as a WIFI Access Point and will buy new Ubiquiti Access Points in the future when our Phones and WIFI Devices would benefit from WIFI 7.

Thank you again for the advice.

PS. I am still with Voipify for VOIP so that was another tip that worked out.

Regards
Fido