Hello in this video I'm going to be going over a little bit more advanced setup on
the Ubiquiti NanoBeam AC Gen2
Wi-Fi bridge so it's been a little while since the last video. I apologize for that
I haven't been able to work on this for numerous reasons
But we left off that I had set up
Two of these nano beams to each other in a bridge configuration
Since that time I've installed them so I mounted them to two buildings and then I aligned them
so if you go on the app, there is a an alignment utility and it
will beep and you can move the antennas around until they are aligned properly and
At that point I had the connection between the two buildings
I've also in the last video. I called them
Home and barn. I think it was and I now call those home and remote
That's the name I settled on for these
So in this video I'm going to be using the web interface. So on the app, you'll see it'll have IP addresses for the
To Wi-Fi bridges so I have those here on
192.168
7.3 and 7.4 and I have those two pulled up and
They are
each a tab of my web browser, so
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So once you when you put this IP address into your web browser, you'll get a lot of web browsers
You'll get a little message saying that this may not be secure
Well, there's a what they call self signed certificate
on there
You just need to accept it and then you can get right in you typically don't want to do that if it's like a website
Over the internet but this is your you know your own local equipment
So so I'm when you log in you'll get to a page that looks like this
This is the dashboard if you look on the left here
And says we're on the dashboard
There's also Settings and AirMagic
This is on the home on the remote. You'll see
Dashboard and Settings you won't see the AirMagic over there. So
look at the dashboard we have the
local and remote
Which we call home and remote and it gives some stats on these, you know
It tries to guess how far away they are. Although I don't think matter that quite that far away
And you can see signal strengths things like that lots of stats here
I'm not gonna focus too much on this
I'll pop down here to air magic. So with air magic it will show you
I may not use all the proper terminology, but I'll show you like the
the frequency spectrum
So you can see where where the bandwidth is used in your area. So
This shows some open frequencies here that it's recommending and you can change this here to
Like your channel width. So the higher the channel width the
Faster you go, but also potentially have more interference. So I
Don't tend to I don't think I have much interference here. So I went with 80
If you stick with a lower one
Like if you're if you need reliability, you might want to go with his lower one
So I went with 80 but this is just kind of a tool you can use I'll go back
To the settings and we'll see where this is used. So I'm gonna revert changes here
But if you wanted to you could click this and then when you go into settings you'll see this
channel width the control frequency list and then center frequency if you click that the center frequency will
will select one of these so I just haven't set to auto so and
You know if you have any if you have more experience than me or suggestions on this on using this equipment
go ahead and put that in the comments or if anyone has any questions put them in the comments and
And certainly read through the comments after watching this in case anyone has any advice that I don't cover in here
Maybe I'm doing something completely wrong
Hopefully they'll people will add things in the comments
But I'll just go over this here we set up
So right now I'm on home and seems like most of the settings at this point each week will be on the the home
Wi-Fi antenna, so we set up the wireless mode here to access point PTP if you remember on the remote
We set that up as station PTP
so
The SSID you can change that here
You'll want to change that on both at the same time and I would think you would want to
Probably change it on the remote
Here
save and then change it on the
Home one so it can sync up properly if you change it on here. Not the other one
I think you'll lose your connections unless I'm wrong, but I don't see how that would work if they're on different SS IDs, so
Down here is the channel width and we looked at that on the air magic
I think this defaulted to 20 after the last video
I think it was on 20, so I wanted to get a higher speed so I upped it to 80
The control frequency list in megahertz, I'm not completely sure how this works. I think you can just select the
Frequencies you allow maybe
If someone knows please put a comment, but I that was off by default and then the center frequency I have set to auto
And then this calculate EIRP limit I
Get from what I understand. This keeps you from
upping your
power too much
Such that you run to a situation where your setup is illegal, so it's probably good idea to keep that on
Then the output power here
What I did and I'm an easy line of sight. I mean I can visually easily see the second antenna
So I put this all the way down
I like the idea of starting with this lower and then and then upping it on the output power because you don't want to
Have more power than you need so imagine you're
talking to someone in a room and maybe they're two foot away from you or
Let's say three foot or a meter if that's how you do your measurements
you really want to yell at them you want to use the
The proper volume for your voice. So the output power
Typically when two people are talking they'll talk as quiet as they can but still be heard
Understood by the other person then it's the same way with this
So I put the power all the way down and then if I needed to up it I would do that
But I don't want to start out having a full bore on
And then have to lower it. So I like to start low and add it up that way you have your
You're not
drowning out other people's
Wi-Fi setups so then we have the auto adjust distance and distance. This is recommended to be on I'm not sure exactly what that does
There's a max
transmit data rate
Here I've set to auto and this data rate module. I have set to auto or to default so
The next thing we have here is the
Security key so you can change your password here your Wi-Fi password. So this is the one when someone picks your
your the Wi-Fi SSID
It's the password that type it of course. This is a bridge
so the same goes with changing the SSID you'd want to change this password on their remote and then change it on the
The home one so
There's this wireless network protection and it says this feature protects the Air Max network against the authorization attacks
I have this off that
May turn this on I'm not going to turn on during this video
Because I don't want to potentially knock this thing off on try to shoot a video
But you could turn that on and that is also
That's not here. So this is what I was talking about earlier. You have more things you're setting here
So this you just set the pre shared key
on the home side, you can turn this on and then you can have
Mac
ACL or access control list and
We can go here and you can in the MAC address of the remote and that's probably not a bad idea either
if you go over here, I'm not sure exactly where it's showing the
MAC address
It may actually be printed on the antenna itself or you can look it up
so
That keeps it so we'll anything with that
Um that shouldn't be your security system, but it probably don't hurt to have it on and these are the signal LEDs thresholds
So this there are LEDs on the unit itself and
This is the threshold for when they light up so you could use those LEDs to help aim it or things like that
I think a lot of people are probably just use a like a smartphone or something
And
Then this advanced I'm not completely sure what these settings do. I just left them alone. So if we've got a network here
networks in bridge mode
configuration modes and simple and then
The IP address is DHCP
So I did set up I have I punched in the IP address of this in my browser. I have this set up in my
router
to always give these
Bridges these IP addresses so it doesn't change each time. I don't have to use any kind of like discovery utility to find them
I know that are gonna be at that so you could also just set a static here and give it a static IP
I prefer to use DHCP and then
Configure it in the router itself. So
Then you have STP which is spanning tree protocol
Management VLAN audio IP aliasing. I've left all these two default off
so
If we go to services
First up here. You have the ubiquity network management system might not use this. This is like their centralized management system
There's this ping watchdog so you can have it ping some system. You could have a ping a router or something and
If the ping fails to go through
One second let me go back over to here so
The net was so I'm on the remote side now the network they're
Pretty much the same except for IP aliasing is on
I'm not completely sure what that does, but I don't think I've changed that. So let me go to services over here. So
So now we're in the same place on both you you have this
Ping watchdog. You can type an IP address into ping and if it cannot ping that it will
Reboot the the Wi-Fi
Access point after so many pings or tries. So if this
like on the remote side if you don't have access to that directly and
You don't have an easy way to reset that. This could be kind of handy
You could have this ping the router on the home side. And if it can't get across that wireless link, it will reboot itself
So that's what this ping watchdog does
I have access to both of these so I can easily just go and plug it if I need to
But as of right now
Sorry, I'm jumping around here. If I go to the
Dashboard, I think if I scroll down here
my uptime on the home 1 has been set 74 days, and I did reboot the
Remote one a couple days ago, but they've been very reliable
So so that ping watchdog might be useful for
You know helping with reliability if you have issues with that
So then you have the SNMP agent and I don't use SNMP on my networks
You have this web server I think this is the same setting on both. Yep, it's a web server
It says secure connection HTTPS, and I'd like to use that was on
So we're not using unencrypted connections
That's the same on the home and remote and then you have SSH services. You can SSH into the
The access points and modify things or reboot them or whatever
So I have those on them both then here you have the telnet server so you can turn on telnet
That's kind of older does kind of same thing as SSH but it's unencrypted so I don't like to use that
And then it says Mac telnet server
I'm not sure exactly what this is
but I have I assume it has something do a telnet and I don't really want to use telnet so
We have the NTP client, so this is the network time protocol, so right now it connects to the
NTP org pool. So this keeps the time set properly on your device
There's the dynamic DNS
You know for my application where I'm using a bridge I don't really need the dynamic DNS
So this is to set up a DNS name for people who don't use the static IP
But that I don't really see why you'd use that for the bridge
And then system log
Is on and then I've device discovery is on
CDP off let's see what I have on this
The same things there
I'm not sure I maybe I'll turn device discovery off
So and then if we go over to system here
I think most of this is the same. It's a little different here
It has the firmware version the build number check for updates so you can hit this to check for
Any firmware updates?
You can change the device name here you can turn on pou pass through air views on
The management radio on startup I have this turned off now since I have it started up
otherwise when you restart it the management radio will come on then you can connect to it with a
smart phone on the management radio and make a configuration change
so
if this screws up you can just start from scratch too if you want and you
can reset it by pushing a button on the back of the access point or on the POE injector also has a button so
You know if this is on a big tower, you don't have to climb up there to push that button
And let's see if we have a start date
This is so you can put a start date in here, I guess this one you deployed it and we have time zone
This time zone isn't set here, huh?
You can set the time zone
I'm surprised I didn't set this already but
I'll change that later
Then you have the administrator account and password and you can put in your latitude longitude
device height and the remote side
same settings
Okay
Down here. You can reboot the device. You can reset to the factory defaults. You can backup configuration
This is probably a good idea. Like I was saying if something screws up you could wipe it out and start over
Well if you have a backup
Especially for making big changes you can backup the configuration then reload it in later. So
Let's see what else we have here
Down in the corner left-hand corner, you have a log so you can you know diagnose any problems
up here on top we have the
ubiquiti network management system
which I don't use and
then we have
This tools
So this has air view?
this is like a
spectrum analyzer it looks like
We have alignment. So this alignment
There's an app. There's a part of the app that does this too, which I think is probably handier than this
But you can use this to like aim your and this tenders at each other and then there's an audio thing here. I
Don't think you hear it because I have headphones on but
This will beep as you're aiming it. So
If you have your laptop
Stay on the ground and you're up on a ladder on top of a building and you can hear it. You can
Kind of listen for it to be in alignment as the tone changes so you can use that to help align the antennas
Discovery here
Not sure exactly what all these tools are for your site survey you can ping trace route speed test
Constellation shows some kind of a map thing. I'm not sure what that is, but and then you can do speed test
This is kind of I just want to go over this because it essentially what I did after I
Did the initial setup I went through here and went through these settings and set them up
Like I said, if you have any suggestions on anything that you think I could do better
Please put them in the comments or if you have any questions about any of these settings
I can maybe answer maybe someone the future will read it and answer for you
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