1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,020 has it started yet no it hasn't started the test I've done like four holy 2 00:00:05,220 --> 00:00:13,440 bananas here we go okay it's starting the test my ping is three quarters of a 3 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:15,599 second and my Jitter is over one second 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:20,760 despite spending more money than I'd like to admit renovating my new place 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:23,340 into the Ultimate Dream Tech slash Smart 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:28,980 House we've discovered a pretty big problem that I might even call a fatal 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,859 flaw that no amount of new paint 10 gig 8 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:38,100 Ethernet or smart controls can fix see this zero bars of reception the cell 9 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:42,540 service at this place is so bad that I can't even complete a speed test and 10 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:47,460 half the time I try to make a basic phone call it'll end up dropping now 11 00:00:45,239 --> 00:00:50,700 fortunately we've found what might be one of the most clever pieces of 12 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:54,719 technology that I've played with for a while that will hopefully fix the cell 13 00:00:52,260 --> 00:01:01,760 reception in here for good you know what it won't fix though my corny Segways to 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:04,739 our sponsors like see Sonic don't grown 15 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:08,400 Prime TX 1000 watt power supply features an 80 plus titanium efficiency rating 16 00:01:06,659 --> 00:01:14,060 hybrid fan control and a 12 year warranty learn more at csonic.com or at 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,060 the link in the video description 18 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:27,360 and I'm complaining though it's time to do something about it now when we bought 19 00:01:25,740 --> 00:01:30,360 this house last year it's not like I didn't know the sell signal was going to 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:35,460 be a problem if you've been keeping up with these videos you'll know that this house uses hydronic heating which 21 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:39,840 basically means that there's a ton of tubes running through the floors filled 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,259 with warm water that's what heats the house it's great because it's super 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:49,439 efficient and relatively low maintenance but it's not great because those tubes 24 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:52,320 need to be encased in concrete on each 25 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:57,299 level of the house which heavily blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals now Wi-Fi was 26 00:01:55,380 --> 00:02:02,939 easy to solve we just added more wireless access points but with cellular 27 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:04,380 it's a bit tricky I didn't really think 28 00:02:02,939 --> 00:02:08,640 it was going to be a huge deal as long as we had good Wi-Fi but the problem is 29 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:13,920 that not every cellular provider or phone supports Wi-Fi calling and that 30 00:02:11,819 --> 00:02:18,300 doesn't help with SMS which is really hit or miss in inside the walls but that 31 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:22,620 is still something we can solve we just need a cell repeater like we have at the 32 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:27,180 office which is essentially a Juiced up antenna that you install at the highest 33 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:31,980 point and then aim at the nearest cell phone tower that is then connected to 34 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:35,520 points inside the building that will boost the signal for your phone the 35 00:02:33,959 --> 00:02:40,379 problem with the cell computer industry though is that unlike many other areas 36 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:45,720 of Technology there isn't really a big DIY community and most of the whole Home 37 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:50,280 Solutions are sold directly through installers which means that there isn't 38 00:02:47,459 --> 00:02:55,140 a lot of reviewers or reviews in general and a lot of installers sell only one 39 00:02:52,980 --> 00:03:00,780 brand of repeater that they absolutely swear by there's no Linus cellular tips 40 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:04,860 if you catch my drift to add insult to injury basically every manufacturer 41 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,780 seems to think that their cell booster is just gosh darn the best so how on 42 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:13,500 Earth do you know what to buy we tried talking to the company who's doing the 43 00:03:11,099 --> 00:03:17,280 renovation on our house shermar and they said that after installing several 44 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,280 different systems over the years specked by the installers that they 45 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:25,080 subcontracted basically none of them ever worked as described because you see 46 00:03:22,379 --> 00:03:29,760 99 of the cell repeaters on the market are analog and therefore subject to 47 00:03:27,659 --> 00:03:34,200 signal loss so they typically work like this the donor cell signal from the 48 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:39,239 nearby cell tower is picked up by the outdoor antenna then that signal travels 49 00:03:36,659 --> 00:03:43,799 along a coax cable to an amplifier which boosts it then it runs along another 50 00:03:41,340 --> 00:03:47,819 coax cable to your indoor antenna which broadcasts the signal to your phone that 51 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:51,480 means that regardless of the fact that you are boosting the signal there's 52 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:55,379 going to be loss between that outdoor antenna and the amplifier and again 53 00:03:53,640 --> 00:04:01,319 between the amplifier and the indoor antenna then when you're talking about something like a small house or an RV 54 00:03:58,980 --> 00:04:07,560 the cable runs end up being pretty short so it's not that big of a deal when you 55 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:10,200 scale up to say 5 000 or 10 000 or 20 56 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:15,780 000 square foot house or facility those systems tend not to work so great then 57 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:23,639 we stumbled upon something way a cooler this is the cell Phi quattra system 58 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:25,979 and it's digital that means as soon as 59 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:30,419 the signal gets to the main router thing they call it a network unit the signal 60 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:36,240 gets digitized and can be sent hundreds of feet over PoE Ethernet or kilometers 61 00:04:33,479 --> 00:04:39,780 over fiber with no signal loss to what is essentially kind of like how an 62 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:43,860 access point would behave in a wi-fi system they call it a coverage unit 63 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,840 though not an access point the coverage unit itself then amplifies the digitized 64 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:51,900 signal and broadcasts it this allows them to use the Quattro system to Boost 65 00:04:50,340 --> 00:04:56,340 cell signals in buildings in the hundreds of thousands of square feet 66 00:04:54,419 --> 00:05:00,060 range it also means that if there's a certain carrier that has way stronger 67 00:04:58,199 --> 00:05:05,040 signal than the others it doesn't just get boosted to Infinity the system can 68 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:09,240 automatically balance them on each coverage unit the guys at waveform.com 69 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:13,199 Who provided us with this gear had us walk around the house and do a series of 70 00:05:11,220 --> 00:05:17,699 signal tests to determine the best place to put the antenna and that ended up 71 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:21,900 being right here above the garage the bad news is that it's a little bit too 72 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:26,699 far are from the mechanical room to run the cable from the antenna on the roof 73 00:05:24,539 --> 00:05:30,840 to their Network unit they want to keep that within about 100 feet to avoid too 74 00:05:28,919 --> 00:05:34,919 much signal loss because that's still analog so instead we're going to put the 75 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:39,000 network unit right here in the garage where it's a nice short run then we're 76 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:43,139 going to run our Ethernet cables which go to each of the repeaters or what do 77 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,800 they call them coverage units from here and you can see the network guys have 78 00:05:45,180 --> 00:05:52,580 actually already run those for us so we're pretty much ready to go ooh I got 79 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:56,400 one of the coverage units here 80 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:58,259 I do not uh I do not understand this 81 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:02,220 ventilation hole pattern does it look cool it does look cool that's probably 82 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:08,940 what they were going for oh I also said just send us a bunch of 83 00:06:05,340 --> 00:06:11,039 cable just in case wow look at how 84 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:16,380 it's a lot of conductor this is probably the craziest coax I've 85 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:23,100 ever seen so what we didn't mention earlier is I reached out to probably 86 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:25,319 20 different cell repeater manufacturers 87 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:29,639 and I didn't even get as much as a reply from any of them it was the same one I 88 00:06:27,539 --> 00:06:33,600 was shopping for the office yeah but I reached out to waveform who is a 89 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:38,160 retailer and they got back to me like within 10 minutes they were like oh yeah 90 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:42,419 that sounds awesome I'm gonna have good cookies here we are cookie oh is it 91 00:06:40,139 --> 00:06:48,419 actually a branded cookie holy crap that's a that's next level it literally 92 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:51,000 is branded branded cookie okay last box 93 00:06:48,419 --> 00:06:55,919 that's another yeah okay please read I'll do that after we'll read that after 94 00:06:54,060 --> 00:07:00,720 we install it so we got another coverage unit okay 95 00:06:57,780 --> 00:07:04,440 attack another coverage unit yeah so we should have four the original plan was 96 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:07,620 to do one per floor but I also asked them to send a fourth one in case we 97 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:10,380 wanted to put it in the garage so we got our land in that's where our networking 98 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,860 is going to come from the server room and then see you one two three four for 99 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:18,840 each of the coverage units there's also a lan out maybe oh I think you can have 100 00:07:17,039 --> 00:07:23,520 multiple of these you can have like because all this land is doing is just 101 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:26,880 the signal uh to the web panel to control it right 102 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:33,000 um but like in a warehouse you might need a couple of these I guess that's fair yeah so what are we thinking 103 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:37,680 aesthetically like we put a little shelf here maybe put actually maybe we can 104 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:41,759 just do a couple L brackets we do like a rack mount UPS this little yeah one 105 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:46,080 power goes out thinking a rack mount ups with just one of those 2u sure wall rack 106 00:07:44,699 --> 00:07:50,460 things and then this boy could maybe just go like right here we'll just whoa 107 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:54,060 Linus is the reason I have trust issues nope there you go so do we do we bother 108 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:59,660 cutting these back or should we just terminate them where they are and just leave a spool on the wall just do one of 109 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:59,660 those oh that's super 110 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,940 you know what you can do it however you want Jake apparently this is your 111 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:12,680 project now the number of times I've been overridden on my own house 112 00:08:09,020 --> 00:08:15,539 he's got a wife and a employee 113 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:19,800 Jake this is your idea of getting the ladder ready yeah where am I climbing to 114 00:08:17,599 --> 00:08:23,280 Narnia Linus you don't need either of those things 115 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:26,580 yet oh I don't need the antenna yet well you want the J pool first right yeah 116 00:08:24,660 --> 00:08:30,240 that makes sense and where does it go exactly I was thinking we'll just put it 117 00:08:28,379 --> 00:08:33,899 on the siding up and then it'll just point that way kind of oh okay which 118 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,680 wait which direction do you want to point that way that way roughly and this 119 00:08:36,180 --> 00:08:42,120 corner would definitely get better then so we got our Hardware on basically you 120 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:46,560 can tighten these boys up when you're ready to lock it into place 121 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:49,320 boom just like that I think we got to move the ladder I can't reach from here 122 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,580 you're not going there you're going on the white on the white yeah on the top 123 00:08:51,540 --> 00:08:58,459 it's going to be hideous that's what I was saying we should put it over here I 124 00:08:56,220 --> 00:09:05,360 don't want to put it on the floor no it doesn't even fit look put it the 125 00:09:02,940 --> 00:09:11,399 other way then what like that no I'm not gonna have a dong or hanging 126 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:16,760 off the side of my fascia board like that yeah you are no I'll put it on the 127 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:16,760 siding oh 128 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:27,300 yeah that seems adjustable you look adjustable well you look adjustable 129 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:32,040 oh dang it you were always good at the short side 130 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:35,880 of things damn it buddy okay so it's gonna have to come down pretty low to 131 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:39,600 make room for that giant shark fin isn't it where do you know what the what thing 132 00:09:37,860 --> 00:09:42,800 the shark fin how does the shark fin actually go on 133 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:49,560 here like that yeah just like that 134 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:55,220 oh my God just get it Fuller full erect it's gonna be right under the light too 135 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:59,040 oh I'm gonna move around my shark fin 136 00:09:55,220 --> 00:10:01,620 ah so it sticks off that way 137 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:05,700 roughly hold on are there any other wrong though are there any other options 138 00:10:03,660 --> 00:10:11,279 like let me double check our bearing the cell tower is basically like there okay 139 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:15,000 so either Corner either side is fine put it on the back so you don't have to see 140 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:19,500 it so much but it's right under the light and I can see it anyway why don't 141 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:23,399 you put it on that side then yeah sure you want to do it all right 142 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,500 yeah let's do it there let's all right cool all right screw me 143 00:10:25,620 --> 00:10:33,260 oh they're on top of the mantle oh oh really Jake Andy can you see the screws 144 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:39,839 no wait I got the muffler without going on the mat yeah okay this is fine all right 145 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,560 it's on wow looks kind of gross I've only done 146 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:48,420 this once when we did that ubiquity thing he 147 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:50,519 doesn't play with poles often not my 148 00:10:48,420 --> 00:10:55,940 favorite way to dance you know okay how's it look 149 00:10:51,839 --> 00:10:58,680 awful well yeah I mean but like foreign 150 00:10:55,940 --> 00:11:04,079 all right that's what I'm hoping all right time for this thick boy coax cable 151 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:08,339 to go on oh yeah right so there's supposed to be a lightning surge 152 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:11,760 protector doodad like right here and there will be once the professional 153 00:11:10,019 --> 00:11:16,019 electrician does all this but we're just testing for now it's a little 154 00:11:13,260 --> 00:11:20,160 discouraging is that it still shows this network unit is offline I think 155 00:11:18,420 --> 00:11:24,300 maybe it just doesn't turn online until there's a booster connected to it 156 00:11:21,839 --> 00:11:29,579 possible no stools at the new place but we do have extra spools of network cable 157 00:11:26,940 --> 00:11:32,760 left over so I'll use that so I'm just gonna Jam this up here I 158 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,019 guess all right where's the uh indoor unit 159 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:42,420 it's in there well you could have instead of standing there you could have 160 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:44,579 gotten it yeah well this guy oh okay so 161 00:11:42,420 --> 00:11:48,300 maybe it just doesn't do stuff until it's plugged into stuff yeah maybe this 162 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:52,920 was in the documentation that you like chucked aside at the beginning you can 163 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:55,980 see the little Cloud's unhappy it's not connected and then if I click on the 164 00:11:55,140 --> 00:12:02,839 site the network unit also shows us not 165 00:11:58,260 --> 00:12:02,839 online still oh covered unit 2 connected 166 00:12:04,079 --> 00:12:09,720 enabled 2 in this system oh I can go plug it into two I guess no no I mean it 167 00:12:08,220 --> 00:12:15,600 doesn't matter like maybe it does matter but it's not doing anything port number 168 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:17,579 two it says part two what hi so 169 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,579 interestingly enough I moved the CO2 to just CO2 just so their match I think 170 00:12:19,079 --> 00:12:25,620 they're just named in here whatever yeah we're just calling this one cu2 it shows 171 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:29,880 as link status connected let me just check cu1 which isn't connected and see 172 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:34,260 if it also shows this connected or not oh it still shows us connected so that 173 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:37,500 means nothing great we're nowhere like should I just call them and see yeah I 174 00:12:35,940 --> 00:12:41,880 think we should call them at this point um okay so what are you saying about once okay well I'm just gonna check it 175 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:47,399 again now because something has changed we were just we were having issues getting the network unit to connect to 176 00:12:45,180 --> 00:12:51,839 the network I have four bars hold on I think it might be working let me go 177 00:12:48,660 --> 00:12:54,120 inside I turned off my Wi-Fi 178 00:12:51,839 --> 00:13:01,380 and it's time to go again here this is already better okay now we're 179 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:06,060 talking no these are not the fastest speeds on the face of the Earth but wow 180 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,139 is that ever an improvement over last time around that's awesome 181 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:15,620 I don't even have that thing mounted correctly she messed with it it's off again 182 00:13:16,860 --> 00:13:22,860 Jake did you mess with it had four bars and then it dropped down 183 00:13:21,060 --> 00:13:26,220 to one okay 184 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:32,639 super jankly connected right to the wreck let's see if it goes online 185 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,279 my money is on this cable is bunk so we were just on the phone with the guys 186 00:13:33,839 --> 00:13:39,120 over at waveform because we were having some issues I think it's that there is a 187 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:42,959 problem with this network cable because look at that active 188 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:47,220 I mean this might have to update a sec but it shows the system is online we 189 00:13:45,779 --> 00:13:51,120 just plugged it in with a little shorty cable and now it's happy so Moment of 190 00:13:49,079 --> 00:13:55,560 Truth we tried the new connectors the ones that I brought from home 191 00:13:53,040 --> 00:14:00,540 but I had no trouble what it lit right up did it oh it did I 192 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:05,339 couldn't see it from here let's see if it did it looks like it's doing though 193 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:11,579 to clarify this is without even dialing in the antenna position Moment of Truth 194 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:14,339 oh yeah my Jitter is literally a hundred 195 00:14:11,579 --> 00:14:17,639 times better wow whoa 10 you can actually like okay I know like 12 196 00:14:16,139 --> 00:14:22,139 megabit is not something to be excited about but you had basically zero before 197 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:26,880 yeah let's see if you can upload come on show me the upload what 198 00:14:27,180 --> 00:14:29,839 oh 199 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:37,320 uh okay brother I don't know how the math works 200 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:45,360 on that that's an Infinity increase yeah yeah pretty much lost zero percent does 201 00:14:41,699 --> 00:14:47,100 it work then yes I'm honestly perfectly 202 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:52,500 happy with this this is good enough to have like a video call I'd be like 20 up 203 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,980 20 down good enough that's great I'm stoked 204 00:14:53,699 --> 00:14:59,519 to tell you about our sponsor thanks to freshbooks for sponsoring this 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