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Hi! Welcome to ShortCircuit! I'm really excited for today, because we're solving a problem that we've had for about one day.

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We don't have internet in our lovely office that is definitely not the old Langley house.

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But Alta Labs is hopefully here to save the day.

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This is a switch and AP and networking ecosystem that I have not had the pleasure of experiencing yet,

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and I'm really stoked to be doing it in this exact environment.

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Bell's here with me to fact check. We're staying 5p too far, don't worry.

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We're gonna start with the Switch, the S24POE. We've got the accessory pack here.

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What do we got in here? Propaganda, community form, technical support.

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Oops, sorry. There's stuff in there. Daylighter, did you pee? Is that why it's warmer?

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Uh, don't, don't think about it. Okay. Oh, they come with rack studs! That's so cool!

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Power cable, only one, which makes me think that this is not gonna have redundant power supplies.

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Not my preferred, but here we are. And then we've got the little rack here, so we're gonna have to put on the switch and emit.

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Oh, we've got some free floaties!

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Wonderful. Nice, nice foam.

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Oh, that went right on my laptop. Oh, okay.

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This is the S24POE. It's a 24 plus 2 port switch here.

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16 of them, you can see in the box here, can do PoE plus power.

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And the other eight are just normal gigabit. And then on this side, we have two SFP plus ports.

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So those, in theory, based on it being SFP plus, should do 10 gig.

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Although it doesn't say, I'm just hoping that is the case.

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Around the back, we have two fans and a single power supply.

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I would have really liked to see two power supplies here, if I mean honest. I don't know what the price point is, but I imagine it's reasonable and that's probably why.

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I do like, they have discrete LEDs for the PoE power, which is nice.

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And I think that's pretty much it for here. You can screw on the rack gears on the side, but let's look at the Wi-Fi.

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That's what people want. Hey, look at that. AP6 Professional.

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It's a four by four dual band enterprise wireless access point.

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So it's not going to be doing Wi-Fi 6E with six gigahertz,

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but it will do 2.4 and 5G on four by four, which is nice.

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Ah, it's a cool. It's a nice form factor, I will say.

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I imagine this is an LED here. We got a little, that must be their logo.

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Yes, it's their logo. On the back, heat sinking, a, oh, this reset button.

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Good job, Alta Labs. It's on the back of an access point.

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Nobody's going to accidentally like push it. We've got the PoE plus input, which is a one gig RJ45.

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What else is in here? Propaganda, plastic mounting bracket, screws.

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Oh, and little feats. If you want to put it on your desk, that's a good, good inclusion.

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Oh, nice. A bracket for installing on drop ceiling T bars.

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It's got the little ears, so you would click it on and then screw in the,

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presumably the blast, the plastic bracket. So it's IP54, which means I should be able to do this.

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No, we've got two.

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I wouldn't go all the way. I think the 54, what does 54 mean?

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Do you remember what IP54 is? Like splashes indirectly. IP54 is pretty good.

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I just dipped the tip. That should be fine, right? Yeah, yeah, tipped it. Tipped it.

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All right, I could try this tip too. Or I'll dip this tip too.

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What are you trying to do? Is this like a ubiquity competitor or something?

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Yeah, but we need internet at the house, right? So you're welcome.

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Yeah, brilliant. How does this work?

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Wait, what the hell? How does this go?

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So it just clicks in. I imagine this would be a lot easier to do if it was on a wall,

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because you would just like tilt the end it and then the slide it.

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I imagine there's two little like spring loaded tabs on the side.

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Well, that screw is gone forever. It's really, really springy sprongs.

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Oh, there we go. And then you said wiggle it back and forth. Oh yeah, that came out pretty easily.

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You'd imagine it would be on a ceiling and you would just stick the screwdriver in there.

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It would pop that side out and then you just give it a wiggle.

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Yeah, that's pretty easy. I like that you don't need a special tool.

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And this is just another one of those. I guess that means we can deploy some Wi-Fi.

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All right, we've moved inside. I've been allowed to use a little bit of power so we can try this out.

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And we got the APs here. It linked up to the neighbor's internet, which is great.

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I mean, our internet, great. Let's see if the Wi-Fi works.

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Got these great ubiquity internet cables.

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There's one. See if we get any lights. Hey, blue.

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I downloaded their app and got signed in. Oh yeah, look at that right there. So yeah, I see them on my phone already, which is cool.

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Wait, oh, they even show on my laptop.

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Sick. I just am on the Alta Labs website connected to the neighbor's Wi-Fi.

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And it's working just fine. So here, let me go set up. Looks like they both have firmware updates, unfortunately.

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Damn, that was fast.

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Connected. I want the most Wi-Fi five.

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We'll do 160 wide. Why not? It's not letting me pick DFS channels, which is a little strange.

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Look at that. Oh, that's cute. It's even got like a traffic graph.

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Let me add a Wi-Fi network that we can connect to here.

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Neighbor's Wi-Fi. That seems appropriate.

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Add password. Oh, oh yeah, I forgot you can do that.

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It was one of the big features that they announced when Alta Labs kind of came to market with these new APs.

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You can have multiple passwords and define different settings based on that password.

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You can do this on ubiquity access points now too, but you could have like one Wi-Fi network,

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and you have a password for you and your partner, and then you have a password for your kids.

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And you want to have no download cap where you set them a cap

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where you can set a schedule so they only get Wi-Fi at certain times, or you can make it so you bypass the like adult filtering and they don't.

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Blocked applications. What can I add? Ooh, look at all these applications.

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Oh, there's no search here. That's a little lame. Let's try that TikTok.

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Yeah, no TikTok in this house. I'm going to update these and then let's try them out.

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You know, curiously actually, I don't see the switch. It's not detecting the switch.

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I don't know if the switches work on their dashboard. Maybe it's just a dumb switch.

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Wow, they actually updated. It feels like in seconds.

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I mean, we cut the camera for a few minutes there, but I wasn't really paying attention and they're already done.

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Oh yeah, look at that. Wow, the traffic. It's already there. It's very responsive.

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I like that. And it's cool because this isn't like a cloud key with ubiquity

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or like a paid online service. This is just what you get by default.

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You can have full management of your devices on their cloud

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without having to pay for anything or pay for a subscription, which is pretty cool for like normies.

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It would be nice to have the option to self host the controller and I imagine they're probably working on that.

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I can see my device here. Look, I got an IP address. We can see our negotiated rates are around 1,000, 1,300 meg.

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Let's run a speed test. I think the neighbors only have one gig up and down,

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so that's the best we're going to get. Here, probably should, here, let me optimize this a little more here.

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Look at how optimized my Wi-Fi. I don't know if these channels are already in use though,

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so let me check that really quick. Let's try the scan feature and it will tell us.

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Scan, quick scan. Shouldn't interrupt your Wi-Fi network.

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That's cool. Oh wow, that was, like how fast that was. It's already done.

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It looks like I should use, I need 160 wide,

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so I need quite a few. Or the only 160 wides we got.

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Okay, so I could do like 112. Let's try that. Wi-Fi channel.

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There we go. Yeah, the DFS channels are working now too, so maybe that's just an app thing

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or because they were out of date, I'm not sure. And then for AP one, let me just disable AP one.

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Oh, look at that. You pick the channel and you just hit disable.

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So easy. I love you, ubiquity, but the amount of times I've asked

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for just let me turn off the goddamn radio on an AP

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without having to screw around with like AP groups, that was so easy and that's how easy it should be.

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We do have it up on the 160 wide now. Let me connect and then we'll do a proper speed test

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and see how fast she goes. It's not Wi-Fi 60, so we're probably not gonna see

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a beyond gigabit speeds and we only have a one gig

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neighbor connection here, but it should still be pretty quick.

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Looks like about 560 down, getting pretty close to 700 up.

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If you had faster internet and maybe not other people

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using it, sorry neighbors, it'd probably be faster, but that's pretty good.

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Trying on my phone, I guess. It looks pretty similar. 450 down, 360 up, not the best ever,

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but also not ideal circumstances whatsoever.

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Something I realized I missed earlier on the front of these switches is the reset button, but it's not recessed.

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Now I liked it on the access point right there

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because it would be hard to accidentally press this. It's on the back, you can't even get to it

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if you wanted to. Here, when you're fumbling around in the rack

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trying to plug in a cable, I could see you accidentally pressing this. That being said, you probably have to hold it

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for some amount of time, so it's probably an odd issue,

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but it seems a little bit sketch.

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Hey, look at that. Actually, the switch is picking up now. Here, let's click set up.

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Here's to be in factory reset. Do you want to set up this device again? Yes.

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It's currently assigned to another user's account.

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This can happen if the previous owner of this device has not deleted this device from their account.

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Do you want to request permission to use this device?

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Okay, yeah, I guess. It's software DRM'd with their cloud hosting,

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even though I reset it. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, it's good from the perspective of it

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getting stolen and not being able to reuse,

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but also if you were to sell one of these and not reset it from your account, that would be not great.

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They tested it in the lab, and that's why it was adopted to somebody's account.

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They reset it, and now we're in. It also has a software update,

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but this time I'm going to roll because I want to know how fast it updates.

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There we go, update, click. Let's see.

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Oh, there's a little, no way. There's no way it was that fast.

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Update, 100% complete, it says. Bullsh**t.

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I'll refresh, let's see. No, it still says 100% complete.

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I don't know about this, chief. The update status went away.

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Oh, I think it's rebooting now. That's pretty fast. Let's see how fast it reboots though.

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Yeah, I don't have internet anymore. That makes sense. Internet gone. No, I have to connect to the neighbor's Wi-Fi now.

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The signal sucks.

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Okay, I'm doing stuff now. Blinky blink.

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Hey, there we go. Okay, a couple of minutes. Pretty, pretty fast, pretty respectable.

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Let's take a look at what the switch features are really quick. Okay, open it up there.

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I see the ports in a very condensed manner.

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Power cycle, the PoE, that's good. I can click on individual ports.

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I can set the native VLAN, the tagged allowed VLANs, PoE,

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speed, isolation, a download upload limit, a voice VLAN, loop detection, storm control,

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Mac control. Seems like most of the things here. Oh, it even has 802.1x.

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So you can do network access control. That's pretty cool. I can mirror ports, combine them.

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I don't know what this color stuff is. What does this even mean? Colors are a way to group specific APs together.

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APs will only broadcast these Wi-Fi networks that match their configured colors.

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Both APs and Wi-Fi networks can be part of multiple colors and groups. Okay, so that's basically AP groups.

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That's what the colors mean. They probably should have just called the groups and given the groups colors

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rather than calling them colors. But here we are. I can set VLANs.

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I can select all. It's pretty much what you would expect.

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It feels very new. Like this is...

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Software has existed for, I don't know,

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you know, a year. And they've got all the features in there, but maybe the layout and whatever

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isn't the most optimal yet. But it seemingly works.

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Link lights. Hey, you can turn them off. Let's try it.

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Hey, look at that. The link lights are off. That's a good feature.

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LED, white, red. Ooh, I can change the color. Let's go green.

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Eh? Eh, green. I wish it had a screen,

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but the green is cool too. So overall, I mean,

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I'm pretty stoked that there's another competitor in this kind of price point and space

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for small businesses and kind of like enthusiast at home

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where you want more control over your stuff. I look forward to when there's

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a local self-hostable controller. I know that that's in beta right now,

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but we'll have to see how that goes. Don't really like that it was DRM'd

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to another account as physical hardware. Really wish that wasn't a thing.

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Maybe the local controller will make that not a problem. But overall, it was cool.

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It's a very responsive dashboard. That much I like. Like, look at this.

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This is like a live feed of what's going on. Like the Ubiquiti one is pretty responsive,

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but this is, this might be another league, especially considering it's currently cloud-based.

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It's pretty impressive. If you like this video, like it, get subscribed.

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April Fool's, by the way. We're not actually moving into the house.

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We're not actually doing ShortCircuit from a cold, cold tub.

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Thank gosh.