those of you who watch WAN Show will know this already but uh I bought a
warehouse the plan is to turn this place into a Badminton Center SL land gaming
area but as you can see given the state of things we're not going to be doing
that anytime soon but I want to play games with my friends now so I did the
only sensible thing and said screw it we're hosting a land party at my house
instead naturally I told the wife that we're doing it to prototype some gear
that we want to use for the real thing which smooth things over a little bit
that is until I invited the entire company and their significant others and
their friends working out to a total of nearly 100 people on the RSVP but before
we get there we have got some problems to solve how are we going to power that
many PCs where are we going to put them is this wimpy air conditioning going to
keep up with it all oh my gosh this is
where my furniture is at least they tarped it am I going to
be married by the end of all this future me probably knows the answers to all of
that ubiquity was crazy enough to sponsor this entire thing after already
sponsoring the wh landed LTX 2023 we are talking 10 gig networking to every seat
with easy planning in the UniFi Design Center and blazing fast Wi-Fi 6E
throughout the entire house that helps right fast Wi-Fi hone it's good let's
set up a land party let's
go what are you standing around cheering for let's go I'm not
mov okay okay the time is now 10:20
which leaves us with uh it can be a little late let's say uh 6 hours before
the W show that should be fine you have to shoot another video too orders
Captain I thought you were in charge I am in charge okay good what do we do uh
I don't know ask Jake God okay you two
go into the garage and put feet on the tables you two come here clean this
up you got the plans on your phone just follow that you got to bring tables and
chairs in here two more of you Kevin Brian you're on that room let's go we
got more rooms I'm still not sure exactly what's going on oh oh my gosh
did you guys hit something
already it's been 1 minute do you want feet protector on these no these are
fine all right if your floors get ruined I take no responsibility oh no we all
know that'll be cool bro we're putting 12 tables in the garage that's the floor
plan you know it's not heated in here right we're going to need someone to
take the RAM Board and and the masking tape and kind of make sure that any
doorways or things that are going to get hit along that route are going to be
okay oh w w are you excited I am a
little stressed I'm excited to play games I'm not excited to clean up wait
this is where they put the furniture from the living room they know we're
piling this room up with tables too right no it's not getting piled too bad
there's like three tables three tables because there's power constraints ah
which is probably something we should talk about the lower garage it has two
circuits mhm we need eight well how are
we going to do that you are not doing that he wanted to pull the electric car
charger off the wall disconnect it hook it up to a power distribution box oh no
no no that's not what we're doing oh my gosh what is happening right now is this
actual work please don't hurt
yourself I wish I was doing that this is your plan yeah you see what that says
right there yeah yeah you got to sh for infinite cables I get it but where are
you going to pull this from a few places upstairs garage that has one circuit
that brings us to three of our eight there's like three right inside this
door for some reason and the rest we're going to pull from the theater room what
the theater room well the theater room has like 6 15 amp circuits because it's
set up for all the audio stuff right and it's set up in case I ever wanted to put
in a Samsung the wall yes um but it's a
very small room so we can only fit a couple tables in there the rest of the
power we're going to pull to over here now because of the distance we can't
just use any extension cord you have to make sure you get ones that are rated
for 15 amps and at 100 ft it's pretty
heavy now the reason for that is conductors pretty much regardless of how
good they are have some amount of resistance and the further you go the
greater the resistance now they can combat this by making the conductors
thicker M which is what they did in this case but you just have to make sure that
you buy one that can handle that full 15 amps what you want me to do I have your
perfectly organized circuit map up it's not quite perfect cuz these aren't
labeled but at least in here it says these three are one circuit those three
are one circuit nice two circuits in here and one plug on north wall I mean
this is not a tripping Hazard
right okay where we going to put your sack it's quite large and fuzzy yeah I'm
starting to seriously wonder if this was a good idea people are going to put all
this stuff back right let's go get the tablecloths wow
we're we're going to be that classy yeah we don't want to scratch your walls lonus I mean I thought this looked great
as it was no we have tablecloth no
no I did that on purpose you're not a
tablecloth silly oh guys that can go
anyone want it anyone who wants a media console who's taking it Colin's taking
it Colin's taking it we got a taker
let's go yeah W these knock to a fans
alone are worth like $40 Canadian dollars what a deal this is a pretty
good strategy you can get rid of a lot of old crap I know anyone want a
Colton Colin didn't know that he was taking that home he thought he was just
taking it outside
what English isn't his first language I
thought you guys said we got tablecloths these are just Square garbage bags you
took pictures of things h no he didn't I
asked and he's like no bro I will remember how close does it have to be to
the original you have security cameras everywhere in your house there is 30 FPS
of photos fight look it's the first time Colton had a bright
idea back to this switch that you threw at me for a second we've got four 10 gig
down links we've got a 10 gig up link this is 1 gig it's four port 10 gig 1
gig is just for PoE power if you want Power with PoE why on Earth would we use
these we're going to need so many of them we only using one of these it's just for the spot right there in the
land room since there's two systems there oh the rest of them are going to
be set up with these the Enterprise xg4
which is 24 ports of 10 gig and two 25
gig ports which we actually are going to make use of seriously we're going to run
fiber back to the mechanical room just for a couple of them where do we put it
this switch is going to be for pretty much this entire room so we want to go
somewhere a little bit more Central I was kind of thinking on the floor over
here on the floor me we put on the table
uh floor is probably good actually if we're going to have cable snake over we're going to have to like tape cables
good call yeah okay conveniently my network room is already ubiqui up the
butt so all we have to do is link it you've brought a lot of gear here and
you also brought Shawn who's our Network admin guy uh what are we doing de
perfecting your perfectly organized rack oh yeah oh 100% baby it's happening
today do you have any idea how many hours I spent on this well we're going
to make it great that's what Sean's here for starting with this a dream machine
SE it's really not that different than what you have you have a dream machine pro the the main things are it has a 2.5
gig Wan here it has PoE so if you just have a couple cameras this is a good one
for you but we needed two matching ones so we can show off Shadow mode which is
like a high availability setup for Dream Machines sort of it's like it's like a
warm spare we got to swap this in I already downloaded the config from that
one so in theory we unplug that and put this in and it will just be exactly the
same nothing nothing will break in theory you have any idea how many times
this man has told me that well it's
usually what I say before you go completely off script and just start unplugging
deflection I have no idea what I just unplug it was not very effective this is
an aggregation Pro it's meant to be like a proper core switch like the the
central part of your network it's 10 gig on all of these and then 425s okay so
this is going to be your new core switch in your rack and all of your other
switches will link off of this and then the steam cache that we have for the
event will link off of this oo and so
will some of the tables with some Fiber now this thing is legit because we're
planning to get a lot more use out of it than just this land once the Badminton
Center is up and running this is going to just live there so we can just unroll
everything host a land event roll it all back up and be back to bton do you
recognize this thing yeah this is our old router yeah the old PF box yeah is
it fast enough yeah so land cach the open source project that people use for
caching games at land party so it caches like steam battl net or Windows updates
is a huge one at LTX that was 25% of the
traffic in the land doesn't surprise me it runs on engine X which is an open
source web server that is stupid efficient like half the internet
probably runs on engine X I've tested this particular box at 50 gig off of the
cash and we still weren't hitting 100% CPU well we got for drives in here oh my
God open it up open it up you I don't need to I can already see you took the
kokas no it makes it makes it much better once you see the rest of it oh my
gosh you put four u.2 drives in here
yeah the problem is this server is PCIe
Gen 3 so you're losing a lot of performance off of these drives yeah I
think they'll be that's why I put four yeah these are the 7 tab kokia c6s uh
still really awesome drives we just have like 24 of them and don't really have a
use for them so this is a a great one the way to hook them up oh my God
there's two mini SAS HD ports here yeah yeah they're SATA or PCIe yeah they're
SATA by default it's not a buy off setting it's a jumper and it's on like
page 48 of the manual jumper is like right under here a physical jumper and
then you just added a an 8X card to handle the other two yeah this is an 8X
to dual m.2 that is bifurcated in the BIOS luckily this thing has bifurcation
it's a server board that was a likely con and then there's m.2 to mini SAS HD
Mini SAS HD to u.2 and it just barely fits man these get hot so I had to move
the fan that was here that's usually for an extra Nick to be there for the drives
they're they're spaced a little bit with velcro gets a little warm but it also
rips and the integrated four 10 gig
ports mean we can combine them for 40 gig out of this thing it's pretty
awesome and it's so small yeah we got to
decide where we're putting stuff we know one of the routers is going in place of
this one y the other one is just for that shadow
mode thing it's still early access so I don't think you're going to want to
deploy that in your house to I'm thinking we just put it up there so
during the land party if there's a problem we have that cash these magnetic
Cable Management things are great I use them for everything check this out not
only do I hold cables in place with them I use these ones to hold this door open
see
look is Yvonne working from home she's
not going to have internet for like a minute it's probably fine YOLO how many
LT merch items do you think I'm going to be cleaning up for my house after this
land that don't have people's names on them these guys working on the important
stuff TP distribution Squad did we plan to put anyone on the stage here no okay
so theoretically we could get a couch and put it here and people could use the
projector maybe actually no not really
there's going to be people's computers here hey okay n forget it I can always
count on you to tell me what's up oh great I one thing I didn't realize is
that while we're doing the W show today I thought we were doing it at the studio
turns out we're doing it here which might not be that bad
because I mean I'm already set up for streaming right here Andy Andy be
luke we can make that work right yeah this is perfect for Lan show Lan show
yeah nice we just need Dan oh we just need
Dan to help hey speak of the
devil um we decided how we're doing W show come come come come hey that looks
pretty good yeah easy you know I think things are kind of coming together the
family room looks great dining room not
that wow we're seating a lot of people in here heck yeah 10 yep the living room
is going to be where it's happening man this is awesome so we're just going to
send it eh what else do we ever do this is fair all right yeah there you go oh
it came out cool my favorite way to remove cage nuts these are rack studs if you're not
familiar they are little nylon well cage
nut Replacements they make them in individual ones which is what's in use
for most of the rack but they make these awesome ones called The Duo and it's
specifically designed for oneu Stuff they're so easy you just put it
in and it's a little easier when you don't have a bunch of stuff to and fro
but boom and then once you put the piece of equipment in you just spin these
little nylon nuts on pob sh Uncle they're super strong anything that you
could use cage nuts for you can totally use these for I have been asked if the
network is down correct I will pass that
along CH booting back up is someone coordinating the food order I'm
coordinating the food order I just sent it my Wi-Fi is down I switched to iOS I
don't know how a hot spot works on an iPhone everyone just left for lunch and
while I could just sit here and eat the rest of my mountain of Greek salad and load games onto my computer I realized
you know what it would be way more useful if I figure out how to use the
Sono speaker setup as a PA system I've
wanted to do this basically since I installed it and I just keep not getting around to it now I got an excuse you can
see why we do videos here right but on the Play Store I found an app called
Sonos talk intercom for Sonos with 4.2 stars and 10,000 plus downloads let's
give it a shot welcome to lonus land 2023 or should I say lonus land only
ever because we are never doing this again welcome welcome to lius land 2023
or should I say lius land only ever because we're never doing this again I
think just the one in this room will probably be
fine I think just the one in this room will probably be fine fast forward about
an hour and some lunch and our network setup is almost done at least on this
side you can see there's there's nothing plugged in here yet all the Upstream is
not done yet but we do at least have the core switch in here and the rest of the
switch is properly Uplink to it so the internet comes in from our dream machine
into our core switch and then we have two 10 gig links there there and there
to each of the other switches so those are all going to have 20 gig lacp links
and then our steam cache wonderful 40 gig you can see all four of them right
there we've clearly gone past necessary signage all the way
to whatever this is but we are making
real progress as well the basement room is totally set up for networking and
power the garage has gone from unpleasant and bare to still pretty
unpleasant but not bare just hope you don't end up with the seat because
you're going to be right next to the cat PE contaminated bean bag
filling I got to throw that away and Dan has done whatever this
is okay we got net data running here so
we can see if the cache is running I am on Wi-Fi so like this is probably not
going to be the most amazing speeds I'm getting 250 down megabit and I can see
it on the cach which means the cash is indeed working the dream machine did
actually plug in and adopt everything again like it was nothing which is great
on the very off chance that there was some issue with the fiber I wanted to
have some internet so I brought our little like backup LTE Puck and we'll
plug that into the dream machine which does have failover support So in theory
it would automatically fail over this will not get used but I'm going to plug it in anyways now let's talk Shadow mode
which is the new warm spare High availability thing that they've got
going it's really simple to Cable you
basically just take a port off of your land side on your dream machine that you
have as your primary and you plug that in to the WAN port on the backup dream
machine that's all you have to do to Cable it then you go into the UniFi
dashboard and configure Shadow mode selecting the backup dream machine as
the backup and if you do have a failure
it's not quite there yet where it will automatically fail over what you'll have
to do is recable it ever so slightly so
you would take your land side and plug it into the backup one and you would
take your Wan your proper Wan and plug it into the backup one because what it's
doing is keeping the config on the backup dream machine the exact same as
the active one so if there was a big failure all you have to do is a couple
simple steps to move some cables around if you had a proper separate management Network you could actually do this all
with vlans and not actually have to move any switches or have a tech on hand all
the time but in the long term the goal is for them to have a kind of like op
Shadow mode that would be proper full High availability where everything would
be wired up and if something went down it would detect it and be like ah time
to pull in the backup one it's coming eventually but in the meantime this is
what we got and it's a hell of a lot better than nothing we've got our core in our land cache is working our minis
form is presumably working everything's wired up I guess all we have to do now
is wire up all of that I think in the background people have been running
Ethernet cables from the switches I peaked my head in after lunch but um we
do need to run the uplinks fortunately when we did the Rena we ran Cat 6A and
10 gig to everywhere in lineus is heal so anyone that's upstairs is just going
to run off the existing wires that are patched in here already we just have to
kind of configure the ports but for the downstairs since it's a lot closer and
kind of because we can I have this super
cool armored single mode fiber from infinite cables that we're just going to
like run through the halls and connect the downstairs main switches at 25 gig
and actually we have enough ports that we could just run it at 50 gig which is
silly but we're going to do it anyways with the help of these guys from Flex
Optics what's even cooler about Flex Optics transceivers is that they're
Universal unless you specify when you're buying it it won't have any programming
when you get it instead you need their Flex box which is a transceiver
programmer you plug it in and then you can configure it to be recognized as a
transceiver from any number of companies they even have it down to like specific
model numbers from certain companies and while you biy products don't care what
vendor or model of transceiver you're using as long as it's generally
compatible um some companies do like if you have a Cisco switch you can like set
it to any number of different Cisco ones I mean we'll still use the ubiquity one
that's on here cuz why not but in theory I could program it to the Cisco one and
it would just work maybe I'll just do that once it's programmed you just take your transceiver plug your single fiber
into it because it's by dieye plug it into the switch the other side's not connected so
it's not going to work but it will soon hey uh there's no Ethernet in the the
living room oh we can solve that pretty easily yeah we just got to run us one of
the spools up into the office yeah well I don't know where the spools are so
they AR very helpful oh they're in the garage they were oh yeah we got all the
fiber spools already is that one of the holes I think that one and then that one
oh it's literally right here oh yeah
yeah they didn't hire me cuz I'm smart they hired me cuz I plan
events for funsies I decided to have a look at how our energy consumption has
increased since we started setting up oh I forgot we installed that during the
solar right we are already up by about
30% and we haven't even powered on any people's computers yet now here's the
thing we talked about all the different circuits and running extension cords
everywhere we are pretty sure we're not going to blow any of these Breakers but
what we don't know is if we're going to blow the main service to the house I've
only got 200 amps which wait is it 200
or 100 I can't remember 200 amps that should be
fine so you're telling me don't dry my
clothes don't charge my car oh certainly don't charge the car though of course
the biggest star of the land party is definitely going to be the most analog
game there super checks hockey let's go
come at me bro
oh dang got all the controllers charged
up so we can do up to eight players on PC or I think we got uh five switch Pro
Pro controllers and it's amazing how quickly one of Dan setups can go from
spaghetti cables everywhere to Spaghetti cables just in most places I think we're
pretty much ready right like here if I sat here that
oh no that's definitely not right well we'll figure it out who brings two
monitors to a land Chase did you not tell people they can only have one
monitor I couldn't help noticing that this is a really weird setup and has a
bunch of stuff we didn't talk about why are there Thunderbolt Nicks in here for
The Minis forum and what does that do if you want to have a game server or it
runs the SMB share so people can share files it was one of those things where
like I could run it on your Nas but then I'd have to ask you to like get access
to it and it was easier to just bring the minis for him but it couldn't run on
the seam cash it could it's just running Docker but I like to just have the cash
be its own thing really he just really likes that little mini Forum box and
wanted an excuse to use it the CPU in this thing is almost as powerful as two
2690 v4s right why do we need a py KVM
for the mini form oh just so that you can remotely access it if you need to
change anything uh which actually came in handy because I screwed something up with the firewall on it and what game
servers are we planning to run Counter Strike uh there's a couple like weird
landan Windows games that chase brought up and they only run on Windows okay so
cool there's a Windows VM oh are we going to have a dedicated Halo C server
we can we should is it better that way oh yeah okay we yeah so there's no host
Advantage we'll go do that after okay look the fiber is all done so we've got
50 gig to the switch out here which is silly we don't have Ethernet in the
family room like we thought so we've got 25 gig up there and 25 gig to the lower
garage nice and then the rest of it it is all Uplink through the existing
switches each of these have 20 gig but
every individual seat has 10 that's the big thing I think we might actually be
okay for power we're only at about 9 kilowatt hours in the last hour oh this
only updates every hour though we're going to have to see how this
goes can you not I already told you you
could only have one monitor we have like a 300 watt power budget per person
things are going great out here I see you guys are the cold gang any
particular reason you chose the uh garage cuz it's going to get hot why are
you also running ferm
Mark nobody wants to go in here a oh
well it's cuz it's the family room they thought it was reserved for family
which would also explain why the living room is full of all the people who are the life of the party you guys have so
much energy they
try nobody in the theater yet because uh
our camera operator right there and Chase who's helping organize things have
already Stak their claims here but this looks freaking awesome you brought an
iMac to a land party yes but Ruby was
super easy to bring just like this
that's not the problem icon uh game here
like play League of Legends for example
yeah it's all the games that are supported on Mac like League of Legends
that's my for and League of Legends I don't need
more I just finished W show and came downstairs it is an absolute mad house
in here and it's like this in basically every area that we set up we had a few
people RSVP and not show up but then we also had some randoms show up and we
really did end up with we think about 80 people obviously the cooling is okay
other than that I think right now the AC is running and also the heating is
running no no no I flipped the breakers off in the AC because we were worried
that we were going to run out of power I see speaking of which what we haven't
addressed yet is the power how's the power doing we're drawing 17 Kow the
highest I've seen it go is like 19 and a half which sounds scary but we're
actually okay because it's a 200 amp 240
volt service technically it's two phases right
so only can really load that to 80% which is 160 amps but that's still like
35 KS like we're fine so we could fill like the upstairs next time in
theory that everything is on the right phases evenly split up which it probably
mostly is sick um I was worried about the AC freezing outside cuz it's so cold
that makes sense you know what with the Windows open anyway it's fine it's fine
they actually had the Bay open in the garage and everyone was happy with it
other than Sten who sitting right next to the open Bay so I closed it but yeah
I mean power's fine oh yeah okay 6 700
megabytes a seconds even at LTX with
like 500 seats the peak we saw was like 15 well the thing is the faster your
connection is the less likely it is to
become congested because you download a game so fast that you're on it and off
it and people are pretty good about downloading games account and you
usually run out of CPU on an individual client so most people can push like 2
gig or something like that maybe my 13900 K was at like 70% usage and I'm
going 250 MB a second as fast as I can
sick I figure now that there's like a 100 people in the building is a a good
time to test the Wi-Fi so the AP is over
there we've got lots of people in
here 200 300 600 700 800 900 the upload
is not going to be as good I don't know what is about these new iPhones but I
feel like the antenna is not that great cuz even when I'm at my house and I'm
like right next to my AP I get like maybe 500 up on 60 um on a laptop you'll
get above gig but look at that one almost 1,000 down of course as cool as
all of this is it is just the pre-show for what whale lands are going to be
like at the Badminton Center I just want to shout out ubiquity for sponsoring
this video providing all the networking gear that they did also infinite cables
yes we will talk about infinite cables Jake uh oh and also Flex optics for
providing some of these transceivers uh we are going to be taking all this stuff
ripping it out of my house obviously packing it over to the land Center and
getting some sick events going over there I hope to see you guys there if
you guys enjoyed this video oh maybe go check out the one where we roasted
people's rigs at wh land 2023 it was amazing some of them were so dumb
there's cool water just pee in the water oh