If you're going to order any new Ubiquiti stuff, I'd look at the Ubiquiti website over Memory Express. MemEx seems to put quite a hefty markup on the Ubiquiti stuff, and I think you get 2 years manufacturer warranty instead of 1 if you order direct.
I have a Dream Machine SE at home with a couple PoE APs, a G4 doorbell, and a couple of PoE switches to break out wired connections in other rooms. It was expensive, but I don't regret it for a single second, and I'm looking to get more of their stuff when I need it. It was a ton of fun setting up all the VLANs and routing rules and stuff, and it's so rock solid.
You can also do some pretty neat things like setup a WireGuard server on it, so now my phone is automatically connected to a VPN to my home network whenever I leave my home SSID and I can access everything on my network like I have a local connection.
It's just the right combination of technical depth and user-friendliness for someone like me that can follow guides and has just enough knowledge to get myself into trouble. I know that solutions like PFSense are arguably superior, but I honestly couldn't be happier.
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