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- So for those regular followers of the
efixx YouTube channel you've already spotted I've got my
glasses on so you know it's gonna get technical today.
So what are we up to today, Gordon?
- Okay, Gary, today we're looking at how we can actually
improve wireless networking with our wired network
that we've built.
- How are gonna do that?
Okay, so we're going to do something called a wireless
access point and we found a great little product
from Tenda, that's a great solution for homes, offices,
probably hotel rooms, things like that.
- And can we alter the rig that we've got behind us
in order to add one of these access plates in
or do we have to do a new wiring system?
- Yeah, Well, let's explore first how this works.
We're gonna introduce a new concept for some people
called Power over Ethernet, because that's how it works.
But let's take a closer look at it.
So here we've got a Tenda wireless access point.
Now I chose this one, because it fits in
a standard UK wall box.
Here's the data outlet, pretty common.
What we're gonna do is remove that and replace it with this
Tenda unit here and this creates its own wireless network.
So you can probably name it after your existing wireless
network or you can create a new wireless network
just for access through this device here.
Now what I like about this is there's a lot of these on the
market but sometimes it'll look a bit like sticking the
Starship Enterprise on the ceiling, there's lots of
blue flashing lights and green flashing lights and probably
something that's a little bit out of place
in a residential environment.
So this Tenda unit, being that wall box single socket size,
is is very discreet and can be can be tucked away
just on a normal wall plate.
- [Gary] So I can use it for hardwired there on the front
and you said it'll also improve my WiFi
by actually powering it?
What's the powering element of it?
- [Gordon] Okay, so this is, yeah, this was some
electronics in here, not that you'd know.
So if I unclip the front it gives a little bit more clue.
But there's not a lot to it.
There's no buttons or anything, it's just got an RJ45 socket
on the back and this is the secret to powering it.
It uses a technology called Power over Ethernet.
So essentially, what we're doing there is providing the
power supply to the unit across the data cable so--
- [Gary] So you're telling me there is a DC voltage being
pumped down a Cat 6 cable then?
- [Gordon] yeah, so there's a, I'll give a little
example of it.
I'll just pop the cover back on there.
Here's a network cable I prepared earlier
and I've done something a little bit, okay,
especially in the middle, I've stripped it off and
connected two leads to it, wouldn't suggest this is for
your regular installation.
What I've got at this end is a Power over Ethernet injector.
So this is basically, interrupts your network cable
and puts a power supply onto the out port from it
- Is that right? - So I'll just do a little
demonstration of that there.
So if I plug in, we've got two ports here, that's my data in
that may come from your internet router or internet switch.
And we'll look at some more detail on that in
the other videos.
So I'm going to plug into the data out and power out port.
I'm going to switch on, plug that in there,
bring in the multimeter.
So you see that I'm not reading any volt
then I'm reading a few volts,
it's hovering around but as soon as I connect my
wireless access point to it
- yup - you'll see that the voltage
now has gone up.
- [Gary] Is that 51 volts DC?
- [Gordon] Yeah, 50 volts.
So the typical range for this PoE standard tends to be about
between 48 and 52 volts, you can actually deliver 30 watts
of power down a Cat 6 cable.
There are various standards in existence, but this device
only takes a few watts so that's not,
it's nowhere near that.
- [Gary] So that voltage is powering the electronics
inside there to do the WiFi element of that Tenda plate?
- [Gordon] Yes.
- [Gary] All Right, that's really interesting.
- [Gordon] So that's, if you gotta think if you haven't got
PoE, you'd have to have an additional power supply,
which means A, you've gotta find one and you've gotta locate
the power supply near to the device.
- [Gary] So we're gonna take this and put this
on the rig next?
So let's remove our Crabtree Instinct Keystone plate
and replace it with our (screwdriver whirring)
Tenda one.
Then we go again here.
(screwdriver whirring)
And what we're gonna do is obviously
change the connections at the back.
We show on a previous video how we make these off,
but this is now not suited for the new plates.
So the new plates as we said before require an RJ45
connection so all we got to do is disconnect this and
make off a standard end
We take this off,
screwdriver in there,
pop that one out, okay.
So we just got plenty of cable, I'm probably just gonna
start again, I'm gonna ignore these ends.
I'm gonna cut it off and I'm going to make off my RJ45
into here and then just go straight into the back
of the plate.
All Right, okay.
So this will give us a point that we can hardwire into
as well as a WiFi access point as well.
But of course we're going to need that Power over Ethernet
in order to power the plate itself.
So We're just gonna do the connections we've done before
for an RJ45 and then we'll be able to power the plate up
and we'll have the benefits of both the hardwired system
as well as WiFi in the area.
So you've got any dead spots, it's great in a domestic
dwellings if you've got some dead spots, but obviously
there's some applications for commercial, say holiday lets
or hotels or offices as well.
We've got a string there still, yeah,
let's get rid of that string.
And we can make the end off and then just connect it up
and then we can power it.
So it's like this and as we've shown in a previous video
presentation, using method B,
take a little bit of time to make sure you get them
nice and flat.
Once you've got a few in there, start holding them.
And again, the code system is actually on the crimping tool
that we're gonna use so we'll be able to verify that
at the end, just check I've got me in the right order.
There we go for those.
Green ones cause me a little problem there
so let's make sure that goes in the right place.
trim them up.
Let's trim them all up not just some of them.
Take our RJ45 I've designed for Cat 6.
In this case for me, making sure the gold pins are
pointing forward.
Position in the middle like so,
and now we can check to check,
gonna check they're all in the right order.
So we're seeing previously on the crimping tool from
Ideal Industries, we've got A and B and it goes
orange and white, orange, green and white, blue,
blue and white, green, sorry, white and brown, brown,
so I apologize it's here, it was obviously white and orange.
Our colors are down here and now we can just make sure it's
fully inserted so it gets a cord grip element as well.
So pushed into all squeezed up the cord grip,
and obviously the insulation displacement as well.
Into there.
Crimp that one up, and we should be
good to go for a plate.
Simply just get it onto our plate.
Flip it into position, we're gonna curl the cables in the
back, I'm gonna screw now back the actual plate itself
into position.
In order to do that you gotta take the front plate off so
let's get that front plate off from under here.
Clip away here, pulls off.
There we go so we don't see the screws so we've got a nice
little finish on it as well.
Screws in and I'll have another little play with my
SpeedE II, get those up real right there.
Oh, there we go, let's get the SpeedE II back.
(screwdriver whirring)
Okay, so plate.
All ready to power up.
I like that No screws, so a really nice looking plate
so we can connect hardwire internet in but also works as a
WiFi access point in the area as well.
- So Gary's kindly fitted our Tenda access point
to the wall plate.
We're now gonna look at the changes we have to make to the
wiring back in the patch panel to get the power out to it.
So this is our patch panel we've been featuring in all these
videos on home networking.
If you haven't seen those, check out those videos
so you know how all this is put together and what's going on
behind the scenes.
So this is the wire that comes from our internet router
that basically brings the data into the patch panel
and then goes out to the access point.
We're now gonna have to alter this so we can get power
onto it to power up the access point.
So we will remove it from the patch panel,
insert it into the data in port on the Power over Ethernet
injector and then we're gonna have to bring in a new patch
lead to go from the out port with the power on it
back into the patch panel that goes out to the access point.
And here's one that Gary made earlier.
Gary's got nothing to do at night now so you just makes up
these leads endlessly, we use to buy em in, but we don't
need to anymore.
So I'm gonna plug this into the power and data out port
so this lead now has the voltage superimposed on it,
that's going to power up the patch panel and plug that into
that and you'll see that the light's on, so in the PSE,
so it's drawing power.
You can faintly see the green flashing light behind the
Tenda router so it's now powered up and working.
This particular one, we've already pre configured it,
we've got another video that shows you how to do that setup,
give it its WiFi name, set up the security.
But just to prove it, open up the settings on here,
and there you'll see there's our efixx network
which is being generated by this access point.
- So we've see there how we can put Power over Ethernet
onto one of our access points but can we put it onto
multiple points?
- Yeah, as an easy solution to that Gary, can buy Ethernet
switches that are enabled with PoE on each and every
out port and I believe you're fitting one of them at home.
I'm attempting to fit one of those at home where I've got
more than one Tenda access point, however, where are we
going next in this series?
- Okay, so next we're gonna try and take the WiFi
out into the garden.
Joe has done a great video that shows an easy way to do that
by just extending your existing WiFi network but we're gonna
look at this, again PoE enabled TP link access point
that's specifically designed to take the internet
outside into your garden.
- As always, efixx are interested in your comments on
home networking systems so please leave them below
and we'll try and answer as many of those as we can.
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