 Boy have I got a fun project for you guys today. My parents new cabin is completely off-grid, which means that if they want anything resembling a modern standard of living, they have got some problems to solve. Everything from power generation to clean drinking water to where to store sanitary waste is going to... Okay. Well, I guess they figured all that out without me, leaving just one thing for their firstborn son. How to get an internet connection from all the way over there on the mainland to this point right here. Now even reaching the sea is fine. Thankfully, we've got a backup plan and it's going to be a doozy. And it's brought to you by KiwiCo. KiwiCo ships out crates that contain hands-on projects for kids to help develop their creative confidence and problem-solving skills. Learn more at the end of this video or at the link down below. Step one of our little project today then is to take our two crews, one that's going to be stationed at Lions Bay Marina back there and the other one that gets to ride across the water in my parents boat with all the equipment that we're going to need. One of our most important pieces of equipment, of course, is our air fiber 60LR dish slash radio system combo unit from Ubiquiti. This is what we're going to use to get a 60 gigahertz beam up to one gigabit per second straight across the water. In theory, we're going to have similar latency and bandwidth to if we just ran like a straight up Cat5e network cable, except that we're going to be going like, what is it, about five clicks? Something like that, about five kilometers. And now that we're on site, our next challenge is to figure out exactly where we're going to get a clear line back to the marina. So Jake and I are trying to sort this out. So unfortunately, due to us being a little time constrained, we had to go grab some stuff from the hardware store and come back. And by the time we got here, Linus had already shipped off on the boat to the other side. Now, what that means is he wasn't able to stand here and tell me where roughly it is. So I'm trying to spot him. He's on that side like jumping doing jumping jacks, waving his hands, and we're trying to see him through the binoculars. But they're not exactly the zoom I would want for the six-ish kilometers it takes to get over there. So this is going to be a little tricky. But we're going to try to at least get a rough spot of where he is, and then we can move over to try to get the dish on the wall and then tilt it from there. Good luck to us. It's so difficult to make it out. I can't hold the binoculars steady enough to see an object. I'm waving my arms around like a mad man. Like he's a pretty small human. Oh, wait. Hey, do you see that boat going across right now? I think I saw you up here. Do you see the boat? I can't see it. There is no boat anywhere near me. Is there like some crisscross lumber like set up as a support or construction or something? Yes, that's the one. Crisscross lumber. How can you not see me? There's no or there is? There is. There is. I think I see you then. Well, do you see a person jumping around or not? Hi. Can you see this? Are you fingering me? All right. I think we have contact. I definitely can't see it, but I just assumed. All right. I'm heading back up to the house. As you can see, the inside is still a construction zone, which doesn't prevent my parents from putting up some pictures on the wall. You know, you got to make it homey. Anyway, none of that's our problem because we're going to be out here on the top deck. This is perfect. I couldn't tell from down there, but we have a perfect straight shot to the marina. I can see it clear as day. This is going to be awesome. See that blue kind of like shipping container looking thing? Bright blue. It's just to the left of that. It's going to be easy as pie. I think we are on what is the sketchiest scissor lift I've ever seen. Like look at this. It's bent to crap. It shakes. It's got a little wiggle. Brandon really likes it. And we only have to go that high, like another one of me. So it's not going to be that bad, but it's pretty sketchy. I guess it's better than a ladder though. You ready? Oh. Oh. Oh, it's not that bad. Stop testing. Shake. I'm not, I have to go over here to do this. I'm just, all right. I'm going to grab the mount. Let's just try to walk in the middle, I guess. You're not moving? I got to, okay. Time to sit my butt on this nice blue chair and do a haul video, ladies and gentlemen. We've got some ethernet cable. We've got a Jackery just to power things while we're testing. We've got a cordless drill. We've got an edge switch 10 XP. This is a 10 port power over ethernet switch. So we plug our included power adapter into the back here. And then it's going to provide power to our connected devices over these RJ 45 ports. Now these guys over here, these are SFP. They are not going to be able to do power over ethernet. But if for whatever reason we had other SFP gear, we could connect it using that. We've also got this cute little guy. This is the UAP Flex HD. This is a lovely little wireless access point. It's PUE powered. It's outdoor rated. So that means that probably what we're going to end up doing is taking this puppy, putting it right next to the switch and I'm willing to bet with how open it is here and how little interference there is. I'm going to get an internet connection on this from basically the entire property here. It comes with a PUE injector if you don't have a PUE switch, but we do. So we don't need that. Also, I'll need a laptop to connect up my gear over here. And of course, ah, yes, the big guy, the AirFiber 60LR. All right. Um, come on. Oh, that's my walkie. So we've got our dish here. We've got the, ah, yes, the personal massager. There's our head. So this is the radio component of it. So this puppy just is going to go in that little something like that. Ah, there you go. Oh, yeah. You don't even need the manual. Who needs a manual, boys? Another PUE injector. We won't need that because we do have a PUE switch. This, um, okay, we'll check the manual. Okay. This clips on here. This pops open here so we can get at the RJ45 jack there. That's where our power over ethernet and of course our data are going to come in. So it runs down this arm comes out this weather resistant thingamaboo here. And then all that's left is the pole mount that's included in the box and this. Anyway, so let's talk about mounting a little bit. Usually a dish like this would end up on the roof of a building, probably like a skyscraper or on a tower of some sort with a pole. But in our case, we're trying to mount it to the side of a building. So we looked at a few different options and it seemed like a satellite dish mount was the best course of action. And surprisingly, it's kind of difficult to get these things in really urban areas because they don't really use satellites a lot anymore. But I did find a guy that actually does satellite tear downs and he had a bunch of extra ones sitting in his storage locker. So bada bing, there we go. Now we are drilling into concrete, which makes this a little more difficult, but it should be okay. We got our hammer drill. We got some tap gone screws, which are made for concrete. Everything should be okay. I just sort of have to plan it out and market, hope that that works. Anything like there is good. The only thing is once I put it on the wall, it's going to be very difficult for me to adjust. I can't look through the viewfinder if you know what I mean. Linus is like on a deck on that side so he can look through a viewfinder. Oh, you're right, Andy. This is the viewfinder. There you are. I guess we don't really have much choice. The hole on the mount is actually a little bit bigger than the hole that we need, so I got a little bit of flexibility. Just me or is that like spinning? Whoa. Wow, it literally completely stripped it. We are following the instructions. Yeah, maybe it's just really strong wall or something. I also got some different ones that are a little smaller. I did bring another solution. Some like plugs. I'm having the time of my life right now. Okay. Wow. I am so glad that we were able to get it in there. I was starting to get a little worried there. Now let's talk some speeds and feeds for this bad boy. This right here, regular old gigabit network port, but what's special about it is that it uses 60 gigahertz wireless in order to fully saturate this thing. So that is two gigabit total, one gigabit send, one gigabit receive. If ubiquities specs are to be believed. As for how they get around the range limitations of 60 gigahertz, if you guys remember, 60 gigahertz can be blocked by a piece of paper if you happen to have, you know, Y gig in your house. So how are we going to, how's it going to go five kilometers across the water? Well that's because A, there's no piece of paper in between. That's very important. And B, because these antennas are sending just a narrow beam of data across the water, instead of just trying to send it in all directions, they're much more focused and they can send up to apparently 12 kilometers on this particular model. We're going to leave that over there for now. And I want to talk about the mount a little bit. So this is a pretty cool piece of kit they include with this, with this dish. It actually has a bunch of very accurate adjustments you can do just by the degree. And then once you figure it out, you've done your alignment tool, you've gotten it where you want it to be. You can actually just lock them on, on both axis, which is really cool. Now what we're probably going to have to do is clamp this on, get it where we think roughly it should be. And it might be a good hour of tilting and screwing around with it until we get it where we want it to be. Got the screwdriver, LTTstore.com. Just kidding. We don't have those yet. But the dad hats are coming soon. These are sick. They're awesome. I've got two different screw sizes, Andy. I've got the good enough to hold it up size. And I've got the, just in case someone has a couple wobbly pops and decides to try to hang off of it. Let's go with the big boy. Do you want the big boy? All right. You got it. All right. I think we're good now. Is everyone happy? I can go ahead and lean off the porch. All right. Someone going to pull me back in? I guess I can use the rope. All right. What are we secured to? That's real high up boys. Okay. I think this is a ubiquity approved installation method. What do you think, Brennan? There is a viewfinder that this thing comes with. Linus probably showed you it. This little guy and you actually clip it into the back of the dish, but I don't really have a way to look through it. You know, actually maybe if I put it on this side, I think it can mount in a couple. Oh my God. The viewfinder they include with this kit is really nice because it forces your perspective to be in line with the dish and where it's pointed. I thought I was decently lined up, right? If I look through the viewfinder, I am pointed right at the ocean. So I'm going to adjust this up a little bit. And then now I am pointed at the sky, which I also don't want. I got my harness. So I'm not too worried about falling to my death at this point. Let's go ahead and loosen this a little bit. There we go. Now we're a little off. We're probably about, I'd say five degrees low. Wow, actually, I don't know actually, I freaking nailed it. All right. I'm going to leave it right there and we'll have to wait until Linus is ready to go. Now obviously the plan would be to power this using something other than a portable battery bank. So they're going to have a combination of solar wind. And then there's actually a little creek that runs through the property that gets water about eight months out of the year. So that's the plan for the future. But for today, we're just testing it. So I'm just going to plug us into this. As with most of Ubiquiti's other stuff, this is PoE powered. Usually a PoE injector like this would be mounted inside or you'd have a PoE powered switch. But for now, we're just going to have this up on the scissor lift with us. And I put a really long cable. So maybe once it's lined up, we can go down to the ground. But that's probably going to be a while. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get an ISP to run internet here yet. They said it's going to be a couple of week lead time. So instead, we brought our little LTE puck, which is kind of funny because you would usually just take the LTE puck to the other side and have that as your internet. But no, we want to test this link. So this is going to act as our router and provide us some internet access so we can actually try this out. Pretty easy. Bam. We're plugged in. That's all I got to do. It's working. I haven't even connected to the Bluetooth thing yet. You plugged it in. I guess we just lined it up. It says our link is about 77% optimal, but it says our capacity is 2 gigabit right now. Are you kidding me right now? You know, the whole time over here, I've been like, this is going to be cake. This is going to be cake. And then I was kind of setting it up for that moment in the video where Linus kept proving to be wrong. But I mean, was it that cake? It was pretty cake. It says our capacity is 2 gigabit. I guess with 78% link, that's enough. That is freaking crazy. OK. I think I'm just straight up going to the internet. I'm going to go to the internet. I'm going to go to the internet. I'm going to go to the internet. I'm going to go to the internet. I'm going to go to the internet. I'm going to be in my computer and I want to do that. So at least, you can see, we're connected to this phone. I'm a short presence, going through three infrastructure. Everything is bueno. Sweet, did you touch the dish at all? Sure didn't. You know what? I wonder if it's just people moving around. All right, we got to wrap this up pretty quick here. How do we do the fine-tuning thing? I'm just tightening my mousey brackets down to the J-pole. It's amazing how much a little bit of wibble wobbling affects things. Immediately when you were like, I'm tightening it down, I saw it jump all over the place. Honestly, I think we nailed it right out of the gate. I got a little more horizontal adjustment to do, so give me a minute. I guess at this distance, you've got to be adjusting it fractions of a degree. It's crazy how much of a difference a quarter turn of this knob makes in terms of where it's actually pointed if you look through the viewfinder. It's very responsive though. You can see within about a second or two if what you're doing is working. Oh, and it's gone. What did you do? Move in front of the antenna? I actually bobbed it with my elbow. This is it. Big test time. All right. I'm starting. Ping is one millisecond. Nice. Oh, look at this. Look at this. 823 megabit per second download, 903 upload. It fluctuates a bit, but that's pretty impressively stable. But at flush, that's freaking rock solid. Oh, that's freaking awesome. I'm stoked. I'm stoked. This is great. So all they got to do is a little bit of cable management, get that cable run into the house, and that's something they can handle on their side. And then we're ready to rock. Pretty exciting. Wait, I want to try a one way test, because I think theoretically we can get higher speed. Oh, wow. Without the Ethernet port as a bottleneck. Like this thing is actually capable of greater than the network port on the freaking thing. So we're going across the water and we're literally bottlenecked by the wire. There's got to be a metaphor here. You know what else there's a metaphor for? This segue to our sponsor. You know it, baby. Big thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring this video. KiwiCo is a monthly subscription service that helps introduce and make steam topics fun and engaging for kids of all ages. KiwiCo believes that if you start learning small things today, you can produce world changing ideas tomorrow. Each crate is designed by experts and contains everything you need to complete it with detailed, kid friendly instructions. That means you don't need to run off to the store to get extra supplies like glue or scissors. It's all ready to go. 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