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there's something about growing a beard that just makes you want to pick up a

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power tool and a measuring tape and you

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know upgrade your home Wi-Fi yeah as it

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turns out the beard really doesn't change much I'm still me and me hasn't

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upgraded the wireless access point in my upstairs hallway for 5 years and I mean

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that kind of makes sense I did spend ,000 on it with the intention of it

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being my endgame Wireless networking solution and it does still deliver over

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40 megabytes per second to nearby clients but it also has next to nothing

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in the way of management features because I didn't buy the controller

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hardware and poor reception in both my back and front yard time to fix that up

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in a hurry wish me

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luck step number one is to sort through all this gear from ubiquity some of it

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is for a future video upgrading my home security setup make sure you're

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subscribed so you don't miss that and some of it is for the Wi-Fi upgrade

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today this right here is the base station XG this is an outdoor rated

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access point that is

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freaking nuts it's got this shape cuz

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it's kind of more of a directional style

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Wi-Fi access point but I did not expect the

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size or the weight it's got weather

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resistant plugs down here so that one's gigabit and this one is 10 gig what kind

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of speeds are they expecting you to get on this thing what are they expecting

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you to put this thing on listen to this oh I know what this is this is their uh

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Power splitter dad thing so you put one

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AC input here and then they've got this special power connector for their um

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like rack mount device so you can power everything off of one power port this

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we're going to need today 24 ports of

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ubiquity power over Ethernet goodness so we've got a couple of 10 gig SFP plus

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ports so we can use that to go back to the main switch and then the rest of

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them are regular gigabit power over Ethernet so that'll handle our Wi-Fi

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access points and the new security cameras the UniFi dream machine pro this

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thing's super cool it's kind of like an all-in-one unit but not in a bad way so

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it's your router it's your security Gateway it also has check this out a 3

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and 1/2 in drive for video recording so it handles all of your security stuff

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and you can use it as your Cloud key so you don't need a dedicated VM or a

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little dedicated dongle in order to run and manage all of your ubiquity Hardware

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this is what they've made such bold claims about this is the UAP XG what

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they say is the world's most power powerful access point and they've got

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comparative numbers right up on their website comparing to devices from Brands

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like Ruckus that I know from my

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experience offer amazing Wi-Fi

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performance now this is not Wi-Fi 6 ubiquity actually has not jumped into

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the Wi-Fi 6 game yet but given that we

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don't actually have any Wi-Fi 6 devices in the house since I'm back on my Note 9

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again I'm not too worried about that now I am more interested in just having

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something that it's easy to manage and has absolutely Flawless coverage over my

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entire property more 10 gig inputs dang

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one of the big problems I have is operating my smart garage door from the end of my driveway and oh well naturally

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as soon as I go to demo that it's not working very well I actually get a

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pretty solid result in the end of the driveway here well we'll see how the new

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one does I

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guess the funny thing about this upgrade

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is that after my first experience running ubiquity products at home I

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swore I would never use them here again it was that notorious uh Square access

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point that they had a number of years ago that I had as many as three of

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installed in my house and I still couldn't get decent coverage this thing

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with its anywhere from 200 to 300 to

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even 400 megabit per second performance all across my house was like a breath of

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fresh air of course I've always believed that when you're choosing a product you

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should choose the well the product not the brand name so especially in light of

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the excellent experiences we've had with ubiquity gear at the office I'm giving

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them another shot here they acknowledge that that square AP was terrible oh 10

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gig like what there apparently ubiquity has a

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mobile app for quick and dirty provisioning of a single AP but since

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I'm going to want to be setting this up properly in the longer term anyway I'm

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going to go ahead and do the rack installs now big old PoE switch up next

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and now the dream machine man I just realized there's that 10 gig port on the

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access point but the only 10 gigs on the PoE switch are actually SFP plus so I

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can't even use them honestly gigabit is probably fine with the number of clients

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we have here I doubt we'd Max it out anyway I will definitely need a 10 gig

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link between this one and this one though but I don't have the cable here

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for that now so I will deal with it later now it's time to make a couple

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cables I need to go from my ISP provided modem over to the W port on my router

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here and I also need to go from my router to my switch we're going to go

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from the 10 gig switch this is just temporary cuz we'll

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put in a different one later and then we'll go from the router over to the

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main switch eventually I'm going to want a 10 gig connection between my PoE

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switch here and my 10 gig switch and I'll just run that from like here to

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here or something like that but what I won't probably move to 10 gig is either

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the W Port although technically I think this thing does have an SFP Plus Port no

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no point though so I'm not going to bother with when I'm not going to bother

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going 10 gig from here to here so I just need to make myself a cable that goes

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from there to oh I don't know let's say

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there before anyone brings it up I am aware that generally you'd prefer

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stranded compared to a solid core cable for application like this but this was

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all we had lying around in cat 6A and

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it's just for me so I know not to bend

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it around a bunch cuz that's the disadvantage of solid core is you can

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fatigue the metal and it can crack and break inside the cable good luck

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everybody well wasn't that wonderful went to put the kids to bed and boom

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Internet connected dream machine is connected sweet this is a really slick

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startup wizard LTD store.com man they have a nice

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interface these days 99% experience this

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is a sweet feature being able to do a quick scan of the RF environment

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obviously there's other ways to do it there's phone apps I had my old

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channelizer wispy dad way back in the day so I could even see things that

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weren't Wi-Fi devices but having it just

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right in here this easy to use is pretty great this is great information channel

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one is pretty much wide open so that'll

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be a a perfect spot to plunk my 2.4 GHz

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SSID on I only really use it for like

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random old devices that don't support 5 GHz especially now that I'm making this

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upgrade and I should have awesome wireless coverage this is a

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visualization of data Transmissions that

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are going on across these frequencies hallway check that out all my stuff's up

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in here I remember how to do it now once

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you've created your wireless networks you just have to go into each radio

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so here we've got our 2.4 GHz and then our two 5 GHz radios and then we have to

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disable there we go there we go and

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there we go now it's time for a quick

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speed test let's just see how we're doing

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here bear in mind of course I'm just down the hall from it though real nice

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you can't tell cuz it's dark but we're back at the tree now all right so that's

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better than one of my results but quite a lot lower than one of the other ones

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this corner of the house is a lot stronger than before looks like the

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living room is as good or better as well at least on the download well I'm

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thrilled coverage is as good as what I had before the interface is fantastic

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this has actually gotten like so good since the last time I've looked at it in

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detail and while I did have slower Uplink speeds in some places it was not

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cripplingly slow by any stretch of the imagination and it's more than made up

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for by the fact that when I am close to the ACC access point speeds are both up

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and down way in excess of what I was getting with my old one we're talking

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just about 60 megabytes per second sustained on a modern client that's

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freaking awesome of course one of my goals was to have Wi-Fi way out in the

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street in front of my house so that I can be browsing that internet without using mobile data while my kids are

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playing so for that we're going to have to bring out the Big Kahuna and crawl

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around in my attic I want more wireless range basically straight out in front of

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this peak oh right there yeah it's got a pickup pattern

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it's kind of like that so I'm thinking I should basically be able to have Wi-Fi

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anywhere in front of my house oh hello it's like a dance party

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in my attic now uh if you could just hang out here for oh no oh yeah yeah I'm

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fine I just almost put a foot through the living room ceiling not a lot of

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extra slack on it but as long as I na determination on the first try it should

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be fine we got lights it's a good sign Conn

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does this thing not have 2.4 GHz support Oh weird it has three 5

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GHz radios it claims note 9 is on hallway but that can't be right unplug

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it I don't trust it all right now the clients are switching over for sure all

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right let's have a look the reception sucks though only got a couple of bars

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and speed not too great this is good

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everything is behaving as it should we are behind its pickup pattern now let's

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go out in front of it now we got good reception that's where it's mounted up

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there on that Peak okay that is definitely better maybe not as better as

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I might have hoped let's go farther away though I'm

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now out in the middle of my culdesac about a Stones Throw from my house

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and that's looking pretty good okay

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let's see how far we can take this party

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I am now standing on the boundary of my neighbor's yard across the entire

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culdesac dang still getting 100 megabit

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yo start walking down the street I'm now at another half culdesac away down to

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two bars now but still getting 50 megabit only 10 up how am I going to

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upload my YouTube stories let's go about another CU theck away man I'm like real

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far away from my house right now I'm at least 50 m from my front door that's 150

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ft for my Yankee friends I am close to 100 m from my front door now and I still

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have 50 megabit on

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Wi-Fi okay we good why does it say t us

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mobility down there what's it doing data not on ladies and Gentlemen let's keep

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walking we over 100 met from my front door now out got like an epic Wi-Fi

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emergency here get that fire department up in here hey and it's dead mission

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we're going to have that link down below if you guys enjoyed this

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video maybe you would enjoy the uh ooh six workstations no wait whole house one

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CPU where I had a like server machine in

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my closet and ran fiber optic wires all over the house they're all actually

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still there and I do have plans for them for the future but uh that video is

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definitely worth a watch I I don't even

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know what I'm talking about anymore I am so tired it's time to go to bed