go on get on in there little doggy what get all in there little doggy we're
back at my new house aka the construction zone with another big
update for you guys we've talked about smartifying the hvac the lighting i mean
heck we've even talked about energy monitoring leak detection which probably
leaves you guys wondering when are you going to show off your sick
freaking wi-fi setup today
with the help of ruckus who sent over
not only this but another five of their
wi-fi six access points and ubiquity who
provided the PoE switch that's gonna power it all
we are going to be installing what is quite possibly the sickest
possible wi-fi setup in my new place like seriously this is like over 10
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this is the biggest wireless access point i think i've ever seen and look at
the cooling on the back of it it can suck back what 55 watts something like
that with with the PoE output on yeah that's crazy do you need an adult to
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
years ago i treated myself to a thousand dollar ruckus r 700 with the intention
of it being my end game wireless access point i basically just set it up with
the super bare bones configuration it had when it was not controlled by their
management hardware and i never touched it again it was that rock solid i
seriously got more enjoyment out of that thing than i would have out of a titan
graphics card fast forward to last year though and i had been getting a little
fed up with running a single ap and not really having usable reception in either
my front or my backyard so i bit the bullet and along with overhauling my 10
gig networking i installed a completely overkill ubiquity unify wi-fi setup
that was supposed to be endgame 2.0 unfortunately this newer setup ended up
having connectivity issues particularly on certain devices like my lg smart tv
so after replacing some of the devices updating all the firmware replacing a
whole bunch of the cables i just i give up the best experience i've ever
had with wi-fi has been with ruckus so
we're going to keep using UniFi at the office but here at home
unify switches unify cameras they make really great stuff but for wi-fi
we're cranking it up to 11. this is full 11 boys of course you're probably
wondering what kind of wi-fi upgrade vlog is this
if you've already installed the access point well here's the thing my old house
was around 2000 square feet and was easily serviced with two of ubiquity's
xg series or before that a single ruckus
r700 my new house is more than three times
the size with a big backyard a long
front driveway that i'm gonna want wi-fi reception from so that i can control my
smart garage doors and on top of all of that concrete between
each of the floors due to the in-floor heating which tends to seriously reduce
your signal strength which raises the question
how do you even figure out how much access point you need for a space like
this aside from just making an educated guess
well there are a few online tools that allow you to upload a floor plan of your
house trace out the walls and then play around with the positioning of your
access points ruckus's tool unfortunately was a bit clutchy so we
actually ended up using Ubiquiti's unified design center and settled on a
plan with two aps on the upper floor two on the ground floor one in the basement
one in the garage and two outside bringing us to a grand total of oh i got
the number wrong before eight eight access points
let's start with our outdoor access points we settled for t710s due to
availability issues for the t 750 with the main drawback being that okay it can
only support what is it about 500 clients instead of a thousand clients
and it's wi-fi and it's wi-fi five rather than wi-fi six but this thing is
still absolutely crazy so you can decide okay do you wanna have power over
Ethernet and do your networking and power that way do you want to run sfp to
it and then plug it into ac power
uh these things are designed really more for like stadium wi-fi or like at like a transit
station yeah something like an airport yeah so we'll be putting one of these in
the front and one of these in the back of the house these are all about getting
that range without the brick or concrete
in the walls interfering with the signal strength you put the twisty on the on
the cord you wrap it in the nubbin obviously it would be a big problem if
water got into this connection here that's putting it mildly there you go
now with the rubber stopper on here you click in the Ethernet cable there we go
then push in the rubber stopper and tighten this boy up we're still going to
want to leave a little bit of kind of a loop at the bottom of the cable that's
going to allow any uh you know rain or condensation or any kind of moisture
that gets on this cable whether it's here or here to drip off the cable
rather than making its way up into the connection and causing it to corrode i
am so glad we had a low voltage contractor come in and wire this place
up man there's like what is it like 50 60 runs
what is that we have a tone and test kit that we use
to trace cables at the office but the toner is dead i forgot that the fluke
can do tones and it has like a selection of songs
all right all right all right let's trace the cable they're like such a nice song the other
one's like
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
it's not looking that great so far there's a whole other bundle chill out
hey because we're in the mechanical room we're going to terminate to a female
connector so this is going to go on a patch panel when there's a rack in here at some
point in the future so it's just a bit of a different process and we just
get one of them in there then we can go ahead and line up all the rest of them
oh actually no we don't need the tester we can just plug this right into the
switch do you have a patch yes you do awesome thank you speaking of switch we
actually already have this one lying around you're gonna get a different one but oh we need more ports oh that makes
sense use the right hand ports here uh yeah so these are PoE plus plus let's go
back up and give it a shot okay the power led is blinking now it's
i think it's just booting up okay here sick it's drying 4.4 watts right now
cool do you think we can see it in the unleashed one yet oh i think so
totally piece it says it's offline right now yeah it might just need a bit yeah i
think it's just booting up ruckus unleashed is something that didn't exist
back when i bought my r700 but basically it's their response to lower cost site
wi-fi management like unify so it doesn't have the same level of control
as if you had a zone controller but it's not the kind of thing that you'd need
for a home or even a small or medium-sized business in many cases and
it means that you don't have to buy a zone controller or pay for any ongoing
costs it's just the cost of the hardware and then that's it okay so where do we
want this stupid thing well you're on a pot light now no no i got this does
sometimes you wish you were a taller guy no i wish i had a taller ladder that's
all oh it's not that straight you guys it
looks pretty straight from from here i can't believe i put that on the front
of my house okay my wi-fi from here better be amazing
it's so freaking ugly 700 up i gotta walk down the street
though okay we're probably a good 50 feet from the house right now i see i
have three instead of four bars now this is on 5g mind you
how's uh 400 down from here
let's go further holy bananas holy crap your neighbors are going to hate you 280
285 290. you can definitely see that our
phone is starting to be part of the problem our upload is only 170. download
300. he's still going let's go we're on 2.4 gigahertz obviously at this
kind of range i got 151 milliseconds of
jitter here really 0.3 megabit per second but hey
we're like almost a block away i'm so glad the indoor ones look better
than the outdoor ones for sure these are fine not only are they better looking
they're like way smaller so these are ruckus r750s these are their top of the
line so these are wi-fi six capable of sustaining like a thousand
clients per device and what we're expecting is single client speeds in the
neighborhood of like seven eight hundred megabit per second what we could have
done was taken the three floors and gone one for this floor on this side one for
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
gotten us covered but that's lame but if we want every room in the house to have
ball and wi-fi i think what is it two
two and then one or something like that there's eight access points two outside
six inside tone generator analog tone all right
yeah hey there it is this is nice cable it's really easy to work with and it's
color coded properly actually we owe infinite cables a shout out anyway in
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
understatement thanks infinite cables appreciate you fam
go on get on in there little doggy what get all in there little doggy and
it's lit so we gotta do two more have these already been it'll autumn okay the cool
thing about unleash is it automatically adopts aps it'll just grab them it'll
just grab them so now that we have one set up as our master and then it's got
automatic failover it will just grab these new ones as soon as we plug them
in this is awesome it just shows up boom online no clients
so one challenge there's supposed to be a wireless access point at the other end
of this hallway is that right this one's supposed to be one right here or just right outside but it's not punched
through right now but it it's not through the ceiling yet um so we were
kind of thinking maybe we'll just hook up to this one as a placeholder or we
could use that one or should we mount it we could just put it
like just here
good enough oh come on you want me to get the stone
no i got this i will not be defeated by this you ever wish you were just like
six inches taller okay wait this isn't anywhere close to
reaching this one there's a patch table that's why we're putting the female end
on it there you go
i wish i put them here i took the tone off
got it very close okay i got it
there we go there you go see you later so the master you know
what the living room grabbed both of us right now so i should have a look at
what our speed would be like if we didn't put a second ap down here i'm
still not entirely convinced that the concrete actually makes that much of a difference but well here we go
i mean it's pretty thick it's like a few inches thick
oh hold on here we go okay
well this might not be the most necessary access point ever should we
just relieve it then i don't know we'll go try it over there
yeah we're over 400 down in this corner over here
okay but what about the theater room i don't know
yeah we're like 90 100 in here only 90. yeah because of the shape of the house
right it's actually going through like dirt now it's time for the final test
there's still two aps missing one in the garage and one in the living room but
we've got six up and we're ready to before and after compared to our stock
wi-fi access point from telus oh wow even downstairs like not that far from
it it's only 200 and it's in it's like right there now
i'm at the other end of the house on the main floor
those concrete floors they're a killer now i'm chilling in bed in the master
bedroom and actually these results are
about as good as what i got one floor down on the other side of the house
which is kind of surprising given where the ap is finally i'm on a video call in
the backyard getting a whopping no uh just kidding i'm not gonna be on a video
call okay Jake light it up we're gonna switch
over to the ruckus aps now this is gonna be awesome am i making video calls from
the yard that is going to be a big fat yes ladies and gentlemen
half a gigabit from the edge of the property line
yes please master bedroom's all right too
seems pretty decent wow this hallway is like got that big
wi-fi energy and theater room here we go
it's a little faster than the telus box i mean to be clear this is like
racing a tesla model s plaid against a horse
but i've got one more big challenge i'm
going to start a speed test and then i'm going to run around the house and see
what happens ready here we go
you don't have to keep up andy i got the camera i'm moving around as fast as i
can okay we're going all the way up the stairs here
moving around uninterrupted okay now
we're uploading going down another stair i'll see you later andy
okay uploading it oh man i couldn't even one
percent loss ripping around the house like that obviously the speeds aren't as
good as if i let it settle and grab the best you know
nearest access point so you can see i'll run it again here i'm not screen
recording right now but there you go it's better if i'm sitting
still now there's one other thing i want to try before we wrap this up ruckus
suggested that one of their aps in the center of the house
probably would have been fine and they might be right
but there's only one way to find out for sure so i'm gonna disable the five
gigahertz radio on all but one of the aps and see if i still get five
gigahertz throughout the house you really don't have to keep up andy all
right gonna start in the living room ah we're heading all the way upstairs
how much wi-fi are we gonna have in the bedroom oh wow still like 200.
uh what about in this bedroom oh yeah it's still 200. this bedroom
oh only like 50. yeah definitely want the other ap for
that one this bedroom's got 50
it definitely wouldn't have done the outside but honestly they probably
have a point when it comes to the interior space
heading down into that basement oh yeah
yep if we were willing to settle for 200 to 300 megabit per second
that one ap in the family room would have easily covered this whole house
this is why i love their stuff uh you can't see me at all but i'm down
here in the theater room now
oh yeah land center yeah it would have been would have been
fine oh man even outside this thing slays hey
Jake hi i'm getting 260 from here
golf 260 down 100 up okay ruckus you proved
your point i could have done a 6 000 square foot
house with just the one ap but i still like my way better where i'm getting
like maximum speed over every square inch of the inside of the house so
yeah thanks for sending those over and thanks to you guys for watching if you
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the video description you know what for a blast from the past go check out my
original review of the ruckus r700 because the best thing about these isn't
the throughput actually on a per-client basis we've seen aps that'll do more
throughput where they really shine is with multiple clients so in that video i
still i just kept loading up with client streaming video until access points
choked and the ruckus stood out head and shoulders above the rest