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(machine popping) - Go on,
get on in there little doggy.
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- (laughing) What?
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- Get on in there little doggy.
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- We're back at my new house.
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AKA the construction zone
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with another
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big update for you guys.
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We've talked about smart-ifying the HVAC,
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the lighting.
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I mean, heck,
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we've even talked about energy monitoring,
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leak detection.
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Which probably leaves you guys wondering,
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when are you gonna to show off
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your sick freaking Wi-Fi setup?
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(light, energetic music)
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Today.
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With the help of Ruckus,
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who sent over not only this,
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but another five
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of their Wi-Fi six access points
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and Ubiquiti, who provided the PoE switch
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that's gonna power it all.
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We are going to be installing
what is quite possibly
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the sickest possible
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Wi-Fi set up in my new place.
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Like seriously, this is like over 10 grand
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of the best Wi-FI gear that money can buy.
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Just like money can buy this
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keep track of weird stuff
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that's connecting to your PC,
even when you're not using it.
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So don't wait.
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Get 25% off today using code "Linus"
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at the link in the video description.
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(pop music growing louder)
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This is the biggest wireless access point
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I think I've ever seen.
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And look at the cooling on the back of it.
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It can suck back what? 55 Watts
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- Something like that, with
the PoE output on. Yeah.
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- (laughing) That's crazy.
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- Do you need an adult
to hold it up for you?
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- But before we get into the new gear,
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I need to give you guys
a bit of backstory.
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Literally six years ago,
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I treated myself to a
thousand dollar Ruckus R700
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with the intention of it being
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my end game wireless access point.
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I basically just set it up
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with the super bare bones
configuration it had
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when it was not controlled
by their management hardware.
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And I never touched it again.
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It was that rock solid.
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I seriously got more
enjoyment out of that thing
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than I would have out of
a Titan graphics card.
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Fast forward to last year though,
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and I had been getting a
little fed up with running
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a single AP and not really
having usable reception
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in either my front or my backyard.
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So I bit the bullet
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and along with overhauling
my 10 gig networking,
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I installed a completely overkill
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Ubiquiti Unifi Wi-Fi setup.
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That was supposed to be endgame 2.0.
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Unfortunately, this newer setup
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ended up having connectivity issues,
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particularly on certain
devices like my LG Smart TV.
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So after
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replacing some of the devices,
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updating all the firmware,
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replacing a whole bunch of the cables,
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I just
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I give up.
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The best experience
I've ever had with Wi-Fi
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has been with Ruckus.
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So we're going to keep
using Unifi at the office,
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but here at home,
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Unifi switches,
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Unifi cameras,
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they make really great stuff,
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but for Wi-Fi,
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(knocking roof)
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we're cranking it up to 11.
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This is full 11 boys.
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Of course, you're probably wondering
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what kind of Wi-Fi upgrade vlog is this,
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if you've already
installed the access point?
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Well, here's the thing.
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My old house was around 2000 square feet
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and was easily serviced with
two of Ubiquiti's XG series,
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or before that,
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a single Ruckus R700.
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My new house is more
than three times the size
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with a big backyard,
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a long front driveway
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that I'm going to want
Wi-Fi reception from,
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so that I can control
my smart garage doors.
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And,
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on top of all of that,
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concrete
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between each of the floors
due to the in-floor heating,
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which tends to seriously
reduce your signal strength.
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Which raised the question,
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how do you even figure out
how much access point you need
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for a space like this,
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aside from just making an
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educated guess?
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Well,
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there are a few online tools
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that allow you to upload a
floor plan of your house,
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trace out the walls
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and then play around
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with the positioning
of your access points.
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Ruckus' tool, unfortunately,
was a bit cludgie,
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so we actually ended up using
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Ubiquiti's Unified Design Center
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and settled on a plan with
two APs on the upper floor,
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two on the ground floor,
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one in the basement, one in the garage
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and two outside,
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bringing us to a grand total of,
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oh, I got the number wrong before, eight.
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Eight access points.
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(quiet laughing)
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Sheesh.
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Let's start with our
outdoor access points.
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We settled for T710s due
to availability issues
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for the T750, with the
main drawback being that,
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okay, it can only support,
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what is it about 500 clients
instead of a thousand clients?
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- And it's Wi-Fi 5.
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- And it's Wi-Fi 5 rather than Wi-Fi 6.
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But this thing is still absolutely crazy.
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So you can decide, okay,
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do you want to have power over ethernet
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and do your networking and power that way?
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Do you want to run SFP to it
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and then plug it into AC power?
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These things are designed really
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more for like
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stadium Wi-Fi,
- Or like a transit station.
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- Yeah or something like an airport.
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- (laughs) yeah.
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- So we'll be putting
one of these in the front
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and one of these in the back of the house.
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These are all about getting that range
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without the brick or concrete in the walls
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interfering with the signal strength.
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- You put the twisty on the, on the cord.
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You wrap it in the nubbin.
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- Obviously it would be a big problem
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if water got into this connection here
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- (laughs)
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- That's putting it mildly.
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- There you go.
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- Now with the rubber stopper on here,
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you click in the ethernet cable.
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There we go.
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Then push in the rubber stopper
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and tighten this boy up.
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We're still going to want
to leave a little bit of
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kind of a loop at the bottom of the cable.
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That's gonna allow any, uh, you know,
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rain or condensation
or any kind of moisture
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that gets on this cable,
whether it's here or here
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to drip off the cable,
rather than making its way up
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into the connection and
causing it to corrode.
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I am so glad we had a low
voltage contractor come in
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and wire this place up, man.
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There's like,
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what is it like 50, 60 runs?
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(high-pitched robotic tune)
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What is that?
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(laughing)
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- We have a tone and test kit
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that we use to trace cables at the office,
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but the toner is dead.
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I forgot that the Fluke can do tones
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and it has like a selection of songs.
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(High-pitched robotic song)
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- All right, all right, all right,
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let's trace the cable.
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- They're like such nice songs.
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That's one's like (siren wailing).
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- All right, let's go find it.
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- Well The only way we're
not going to find this
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is if it doesn't come down here yet.
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(laughing)
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(quiet machine buzzing)
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- Not looking that great so far.
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- There's a whole other bundle. Chill out.
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(quiet machine buzzing)
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- Hey.
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- Because we're in the mechanical room,
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we're going to terminate
to a female connector.
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So this is going to go on a patch panel
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when there's a rack
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in here at some point in the future.
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So it's just a bit of a different process.
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Let me just
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get one of them in there.
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Then we can go ahead and
line up all the rest of them.
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(machine clicking)
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Oh, actually, no, we
don't need the tester.
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We can just plug this
right into the switch.
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Do you have a patch kit? Yes, you do.
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Awesome. Thank you.
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- Speaking of switch,
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we actually already had
this one lying around.
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You're going to get a different one, but
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- Oh.
- we need more ports.
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- Ah, that makes sense.
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- You use the right hand ports.
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- Ugh Yeah. So these are Poe plus plus.
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Let's go back up and give it a shot.
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Okay. The power LEDs blinking now.
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It's I think it's just booting up.
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- Okay here.
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- Sick.
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- It's drawing 4.4 Watts right now.
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- Cool.
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- I think we can see it
in the unleashed one yet.
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Oh, I think so.
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(inaudible) It says
it's offline right now.
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- Yeah it might just need a bit.
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Yeah I think it's just booting up
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Ruckus Unleashed was something
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that didn't exist back
when I bought my R 700,
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but basically it's their response
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to lower cost site,
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Wi-Fi management, like Unifi.
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So it doesn't have the
same level of control
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as if you had a zone controller,
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but it's not the kind of thing
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that you'd need for a home
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or even a small or medium-sized
business, in many cases.
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And it means that you don't
have to buy a zone controller
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or pay for any ongoing costs.
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It's just the cost of the
hardware. And then that's it.
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Okay, so where do we
want this stupid thing?
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- Well, you're you're on a pot light now.
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- No, no, I got this.
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- Sometimes, do you wish
you were a taller guy?
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- No, I wish I had a
taller ladder. That's all.
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(drill buzzing)
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(man grunting)
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Oh it's not that straight. You guys,
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- It looks pretty
straight from, from here.
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- I can't believe I put that
on the front of my house.
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Okay my Wi-Fi from here better be amazing.
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- (laughs) That's so (tone beeping) ugly.
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700 up. I got to walk
down the street though.
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Okay. We're probably a good 50 feet
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from the house right now.
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I see I have three
instead of four bars now.
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This is on 5g mind you.
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(laughs)
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How's uh 400 down
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from here?
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(laughing)
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Let's go further.
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- Holy bananas.
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- Holy crap.
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Your neighbors are going to hate you.
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280? 285.
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(shouting) 290.
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You can definitely see that our phone
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is starting to be part of the problem.
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Our upload is only 170
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download 300.
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He's still going. Let's go.
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- We're on 2.4 gigahertz. Obviously,
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at this kind of range,
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I got 151 milliseconds of jitter here.
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- Really?
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- Point three megabit per second. But Hey,
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we're like almost a block away. (laughing)
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I'm so glad the indoor ones
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look better than the outdoor ones.
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- Pretty sure
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- These are fine.
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Not only are they better looking,
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they're like way smaller.
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So these are Ruckus R 750's.
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These are their top of the line.
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So these are Wi-Fi 6,
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capable of sustaining like a
thousand clients per device.
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And what we're expecting
is single client speeds
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in the neighborhood of like 7,
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800 megabit per second.
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What we could have done
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was taken the three floors and gone
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one for this floor on the side,
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one for this floor on this side
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and one for this floor on this side.
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If we were trying to save a buck
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that would have totally gotten us covered.
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- But that's lame.
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- But,
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if we want every room in the house
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to have
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balling Wi-Fi,
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I think what is it?
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Two,
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two,
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and then one
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or something like that.
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- There's eight access points.
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Two outside
- Yeah.
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- Six inside.
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(both laughing)
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Tone generator. Analog tone.
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All right.
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(robotic music)
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- Yes.
- Yeah.
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- Hey, there it is.
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This is nice cable. It's
really easy to work with.
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- And it's color-coded properly.
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- Actually, we owe Infinite
Cables a shout out anyway,
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in this video, don't we?
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- Yeah.
- Yeah
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they gave me a discount
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on the cabling for my house.
- I just think this
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is a bit of an understatement.
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- Thanks. Infinite cables.
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Appreciate you fam.
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(machine popping)
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Go on get in there little doggy.
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What?
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- Get on in there little doggy.
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- And it's lit.
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- So we got to do two more.
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- Have these already been
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- It'll auti-
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okay the cool thing about Unleash
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is it automatically adopts AP's.
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- It'll just grab them?
- It'll just grab them.
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So now that we have one
set up as our master
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and then it's got automatic fail over,
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it will just grab these new ones.
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As soon as we plug them in.
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- This is awesome.
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It just shows up.
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Boom.
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Online.
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No clients.
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So one challenge
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there's supposed to be
a wireless access point
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at the other end of this hallway.
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Is that right?
- No, there's one supposed
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to be one right here.
- Oh, just right outside.
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- But it's not punched through right now.
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- But it
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it's not through the ceiling yet.
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Um,
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so we were kind of thinking
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maybe we'll just hook up to
this one, as a place holder
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or we could use that one?
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- Or should we mount it?
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- We could just put it like.
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Just, here.
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(drilling)
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Good enough.
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- Aw, come on.
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- You want me to get the stool?
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- No, I got this.
(laughing)
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I will not be defeated by this.
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- You ever wish you were
just like, six inches taller?
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- Okay
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(laughing)
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- Wait, this isn't even
anywhere close to reaching that.
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- That's why there's a patch cable.
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That's why we're putting
the female end on it.
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- Ah. There ya go.
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(man humming)
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(slow music) (machine whirring)
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- I wish I (tone beeping) put them here.
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I took the tone off. (giggles)
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(machine whirring)
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(robotic high-pitched song)
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- Got it.
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- Very close actually.
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(shouting) Okay. (shouting) I got it.
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- There we go.
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- There you go.
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See you later.
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- Until the master, you know what?
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The living room grabbed
both of us right now.
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So I should have a look
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at what our speed would be like
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if we didn't put a second AP down here.
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- I'm still not entirely
convinced that the concrete
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actually makes that much
of a difference, but.
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- All right. Here we go.
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I mean, it's pretty thick.
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It's like a few inches thick.
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Oh, hold on. Here we go.
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Okay.
- (laughing)
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Well this might not be the most
necessary access point ever.
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- Should we just leave it then?
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- I don't know.
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- We'll go try it over there.
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(man imitating siren wailing)
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- Yeah. We're over 400 down
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in this corner over here.
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(laughing)
(slow music)
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Okay. But what about the theater room?
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- I don't know.
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- Yeah. We're like 90, a hundred in here.
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- Only 90?
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- Yeah, because of the shape of the house,
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- Right.
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- it's actually going through like dirt.
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Now it's time for the final test.
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There's still two APS missing.
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One in the garage.
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And one in the living room,
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but we've got six up
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and we're ready to before and after,
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compare to our stock Wi-Fi
access point from Telus.
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Oh wow. Even downstairs.
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Like not that far from it.
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It's only 200
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(laughs)
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- and it's insane. It's like right there.
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Now I'm at the other end of
the house on the main floor.
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Oomph.
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Those concrete floors, they're a killer.
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Now I'm chilling in bed
in the master bedroom.
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And actually these results are
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about as good as what I got one floor down
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on the other side of the house,
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which is kind of surprising
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given where the AP is.
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Finally, I'm on a video call
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in the backyard getting a whopping.
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Nope. Uh, just kidding. (laughing)
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I'm not going to be on a video call.
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(shouting) Okay Jake light it up.
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We're going to switch over
to the Ruckus APs now.
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This is going to be awesome.
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Am I making video calls from the yard?
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That was going to be a big fat. Yes.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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Half a gigabit from the
edge of the property line.
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Yes, please.
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Master bedrooms alright, too.
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It seems pretty decent.
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Wow.
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This hallway is like,
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got that big Wi-Fi energy.
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And
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theater room.
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Here we go.
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Woo.
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It's a little faster than the Telus box.
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I mean, to be clear,
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this is like racing a Tesla model S plat
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against a horse.
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But I've got one more big challenge.
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I'm going to start a speed test.
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And then I'm going to run around the house
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and see what happens.
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Ready? Here we go.
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You don't have to keep up, Andy.
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I got the camera.
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I'm moving around as fast as I can.
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Okay. We're going all the
way up the stairs here.
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Moving around uninterrupted.
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Okay.
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Now we're uploading.
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Going down another stairwell.
See you later, Andy.
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Okay.
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Uploading it.
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Oh man. I couldn't even
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1% loss ripping around
the house like that.
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Obviously the speeds
aren't as good as if I
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let it settle and grab the best you know,
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nearest access point.
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So you can see I'll run it again here.
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I'm not screen recording right now, but
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there you go.
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It's better if I'm sitting still.
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Now there's one other thing I want to try
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before we wrap this up.
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Ruck has suggested that one of their APS
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in the center of the house
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probably would have been fine
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and they might be right,
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but there's only one way
to find out for sure.
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So I'm going to disable
the five gigahertz radio
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on all, but one of the APS
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and see if I still get five gigahertz
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throughout the house. You really
don't have to keep up Andy
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- Alright
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- Gonna start in the living room.
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We're heading all the way upstairs.
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How much Wi-Fi are we going
to have in the bedroom?
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Oh wow. It's still like 200.
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What about in this bedroom? (man panting)
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Oh, yeah. That's still 200.
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This bedroom.
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Oh.
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Only like 50.
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Yeah,
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definitely want the other AP for that one.
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This bedrooms got like 50.
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It definitely wouldn't
have done the outside,
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but honestly they probably
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have a point
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when it comes to the interior space.
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Head in' down into that basement.
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Oh yeah.
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Yep.
[931]
If we're willing to settle for 200
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to 300 megabit per second,
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that one AP in the family room
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would have easily
covered this whole house.
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This is why I love their stuff.
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All right. You can't see me at all.
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But I'm down here in the theater room now.
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Oh yeah.
[947]
Land center.
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Yeah, it would have been,
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it would have been fine.
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Oh man.
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Even outside this thing slays.
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(shouting) Hey Jake.
[956]
- (shouting) Hi.
[957]
- I'm getting 260 from here.
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- (tone beeping) off. (laughing)
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- 260 down.
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A hundred up.
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Okay Ruckus.
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You proved your point.
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I
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could have done a 6,000 square foot house
[967]
with just the one AP,
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but I still like my way better
[970]
where I'm getting like, maximum speed
[972]
over every square inch of
the inside of the house. So
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(shouting) yeah.
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Thanks for sending those over
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and thanks to you guys for watching,
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You know what?
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go check out my original
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because the best thing about these
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isn't the throughput actually
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[1039]
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[1042]
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[1044]
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