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go on get on in there little doggy what get all in there little doggy we're

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back at my new house aka the construction zone with another big

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update for you guys we've talked about smartifying the hvac the lighting i mean

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heck we've even talked about energy monitoring leak detection which probably

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leaves you guys wondering when are you going to show off your sick

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freaking wi-fi setup today

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with the help of ruckus who sent over

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not only this but another five of their

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wi-fi six access points and ubiquity who

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provided the PoE switch that's gonna power it all

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we are going to be installing what is quite possibly the sickest

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possible wi-fi setup in my new place like seriously this is like over 10

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grand of the best wi-fi gear that money can buy

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just like money can buy this sponsor spot from glasswire with glasswire you

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can keep track of weird stuff that's connecting to your pc even when you're

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not using it if a strange device joins your Wi-Fi you'll be notified instantly

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so don't wait get 25 off today using code Linus at the link in the video

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description

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this is the biggest wireless access point i think i've ever seen and look at

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the cooling on the back of it it can suck back what 55 watts something like

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that with with the PoE output on yeah that's crazy do you need an adult to

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hold it up for you but before we get into the new gear i need to give you guys a bit of backstory literally six

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years ago i treated myself to a thousand dollar ruckus r 700 with the intention

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of it being my end game wireless access point i basically just set it up with

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the super bare bones configuration it had when it was not controlled by their

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management hardware and i never touched it again it was that rock solid i

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seriously got more enjoyment out of that thing than i would have out of a titan

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graphics card fast forward to last year though and i had been getting a little

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fed up with running a single ap and not really having usable reception in either

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my front or my backyard so i bit the bullet and along with overhauling my 10

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gig networking i installed a completely overkill ubiquity unify wi-fi setup

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that was supposed to be endgame 2.0 unfortunately this newer setup ended up

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having connectivity issues particularly on certain devices like my lg smart tv

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so after replacing some of the devices updating all the firmware replacing a

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whole bunch of the cables i just i give up the best experience i've ever

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had with wi-fi has been with ruckus so

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we're going to keep using UniFi at the office but here at home

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unify switches unify cameras they make really great stuff but for wi-fi

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we're cranking it up to 11. this is full 11 boys of course you're probably

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wondering what kind of wi-fi upgrade vlog is this

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if you've already installed the access point well here's the thing my old house

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was around 2000 square feet and was easily serviced with two of ubiquity's

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xg series or before that a single ruckus

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r700 my new house is more than three times

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the size with a big backyard a long

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front driveway that i'm gonna want wi-fi reception from so that i can control my

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smart garage doors and on top of all of that concrete between

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each of the floors due to the in-floor heating which tends to seriously reduce

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your signal strength which raises the question

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how do you even figure out how much access point you need for a space like

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this aside from just making an educated guess

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well there are a few online tools that allow you to upload a floor plan of your

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house trace out the walls and then play around with the positioning of your

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access points ruckus's tool unfortunately was a bit clutchy so we

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actually ended up using Ubiquiti's unified design center and settled on a

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plan with two aps on the upper floor two on the ground floor one in the basement

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one in the garage and two outside bringing us to a grand total of oh i got

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the number wrong before eight eight access points

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let's start with our outdoor access points we settled for t710s due to

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availability issues for the t 750 with the main drawback being that okay it can

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only support what is it about 500 clients instead of a thousand clients

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and it's wi-fi and it's wi-fi five rather than wi-fi six but this thing is

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still absolutely crazy so you can decide okay do you wanna have power over

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Ethernet and do your networking and power that way do you want to run sfp to

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it and then plug it into ac power

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uh these things are designed really more for like stadium wi-fi or like at like a transit

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station yeah something like an airport yeah so we'll be putting one of these in

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the front and one of these in the back of the house these are all about getting

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that range without the brick or concrete

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in the walls interfering with the signal strength you put the twisty on the on

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the cord you wrap it in the nubbin obviously it would be a big problem if

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water got into this connection here that's putting it mildly there you go

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now with the rubber stopper on here you click in the Ethernet cable there we go

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then push in the rubber stopper and tighten this boy up we're still going to

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want to leave a little bit of kind of a loop at the bottom of the cable that's

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going to allow any uh you know rain or condensation or any kind of moisture

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that gets on this cable whether it's here or here to drip off the cable

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rather than making its way up into the connection and causing it to corrode i

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am so glad we had a low voltage contractor come in and wire this place

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up man there's like what is it like 50 60 runs

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what is that we have a tone and test kit that we use

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to trace cables at the office but the toner is dead i forgot that the fluke

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can do tones and it has like a selection of songs

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all right all right all right let's trace the cable they're like such a nice song the other

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one's like

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all right let's go find it well the only way we're not going to find this is if it doesn't come down here yet

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it's not looking that great so far there's a whole other bundle chill out

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hey because we're in the mechanical room we're going to terminate to a female

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connector so this is going to go on a patch panel when there's a rack in here at some

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point in the future so it's just a bit of a different process and we just

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get one of them in there then we can go ahead and line up all the rest of them

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oh actually no we don't need the tester we can just plug this right into the

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switch do you have a patch yes you do awesome thank you speaking of switch we

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actually already have this one lying around you're gonna get a different one but oh we need more ports oh that makes

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sense use the right hand ports here uh yeah so these are PoE plus plus let's go

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back up and give it a shot okay the power led is blinking now it's

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i think it's just booting up okay here sick it's drying 4.4 watts right now

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cool do you think we can see it in the unleashed one yet oh i think so

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totally piece it says it's offline right now yeah it might just need a bit yeah i

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think it's just booting up ruckus unleashed is something that didn't exist

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back when i bought my r700 but basically it's their response to lower cost site

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wi-fi management like unify so it doesn't have the same level of control

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as if you had a zone controller but it's not the kind of thing that you'd need

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for a home or even a small or medium-sized business in many cases and

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it means that you don't have to buy a zone controller or pay for any ongoing

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costs it's just the cost of the hardware and then that's it okay so where do we

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want this stupid thing well you're on a pot light now no no i got this does

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sometimes you wish you were a taller guy no i wish i had a taller ladder that's

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all oh it's not that straight you guys it

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looks pretty straight from from here i can't believe i put that on the front

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of my house okay my wi-fi from here better be amazing

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it's so freaking ugly 700 up i gotta walk down the street

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though okay we're probably a good 50 feet from the house right now i see i

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have three instead of four bars now this is on 5g mind you

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how's uh 400 down from here

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let's go further holy bananas holy crap your neighbors are going to hate you 280

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285 290. you can definitely see that our

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phone is starting to be part of the problem our upload is only 170. download

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300. he's still going let's go we're on 2.4 gigahertz obviously at this

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kind of range i got 151 milliseconds of

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jitter here really 0.3 megabit per second but hey

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we're like almost a block away i'm so glad the indoor ones look better

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than the outdoor ones for sure these are fine not only are they better looking

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they're like way smaller so these are ruckus r750s these are their top of the

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line so these are wi-fi six capable of sustaining like a thousand

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clients per device and what we're expecting is single client speeds in the

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neighborhood of like seven eight hundred megabit per second what we could have

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done was taken the three floors and gone one for this floor on this side one for

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this floor on this side and one for this floor on this side if we were trying to save a buck that would have totally

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gotten us covered but that's lame but if we want every room in the house to have

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ball and wi-fi i think what is it two

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two and then one or something like that there's eight access points two outside

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six inside tone generator analog tone all right

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yeah hey there it is this is nice cable it's really easy to work with and it's

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color coded properly actually we owe infinite cables a shout out anyway in

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this video don't we yeah yeah they gave me a discount on the cabling from my house so discount is a bit of an

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understatement thanks infinite cables appreciate you fam

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go on get on in there little doggy what get all in there little doggy and

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it's lit so we gotta do two more have these already been it'll autumn okay the cool

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thing about unleash is it automatically adopts aps it'll just grab them it'll

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just grab them so now that we have one set up as our master and then it's got

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automatic failover it will just grab these new ones as soon as we plug them

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in this is awesome it just shows up boom online no clients

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so one challenge there's supposed to be a wireless access point at the other end

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of this hallway is that right this one's supposed to be one right here or just right outside but it's not punched

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through right now but it it's not through the ceiling yet um so we were

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kind of thinking maybe we'll just hook up to this one as a placeholder or we

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could use that one or should we mount it we could just put it

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like just here

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good enough oh come on you want me to get the stone

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no i got this i will not be defeated by this you ever wish you were just like

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six inches taller okay wait this isn't anywhere close to

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reaching this one there's a patch table that's why we're putting the female end

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on it there you go

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i wish i put them here i took the tone off

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got it very close okay i got it

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there we go there you go see you later so the master you know

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what the living room grabbed both of us right now so i should have a look at

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what our speed would be like if we didn't put a second ap down here i'm

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still not entirely convinced that the concrete actually makes that much of a difference but well here we go

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i mean it's pretty thick it's like a few inches thick

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oh hold on here we go okay

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well this might not be the most necessary access point ever should we

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just relieve it then i don't know we'll go try it over there

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yeah we're over 400 down in this corner over here

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okay but what about the theater room i don't know

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yeah we're like 90 100 in here only 90. yeah because of the shape of the house

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right it's actually going through like dirt now it's time for the final test

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there's still two aps missing one in the garage and one in the living room but

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we've got six up and we're ready to before and after compared to our stock

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wi-fi access point from telus oh wow even downstairs like not that far from

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it it's only 200 and it's in it's like right there now

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i'm at the other end of the house on the main floor

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those concrete floors they're a killer now i'm chilling in bed in the master

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bedroom and actually these results are

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about as good as what i got one floor down on the other side of the house

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which is kind of surprising given where the ap is finally i'm on a video call in

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the backyard getting a whopping no uh just kidding i'm not gonna be on a video

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call okay Jake light it up we're gonna switch

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over to the ruckus aps now this is gonna be awesome am i making video calls from

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the yard that is going to be a big fat yes ladies and gentlemen

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half a gigabit from the edge of the property line

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yes please master bedroom's all right too

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seems pretty decent wow this hallway is like got that big

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wi-fi energy and theater room here we go

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it's a little faster than the telus box i mean to be clear this is like

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racing a tesla model s plaid against a horse

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but i've got one more big challenge i'm

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going to start a speed test and then i'm going to run around the house and see

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what happens ready here we go

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you don't have to keep up andy i got the camera i'm moving around as fast as i

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can okay we're going all the way up the stairs here

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moving around uninterrupted okay now

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we're uploading going down another stair i'll see you later andy

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okay uploading it oh man i couldn't even one

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percent loss ripping around the house like that obviously the speeds aren't as

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good as if i let it settle and grab the best you know

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nearest access point so you can see i'll run it again here i'm not screen

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recording right now but there you go it's better if i'm sitting

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still now there's one other thing i want to try before we wrap this up ruckus

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suggested that one of their aps in the center of the house

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probably would have been fine and they might be right

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but there's only one way to find out for sure so i'm gonna disable the five

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gigahertz radio on all but one of the aps and see if i still get five

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gigahertz throughout the house you really don't have to keep up andy all

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right gonna start in the living room ah we're heading all the way upstairs

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how much wi-fi are we gonna have in the bedroom oh wow still like 200.

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uh what about in this bedroom oh yeah it's still 200. this bedroom

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oh only like 50. yeah definitely want the other ap for

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that one this bedroom's got 50

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it definitely wouldn't have done the outside but honestly they probably

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have a point when it comes to the interior space

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heading down into that basement oh yeah

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yep if we were willing to settle for 200 to 300 megabit per second

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that one ap in the family room would have easily covered this whole house

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this is why i love their stuff uh you can't see me at all but i'm down

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here in the theater room now

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oh yeah land center yeah it would have been would have been

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fine oh man even outside this thing slays hey

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Jake hi i'm getting 260 from here

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golf 260 down 100 up okay ruckus you proved

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your point i could have done a 6 000 square foot

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like maximum speed over every square inch of the inside of the house so

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the video description you know what for a blast from the past go check out my

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original review of the ruckus r700 because the best thing about these isn't

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the throughput actually on a per-client basis we've seen aps that'll do more

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throughput where they really shine is with multiple clients so in that video i

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still i just kept loading up with client streaming video until access points

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choked and the ruckus stood out head and shoulders above the rest