In Part 3 of my Home/Office Network Upgrade, I move from planning to hands-on setup with Ubiquiti gear—specifically the Cloud Gateway Fiber and the U7 Pro Wall access point. I start with the unboxings so you can see exactly what shows up in the box, what the build quality feels like, and what you’ll need to get rolling. Then I put the Cloud Gateway Fiber and U7 Pro Wall together for a quick functional test, because I like validating the basics before I commit anything to a final mount or cable run. After that, I walk through the out-of-the-box initialization for both devices in UniFi, including a small but important quality-of-life tweak: enabling Dark Mode in the UniFi Controller. From there it’s the core configuration flow—adopting the gateway, adopting the AP, and getting the network online in a clean, controlled way. The big takeaway is that you can go from sealed boxes to a working “prosumer” gateway + Wi‑Fi setup without guesswork, as long as you follow a logical order and verify each step before moving on. As always: no sponsorship here—just me building and testing real-world gear so you can build with confidence.