this dish is so that we can send a wi-fi signal
10 kilometers away to alex and brandon over at the sfu surrey campus now we've
actually played around with ubiquity's dish-based long-range wi-fi before but
i did not set it up properly so while we did manage to send a wi-fi signal across
our parking lot which was further than we would have been able to do with a
conventional router that wasn't that impressive
but that all changes today mike from ubiquity is back and he's going to be
showing us how to do it properly
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link below so brandon and alex should be in this
parking lot right here so as long as there's no tree
branches or decorative log things in the way of that
hopefully we'll get a signal uh so are you guys set up right now
uh like sort of i've i'm like 90 done
setting up the camera okay you called what's up has alex started building
dishes or anything yet he started building one of them yeah okay
yeah go ahead put it back in the car um we're not going to use it don't build
the small one alex that one should be fine for this project
but because of all the mist in the air we actually changed gears a little bit
and instead we're going to use the rocket ac
gen 2. uh you've got chain one and chain zero which are your vertical and your
horizontal these are connected to the antenna right here
we've got some indicator leds that are you can actually use to see in real time
like if you're pointed the right way though don't worry there's more precise
ways to do that and then you've also got an additional antenna spot here for gps
uh all that's left on here on the front is this dish you want to make sure this
doesn't get dented or anything like that that'll change the shape of the signal
and then what was this one called again a feed horn
that's where you feed it hello it's alex how are you guys doing so far how close
are you guys we're all set up um we have the
stand mostly built and we're about at
the stage of attaching the satellite to the stand
okay do you know how to power it not a clue okay well you guys should have a
big battery yeah it's charging right now it wasn't
charged yeah mostly decharged over the weekend
uh cool well why don't you guys finish up what you're doing and we'll get ours
powered up in the meantime and then we'll be able to walk you through what to do all right
boom pull so we're like pretty much we're very
close to being done now also my hands are freezing
i feel like that having a red camera just makes you more official and nobody
questions if you're allowed to be there
um
now we might be getting kicked off because
where we need to sit to connect between the two campuses
isn't technically campus property so although we do have permission to park
we might not have permission to
build a wi-fi antenna so where are we aiming exactly
kind of to the right of the tall tree can somebody point at the tree the the
tall tree can you can you look at the tall tree
max there's two so
who's kicking you out the mall security
the car park that we're on is technically the shopping centers so
yeah we don't have permission to work here oh okay
the great thing is like right after we filmed the intro today i was like wow everything's going so
smoothly but through the fog of war i couldn't see
it's just fun so we got completely kicked out of the
parking lot which would be bad except now we're inside
where it's warm which is nice and we might have through that great big
window behind me a direct line of sight to the burnaby campus i'm not entirely
sure but we'll be able to find out it's our best bet at the moment and we're warm
which is great so so theoretically all they have to do is fire it up
set it to our ssid and then configure
their antenna and we should be able to start dialing them in
assuming we have actual line of sight which we can't verify until we do that
so this is approximately what we want right
we can't even see those trees anymore that's crazy like how much [ __ ] in the
[ __ ] holy crap so if we're firing like you know 10 city
blocks away we're not getting any saint karby
it's gonna be challenging for sure at least i have this handy tripod to
support me as i go through this
so you guys are powered up now yep okay do you have a laptop plugged into
the other Ethernet port um what is other Ethernet port
um i'm sending you a picture
okay please tell me you guys have two Ethernet cables
yep i got it and we do have two Ethernet cables oh yep this makes way more sense
now okay good
and then i'll walk you through some um some ip stuff all right
okay so three 192.168.1.6
um it says this site can't be reached uh no no no you're supposed to change
your laptop's ip address to that manually
oh okay now you should just go into a web
browser and type in 192.168.1.20
okay so now you guys have to do your darndest
through the fog to point at sfu burnaby
do you know roughly like what heading i should be pointing at or anything
i don't know the idea was that we were going to have like binoculars and we were just going
to kind of look at each other and that is clearly not going to be a thing okay
go to the settings
under control frequency scan list change it to on and type in 5300.
um i probably underestimated how far off
north you guys need to be looking it's like probably 40 degrees off
yeah and looking at where you guys are looking out of that building i don't see
how we're gonna get a link also if this doesn't work we have permission to go
back up onto the parking lot oh really
so we're back outside hopefully it doesn't rain again
at least now we kind of know where we're supposed to point it's sort of like that
way by where that great big crane is i think those also are pictures that were
taken like a year ago so
who knows if we can't hit the parking lot when they get out there one of our staff
actually has a place that is almost exactly due south of here which means we
would basically just align ourselves with the window and
point straight out of it if we have a line of sight to him
oh we are set back up again you're set up okay fantastic
yeah sorry we're exploring other options
since otherwise we were just kind of sitting here being useless while you guys did all the work and uh we were
thinking tyler's house might actually make sense i don't know
if you've been there before oh yes i have
well either way it's going to be tight like in terms of trees and stuff
but yeah tyler's place may actually be a decent bet okay team b
is heading to a new location on the roof of
one of our staff's houses
we think that it's going to be a little bit easier to hit because it's almost
directly due south of here so it's a bit easier to eyeball
also there isn't a new building that went up since we scouted the locations
how are you guys doing up there um pretty good we had some food
uh no there's like kind of a sunset actually
the sun just sets so we don't really have great light anymore but it was pretty fantastic right before we started
filming yeah our lighting was great all day and now we're just using like an led
lamp on the camera so this video
at the very least is gonna look
like garbage at the end like i feel like garbage so the video might as well like
really just bring it home great here actually
um kind of like the middle right corner
middle right what's the right corner okay yeah that's a horrible descriptor
um like the north corner can you see the building
kind of to the right of that one with the red on it right
what so there's like a white box on the top of it i think
okay i see it so basically do you see that white box
shoot at the mountain above that wait no hold on let me double check um
because i actually might not have put our our pin on the exact window that
we're at no i didn't hold on one second let me just correct that all right this
is such a stupid way to do this i can't think of a better way so
okay just make sure i have that mark in the right spot because even a couple of
degrees like if we can get you guys locked in then we can just adjust until we hit you
i'm trying to get the height right now
which is kind of hard to do because we're supposed to do like two degrees
but this is very far from level
it's all like this so i think it would maybe like five degrees is good
but you've got it to two degrees ish
yeah ish because this whole roof is like
what a pain
i have such a headache right now
yeah at least it's not raining now yeah that's
good so if i just like if i just like scan past like kind of fast do you guys
see a blip nothing like not a thing there wasn't even like
maybe noise out there yeah nothing at all um yeah not a thing
all right i think it's time to call it guys thanks everyone good work today
well i mean the kind of work that's good but like doesn't achieve anything
okay so it's been a few months and
we are back at it again this time there's a bit of wind to toss my hair
i've got binoculars they're not
great binoculars i've got a rooftop
and i've got a clear shot to maple ridge
now we already realized that we don't have a pole for our
stand here that seems to have gotten lost at some point but the good news is
i'm on my parents rooftop and the odds of them having a random pole sitting
around somewhere very good
here's one did not stage that
that one doesn't fit
i can smell success
um
that looks pretty uh um
pretty almost ready to be called steady this wasn't tight so it's like that way
ish or like over there we're not totally sure all right
we are pulled
oh almost
ed should have really brought a compass
hello hey hey there buddy okay so
i have the satellite dish hooked up everything's powered on i can't get the
setup to work on it uh yeah i think it's because we're reconfigured with
different static ips and stuff so i think you might have to factory reset it
so that's just when you push the little thingy in the thingy yeah the thingy in
the thingy you'll need to find a small thingy
i really wish mike was here because i'm looking at some of the tools and the
thing and i don't even remember ever looking at this stuff
yeah same okay i'm into the um spot where i need to log in okay cool
ubnt ubnt u for up
b for butt n for nut t for testicle
i put that in for both of them yeah
i don't know which of us is the um
is the access point and which of us
is the client and i think it matters
man okay what antenna do you have set um
rd 5g 30 30 dbi
wait wait a minute wait a minute you just shared your location with me five
minutes ago is that you like seconds ago yeah okay so the golden ears
bridge is right behind you so you guys are in
pit meadows uh okay so there's the golden ears bridge
holy crap that's really far away how close are you guys to identifying
where i am um very very
not close we definitely should have had binoculars but
if i was looking past you what would i see past you
you're looking past me um
the the river basically um we're like right beside the river
there's a bunch of trees a bunch of trees not gonna do a lot for
me if i go like way down on the shore i
can see the golden years bridge
okay now we're talking and what part of it is directly behind
you see how it's got four sets of supports
that's part of the problem right now i'm having a really hard time seeing the
water because i think there's a lot of trees and crap along the shore and also
the water's brown which definitely doesn't help yeah everything's brown at this distance
because it's a like pretty clear day but it's not a perfectly clear day okay i
know where you guys are what does your building look like okay so my building
is the one with all of the like kind of blade looking
uh things on the top of it
you can't see that well okay why didn't you guys get binoculars do
you want to take something like a mirror to have to bounce
i feel like they're flying to us uh yeah i've got like a gigantic golden
bounce all right do you want to start bouncing then i'm gonna start bouncing it baby
like you guys are so far away man i don't know if there's any way you're
gonna be able to see this but okay i'm i'm gold damn you see me yup i
see you no way yes i can see it
okay well that there you go that's where we are
all right you need me to hold it up so that you guys can aim i think we're good
now oh freaking hey i cannot believe that
worked oh oh i'm so excited do we know how far we
are uh how far are you i think it's about 12 kilometers it's like eight
miles for the american viewers it's far
okay cool you're on speaker because we're recording everything okay
don't say anything incriminating you know
uh okay so so how would they search for
me just the alignment tool the alignment tool
would be best to use yeah it'll make sounds depending on the signal that it
detects so the align tool though should work now that i have set an access point
frequency and they should be able to just see stuff yes it should help
reporting i believe the alignment tool should give you kind of like a like you
should give you a more better idea when you're getting close to something there's a toggle switch for audio though
i think thank you i'll give you a call if we need any more help which will probably happen okay bye
all right let's call alex back up
hey okay so theoretically right now we are
about as set up as we can be turn on the
audio indicator okay it's on and now we just have to try
and hit each other all right whoa whoa whoa whoa
what why wasn't this coming up before i didn't even touch it we hit him i didn't
even adjust it we're at uh current signal minus 80 decibels that is
well within the threshold check this out brandon we got two bars baby okay that
beeping is really friggin annoying i'm gonna turn that right off there now
okay so should i have internet now
uh no wait
okay we should be able to share a file between our two computers at the very
least ah
okay so here we have it i can see
alex's computer fu Linus folder that's very nice okay
here we go this is it
two megs a second dang
so that's 20 megabit from here to 12 kilometers away under a
bridge somewhere brandon don't die
all right so uh do you guys want you know what why don't i do the fine tuning
for now because you guys had something to to aim at exactly whereas i could be
just kind of close-ish yeah okay so that just got worse are you guys looking at
the indicator right now too yeah it just went down for me
so i'm a little bit off to the left give me one second
okay is that better now um it's not as good as before
really i still have 74. oh wait hold on hold on hold on don't
change anything yet okay not changing anything
okay i'm at as good as i've seen yet
so you can go ahead and you can try and adjust your height and or your whatever
and let's see what we see all right i'm just gonna push it a very small amount 73 71
72 okay i'm going to need to like put a box
underneath the front leg of our thing
fantastic i can't believe how aligned we were at the start based
on how small the adjustments that i'm making are yeah we just did our vertical
adjustment and that did that got us down to 71 so i think that i
can't be any more aligned okay well you can try horizontal like let's just see
what happens just play with it just a little bit
oh wow that's much worse yeah this is like
fractions of a degree okay so all that's left now is for me to
play around with height then
oh that's better for me that's better minus 67 yeah
minus 65. i got four bars baby
four bars come check it out oh damn we got four bars let me see if i can get a
little bit more we're at what negative 61 damn okay
should we do another speed test okay i'm ready to copy the bigger file
dang 15 megs a second
150 megabit wi-fi
over 12 kilometers
and it only took us
six months to set up all right i think that's pretty much it
gentlemen so all that's left to do now then is tear this down because
we don't actually need to beam a network connection between the roof of my
parents building and uh a park somewhere in pitt meadows
but it was still cool to see this in action
actually freaking working and i think it's probably got a lot of gears turning
in your guys's heads in terms of how long-range wi-fi like this could be
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