boy have I got a fun project for you guys today my parents new cabin is
completely off grid which means that if they want anything resembling a modern
standard of living they have got some problems to solve everything from power
generation to clean drinking water to where to store sanitary waste is going
to okay well I guess they figured all that
out without me leaving just one thing for their firstborn son
how to get an internet connection from all the way over there on the mainland
to this point right here
thankfully we've got a backup plan and
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step one of our little project today then is to take our two Crews one that's
going to be stationed at Lions Bay Marina back there and the other one that
gets to ride across the water in my parents boat with all the equipment that
we're gonna need one of our most important pieces of equipment of course
is our air fiber 60lr dish radio system
Congo unit from ubiquity this is what
we're going to use to get a 60 gigahertz beam up to one gigabit per second
straight across the water in theory
we're going to have similar latency and bandwidth to if we just ran like a
straight up Cat5e network cable except that we're
going to be going like what is it about five clicks
something like that about five kilometers
and now that we're on site our next challenge is to figure out exactly where
we're going to get a clear line back to the marina so Jake and I are trying to
sort this out so unfortunately due to us being a little time constrained we had
to go grab some stuff from the hardware store and come back and by the time we
got here Linus had already shipped off on the boat to the other side now what
that means is he wasn't able to stand here and tell me where roughly it is so
I'm trying to spot him he's on that side like jumping doing jumping jacks waving
his hands and we're trying to see him through the binoculars but they're not exactly
um the zoom I would want for the six-ish kilometers it takes to get over there so
this is going to be a little tricky but we're going to try to at least get a
rough spot of where he is and then we can move over to try to get the dish on
the wall and then tilt it from there
good luck to us it's so difficult to make it out like my
I can't hold the binoculars steady enough to see an object
like he's a he's a pretty small human so
that boat going across right now oh I think I sent you a pen
do you see the boat
there is no boat anywhere near me
is there like some crisscross Lumber like set up as a support or construction
or something yes that's the one crisscross Lumber how can you not see me
there's nowhere there is there is there is I think I see you then
well do you see a person jumping around or not hi
can you see this are you fingering me all right I think
we have contact I definitely can't see it but I just assumed all right I'm
heading back up to the house
as you can see the inside is still a construction zone which doesn't prevent
my parents from putting up some pictures on the wall you know you got to make it homey anyway none of that's our problem
because we're going to be out here on the top deck this is perfect I couldn't
tell from down there but we have a perfect straight shot to the marina I
can see it clear as day this is going to be awesome
see that blue uh kind of like uh shipping container looking thing
bright blue it's just to the left of that
it's gonna be easy as pie I think we are on what is the sketchiest scissor lift
I've ever seen like look at this it's bent to crap it shakes it it's got a
little wiggle Brandon really likes it and uh we only have to go that high
like another one of me so I it's not gonna be that bad but it's pretty
sketchy I guess it's better than a ladder though you ready
oh oh it's not that bad stop testing
Jake I'm not I have to go over here to do this I'm just all right uh I'm gonna
grab them out let's just try to walk in the middle I guess
you're not moving I gotta okay time to
sit my butt on this nice blue chair and do a haul video ladies and gentlemen
we've got some Ethernet cable we've got a jackery just to power things while
we're testing we've got a cordless drill
we've got an edge switch 10xp this is a 10 Port power over Ethernet switch so we
plug our included power adapter into the back here and then it's going to provide
Power to our connected devices over these RJ45 ports now these guys over
here these are SFP they are not going to be able to do power over Ethernet but if
for whatever reason we had other SFP gear we could connect it using that
we've also got this cute little guy this is the UAP Flex HD this is a lovely
little wireless access point it's PoE powered it's outdoor rated so that means
that probably what we're going to end up doing is taking this puppy putting it
right next to the switch and I'm willing to bet with how open it is here and how
little interference there is I'm going to get an internet connection on this
from basically the entire property here it comes with a PoE injector if you
don't have a PoE switch but we do so we don't need that also I'll need a laptop
to connect up my gear over here and of course ah yes the big guy the air fiber
60lr all right
um come on
dolls just my watching
so we've got our dish here we've got the
ah yes the uh
personal massager shower head uh this is the radio
component of it so this puppy just is gonna go in a little something like that
ah there you go oh yeah we don't even
need the manual he needs the manual boys another PoE injector we won't need that
because we do have a PoE switch this
um okay we'll type your manual okay this
clip's on here this pops open here so we can get at the RJ45 Jack there that's
where our power over Ethernet and of course our data are going to come in it
runs down this ARM comes out this uh
weather resistant thing of uber here
and then all that's left is the pole mount that's included in the
box and this
anyway so let's talk about mounting a little bit usually a dish like this
would end up on the roof of a building probably like a skyscraper or on a tower
of some sort with a pole but in our case we're trying to mount it to the side of
a building so we looked at a few different options and it seemed like a
satellite dish Mount was the best course of action and surprisingly it's kind of
difficult to get these things in really urban areas because they don't really
use satellites a lot anymore but I did find a guy that actually does satellite
tear downs and he had a bunch of extra ones sitting in a storage locker so bada
bing there we go now we are drilling into concrete which makes this a little
more difficult but it should be okay we got our hammer drill we got some tapcon
screws which are made for concrete everything should be okay I just sort of
have to plan it out and Mark it and hope that that works
anything like there it's good the only thing is once I put it on the
wall it's going to be very difficult for me to adjust I can't look through the
viewfinder if you know what I mean lioness is like on a deck on that side
so he can look through a viewfinder oh you're right Andy this is the
viewfinder you are
ah I guess we don't really have much choice so
the hole on the mount is actually a little bit bigger than the hole that we
need so I got a little bit of flexibility just me or is that like spinning whoa wow it literally
completely stripped it we are following the instructions yeah maybe it's just
really strong wall or something I also got some different ones that are a
little smaller I did bring another solution
some like plugs having the time of my
life right now
okay wow I am so glad that we were able
to get it in there I was starting to get a little worried there now let's talk
some speeds and feeds for this bad boy this right here regular old gigabit
Network Port but what's special about it is that it uses 60 gigahertz wireless in
order to fully saturate this thing so that is two gigabit total one gigabit
send one gigabit receive if ubiquity's
specs are to be believed as for how they get around the range limitations of 60
gigahertz if you guys remember 60 gigahertz can be blocked by a piece of
paper if you happen to have you know y gig in your house so how are we gonna
how's it going to go five kilometers across the water well that's because a
there's no piece of paper in between that's very important and B because
these antennas are sending just a narrow beam of data across the water instead of
just trying to send it in all directions they're much more focused and they can
do up to apparently 12 kilometers on this particular model we're going to
leave that over there for now and I want to talk about the mount a
little bit so this is a pretty cool piece of Kit they include with this with
this dish it actually has a bunch of very accurate adjustments you can do
by the degree and then once you figure it out you've
done your alignment until you've gotten it where you want it to be you can actually just lock them on on both axes
which is really cool now what we're probably going to have to
do is clamp this on get it where we
think roughly it should be and it might be a good hour of tilting and screwing
around with it until we get it where we want it to be got the screwdriver
ottststore.com just kidding we don't have those yet but the dad hats are
coming soon these are sick they're awesome I've got
two different screw sizes Andy I've got the good enough to hold it up size and
I've got the just in case someone has a couple wobbly pops and decides to try to
hang off of it you want the big boy all right you got
it all right I think we're good now is everyone happy I can go ahead and lean
off the porch all right someone gonna pull me back in
I guess I can use the rope all right what are we secured to
okay I think this is a ubiquity approved
installation method what do you think Brandon
there is a viewfinder that this thing comes with Linus probably showed you it
this little guy and you actually clip it into the back of the dish but I don't
really have a way to look through it you know actually maybe if I put it on this
side I think it can mount in a couple oh my
God
the viewfinder they include with this kit is really nice because it forces
your perspective to be in line with the dish and where it's pointed I thought I
was decently lined up right but if I look through the viewfinder
I am pointed right at the ocean so I'm
gonna adjust this up a little bit and then now
I am pointed at the sky which I also don't want
I got my harness so I'm not too worried about falling to my death at this point
uh let's go ahead and loosen this a little bit there we go now we're a
little off we're probably about I'd say
five degrees low wow actually I don't know actually I
might have freaking nailed it all right I'm Gonna Leave it right there and uh
we'll have to wait until Linus is ready to go now obviously the plan would be to
power this using something other than a portable battery bank so they're gonna
have a combination of solar wind and then there's actually a little creek
that runs through the property that gets water about eight months out of the year
so that's the plan for the future but for today we're just testing it so I'm
just going to plug us into this
as with most of Ubiquiti's other stuff this is PoE powered usually a PoE
injector like this would be mounted inside or you'd have a PoE powered
switch but for now we're just going to have this up on the scissor lift with us
and I put a really long cable so maybe
once it's lined up we can go down to the ground but I that's probably going to be
a while unfortunately we weren't able to get an ISP to run internet here yet they
said it's going to be a couple week lead time so instead we brought our little LTE Puck which is kind of funny because
you would usually just take the LTE Puck to the other side and have that as your
internet but no we want to test this link so this is going to act as our
router and provide us some internet access so we can actually try this out
pretty easy bam we're plugged in that's all I got to
do it's working
you plugged it in I guess we just lined it up it says our our link is about 77
optimal but it says our capacity is two gigabit right now
and then I was kind of setting it up for that moment in the video where Linus
kept proven to be wrong but I mean it was what I take it was pretty cake it
says our capacity is two gigabit I guess what's 78 link that's enough that is
freaking crazy okay I think I'm just straight up connected to you now I
grabbed the driver and boom I like let
me just see here it is we're logged into the Gambia house dashboard we can see
our airfiber 60 lrb and a so one of
them's at Lion's Bay Marina one of them's at the Gambier house they've both
got their IP addresses their uptime fantastic I am in the dashboard on my
computer and I am connected to the dish on my phone everything is Bueno sweet
did you touch the dish at all sure didn't you know what I wonder if
it's just people moving around all right we gotta wrap this up pretty quick here
how do we do the uh fine tuning thing
it's amazing how much a little bit of Wibble wobbling affects things
immediately when you were like I'm tightening it down I saw it jump all
over the place honestly I think we we nailed it right
out of the gate I got a little more horizontal adjustment to do so give me
give me a minute I guess at this distance like you got to be adjusting it
like fractions of a degree it's crazy how much of a difference like a quarter
turn of this knob makes in terms of where it's actually pointed if you look
through the viewfinder it's very responsive though like you can see within about a second or two if what
you're doing is working oh and it's gone
what'd you do move in front of the antenna
this is it big test time all right I'm starting
pay is one millisecond
nice oh look at this look at this 800 923 megabit per second download 903
upload it fluctuates a bit but that's pretty
impressively stable but flush it that's freaking Rock Solid
oh that's freaking awesome I'm stoked
I'm stoked this is great so all they got to do is a little bit of cable
management get that cable run into the house and that's something they can
handle on their side and then we're we're ready to rock
theoretically we can get higher speeds
oh wow without the Ethernet port as a bottleneck like this thing is actually
capable of greater than the network port on the freaking thing
so we're going across the water and
we're literally bottlenecked by The Wire
you know what else there's a metaphor for
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might enjoy us not doing it quite as successfully so maybe go check out our
last attempt we did a greater distance that time but boy was it ever a
nightmare to get it working this is totally painless and look how good it
looks by comparison you can see right through the dish it hardly even
obstructs The View