Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7 review: An elegant mini router with potential
This makes them a favorite among tech-savvy enthusiasts, but they can be over-the-top if, as an ordinary consumer, you simply want a good home connection – something that works automatically and provides stable and sufficiently secure Wi-Fi.
However, Ubiquiti also sells complete home network routers in the UniFi range, which look and work more like most standard home routers, with a WAN port that you connect to the fiber socket and built-in Wi-Fi 7. It’s still got the same excellent scope for expansion if you’re feeling ambitious.
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Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7: Small but mighty
The smallest and simplest of the lot is called the UniFi Express 7, a stylishly designed compact box made of matte white plastic, measuring just under 4.7 in x 4.7 in x 1.67 in. It has a USB-C port for power, two Ethernet ports, a 10 Gbit port for WAN, and a 2.5 Gbit port for LAN, as well as a smart little OLED display on the front, which shows status and speed during normal operation.
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The box also includes a braided, flexible Ethernet cable. I’m not quite sure what to use it for, as it’s pretty short. It’s probably meant for connecting to other Ubiquiti devices that you can place right next to it like a small Ethernet switch (for more ports). That might necessary, as you only get one port with a broadband connection.
It’s a relatively powerful Wi-Fi device despite its compact design, with three frequency bands and plenty of gigabit bandwidth on both 5 GHz and 6 GHz. You can connect and manage up to 300 client devices and expand the network with up to 30 other Ubiquiti products, such as switches and access points.
Ubiquiti UniFi Express 7: Simple to start with
I want to see how it works if you just buy one, set it up at home, and plug the broadband cable into the WAN port. Turns out it works perfectly well as a standard “dumb” router, too.
