WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.120 Hi! Welcome to ShortCircuit! I'm really excited for today, because we're solving a problem that we've had for about one day. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.680 We don't have internet in our lovely office that is definitely not the old Langley house. 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:14.960 But Alta Labs is hopefully here to save the day. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:21.520 This is a switch and AP and networking ecosystem that I have not had the pleasure of experiencing yet, 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:25.120 and I'm really stoked to be doing it in this exact environment. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.160 Bell's here with me to fact check. We're staying 5p too far, don't worry. 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:33.200 We're gonna start with the Switch, the S24POE. We've got the accessory pack here. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.560 What do we got in here? Propaganda, community form, technical support. 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.920 Oops, sorry. There's stuff in there. Daylighter, did you pee? Is that why it's warmer? 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:46.400 Uh, don't, don't think about it. Okay. Oh, they come with rack studs! That's so cool! 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:51.840 Power cable, only one, which makes me think that this is not gonna have redundant power supplies. 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:56.640 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. 00:00:56.720 --> 00:00:58.560 Oh, we've got some free floaties! 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:03.360 Wonderful. Nice, nice foam. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.920 Oh, that went right on my laptop. Oh, okay. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.640 This is the S24POE. It's a 24 plus 2 port switch here. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.080 16 of them, you can see in the box here, can do PoE plus power. 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:21.200 And the other eight are just normal gigabit. And then on this side, we have two SFP plus ports. 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.840 So those, in theory, based on it being SFP plus, should do 10 gig. 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:29.120 Although it doesn't say, I'm just hoping that is the case. 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:33.040 Around the back, we have two fans and a single power supply. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:39.280 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. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.640 I do like, they have discrete LEDs for the PoE power, which is nice. 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.200 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. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.360 That's what people want. Hey, look at that. AP6 Professional. 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.880 It's a four by four dual band enterprise wireless access point. 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:00.240 So it's not going to be doing Wi-Fi 6E with six gigahertz, 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:05.600 but it will do 2.4 and 5G on four by four, which is nice. 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:09.520 Ah, it's a cool. It's a nice form factor, I will say. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:12.880 I imagine this is an LED here. We got a little, that must be their logo. 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:18.160 Yes, it's their logo. On the back, heat sinking, a, oh, this reset button. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:23.120 Good job, Alta Labs. It's on the back of an access point. 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:30.800 Nobody's going to accidentally like push it. We've got the PoE plus input, which is a one gig RJ45. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.760 What else is in here? Propaganda, plastic mounting bracket, screws. 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:41.280 Oh, and little feats. If you want to put it on your desk, that's a good, good inclusion. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.760 Oh, nice. A bracket for installing on drop ceiling T bars. 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:48.960 It's got the little ears, so you would click it on and then screw in the, 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.520 presumably the blast, the plastic bracket. So it's IP54, which means I should be able to do this. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.000 No, we've got two. 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:02.560 I wouldn't go all the way. I think the 54, what does 54 mean? 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.960 Do you remember what IP54 is? Like splashes indirectly. IP54 is pretty good. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.400 I just dipped the tip. That should be fine, right? Yeah, yeah, tipped it. Tipped it. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.040 All right, I could try this tip too. Or I'll dip this tip too. 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:17.120 What are you trying to do? Is this like a ubiquity competitor or something? 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.760 Yeah, but we need internet at the house, right? So you're welcome. 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:24.080 Yeah, brilliant. How does this work? 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:26.800 Wait, what the hell? How does this go? 00:03:28.720 --> 00:03:32.240 So it just clicks in. I imagine this would be a lot easier to do if it was on a wall, 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.360 because you would just like tilt the end it and then the slide it. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.080 I imagine there's two little like spring loaded tabs on the side. 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:44.320 Well, that screw is gone forever. It's really, really springy sprongs. 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:48.720 Oh, there we go. And then you said wiggle it back and forth. Oh yeah, that came out pretty easily. 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:52.240 You'd imagine it would be on a ceiling and you would just stick the screwdriver in there. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.520 It would pop that side out and then you just give it a wiggle. 00:03:56.160 --> 00:03:59.520 Yeah, that's pretty easy. I like that you don't need a special tool. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:03.520 And this is just another one of those. I guess that means we can deploy some Wi-Fi. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.280 All right, we've moved inside. I've been allowed to use a little bit of power so we can try this out. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:11.440 And we got the APs here. It linked up to the neighbor's internet, which is great. 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:14.960 I mean, our internet, great. Let's see if the Wi-Fi works. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:19.040 Got these great ubiquity internet cables. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:24.320 There's one. See if we get any lights. Hey, blue. 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:29.680 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. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.560 Wait, oh, they even show on my laptop. 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:38.560 Sick. I just am on the Alta Labs website connected to the neighbor's Wi-Fi. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:44.080 And it's working just fine. So here, let me go set up. Looks like they both have firmware updates, unfortunately. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.480 Damn, that was fast. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.600 Connected. I want the most Wi-Fi five. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:57.600 We'll do 160 wide. Why not? It's not letting me pick DFS channels, which is a little strange. 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.520 Look at that. Oh, that's cute. It's even got like a traffic graph. 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:05.360 Let me add a Wi-Fi network that we can connect to here. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.320 Neighbor's Wi-Fi. That seems appropriate. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:13.040 Add password. Oh, oh yeah, I forgot you can do that. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.600 It was one of the big features that they announced when Alta Labs kind of came to market with these new APs. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:23.600 You can have multiple passwords and define different settings based on that password. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.880 You can do this on ubiquity access points now too, but you could have like one Wi-Fi network, 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:33.120 and you have a password for you and your partner, and then you have a password for your kids. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.320 And you want to have no download cap where you set them a cap 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:44.480 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. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:49.200 Blocked applications. What can I add? Ooh, look at all these applications. 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:53.280 Oh, there's no search here. That's a little lame. Let's try that TikTok. 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:57.280 Yeah, no TikTok in this house. I'm going to update these and then let's try them out. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:02.080 You know, curiously actually, I don't see the switch. It's not detecting the switch. 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:06.000 I don't know if the switches work on their dashboard. Maybe it's just a dumb switch. 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:10.720 Wow, they actually updated. It feels like in seconds. 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.800 I mean, we cut the camera for a few minutes there, but I wasn't really paying attention and they're already done. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.520 Oh yeah, look at that. Wow, the traffic. It's already there. It's very responsive. 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:23.600 I like that. And it's cool because this isn't like a cloud key with ubiquity 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:27.440 or like a paid online service. This is just what you get by default. 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:31.280 You can have full management of your devices on their cloud 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:37.200 without having to pay for anything or pay for a subscription, which is pretty cool for like normies. 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:42.880 It would be nice to have the option to self host the controller and I imagine they're probably working on that. 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:50.000 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. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.280 Let's run a speed test. I think the neighbors only have one gig up and down, 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:00.320 so that's the best we're going to get. Here, probably should, here, let me optimize this a little more here. 00:07:00.320 --> 00:07:04.960 Look at how optimized my Wi-Fi. I don't know if these channels are already in use though, 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:08.720 so let me check that really quick. Let's try the scan feature and it will tell us. 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.720 Scan, quick scan. Shouldn't interrupt your Wi-Fi network. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.400 That's cool. Oh wow, that was, like how fast that was. It's already done. 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:20.560 It looks like I should use, I need 160 wide, 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.600 so I need quite a few. Or the only 160 wides we got. 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:27.440 Okay, so I could do like 112. Let's try that. Wi-Fi channel. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:32.160 There we go. Yeah, the DFS channels are working now too, so maybe that's just an app thing 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:37.360 or because they were out of date, I'm not sure. And then for AP one, let me just disable AP one. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.440 Oh, look at that. You pick the channel and you just hit disable. 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:46.000 So easy. I love you, ubiquity, but the amount of times I've asked 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.840 for just let me turn off the goddamn radio on an AP 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:55.440 without having to screw around with like AP groups, that was so easy and that's how easy it should be. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:01.120 We do have it up on the 160 wide now. Let me connect and then we'll do a proper speed test 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.200 and see how fast she goes. It's not Wi-Fi 60, so we're probably not gonna see 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:08.320 a beyond gigabit speeds and we only have a one gig 00:08:08.320 --> 00:08:11.680 neighbor connection here, but it should still be pretty quick. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.880 Looks like about 560 down, getting pretty close to 700 up. 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:20.720 If you had faster internet and maybe not other people 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.400 using it, sorry neighbors, it'd probably be faster, but that's pretty good. 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:30.720 Trying on my phone, I guess. It looks pretty similar. 450 down, 360 up, not the best ever, 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.400 but also not ideal circumstances whatsoever. 00:08:34.400 --> 00:08:38.960 Something I realized I missed earlier on the front of these switches is the reset button, but it's not recessed. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.160 Now I liked it on the access point right there 00:08:42.160 --> 00:08:46.240 because it would be hard to accidentally press this. It's on the back, you can't even get to it 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.280 if you wanted to. Here, when you're fumbling around in the rack 00:08:49.280 --> 00:08:54.000 trying to plug in a cable, I could see you accidentally pressing this. That being said, you probably have to hold it 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.120 for some amount of time, so it's probably an odd issue, 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:00.240 but it seems a little bit sketch. 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:04.960 Hey, look at that. Actually, the switch is picking up now. Here, let's click set up. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.440 Here's to be in factory reset. Do you want to set up this device again? Yes. 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:11.280 It's currently assigned to another user's account. 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:16.080 This can happen if the previous owner of this device has not deleted this device from their account. 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.480 Do you want to request permission to use this device? 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:26.320 Okay, yeah, I guess. It's software DRM'd with their cloud hosting, 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.200 even though I reset it. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, it's good from the perspective of it 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.560 getting stolen and not being able to reuse, 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:40.960 but also if you were to sell one of these and not reset it from your account, that would be not great. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.720 They tested it in the lab, and that's why it was adopted to somebody's account. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:48.640 They reset it, and now we're in. It also has a software update, 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:52.400 but this time I'm going to roll because I want to know how fast it updates. 00:09:52.400 --> 00:09:55.600 There we go, update, click. Let's see. 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:00.160 Oh, there's a little, no way. There's no way it was that fast. 00:10:00.160 --> 00:10:03.520 Update, 100% complete, it says. Bullsh**t. 00:10:03.520 --> 00:10:06.880 I'll refresh, let's see. No, it still says 100% complete. 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:10.000 I don't know about this, chief. The update status went away. 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:14.720 Oh, I think it's rebooting now. That's pretty fast. Let's see how fast it reboots though. 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:19.600 Yeah, I don't have internet anymore. That makes sense. Internet gone. No, I have to connect to the neighbor's Wi-Fi now. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:20.640 The signal sucks. 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:25.040 Okay, I'm doing stuff now. Blinky blink. 00:10:26.560 --> 00:10:31.120 Hey, there we go. Okay, a couple of minutes. Pretty, pretty fast, pretty respectable. 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:35.680 Let's take a look at what the switch features are really quick. Okay, open it up there. 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:39.920 I see the ports in a very condensed manner. 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:44.000 Power cycle, the PoE, that's good. I can click on individual ports. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.600 I can set the native VLAN, the tagged allowed VLANs, PoE, 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:53.520 speed, isolation, a download upload limit, a voice VLAN, loop detection, storm control, 00:10:54.160 --> 00:10:58.720 Mac control. Seems like most of the things here. Oh, it even has 802.1x. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.920 So you can do network access control. That's pretty cool. I can mirror ports, combine them. 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:08.720 I don't know what this color stuff is. What does this even mean? Colors are a way to group specific APs together. 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:12.080 APs will only broadcast these Wi-Fi networks that match their configured colors. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.800 Both APs and Wi-Fi networks can be part of multiple colors and groups. Okay, so that's basically AP groups. 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:20.880 That's what the colors mean. They probably should have just called the groups and given the groups colors 00:11:20.880 --> 00:11:24.560 rather than calling them colors. But here we are. I can set VLANs. 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:28.080 I can select all. It's pretty much what you would expect. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.560 It feels very new. Like this is... 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.040 Software has existed for, I don't know, 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:39.920 you know, a year. And they've got all the features in there, but maybe the layout and whatever 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:43.120 isn't the most optimal yet. But it seemingly works. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.640 Link lights. Hey, you can turn them off. Let's try it. 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:51.600 Hey, look at that. The link lights are off. That's a good feature. 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:55.920 LED, white, red. Ooh, I can change the color. Let's go green. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.960 Eh? Eh, green. I wish it had a screen, 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.360 but the green is cool too. So overall, I mean, 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.240 I'm pretty stoked that there's another competitor in this kind of price point and space 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.680 for small businesses and kind of like enthusiast at home 00:12:11.680 --> 00:12:15.120 where you want more control over your stuff. I look forward to when there's 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.240 a local self-hostable controller. I know that that's in beta right now, 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:23.520 but we'll have to see how that goes. Don't really like that it was DRM'd 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:27.440 to another account as physical hardware. Really wish that wasn't a thing. 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:31.600 Maybe the local controller will make that not a problem. But overall, it was cool. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.440 It's a very responsive dashboard. That much I like. Like, look at this. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.760 This is like a live feed of what's going on. Like the Ubiquiti one is pretty responsive, 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:44.720 but this is, this might be another league, especially considering it's currently cloud-based. 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:49.120 It's pretty impressive. If you like this video, like it, get subscribed. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.600 April Fool's, by the way. We're not actually moving into the house. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:57.200 We're not actually doing ShortCircuit from a cold, cold tub. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.200 Thank gosh.