okay so my original plan for these yes these right here these are this is some
cool stuff that we got going on right here was to share the gigabit internet
connection we have here at the office with my house which is about 20 km or
about 13 miles away unfortunately
Topography is a I would need a 60 M
antenna tower here at the office in order to achieve that so we are going
back to square one with this video and we are going to structure this as holy
episode four yes we are already on episode four of this segment and we're
calling this one longdistance
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power beam AC a device that I assumed would be a lot more expensive than it
was I mean ubiquity sent it to us so I had to look up how much it costs it's
only about 150 bucks and with the kit
you actually get a variety of things you get this uh weather resistant plastic
shell cover you get this metal dish you
get this pole mount right here
uhhuh you get this fastening rear housing doad you get this thing which is
like a mount for the other mount to mount the other thing with degrees on it
and then right here you get the antenna feed this is where the action happens
you also get a power over Ethernet adapter injector thing as well because
it is powered using PoE so on the side of this guy you've got your power as
well as your link indicator and then four bars to indicate the of the link
and that's pretty much it oh wait except you get two of them because the point of
the power beam AC is to be able to handle a 450 megabit Link at up to
25 km now we are not going to be able to
mount these puppies up high enough in order to test that maximum range but
what we can do is we can at least do a limited test here in the parking lot and
find out if the objective was to share a network connection with someone quite
far away whether it's a shed or whether it's a neighbor or whether it's from
your office to your house if you happen to live somewhere flatter whether this technology looks
pretty promising okay so the assembly process is pretty straightforward you
take your antenna feed and you no wait oh shoot I forgot okay
uh right you start with this
bracket you take this bad boy and pop it under here it only goes in one way
then yeah you pop this into
here until it
clicks there we go then you take your
pull mount stick it through the thing and finally optionally you can put
on the weatherproofing mount something that I would definitely recommend please
note and this was pointed out to me by my editor the last time around when we
did this before our SD card died that this Arrow corresponds
to I was sure there was an arrow ah this Arrow right here if you want it to go on
relatively easily now normally you'd have some kind of a pole mount here so
you'd go ahead you'd put that on the pole and then you'd tighten it in and it
would grip like that but because we don't have a pole at least not that kind
of pole if you know what I mean we're just going to go ahead and clamp it to a
c for our initial testing okay so the PO
adapter here is optional if you have a power over Ethernet switch but not
everyone has one of those so we're going to show it using the adapter yes we have
power then from there without dropping
it you plug into the network Port of a
computer so we're configuring our Internet Protocol version for settings
192.168.1 anything other than 20 or over
254 or whatever it is so I'm going to go with 10 subnet mask we can leave as
default when you click it on there and we're going to set our default gateway
to 192168 1.20 and click okay and check it out
we're logged into ros7 so the first thing it tells you to do is change your
password I wish that more companies did
this where they actually force you to change your password before you can do
pretty much anything else but they don't
and such is life so now what we need to do is we have to configure it with a
static IP address that is on the same
subnet as the rest of our Network
so uh let's make it that and configuration mode is simple we
actually have to change almost none of the settings on this bad boy to get it
up and running which is very very cool okay so now that we've Recon jiggered
our network settings we can go ahead and plug into an Ethernet cable that is on
the rest of the network that we want to share and then I'm switching back to my
Wi-Fi here because I'm going to use this direct attach cable to set up the other
dish in a minute uh but now we should be able to navigate to it at the new
address that I've set for it
Wicked okay so now that this is set up we're going to go to wireless and we are
going to set up the mode so this is
going to be station point to point so it was actually already correct the SSID we
can make whatever we want this is kind of like just a normal wireless hotspot
um for all intents and purposes here then I am going to turn our output power
way down because we're testing at very close range here and I'm going to leave
pretty much everything else on auto except security so I'm just going to put
a rudimentary password on here which is better than nothing and I'm going to
save my changes so as soon as this dish
here we go detects long range SSID with the correct
password it should connect to it and we should have a link first we need to hook
up the other dish or configure it
rather ow a damn that hurt it is highly
recommended to configure these while you are still very close to them not after
you have deployed them 25 km apart okay
so we're logged into our second unit now what we're going to do is set up our
network settings uh differently from the last one so instead of 64 we're going to
go 66 so we have to go ahead and put
this one then onto the main Network here
we are very close actually okay so we are on our last step
now we go to wireless on the second unit
this one is access point peer-to-peer so
the SSID we used was long range okay leaving everything on auto
turning the output power
way down okay so the further the distance the
more important perfect alignment is but at this kind of distance it really
doesn't matter much so I'm going to plug in my PoE injected powered thing so this
guy gets power and then what you should see on that side if you go around the
side of the dish is in a moment here the
link indicator should light up hey there
we go all right rock on so now we've got
a link let's test it so okay so now what we do is we go back and change those
custom network settings we go back to automatic everything blippity blop done
I'm plugged from the laptop into my pee
injector into the dish which is connected to the dish which is connected
to the server room which is not disorienting at
all from there we should be able to get
an internet connection
boom yeah baby all right okay now speed
test isn't always a solid indicator for us around here I don't know what it is
exactly but the good news is that we're seeing very consistent results here at
least we were and while not 450 megabit
per second and the wow the upload is
going much better than the down link
that's very interesting we are still seeing speeds that are pretty darn
reasonable looking for our uh our Dish Dish
Wi-Fi what else we got in here oh they have other tests too so they have they
have their own internal speed test so you can go ahead and go oh yeah I want
to use this one here's my username and
password and start and this will tell
you the just raw receive and transmit
speeds between the two units and we have
a solution this right here is a portable
battery bank doesn't look exceptional there's where it charges
boom AC outlet so we're going to use
that to power the dish at the other end of the parking lot now there is one more
tool we're going to need that I didn't show you guys before this is really cool
this is the Align antenna tool so you
can see right here what the signal levels are in real time so watch as I
move the dishes so they Point more towards each other
and the theoretic
signal strength
improves ah and there goes my battery Bank oh I hope that didn't
break okay a
crap this is a lot heavier than I had hoped maybe I should help you no no it's
fine I got this I get it camera people Union can't
actually lift a bloody finger to help me with anything
okay sorry I got this i got this
okay so I'm just going to start
hiking okay so with poor alignment at the
lowest possible strength we are still
seeing about 200 megabit per second up
and down and that's with Ed standing
right in the way of the antenna way to go Ed actually it didn't go down
much so inside the building you had to make pretty big
changes to the dish Aline m in order to really affect this here I am barely even
touching it so here we are way down the
road still enjoying that was pretty much the same
speed test we were doing on the down link
and however confusing this might be it actually seems to be running a little
bit faster on the Uplink so there you go you can interpret that
however you want I'm sure with all some tuning we could actually get better
needs out of it particularly down there's probably something where I don't
really know what I'm doing but in spite of ubiquity offering to have one of
their Engineers help me I was like ah I want to see if I can do it let's see
what kind of a result someone can get just following the most basic rudimentary guide and there you have it
holy long distance 5 GHz like beam
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