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Asus ZenWiFi BD5 vs Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra

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Key differences between Asus ZenWiFi BD5 and Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra

A summary of selected recorded differences between these routers. Check the full specification table below for details and conditions.

Feature differences among your selected devices

Speed Tests (features): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — No; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — Yes (The tech specs list internet quality and outage reporting.).
Pptp Vpn (vpn): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — Yes; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — No.
Multi Wan (wan redundancy): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — No; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — Yes (The tech specs list Multi-WAN Load Balancing and a maximum WAN port count of 4.).
Wan Failover (wan redundancy): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — No; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — Yes.

Specifications to check side by side

2.5 Gbps LAN ports (network ports): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — 2; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 0.
Lan 1 Gbps Ports (network ports): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — 0; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 4.
Lan Port Count (network ports): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — 2; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 4.
Total Ports (network ports): Asus ZenWiFi BD5 — 2; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 5.

Information still to confirm

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Option 1 · Asus

Asus ZenWiFi BD5

Last updated September 2026

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Option 2 · Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra

Last updated September 2026

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What the catalog tells us

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These counts describe the available data, not a quality score. More features do not automatically make a better device.

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2.5 Gbps LAN ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD52
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Reading layout

Cellular Connectivity

Antennas Gain

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Cellular Technology

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

External Lte Antennas

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Download Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Upload Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Sim Card Support

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Sms Send Receive

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Features

Configuration Backup Restore

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Firewall

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Max Connected Devices

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 300+

Mlo

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

New Connection Notifications

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Qos

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Speed Tests

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes
Catalog note
The tech specs list internet quality and outage reporting.

Management

Android App

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Cli

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Ios App

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Snmp

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Web Interface

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Network Ports

10 Gbps LAN-capable ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

10 Gbps WAN-capable ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

2.5 Gbps LAN ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 2
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

2.5 Gbps WAN-capable ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 1

Lan 1 Gbps Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 4

Lan Link Aggregation

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Lan Port Count

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 2
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 4

Lan Sfp Plus Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Lan Sfp Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Total Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 2
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 5

Wan 1 Gbps Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Wan Port Count

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 1

Wan Sfp Plus Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Wan Sfp Ports

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Parental Controls

Block Content

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes
Catalog note
The tech specs list content filtering, ad blocking and zone-based advanced filtering by region, domain and application.

Instant Wifi Pause

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Wifi Pause Schedules

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Power

Consumption

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 6.2W

Smart Home Protocols

Matter Controller

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Thread border router

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Usb Ports

Usb 2

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Usb 3

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Usb Storage

Ftp

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Media Sharing

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Samba

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Time Machine

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Vpn

Ddns

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

L2tp Ipsec Vpn

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Open Vpn

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Pptp Vpn

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Vpn Client

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Vpn Server

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wireguard Vpn

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wan Redundancy

Cellular Backup

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No
Catalog note
There is no cellular modem in the unit. The tech specs offer additional internet failover only through UniFi LTE Backup, which is a separate accessory.

Multi Wan

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes
Catalog note
The tech specs list Multi-WAN Load Balancing and a maximum WAN port count of 4.

Wan Failover

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wifi Antennas

Antennas Gain

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

External Antennas

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Internal Antennas

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 4
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Bands

2 4 Ghz Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 688 Mbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

2.4 GHz bands

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

5 GHz bands

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

5 Ghz Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 4323 Mbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

6 GHz bands

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

6 Ghz Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Features

Access Point Mode

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Guest Network

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Iot Network

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Wifi Speed

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: 5 Gbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Mesh Standard

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: AiMesh
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Mesh Wifi

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wpa3 Encryption

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Generation

Wi-Fi 5

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 6

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 6E

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 7

Asus ZenWiFi BD5: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Specifications for Asus ZenWiFi BD5 versus Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra
Specification	Asus ZenWiFi BD5	Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra
Cellular Connectivity
Antennas Gain	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Cellular Technology	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
External Lte Antennas	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Max Download Speed	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Max Upload Speed	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Sim Card Support	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Sms Send Receive	No	No
Features
Configuration Backup Restore	Not recorded	Not recorded
Firewall	Yes	Yes
Max Connected Devices	Not recorded	300+
Mlo	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
New Connection Notifications	Yes	Not recorded
Qos	Yes	Yes
Speed Tests	No	Yes Catalog note The tech specs list internet quality and outage reporting.
Management
Android App	Yes	Yes
Cli	No	Not recorded
Ios App	Yes	Yes
Snmp	No	Not recorded
Web Interface	Yes	Yes
Network Ports
10 Gbps LAN-capable ports	0	0
10 Gbps WAN-capable ports	0	0
2.5 Gbps LAN ports	2	0
2.5 Gbps WAN-capable ports	1	1
Lan 1 Gbps Ports	0	4
Lan Link Aggregation	No	No
Lan Port Count	2	4
Lan Sfp Plus Ports	0	0
Lan Sfp Ports	0	0
Total Ports	2	5
Wan 1 Gbps Ports	0	0
Wan Port Count	1	1
Wan Sfp Plus Ports	0	0
Wan Sfp Ports	0	0
Parental Controls
Block Content	Yes	Yes Catalog note The tech specs list content filtering, ad blocking and zone-based advanced filtering by region, domain and application.
Instant Wifi Pause	Yes	Not recorded
Wifi Pause Schedules	Yes	Not recorded
Power
Consumption	Not recorded	6.2W
Smart Home Protocols
Matter Controller	No	No
Thread border router	No	No
Usb Ports
Usb 2	0	0
Usb 3	0	0
Usb Storage
Ftp	No	No
Media Sharing	No	No
Samba	No	No
Time Machine	No	No
Vpn
Ddns	Yes	Not recorded
L2tp Ipsec Vpn	Yes	Yes
Open Vpn	Yes	Yes
Pptp Vpn	Yes	No
Vpn Client	Yes	Yes
Vpn Server	Yes	Yes
Wireguard Vpn	Yes	Yes
Wan Redundancy
Cellular Backup	No	No Catalog note There is no cellular modem in the unit. The tech specs offer additional internet failover only through UniFi LTE Backup, which is a separate accessory.
Multi Wan	No	Yes Catalog note The tech specs list Multi-WAN Load Balancing and a maximum WAN port count of 4.
Wan Failover	No	Yes
Wifi Antennas
Antennas Gain	Not recorded	Not applicable / unspecified
External Antennas	0	Not applicable / unspecified
Internal Antennas	4	Not applicable / unspecified
Wifi Bands
2 4 Ghz Speed	688 Mbps	Not applicable / unspecified
2.4 GHz bands	1	Not applicable / unspecified
5 GHz bands	1	Not applicable / unspecified
5 Ghz Speed	4323 Mbps	Not applicable / unspecified
6 GHz bands	0	Not applicable / unspecified
6 Ghz Speed	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Wifi Features
Access Point Mode	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Guest Network	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Iot Network	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Max Wifi Speed	5 Gbps	Not applicable / unspecified
Mesh Standard	AiMesh	Not applicable / unspecified
Mesh Wifi	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Wpa3 Encryption	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Wifi Generation
Wi-Fi 5	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Wi-Fi 6	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Wi-Fi 6E	No	Not applicable / unspecified
Wi-Fi 7	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified

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