 This dish is so that we can send a Wi-Fi signal 10 kilometers away to Alex and Brandon over at the SFU Surrey campus. Now, we've actually played around with Ubiquiti's dish-based long-range Wi-Fi before, but I did not set it up properly. So while we did manage to send a Wi-Fi signal across our parking lot, which was further than we would have been able to do with a conventional router, that wasn't that impressive. But that all changes today. Mike from Ubiquiti is back, and he's going to be showing us how to do it properly. Looking for an affordable and reliable VPN? Private Internet access encrypts your Internet traffic and uses a safe, protected IP. Check it out today at the link below. So Brandon and Alex should be in this parking lot right here. So as long as there's no tree branches or decorative log things in the way of that, hopefully we'll get a signal. So are you guys set up right now? Uh, like, sort of. I'm like 90% done setting up the camera. Okay. And then you called. What's up? Has Alex started building dishes or anything yet? He started building one of them, yeah. Okay. Small one. Yep. Go ahead and put it back in the car. We're not going to use it. Don't build the small one, Alex. That one should be fine for this project, but because of all the mist in the air, we actually changed gears a little bit and instead we're going to use the Rocket AC Gen 2. You've got chain one and chain zero, which are your vertical and your horizontal. These are connected to the antenna right here. We've got some indicator LEDs that are, you can actually use to see in real time, like if you're pointed the right way, though don't worry, there's more precise ways to do that. And then you've also got an additional antenna spot here for GPS. All that's left on here on the front is this dish. I want to make sure this doesn't get dented or anything like that. That'll change the shape of the signal. And then, what was this one called again? A feed horn. A feed horn. That's where you feed it. Hello, it's Alex. How are you guys doing so far? How close are you guys? We're all set up. We have the stand mostly built and we're about at the stage of attaching the satellite to the stand. Okay, do you know how to power it? Not a clue. Okay, well you guys should have a big battery. Yeah, it's charging right now. It wasn't charged? Yeah, mostly decharged over the weekend. Ah, cool. Well, why don't you guys finish up what you're doing and we'll get ours powered up in the meantime and then we'll be able to walk you through what to do. All right. Boom. Pull. So we're like pretty much, we're very close to being done now. Also, my hands are freezing. I feel like that having a red camera just makes you more official and nobody questions if you're allowed to be there. Um, like if you can give us proof now? We might be getting kicked off because where we need to sit to connect between the two campuses isn't technically campus property. So although we do have permission to park, we might not have permission to build a Wi-Fi antenna. So, where are we aiming exactly? Uh, kind of to the right of the tall tree. Can somebody point at the tree? The tall tree. Can you look at the tall tree, Max? There's two. So, who's kicking you out? The mall security. The car park that we're on is technically the shopping centers. So, yeah, we don't have permission to work here. Okay. The great thing is like right after we filmed the intro today, I was like, wow, everything's going so smoothly. But through the fog of war, I couldn't see. It's just fun. So, we got completely kicked out of the parking lot, which would be bad except now we're inside where it's warm, which is nice. And we might have through that great big window behind me, a direct line of sight to the Burnaby campus. I'm not entirely sure, but we'll be able to find out. It's our best bet at the moment and we're warm, which is great. So, theoretically, all they have to do is fire it up, set it to our SSID, and then configure their antenna, and we should be able to start dialing them in, assuming we have actual line of sight, which we can't verify until we do that. So, this is approximately what we want, right? We can't even see those trees anymore. That's crazy. Like, how about the fog? Holy crap. So, if we're firing like, you know, 10 city blocks away, we're not getting any sync, are we? It's gonna be challenging, for sure. At least I have this handy tripod to support me. As I go through this. So, you guys are powered up now? Yep. Okay, do you have a laptop plugged into the other ethernet port? What other ethernet port? Um... I'm sending you a picture. Okay. Please tell me you guys have two ethernet cables. Yep, I got it, and we do have two ethernet cables. Oh, yep, this makes way more sense now. Okay, good. And then I'll walk you through some IP stuff. All right. Okay, so sorry, 192.168.106. Um, it says this site can't be reached. Uh, no, no, no, no, no, you're supposed to change your laptop IP address to that, manually. Oh. Okay, now you should just go into a web browser and type in 192.168.106. Okay, so now you guys have to do your darnedest through the fog to point at SFU Burnaby. Do you know roughly, like, what heading I should be pointing at or anything? I mean, I don't know. The idea was that we were gonna have, like, binoculars, and we were just gonna kind of look at each other, and that is clearly not gonna be a thing. Okay, go to the settings cog and then wireless. Under control frequency span list, change it to on and type in 5300. I probably underestimated how far off north you guys need to be looking. It's, like, probably 40 degrees off. Yeah. And looking at where you guys are looking out of that building, I don't see how we're gonna get a link. Also, if this doesn't work, we have permission to go back up onto the parking lot. Oh, really? So we're back outside. Hopefully it doesn't rain again. At least now we kind of know where we're supposed to point. It's sort of, like, that way by where that great big crane is, I think. Those also are pictures that were taken, like, a year ago, so who knows? If we can't hit the parking lot when they get out there, one of our staff actually has a place that is almost exactly due south of here, which means we would basically just align ourselves with the window and point straight out of it, if we have a line of sight to them. Oh, we are set back up again. You're set up? Okay, fantastic. Yeah. Sorry, we're exploring other options, since otherwise we were just kind of sitting here being useless while you guys did all the work. And we were thinking Tyler's house might actually make sense. I don't know if you've been there before. Oh, yes, I have. Well, either way, it's gonna be tight, like, in terms of trees and stuff. Yeah. But Tyler's place may actually be a decent bet. Okay, Team B is heading to a new location on the roof of one of our staff's houses. We think that it's gonna be a little bit easier to hit because it's almost directly due south of here. So it's a bit easier to eyeball. Also, there isn't a new building that went up since we scouted the locations. How are you guys doing up there? Pretty good. We had some food. Is it raining? No, there's like kind of a sunset. Actually, the sun just set, so we don't really have great light anymore. But it was pretty fantastic right before we started filming. Yeah, our lighting was great all day, and now we're just using, like, an LED lamp on the camera. So this video, at the very least, is gonna look like garbage at the end. Like, I feel like garbage, so the video might as well, like, really just bring it home. Great. Here, actually, whereabouts are you on the roof? Um, kind of like the middle right corner. Middle right corner? What's a right corner? Okay, yeah, that's a horrible descriptor. Um, like the north corner. Can you see the building kind of to the right of that one with the red on it, right? What? So there's, like, a white box on the top of it, I think. Okay, I see it. So basically, do you see that white box? Shoot at the mountain above that. Wait, no, hold on, let me double-check, because I actually might not have put our pin on the exact window that we're at. No, I didn't. Hold on one second. Let me just correct that. All right. This is such a stupid way to do this. I can't think of a better way, so... Okay, just make sure I have that mark in the right spot, because even a couple of degrees, like, if we can get you guys locked in, then we can just adjust until we hit you. I'm trying to get the height right now, which is kind of hard to do, because we're supposed to do, like, two degrees, but this is very far from level. It's all like this. So I think it would maybe, like, five degrees is good, but... You've got it to two degrees-ish? Yeah, ish, because this whole roof is, like... Yeah, it's just, like, a bit... What a pain. Oh. Ah. I have such a headache right now. Yeah, at least it's not raining now. Yeah, that's good. So if I just, like, scan past, like, kind of fast, do you guys see a blip? Nothing. Like, not a thing. There wasn't even, like, maybe noise in there. Yeah, nothing at all. Yeah, not a thing. All right, I think it's time to call it, guys. Thanks, everyone. Good work today. Well, I mean, the kind of work that's good, but, like, doesn't achieve anything. Okay. So it's been a few months, and we are back at it again. This time... It sure is a bit of wind to toss my hair. I've got binoculars. They're not great binoculars. I've got a rooftop. And I've got a clear shot to Maple Ridge. Now, we already realized that we don't have a pole for our stand here that seems to have gotten lost at some point, but the good news is I'm on my parents' rooftop, and the odds of them having a random pole sitting around somewhere? Very good. Here's one. Did not stage that. That one doesn't fit. Oh. I can smell success. Um... That looks pretty, uh... Whoop. Pretty almost ready to be called steady. This wasn't tight. So it's, like, that way-ish? Or, like, over there? We're not totally sure. All right. We are polled. Oh, almost. Ed should have really brought a compass. Oh, God. Hello. Hey, hey there, buddy. Okay, so I thought this actually dishhooked up. Everything's powered off. I can't get the setup to work on it. Uh, yeah, I think it's because we're reconfigured with different static IPs and stuff, so I think you might have to factory reset it. Okay, so that's just when you push the little thingy in the thingy. Yeah, the thingy in the thingy. You'll need to find a small thingy. Yeah. I really wish Mike was here because I'm looking at some of the tools in the thing, and I don't even remember ever looking at this stuff. Yeah, same. Okay, I'm into the spot where I need to log in. Okay, cool. UBNT, UBNT. U for up, B for butt, N for nut, T for testicle. I put that in for both of them. Yeah. I don't know which of us is the access point and which of us is the client, and I think it matters. Man. Okay, what antenna do you have set? RD5G3030DBI. Wait, what? Wait a minute. You just shared your location with me five minutes ago. Is that you? Like, yeah, like a couple seconds ago, yeah. Okay, so the Golden Ears Bridge is right behind you. So you guys are in pit meadows. Okay, so there's the Golden Ears Bridge. Holy crap, that's really far away. How close are you guys to identifying where I am? Very, very not close. We definitely should have had binoculars, but... If I was looking past you, what would I see past you? You're looking past me? The river, basically. We're like right beside the river. There's a bunch of trees. A bunch of trees, not going to do a lot for me. If I go like way down on the shore, I can see the Golden Ears Bridge. Okay, now we're talking. And what part of it is directly behind you? You see how it's got four sets of supports? That's part of the problem right now. I'm having a really hard time seeing the water because I think there's a lot of trees and crap along the shore. And also the water is brown, which definitely doesn't help. Yeah, everything's brown at this distance because it's a pretty clear day, but it's not a perfectly clear day. Okay, I know where you guys are. What does your building look like? Okay, so my building is the one with all of the kind of blade-looking things on the top of it. Yeah, I can't see anything. You can't see that well? Okay. Why didn't you guys get binoculars? Did you want to take a mirror to bounce? You want to be like your flag to us? Yeah, I've got like a gigantic golden bounce. All right, do you want to start bouncing then? I'm going to start bouncing it, baby. Like you guys are so far away, man. I don't know if there's any way you're going to be able to see this, but okay, I'm gold. Damn. You see me? Yep, I see you. No way. Yes, I can see it. Okay, well that there you go. That's where we are. All right, perfect. Do you need me to hold it up so that you guys can aim? I think we're good now. Freaking A. I cannot believe that worked. Oh, I'm so excited. Do you know how far we are? How far are you? I think it's about 12 kilometers. It's like eight miles for the American viewers. It's far. Okay, cool. You're on speaker because we're recording everything. Okay. Don't say anything incriminating, you know. Okay, so how would they search for me? Just the alignment tool? The alignment tool would be best to use, yeah. It'll make sounds depending on the signal that it detects. So the align tool though should work now that I have set an access point frequency and they should be able to just see stuff. Yes, it should help for pointing. I believe the alignment tool should give you kind of like a, like you should give you a more better idea when you're getting close to something. There's a toggle switch for audio though, I think. Thank you. I'll give you a call if we need any more help, which will probably happen. Okay, goodbye. I'll be here. All right, let's call Alex back up. Hello. Hey. Okay, so theoretically right now we are about as set up as we can be. Turn on the audio indicator. Okay, it's on. And now we just have to try and hit each other. All right. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What, what, what, what, why wasn't this coming up before? I didn't even touch it. We hit him. I didn't even adjust it. We're at current signal minus 80 decibels. That is well within the threshold. Check this out Brandon. We got two bars, baby. Okay, that beeping is really frigging annoying. I'm going to turn that right off there now. Okay. So should I have internet now? No, wait. Okay, we should be able to share a file between our two computers at the very least. Oh, okay. So here we have it. I can see Alex's computer. F you Linus folder. That's very nice. Okay, here we go. This is it. Two megs a second. Dang. So that's 20 megabit from here to 12 kilometers away under a bridge somewhere. Brandon don't die. All right. So do you guys want, you know what? Why don't I do the fine tuning for now? Because you guys had something to aim at exactly, whereas I could be just kind of closish. Yeah. Okay, so that just got worse. Are you guys looking at the indicator right now too? Yeah, it just went down for me. So I'm a little bit off to the left. Give me one second. Okay. Is that better now? It's not as good as before. Really? I still have 74. Oh wait, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't don't change anything yet. Okay, not changing anything. Okay, I'm at as good as I've seen yet. So you can go ahead and you can try and adjust your height and or your whatever and let's see what we see. But I'm just going to push it a very small amount. 73, 71, 72. Okay, I'm going to need to like put a box underneath the front leg of our thing. Fantastic. I can't believe how aligned we were at the start based on how small the adjustments that I'm making are. Yeah, we just did our vertical adjustment and that did that got us down to 71. So I think that I can't be any more aligned. Okay. Well, you can try horizontal. Like let's just see what happens. Just play with it just a little bit. Oh, wow, that's much worse. Yeah, this is like fractions of a degree. Okay, so all that's left now is for me to play around with height then. Oh, that's better for me. That's better. Minus 67. Yeah. Minus 65. I got four bars, baby. Four bars. Come check it out. Oh damn, we got four bars. Let me see if I can get a little bit more. We're at what? Negative 61. Damn. Okay, should we do another speed test? Okay, I'm ready to copy the bigger file. Dang, 15 megs a second. A hundred and fifty megabit Wi-Fi over 12 kilometers. And it only took us six months to set up. All right, I think that's pretty much it gentlemen. So all that's left to do now then is tear this down because we don't actually need to beam a network connection between the roof of my parents' building and a park somewhere in Pit Meadows. But it was still cool to see this in action, actually freaking working. And I think it's probably got a lot of gears turning in your guys' heads in terms of how long-range Wi-Fi like this could be applied, whether it's like personally or for business or whatever the case may be. And speaking of business, FreshBooks. FreshBooks is the cloud-based accounting solution for small business owners and freelancers. 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