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okay so my original plan for these yes these right here these are this is some cool stuff that we got going on right here was to share the gigabit internet connection we have here at the office with my house which is about 20 kilometers or about 13 miles away unfortunately topography is a I would need a 60 meter and 10 a tower here at the office in order to achieve that so we are going back to square one with this video and we are going to structure this as holy episode 4 yes we are already on episode 4 of this segment and we're calling this one long distance Wi-Fi the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more so this is the Power Beam AC a device that I assumed would be a lot more expensive than it was I mean ubiquity send it to us so I had to look up how much it costs it's only about a hundred and fifty bucks and with the kit you actually get a variety of things you get this saw weather resistant plastic shell cover you get this metal dish you get this pull mount right here huh you get this fastening rear housing doodad you get this thing which is like a mount for the other mount to mount the other thing with degrees on it and then right here you get to the antenna feed this is where the action happens you also get a power over ethernet adapter an injector thing as well because it is powered using p OE so on the side of this guy you've got your power as well as your link indicator and then four bars to indicate the speed of the link and that's pretty much it oh wait except you get two of them because the point of the Power Beam AC is to be able to handle a 450 megabit link at up to 25 kilometers now we are not going to be able to mount these puppies up high enough in order to test that maximum range but what we can do is we can at least do a limited test here in the parking lot and find out if the objective was to share a network connection with someone quite far away whether it's a shed or whether it's a neighbor or whether it's from your office to your house if you happen to live somewhere flatter weather this technology looks pretty promising okay so the assembly process is pretty straightforward you take your antenna feed and yet note wait should I say that okay ah right you start with this bracket you take this bad boy then pop it under here it only goes in one way then you pop this into here until it clicks there we go then you take your pulled out stick it through the thing and finally optionally you can put on the weatherproofing mount something that I would definitely recommend please note and this was pointed out to me by my editor the last time around when we did this before our SD card died huh hmm that this arrow corresponds to I was sure there was an arrow this arrow right here if you wanted to go on relatively easily now normally you'd have some kind of a pull down here so you'd go ahead you'd put that on the pole and then you'd tighten it in and it would grip like that but because we don't have a pole at least not that kind of pull do you know what I mean we're just going to go ahead and clamp it to a c-stand for our initial testing okay so the POV adapter here is optional if you have a power over ethernet switch but not everyone has one of those so we're going to show it using the adapter yes we have power then from there without dropping it you plug into the network port of a computer so we're configuring our Internet Protocol version 4 settings 192.168.1.2 than 20 or over 250 for whatever it is so I'm going to go with 10 subnet mask we can leave as default when you click it on there and we're going to set our default gateway to 1 9 2 1 6 8 1.20 and click OK and check it out we're logged into air OS 7 so the first thing it tells you to do is change your password I wish that more companies did this where they actually force you to change your password before you can do pretty much anything else but they don't and such as life so now what we need to do is we have to configure it with a static IP address that is on the same subnet as the rest of our network so let's make it that and configuration mode is simple we actually have to change almost none of the settings on this bad boy to get it up and running which is very very cool okay so now that we've reconfigured our network settings we can go ahead and plug into an Ethernet cable that is on the rest of the network that we want to share and then I'm switching back to my Wi-Fi here because I'm going to use this direct attached cable to setup the other dish in a minute but now we should be able to navigate to it at the new address that I've set for it wicked okay so now that this is set up we're going to go to wireless and we are going to set up the mode so this is going to be station point-to-point so it was actually already correct the SSID we can make whatever we want this is kind of like just a normal wireless hotspot for all intents and purposes here men I am going to turn our output power way down because we're testing at very close range here and I'm gonna leave pretty much everything else on auto accept security so I'm just gonna put a rudimentary password on here which is better than nothing and I'm going to save my changes so as soon as this dish here we go detects long-range SSID with the correct password it should connect to it and we should have a link but first we need to hook up the other dish for configure it rather ow oh damn that hurt it is highly recommended to configure these while you are still very close to them not after you have deployed them 25 kilometers apart okay so we're logged into our second unit now what we're going to do is set up our network settings us differently from the last one so instead of dot 64 we're going to go 6 6 so we have to go ahead and put this one then onto the main network here we are very close actually ok so we are on our last step now we go to wireless on the second unit this one is access point here - peer so the SSID we used was long range hey leaving everything on auto turning the output power hey down okay so the further the distance the more important perfect alignment is but at this kind of distance it really doesn't matter much so I'm going to plug in my p OE injected powered thing so this guy gets power and then what you should see on that side if you go around the side of the dish is in a moment here the link indicator should light up hey there we go all right rock on so now we've got a link let's test it out okay so now what we do is we go back and change those custom network settings we go back to automatic everything liquid you've got to be done I'm plugged from the laptop into my pili injector into the dish which is connected to the dish which is connected to the server room which is not disorienting at all from there we should be able to get an internet connection boom yeah baby all right okay now speed test isn't always a solid indicator for us around here I don't know what it is exactly but the good news is that we're seeing very consistent results here at least two four and while not 450 megabit per second and wow the upload is going much better than the downlink that's very interesting we are still seeing speeds that are pretty darn reasonable looking for our our dish dish Wi-Fi I'll sweep that in here oh they have other tests too so they have they have their own internal speed test so you can go ahead and go oh yeah I want to use this one here's my username and password and start and this will tell you the just raw receive and transmit speeds between the two units and we have a solution this right here is a portable battery bank doesn't look exceptional that's right charges boom and you see outlet so we're going to use that to power the dish at the other end of the parking lot now there is one more tool we're going to need that I didn't show you guys before this is really cool this is the align antenna tool so you can see right here what the signal levels are in real time so watch as I move the dishes so they point more towards each other and the theoretically signal strength improves ah there goes my battery bank oh I hope that didn't break okay ah crap this is a lot heavier than I had hoped maybe I should help you no no it's fine I got this I get it camera people Union can't actually left a bloody finger to help me with anything okay oh oh sorry I got this I got this okay so I'm just gonna start hiking okay so with poor alignment at the lowest possible strength we are still seeing about 200 megabit per second up and down and that's with Edie standing right in the way of the antenna way to go Edie actually it didn't go down much so inside the building you had to make pretty big changes to the dish alignment in order to really affect this here I am barely even touching it so here we are way down the road still enjoying that was pretty much the same speed test we were doing on the downlink and however confusing this might be it actually seems to be running a little bit faster on the uplink so there you go you can interpret that however you want I'm sure with all some tuning we could actually get better speeds out of it particularly down there's probably something where I don't really know what I'm doing but in spite of ubiquity offering to have one of their engineers helping me out I want to see if I can do it let's see what kind of result someone can get just following the most basic rudimentary guide and there you have it holy long distance 5 gigahertz like beam access point point-to-point thing going on here very freakin cool so guys if you didn't like this video hit the dislike button we're not afraid of it but if you did like it hit the like button get subscribe to our channel maybe even consider supporting us by changing your amazon bookmark to run with our affiliate code the instructions for which are 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