- There's something about growing a beard that just makes you wanna pick up a power tool and
measuring tape and, you know, upgrade your home WiFi. Yeah, as it turns out the beard really doesn't change much. I'm still me. And me hasn't upgraded
the wireless access points in my upstairs hallway for five years. I mean, that kind of makes sense. I did spend $1,000 on it with
the intention of it being my end game wireless networking solution and it does still deliver over 40 megabytes per
second to nearby clients. But, it also has next to nothing in the way of management features because I didn't buy
the controller hardware and poor reception in both
my back and front yard. Time to fix that up in a hurry. Wish me luck. Segueing to our sponsor Honey. Go to join honey.com right now because Honey is the free web browser extension that helps you save
money on popular websites like Amazon, eBay and more. You might have heard of those ones, we're gonna have them linked below. (upbeat music) Step number one is to sort through all
this gear from Ubiquity. Some of it, is for a future video upgrading my home security setup. Make sure you're subscribed
so you don't miss that. And some of it is for
the WiFi upgrade today. This right here is the BaseStation XG. This is an outdoor rated access point, that is freaking nuts. It's got this shape because
it's kind of more of a directional style WiFi access point, but I did not expect
the size, or the weight. It's got weather
resistant plugs down here. So that one's Gigabit
and this one is 10 Gig? Kind of speeds are they expecting
you to get on this thing? What are they expecting
you to put this on? Look at this. Oh, I know what this is. This is their power
splitter, doodad thing. So you put one AC input here, and then they've got this
special power connector for the, like rack mount devices so you
can power everything off of one power port. This we're gonna need today, 24 ports of Ubiquity Power
over Ethernet goodness. So we've got a couple of
10 Gig SFP plus ports. So we can use that to go
back to the main switch and then the rest of them are regular Gigabit Power over Ethernet. So that'll handle our WiFi access points and the new security cameras. The Unified dream machine
pro, this thing is super cool. It's kind of like an all in one unit, but not in a bad way. So it's your router, it's your security gateway, it also has, check this out, a three and a half inch
drive for video recording so it handles all of your security stuff and you can use it as your cloud key. So you don't need a dedicated VM or a little dedicated dongle in order to run and manage all of your Ubiquity hardware. This is what they've made
such bold claims about. This is the UAP XG, but they say is the world's
most powerful access point. And they've got comparative numbers right
up on their website, comparing two devices
from brands like Ruckus that I know from my experience offer amazing WiFi performance. Now this is not WiFi six. Ubiquity actually has not jumped
into the WiFi six game yet. But, given that we don't actually have any WiFi six devices in the house since I'm back on my Note Nine again, I'm not too worried about that now. I am more interested in
just having something that's easy to manage and has absolutely flawless coverage
over my entire property. More 10 Gig inputs, dang! One of the big problems I have is operating my smart garage door from the end of my driveway and well naturally, as soon as I go to demo that it's not working very well, I actually get a pretty solid result at the end of the driveway here. Now we'll see how the
new one does, I guess. The funny thing about this upgrade is that after my first experience running
Ubiquity products at home, I swore I would never use them here again. It was that notorious square access point that they had a number of years ago, that I had as many as three
of, installed in my house and I still couldn't get decent coverage. This thing, with it's
anywhere from 200 to 300 to even 400 megabit per second performance all across my house, was like a breath of fresh air. Of course, I've always believed that when you're choosing a product, you should choose the multi product, not the brand name. So especially in light of
the excellent experiences we've had with Ubiquity
gear at the office, I'm giving them another shot here. They acknowledge that that
square AP was terrible. Oh! 10 Gig, like what? There, apparently Ubiquity
has a mobile app for a quick and dirty
provisioning of a single AP. But, since I'm gonna wanna
be setting this up properly in the longer term anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and
do the rack installs now. Big old POE switch up next and now the dream machine. Man, I just realized there's that 10 Gig port
on the access point, but the only 10 Gigs on the POE switch are actually SFP plus,
I can't even use them. Honestly Gigabit is probably fine with the number of clients we have here. I doubt we'd max it out anyway. I will definitely need a 10 Gig link between this one and this one though, but I don't have the
cable here for that now so I will deal with it later. Now it's time to make a couple cables. I need to go from my ISP provided modem over to the WAN port on my router here. And I also need to go from
my router to my switch. We're gonna go from the 10 Gig switch. This is just temporary, cause we'll put it in
a different way later. And then we'll go from the
router over to the main switch. Eventually, I'm gonna
want a 10 Gig connection between my POE switch
here and my 10 Gig switch and I'll just run that from like here to here or something like that. But, what I won't
probably need to 10 Gig is either the LAN port although technically, I think this thing doesn't
support SFP plus port. No point though. So, I'm not gonna bother with LAN. I'm not gonna bother going
10 Gig from here to here. So I just need to make myself a cable that goes from there to, I don't know, let's say, there. Before anyone brings it up, I am aware that generally you'd
prefer stranded compared to a solid core cable for an
application like this but, this was all we had lying around in Cat6a and it's just for me, so I know not to bend it around a bunch cause that's the
disadvantage of solid core is you can fatigue the metal
and it can crack and break inside the cable. Good luck everybody. Well, now wonderful. When to put the kids to bed and boom internet connected, dream machine is connected. Sweet, this is a really
slick startup wizard. Lttstore.com, man, they have
a nice interface these days. 99 percent experience. This is a sweet feature being able to do a quick
scan of the RF environment. Obviously there's other ways to do it. There's phone apps. I had my old Channelizer Wispy
doodad way back in the day so I could even see things
that weren't WiFi devices but having it just right in here, this easy to use, is pretty great. This is great information. Channel one is pretty much wide open. So that'll be a perfect spot to plunk my 2.4 Gigahertz SSID on. I only really use it for
like random old devices that don't support five Gigahertz especially now that I'm
making this upgrade. I should have awesome wireless coverage. This is a visualization
of data transmissions that are going on across
these frequencies. Hallway, check that out
all my stuff's up in here. I remember how to do it now. Once you've created
your wireless networks, you just have to go into each radio. So here we've got our 2.4 Gigahertz and then our two five Gigahertz radios. And then we have to disable. There we go. There we go. And there we go. Now it's time for a quick speed test. Let's just see how we're doing here. Bear in mind, of course, I'm just down the hall
from it though, real nice. You can't tell because it's dark but we're back at the tree now. All right, so that's better
than one of my results but, quite a lot lower than
one of the other ones. In this corner of the house, is a lot stronger than before. Looks like the living room
is as good or better as well, at least on the download. Well, I'm thrilled, coverage is as good as what I had before. The interface is fantastic. This is actually gotten like so good since last time I've
looked at it in detail. And while I did have slower
uplink speeds in some places, it was not cripplingly slow by any stretch of the imagination. And it's more than made up for by the fact that when I am
close to the access point speeds are both up and down, way in excess of what I was
getting with my old one. We're talking just about 16 megabytes per second
sustained on a modern client. That's freaking awesome. Of course, one of my
goals was to have WiFi way out in the street in front of my house so that I can be browsing that internet without using mobile data
while my kids are playing. So, for that, we're gonna have
to bring out the Big Kahuna and crawl around to my attic. I want more wireless range, basically straight out
in front of this peak. Oh, right there, yeah. It's gotta pick up
patterns, kind of like that. So I'm thinking I should basically be able to have WiFi anywhere
in front of my house. (drilling sound) Oh, hello. It's like a dance party in my attic now, if you could just hang
out here for, oh no. - [Speaker] Are you okay? - [Instructor] Oh yeah, I'm fine, I just, almost put a foot through
the living room ceiling. Not a lot of extra slack on it but as long as I nail the
termination on the first try it should be fine. We got lights it's a good sign. Connect, does this thing not
have 2.4 Gigahertz support? Oh weird, it has three
five Gigahertz radios. It claims Note Nine is unholy, but that can't be right. I'm gonna unplug it I don't trust it. All right, now the clients
are switching over for sure. All right, let's have a look. The reception sucks though. Only got a couple of bars
and speed, not too great. This is good. Everything is behaving as it should. We are behind its pickup pattern. Now let's go out in front of it. Now we got good reception. That's where it's mounted. Up there on that peak, okay? That is definitely better. Maybe not as better as I might have hoped. Let's go further away though. I'm now out in the middle of my cul-de-sac but a stone's throw from my house. And that's looking pretty good, okay? Let's see how far we can take this party. I'm now standing on the
boundary of my neighbor's yard across the entire cul-de-sac, Dang! still get 100 megabit yoh! Start walking down the street. I'm now on another half cul-de-sac away down to two bars now but still getting 50 megabit, only 10 up. How am I gonna upload my YouTube stories? Let's go about another cul-de-sac away. Man, I'm like real far away
from my house right now. I'm at least 50 meters from my front door. That's 150 feet for my Yankee friends. I am close to 100 meters
from my front door now. And I still have 50 megabit on WiFi. Okay, we good. Why did it tell us
mobility down there to do data not on Ladies and gentlemen, let's keep walking. Over 100 meters from my friend door now. Got like an epic WiFi emergency here, Fire Department up to here and it's dead. Mission accomplished. We got him. You know what else we got? My segue to our sponsor Squarespace. When you wanna build a website or even if you don't wanna build a website cause you don't know you need one yet. Squarespace is the place to go. Squarespace has award winning templates that will help make your website stand out instead of looking like
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last six workstations, no wait, whole house one CPU where I had like server
machine in my closet and ran fiber optic
wires all over the house, they're all actually still there and I do have plans for
them for the future. But that video is
definitely worth a watch. I don't even know what
I'm talking about anymore.
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