 There's something about growing a beard that just makes you want to pick up a power tool and a measuring tape and you know Upgrade your home Wi-Fi. Yeah as it turns out the beard really doesn't change much I'm still me and me hasn't upgraded the wireless access point in my upstairs hallway for five years I mean that kind of makes sense. I did spend a thousand dollars on it with the intention of it being my endgame 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 Segwaying to our sponsor honey Go to join honey comm 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 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 Wi-Fi upgrade today This right here is the base station 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 Wi-Fi 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 thing on? Listen to 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 their 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 Wi-Fi access points and the new security cameras the unified dream machine Pro this thing 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 what they say is the world's most powerful access point and they've got comparative numbers right up on their website comparing to devices from brands like ruckus that I know from my experience offer Amazing Wi-Fi performance now. This is not Wi-Fi 6 Ubiquity actually has not jumped into the Wi-Fi 6 game yet But given that we don't actually have any Wi-Fi 6 devices in the house since I'm back on my note 9 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 oh well naturally as soon as I go to demo that it's not working very well I actually get a pretty solid result in the end of the driveway here. Well, 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 Of course, I've always believed that when you're choosing a product you should choose the well the 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 There apparently ubiquity has a mobile app for a quick and dirty provisioning of a single AP but Since I'm gonna want to 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 so 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 because we'll put in a different one 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 move to 10 gig is either the WAN port although technically I think this thing does have an SFP plus port no point though, so I'm not gonna bother with WAN I'm not gonna bother going 10 gig from here to here, so I just need to make myself a cable it goes from there to Oh, I don't know let's say there Before anyone brings it up I am aware that generally you would prefer stranded compared to a solid core cable for an application like this but this was all we had lying around in cat 6a and It's just for me So I know not to bend it around a bunch because 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, it's not wonderful When to put the kids to bed and boom internet connected dream machine is connected sweet This is a really slick startup wizard LTT store.com Man they have a nice interface these days 99% 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 Why spy doodad way back in the day so I could even see things that weren't Wi-Fi 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 5 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 5 gigahertz radios and then we have to disable There we go. There we go and 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 cuz it's dark but we're back at the tree now Alright, so that's better than one of my results but quite a lot lower than one of the other ones 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 has 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 60 megabytes per second sustained on a modern client. That's freaking awesome Of course, one of my goals was to have Wi-Fi 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 in my attic I want more wireless range basically straight out in front of this peak Oh right there Yeah It's got a Pickup pattern that's kind of like that So I'm thinking I should basically be able to have Wi-Fi anywhere in front of my house Oh Hello, it's like a dance party in my attic now If you could just hang out here for- oh no. Oh, yeah. 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 Okay Does this thing not have 2.4 Gigahertz support. Oh weird. It has three five gigahertz radios It claims note 9 is on holy 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've 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 farther away though, I'm now out in the middle of my cul-de-sac about 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 am now standing on the boundary of my neighbor's yard across the entire cul-de-sac. Dang Still getting 100 megabit yo 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 going to upload my youtube stories? Let's go about another cul-de-sac away. Oh man, 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 a hundred meters from my front door now And I still have 50 megabit on wi-fi And I still have 50 megabit on wi-fi Okay, we good Why does it say telus mobility down there? What's it doing? Data not on ladies and gentlemen. Let's keep walking We're over a hundred meters from my front door now Got like an epic wi-fi emergency here. 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Maybe you would enjoy the uh, 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. I am so tired. It's time to go to bed