So this is the place. We're staying in singapore with some of my wife's relatives. It's
Absolutely beautiful. We're talking like
talking parrot teak wood stairs
just gorgeous interior actually. It was designed by the owner and then
built on this lot here in singapore everything about it is just
amazing and beautiful
Except for one thing. The Wi-Fi is
Awful. I was getting disconnections all over the place
I was getting slow downs I couldn't even send hangouts messages half the time so being me
I was like okay. So what's your wi-Fi solution? What's wrong with your internet because the speed test is fine.
It's 50 down about 8 up which should be plenty for all of that stuff, and he shows it to me and I go oh
Ok so these guys are using the ISP provided
Modem/Switch/Router access point combo unit
The structure of this place is pure like foot thick concrete and
Then they've got a repeater down on the landing for the second story that is supposed to provide better coverage
downstairs.
Awful solution. So it's time for us to figure out some kind of a
Networking home makeover while we're staying here
What the crap am I doing back here? It's like
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All right
so we're here at the famous inland square where I'll be trying to find some better wireless gear and
Just kind of generally checking it out because I've heard a lot of stuff about this place number one
Is that it's an awesome place to find pretty much anything electronics and computer yeah number, two
Is that it's a great place to get scammed with everyone giving different Sorts of advice but?
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Yeah, let's head inside
They have everything here, that last place had like an entire rack of Machetes I
I wish they'd had this place when we lost our microphone in Taipei. I wonder if I need one of these?
Probably, not.
I think there's five or six stories. I got all kinds of fun stuff on the second floor. RC stuff,
some more computery type stuff,
And ladders lots of ladders
I guess if it's an entire
I mean singapore's about eight million people
So you're gonna have a third of the population of Canada all within driving distance to this place would you need to online stores for?
Whoa look at this. It's like a sea of
Technology okay, so I think we found our first networking gear shop. Hello, I
Am looking for some wireless stuff
Lunch okay. Do you know what time maybe 10 minutes 20 minutes?
About 30 minutes about 20 minutes all right, I will come back in 20 minutes
Okay
Hi, er yeah, I'm actually looking for
Let's see I think it would be about a 30-foot ethernet cable white. Oh, you only have bulk for white but
So the third floor looks like the place to be for getting the networking stuff
we need this is her shop where I was told to ask them about the fasteners and
and white cables oh
Forget everything I need a 10 meter white ethernet cable bill any case. They were only cat set okay?
How much is that then it's a little overkill. Oh nice. It's like a flat 1/2 that's actually kind of awesome
$20 is a lot for a 10 meter ethernet cable, though, okay, so
Another question for you. Do you have any?
Fasteners like adhesive, it's like sticky Fasteners. Maybe you can mit if this fits, I will buy this
steel yep, still good okay, so I need
Let's say three packs of that this one left one
last one
You already made the sale and now you don't have enough of them, okay? Well, I got okay
How many are there in here oops? I spilled them all but 15 okay? Okay? I'll make it work
So I want this in this
28 bucks for our Ethernet cable and our
Fasteners all right, so let's head up to the fourth floor
Maybe we can find some more wireless stuff there before we head back to the shop on the third floor wow three laptop stores
right in a row
We're laptop stores
laptop stores
Matt, I'm not shopping for a laptop. All right? Well these guys are more like my speed
I need a 128 gig ssd, and I need a too big stick of DDR2
99 for my ssd and 46 from Iran. I think I can do better on the ssd, but I'm not sure about the round
Thank you
two gigs stick of DDR2
$55 55 to be really cheap. Yeah
How about the 128 gig ssd. What did you don't find 105 Memory world?
58 How about the ssd
139 looks like we're back to the first store. You guys win everyone else's price sucks sucks
You dare to 800 perfect Dad come all the way here to buy computer hardware, right you want to be in the video?
145 alright everyone else gave me really bad prices. Maybe because I'm late
We've got our ramen ssd, but we still need our networking stock
Like all of these laptops are broken why do you keep them just in case oh good yeah?
this one does include both the pio E adapter and
the unit so in fact
I won't even need a pov switch that's excellent another option would just be to get like a nighthawk X6 and call it a day
Repeat these
Yeah, I don't want to use a repeater
529 these things are like 300 bucks where I'm from that's ridiculous
Yeah, I will have to I'll have to come back. No problem. Okay, another network specialty looking stores pitch, bright
373 78
Wow
Maybe this place has stuff at least it's not a laptop store
Okay, there's nothing in there
What's pricing on the Ac 66 you?
243 okay, not bad so far. You're the best option right now
245 for an Ac 66 you I'm gonna have to know Pov. I have to get power to it somehow
This is ridiculous like I promised your uncle one cable to the pillar
not like two cables to the pillar
So you know what I think we're Gonna do oh
I don't like this at all, but we're gonna go get one ap pro and
We're going to hope that the coverage is good enough from right in the center
And if it's not then we're gonna need another one
Whatever they have there. I want to buy it the first study cafe. This place is like a maze
I can't even find the stores. We were shopping at before
Ap Pro 389
Ap Pro 408 ah we just saved twenty bucks. Do you guys have?
Unify Ap pros in stock okay? Well, I don't have much more time to shop so I don't think we have a choice yep
Let's do it. Well overall. I'm not happy about it, but at least they waived the 3% stupid credit card surcharge
And after I asked what three times?
Alright
So we're back
to unpack our spoils and get started here, so there's actually two projects because there was some complaining about the
desktop computer upstairs, so for that we need an ssd and
a stick of memory so we've got that and then
for the Wi-Fi
We need our new unify Ap pro our cat seven cable
And then these cable management tabs here, so let's get started shall, we
This is so not a cat seven cable. Well. I guess it could be cat 6 what's the easiest way
Well this door gets to be open a crack from now on is that Gonna be a problem that?
My friend is how it is Gonna be to get good internet?
Okay, like right down here
So we get a nice clean line
Okay, so I'm not sure about ideal locations part of the problem is this structure is all concrete concrete concrete
It doesn't look like I'm Gonna have a choice so either
I think I'm gonna do that pillar on the second floor or I'm Gonna run it
To mount on this thing what I might ask is what's the priority because if the priority is?
The downstairs and I might be better off to go here
That's what you get for having bad Wi-Fi
So one of the reasons we had to spend so much on our access point was Poa
Power over Ethernet
So that I don't have to run those two wires and what I like about the ubiquity is anyway
Is that they come with an injector in case you don't have a pos which do these two-pronged ones work here?
Oh you have an adapter. Oh handy
All right, did not count on that so we might need to use some kind of adhesive backing and I didn't get any extra I
Have yeah, I also need to steal one here ethernet cables
Okay, now let's go plug this guy. Oh, I'm sweating so much
see if we got power I
Might have to go switch those things around I always get it wrong any late. Oh there it goes
Alright now we got to get the console fired up
okay, so to configure the thing we need to install the ubiquity controller software so let's
fire up this ancient Dell optiplex
760 this is actually the computer. I'll be upgrading and get it set up once we've got the controller. Set up. It doesn't actually
Ever need to interact with the controller, so I'm not worried about that. We just need to get it set up the first time
Who says text don't you know work out? No wonder they want this computer upgraded I can't even
Do anything in an internet browser?
Even the Mouse Movement is slow
Oh my goodness this computer needs more than just a new ssd, and some ran the most up-to-date
circuits like
Ie 8 or something
Alright, so per the usual the equity software super easy to get set up so all we've got to do now is
Manually set up our channels manually set up our widths
During the setup Wizard. I was able to set up the
ssid and everything so
What's left now?
Then is to have a look at the surrounding area and you can see that
This is why I thought it was so important to have 5 gigahertz because actually from the from the outside
From the backyard there's a bunch of stuff in here so stuff on channel six seven
There old Wi-Fi was on channel one actually both the axe the repeater and the original access point
We're on one so they're just talking over each other
but on Five gigahertz
basically empty
so
Actually actually the only thing we can see right now is the one that I just put in
So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna play around with positioning a little bit
We're gonna make sure that from everywhere within the house
We've got a decent signal then we're gonna go ahead and set this baby up all right. So here in the back corner
We can see there's a couple on
Channel 36 from this neighbor
But our strength is still not that bad on five gigahertz
Naturally this floor is all very good with the access point right in the middle
Even five gigahertz can punch through you know one concrete wall, okay?
actually
Should be workable all right? So wait at the back is actually quite good
so
We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna try actually running some speed tests in this position to see how it goes
Here at the back you can see what I was talking about with 2.4, gigahertz being completely
Congested and five gigahertz basically being our best bet to not be completely interfering with absolutely everything else
Yeah, you won't be facetiming back here
Russian girls
So now that we've determined the location we want. I'm just gonna throw a little sticky note on here that has the admin password and
All that good stuff actually I'm gonna put it on the mounting plate, then I
Have double-sided adhesive
that's
Got two different kinds, so I'm gonna hedge my bets, and I'm gonna use half of each
Well what I wanted to do to have it on the bottom stare. Nope okay. That's what?
Gotta Apply pressure about 30 seconds, okay
oh
I do want to leave this like some kind of a knot here actually if the adhesive fails
I don't want it to come crashing to the ground
So this is where my cable management tabs from upStairs come in straight lines are good all right. How many jobs do I have left?
Oh nine
So that is nine feet okay? So we're gonna go every foot
Okay, so I think we're done now
our connectivity up here is the only place in the house where it's really not as
Consistent as I'd like not as good as I'd like but I think we found a solution
Because it's only very rarely that someone is going to be using something like a phone up here
This is actually the worst performing device in the house for Wi-Fi
That laptop over there that old laptop gets 40 megabit from the position on this desk right here on our range Network
So that's what we ended up doing we made two
Ssids speed and range speed can saturate the 100 megabit connection that we have here at this location
From anywhere downstairs pretty much and then range is able to even on our worst case scenario device give us about
You know five to ten megabit up here not too shabby then what we did was we?
Reconfigured the existing access point as more of a failover
So we called this one attic and so if range on a particular device is not working well up here
You can connect directly to that one then we left the range extender downstairs and with a little bit of repositioning
I'm able to get 20 megabit at the very bottom floor with that one
But we're just gonna leave that unplugged unless our ubiquity access point fails or something like that
So now we have not only better speeds pretty much throughout the house
But we also have a failover system in the event that you know the access point dies or something like that
So not too shabby is it the ideal solution?
no, what I wanted was a
24/7 controller running and two access points one at the top one at the bottom then I think I could get anywhere from
50 to 100 megabit anywhere on the property that would be great
We weren't able to do that because you know how things are so this is not a bad solution overall
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