there's something about growing a beard that just makes you want to pick up a
power tool and a measuring tape and you
know upgrade your home Wi-Fi yeah as it
turns out the beard really doesn't change much I'm still me and me hasn't
upgraded the wireless access point in my upstairs hallway for 5 years and I mean
that kind of makes sense I did spend ,000 on it with the intention of it
being my endgame Wireless networking solution and it does still deliver over
40 megabytes per second to nearby clients but it also has next to nothing
in the way of management features because I didn't buy the controller
hardware and poor reception in both my back and front yard time to fix that up
in a hurry wish me
luck step number one is to sort through all this gear from ubiquity some of it
is for a future video upgrading my home security setup make sure you're
subscribed so you don't miss that and some of it is for the Wi-Fi upgrade
today this right here is the base station XG this is an outdoor rated
access point that is
freaking nuts it's got this shape cuz
it's kind of more of a directional style
Wi-Fi access point but I did not expect the
size or the weight it's got weather
resistant plugs down here so that one's gigabit and this one is 10 gig what kind
of speeds are they expecting you to get on this thing what are they expecting
you to put this thing on listen to this oh I know what this is this is their uh
Power splitter dad thing so you put one
AC input here and then they've got this special power connector for their um
like rack mount device so you can power everything off of one power port this
we're going to need today 24 ports of
ubiquity power over Ethernet goodness so we've got a couple of 10 gig SFP plus
ports so we can use that to go back to the main switch and then the rest of
them are regular gigabit power over Ethernet so that'll handle our Wi-Fi
access points and the new security cameras the UniFi dream machine pro this
thing's super cool it's kind of like an all-in-one unit but not in a bad way so
it's your router it's your security Gateway it also has check this out a 3
and 1/2 in drive for video recording so it handles all of your security stuff
and you can use it as your Cloud key so you don't need a dedicated VM or a
little dedicated dongle in order to run and manage all of your ubiquity Hardware
this is what they've made such bold claims about this is the UAP XG what
they say is the world's most power powerful access point and they've got
comparative numbers right up on their website comparing to devices from Brands
like Ruckus that I know from my
experience offer amazing Wi-Fi
performance now this is not Wi-Fi 6 ubiquity actually has not jumped into
the Wi-Fi 6 game yet but given that we
don't actually have any Wi-Fi 6 devices in the house since I'm back on my Note 9
again I'm not too worried about that now I am more interested in just having
something that it's easy to manage and has absolutely Flawless coverage over my
entire property more 10 gig inputs dang
one of the big problems I have is operating my smart garage door from the end of my driveway and oh well naturally
as soon as I go to demo that it's not working very well I actually get a
pretty solid result in the end of the driveway here well we'll see how the new
one does I
guess the funny thing about this upgrade
is that after my first experience running ubiquity products at home I
swore I would never use them here again it was that notorious uh Square access
point that they had a number of years ago that I had as many as three of
installed in my house and I still couldn't get decent coverage this thing
with its anywhere from 200 to 300 to
even 400 megabit per second performance all across my house was like a breath of
fresh air of course I've always believed that when you're choosing a product you
should choose the well the product not the brand name so especially in light of
the excellent experiences we've had with ubiquity gear at the office I'm giving
them another shot here they acknowledge that that square AP was terrible oh 10
gig like what there apparently ubiquity has a
mobile app for quick and dirty provisioning of a single AP but since
I'm going to want to be setting this up properly in the longer term anyway I'm
going to go ahead and do the rack installs now big old PoE switch up next
and now the dream machine man I just realized there's that 10 gig port on the
access point but the only 10 gigs on the PoE switch are actually SFP plus so I
can't even use them honestly gigabit is probably fine with the number of clients
we have here I doubt we'd Max it out anyway I will definitely need a 10 gig
link between this one and this one though but I don't have the cable here
for that now so I will deal with it later now it's time to make a couple
cables I need to go from my ISP provided modem over to the W port on my router
here and I also need to go from my router to my switch we're going to go
from the 10 gig switch this is just temporary cuz we'll
put in a different one later and then we'll go from the router over to the
main switch eventually I'm going to want a 10 gig connection between my PoE
switch here and my 10 gig switch and I'll just run that from like here to
here or something like that but what I won't probably move to 10 gig is either
the W Port although technically I think this thing does have an SFP Plus Port no
no point though so I'm not going to bother with when I'm not going to bother
going 10 gig from here to here so I just need to make myself a cable that goes
from there to oh I don't know let's say
there before anyone brings it up I am aware that generally you'd prefer
stranded compared to a solid core cable for application like this but this was
all we had lying around in cat 6A and
it's just for me so I know not to bend
it around a bunch cuz that's the disadvantage of solid core is you can
fatigue the metal and it can crack and break inside the cable good luck
everybody well wasn't that wonderful went to put the kids to bed and boom
Internet connected dream machine is connected sweet this is a really slick
startup wizard LTD store.com man they have a nice
interface these days 99% experience this
is a sweet feature being able to do a quick scan of the RF environment
obviously there's other ways to do it there's phone apps I had my old
channelizer wispy dad way back in the day so I could even see things that
weren't Wi-Fi devices but having it just
right in here this easy to use is pretty great this is great information channel
one is pretty much wide open so that'll
be a a perfect spot to plunk my 2.4 GHz
SSID on I only really use it for like
random old devices that don't support 5 GHz especially now that I'm making this
upgrade and I should have awesome wireless coverage this is a
visualization of data Transmissions that
are going on across these frequencies hallway check that out all my stuff's up
in here I remember how to do it now once
you've created your wireless networks you just have to go into each radio
so here we've got our 2.4 GHz and then our two 5 GHz radios and then we have to
disable there we go there we go and
there we go now it's time for a quick
speed test let's just see how we're doing
here bear in mind of course I'm just down the hall from it though real nice
you can't tell cuz it's dark but we're back at the tree now all right so that's
better than one of my results but quite a lot lower than one of the other ones
this corner of the house is a lot stronger than before looks like the
living room is as good or better as well at least on the download well I'm
thrilled coverage is as good as what I had before the interface is fantastic
this has actually gotten like so good since the last time I've looked at it in
detail and while I did have slower Uplink speeds in some places it was not
cripplingly slow by any stretch of the imagination and it's more than made up
for by the fact that when I am close to the ACC access point speeds are both up
and down way in excess of what I was getting with my old one we're talking
just about 60 megabytes per second sustained on a modern client that's
freaking awesome of course one of my goals was to have Wi-Fi way out in the
street in front of my house so that I can be browsing that internet without using mobile data while my kids are
playing so for that we're going to have to bring out the Big Kahuna and crawl
around in my attic I want more wireless range basically straight out in front of
this peak oh right there yeah it's got a pickup pattern
it's kind of like that so I'm thinking I should basically be able to have Wi-Fi
anywhere in front of my house oh hello it's like a dance party
in my attic now uh if you could just hang out here for oh no oh yeah yeah I'm
fine I just almost put a foot through the living room ceiling not a lot of
extra slack on it but as long as I na determination on the first try it should
be fine we got lights it's a good sign Conn
does this thing not have 2.4 GHz support Oh weird it has three 5
GHz radios it claims note 9 is on hallway but that can't be right unplug
it I don't trust it all right now the clients are switching over for sure all
right let's have a look the reception sucks though only got a couple of bars
and speed not too great this is good
everything is behaving as it should we are behind its pickup pattern now let's
go out in front of it now we got good reception that's where it's mounted up
there on that Peak okay that is definitely better maybe not as better as
I might have hoped let's go farther away though I'm
now out in the middle of my culdesac about a Stones Throw from my house
and that's looking pretty good okay
let's see how far we can take this party
I am now standing on the boundary of my neighbor's yard across the entire
culdesac dang still getting 100 megabit
yo start walking down the street I'm now at another half culdesac away down to
two bars now but still getting 50 megabit only 10 up how am I going to
upload my YouTube stories let's go about another CU theck away man I'm like real
far away from my house right now I'm at least 50 m from my front door that's 150
ft for my Yankee friends I am close to 100 m from my front door now and I still
have 50 megabit on
Wi-Fi okay we good why does it say t us
mobility down there what's it doing data not on ladies and Gentlemen let's keep
walking we over 100 met from my front door now out got like an epic Wi-Fi
emergency here get that fire department up in here hey and it's dead mission
accomplished we got
him you know what else we got my Segway
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