The Smart Device Compare comparison

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S vs Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra

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Before you compare every specification

Key differences between NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S 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

Lan Link Aggregation (network ports): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — Yes; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — No.
Ftp (usb storage): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — Yes; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — No.
Media Sharing (usb storage): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — Yes; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — No.
Samba (usb storage): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — Yes; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — No.

Specifications to check side by side

Max Connected Devices (features): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — 200; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 300+.
10 Gbps LAN-capable ports (network ports): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — 1; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 0.
10 Gbps WAN-capable ports (network ports): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — 1; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 0.
2.5 Gbps WAN-capable ports (network ports): NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S — 0; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra — 1.

Information still to confirm

35 of 75 comparison fields lack a resolved value for at least one selected device. Missing information is not evidence that a feature is absent.
Check the full table and manufacturer documentation before ruling out a device.

These observations are derived from recorded catalog data and have not all been independently verified. Confirm details with the manufacturer before purchasing.

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Option 1 · NETGEAR

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S

Last updated October 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

Understand the tradeoffs.

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

16differences with recorded values for every device

35rows with missing or unspecified information

Consider your setup

10 Gbps LAN-capable ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra0

Check the ports on your NAS, computer and switch. A faster router port cannot remove a slower link elsewhere. WAN/LAN-capable sockets may be counted in both roles.

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Reading layout

Cellular Connectivity

Antennas Gain

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Cellular Technology

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

External Lte Antennas

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Download Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Upload Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Sim Card Support

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Sms Send Receive

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Features

Configuration Backup Restore

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Firewall

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Max Connected Devices

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 200
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 300+

Mlo

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

New Connection Notifications

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Qos

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Speed Tests

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes
Catalog note
The tech specs list internet quality and outage reporting.

Management

Android App

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Cli

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Ios App

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Snmp

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Web Interface

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Network Ports

10 Gbps LAN-capable ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

10 Gbps WAN-capable ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

2.5 Gbps LAN ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

2.5 Gbps WAN-capable ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 1

Lan 1 Gbps Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 4
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 4

Lan Link Aggregation

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Lan Port Count

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 5
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 4

Lan Sfp Plus Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Lan Sfp Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Total Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 6
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 5

Wan 1 Gbps Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Wan Port Count

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 1

Wan Sfp Plus Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Wan Sfp Ports

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Parental Controls

Block Content

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 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

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Wifi Pause Schedules

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

Power

Consumption

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 6.2W

Smart Home Protocols

Matter Controller

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Thread border router

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Usb Ports

Usb 2

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Usb 3

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: 0

Usb Storage

Ftp

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Media Sharing

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Samba

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Time Machine

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Vpn

Ddns

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not recorded

L2tp Ipsec Vpn

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Open Vpn

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Pptp Vpn

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: No

Vpn Client

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Vpn Server

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wireguard Vpn

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wan Redundancy

Cellular Backup

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 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

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 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

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Yes

Wifi Antennas

Antennas Gain

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not recorded
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

External Antennas

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 0
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Internal Antennas

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 8
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Bands

2 4 Ghz Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1000 Mbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

2.4 GHz bands

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

5 GHz bands

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

5 Ghz Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 6000 Mbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

6 GHz bands

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 1
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

6 Ghz Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 12000 Mbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Features

Access Point Mode

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Guest Network

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Iot Network

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Max Wifi Speed

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: 19 Gbps
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Mesh Standard

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Not applicable / unspecified
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Mesh Wifi

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: No
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wpa3 Encryption

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wifi Generation

Wi-Fi 5

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 6

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 6E

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Wi-Fi 7

NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S: Yes
Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra: Not applicable / unspecified

Specifications for NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S versus Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra
Specification	NETGEAR Nighthawk RS700S	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	Yes	Not recorded
Firewall	Yes	Yes
Max Connected Devices	200	300+
Mlo	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
New Connection Notifications	Yes	Not recorded
Qos	Yes	Yes
Speed Tests	Yes	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	1	0
10 Gbps WAN-capable ports	1	0
2.5 Gbps LAN ports	0	0
2.5 Gbps WAN-capable ports	0	1
Lan 1 Gbps Ports	4	4
Lan Link Aggregation	Yes	No
Lan Port Count	5	4
Lan Sfp Plus Ports	0	0
Lan Sfp Ports	0	0
Total Ports	6	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	1	0
Usb Storage
Ftp	Yes	No
Media Sharing	Yes	No
Samba	Yes	No
Time Machine	No	No
Vpn
Ddns	Yes	Not recorded
L2tp Ipsec Vpn	No	Yes
Open Vpn	Yes	Yes
Pptp Vpn	No	No
Vpn Client	No	Yes
Vpn Server	Yes	Yes
Wireguard Vpn	No	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	8	Not applicable / unspecified
Wifi Bands
2 4 Ghz Speed	1000 Mbps	Not applicable / unspecified
2.4 GHz bands	1	Not applicable / unspecified
5 GHz bands	1	Not applicable / unspecified
5 Ghz Speed	6000 Mbps	Not applicable / unspecified
6 GHz bands	1	Not applicable / unspecified
6 Ghz Speed	12000 Mbps	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	19 Gbps	Not applicable / unspecified
Mesh Standard	Not applicable / unspecified	Not applicable / unspecified
Mesh Wifi	No	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	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified
Wi-Fi 7	Yes	Not applicable / unspecified

Know what’s behind the comparison.

The table matches specifications by section and field. It preserves notes, separates missing data from explicit “No” values, and keeps qualifications attached to their values. No overall winner is assigned from feature counts.

Read our comparison methodology