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welcome friends to pin my Wi-Fi not help him stuck I actually don't know but all I know is piss my Wi-Fi sounds an awful lot like get my wife and that is not the same thing so this be my neighbor John's house okay I'll stop talking like that that's awful John runs a home business making sports scoreboards that are both affordable to purchase and operate thanks to their battery-backed solar-powered design and they also operate in all weather conditions this is Canada after all radio control oh yeah that's it my score boards are designed built and assembled right here in Canada the microcontroller chip that runs the whole system is again designed and programmed by me I've written the software to do this the printed circuit boards are again designed by me electronics and so on the PC boards themselves are built in Richmond BC they're sent back to me as a blank board I assemble the components in it and test it right here then once all that's done and tested and everything's okay I build and assemble the coils right here again in the shop well that's great John but what I couldn't help noticing when we were working on that homemade CPU waterblock that let me cheat in scrap yard war season two is how horribly out-of-date some of your gear was I mean an Athlon 64 PC running your C&C USB drives to transfer files from one computer to another are you still using this computer the entire business's backups are on a single hard drive and are you still using the ISP provided wireless access point with the name Telus 1995 I didn't think anyone had done that since 1995 no no I'm afraid I'll need to reject this reality and substitute my own which is why we're here over a year later and Ubiquiti Networks the makers of the access point I ended up buying in sim Lim square in Pitt my wife is owed one has agreed to sponsor a full tech makeover for my neighbor John even going as far as to send out one of their technicians to make sure everything's running any okay super hunky-dory and paying for us to have mark the contractor help us with anything that might involve power tools so let's get crack-a-lackin' let's run through the rationale behind the gear we're using our unified security gateway Pro is essentially a router that can be managed from the unified controller it handles our packet processing and DHCP our unify switch eight handles both active and passive Power over Ethernet with enough ports for all of the devices we have on site our unify ap pro wireless access points are designed to handle a much higher client load but our deployment here is more about killer 802.11 AC coverage so that dropped Skype calls are a thing of the past and the unified cloud key is the low-power Linux computer on a stick that manages all these other network devices to keep them working perfectly okay so obviously this has got to go there's this is a single access point it's up in the corner of the house I think I have better reception from my house then John has in certain areas in his house so here's what I'm thinking in terms of getting full coverage in this place with I had planned for three access points so I wanted one up here for wife approval factor and that will mostly service the soundscape entertainment sound recording studio in there and one of the kids bedrooms because there will be a hard line in the master bedroom for the computer that they operate there so if we have slightly less reception to the master then it's not the end of the world I wanted to put it here the wife gig that gives that feel absolutely no way ok so that'll probably do the upstairs right look connected ok should easily go video do ok for the downstairs to keep cabling simple I wanted to have the access point in the garage which is just on the other side of this wall so that means great strength for that where the business is operating that should cover this living room area really well now we've got one two three walls between it and the den however we want to bring one more out of the crawlspace and put it here to cover the backyard and then I'm thinking hopefully the back half of the bottom floor oh yeah so the cable runs that those gentlemen are getting going up there are all going to come down to this corner behind me where we're going to have ubiquity xej router light we're going to have one of their p OE switches so that we don't have to run additional power to all of our access points we're going to have a proper Nazz with real-time redundancy and finally we're going to have one of their little controller doodads that makes it so we don't have to have a dedicated PC to handle seamless handoff from access point to access point while clients are roaming around the house so the great thing about any tech project is you don't have to create drama like you do with a lot of reality shows the plan was to have an ADSL line down here so we could move our networking stuff downstairs and run everything out from there into the crawl space but we actually don't know if either of these phone lines are live okay so I'm going up to see if I can find out where those cables terminate so I got to go I don't know what about 10 feet over that way okay oh ow my head oh crap there's a okay there's not a clear path there's there's a kind of a wall here like a look not kind of a well there's literally a wall so give me a moment try not to fall through the ceiling pull what we call a Dennis here you know what no I think I got him I think I got and I think I see yeah I think I see what's going on here so it looks like only two are connected two of the wire pairs on the base cables yeah okay so that would explain it cuz you need four pairs for voice and data okay cool so all the other news lines connect them then right there we go okay so that's how that goes over to that corner one of them is actually in this this guy so one of them has let me have a look at yeah that's that's it hold on this one coming in here so that one looks like it has he wires older installations they didn't actually have to use like a go by the actual standard color coding so you could get one color that in place but it's actually has another purpose great well I can tell you right now these colors look to be kind of random because the red and the green are not connected to red and green on the other side I don't think okay so what I just need to go up there with a roll of electrical tape and twist them together no it's that idea it might work but that's apparently what was done in the first place yes I do see that I can't go to be how reliable that would be if we're data if it did work well it stopped working so about that reliable yes we can certainly try out and see what happens we can try it and see if it works immediately now this and then we can twist some caps on it and make sure it doesn't go anywhere at that point so do you want me to go back up there and start twisting wires together sure we can we can try that and the other thing is if we had the I don't know how accessible that room is he's running the line to do the closet mm-hmm but there won't be any easy way to get it down the wall and out yeah I'm not really not tidy anyways that white over yeah so that's why we didn't want the the networking closet upstairs some some thought was given to this just not quite enough just the Linus tech tips way red to red green to green good so far how it looks like the black came off okay so this is an improvement over before it's flashing faster now it's doing anything do we want solid hey good good aligned okay all right my my ghetto pimp style just twist them together I mean we'll fix it but awesome that'll work for that good one problem solid let's just wait for the next one to happen so behind me in progress we've got George leading the charge on creating a custom enclosure for that CNC mill that we used to create the custom water block that should dampen some of the noise that comes out of it allowing John to have it running during the night something that he currently cannot do due to noise regulations in this neighborhood so in summary what George is going to be building is a 2x4 construction shroud that's going to allow for all the existing functionality so easy access to things like these drive bands here in case they need to be replaced the ability for the hose to continue to take away the waste material while the machine is working and most importantly a complete enclosure with you know baffles for exhaust vents to take away as much of the noise as possible so we've got half of our Ethernet run done these are the ones for the master bedroom as well as the closet upstairs all that's left now is the one that goes through the crawlspace out to the back and a surprise one that goes over to where the new ADSL line comes in to where the networking closet is going to be here in this corner so I actually wouldn't mind getting in here to do the actual PC upgrade mercifully the old one has been apparently taken out back and shot because it's not here anymore but mike is currently working on just getting all the latest firmware is running on the security gateway the POV switch and the cloud controller so I'm going to go shopping so these are going to run the CNC mill as well as the coil winding machine and they say be just much smaller ah quieter there's no fans so they're less likely to collect dust should be a better overall solution not to mention faster I swear if you want Windows Update to do something be in a hurry all right let's do this Bank I'll take one of these actually no I'm kidding I'll take a couple of the ve2 47s here one two you so we run into a small problem I just kind of assumed we could get a monitor arm at Best Buy but Brandon looked it up and everything is online only so I don't know where to buy a monitor arm well try visions but honestly I don't have a lot of hope for this well then I will take them thank you good sir this is a lot more than I wanted to pay but these do look really nice and these should work perfectly for what we need and they had exactly two so that just saved my bacon we now have everything we need we're ready to head back to the job site that's typical right you go away for an hour cuz you got to buy something you come back where is everybody must be on lunch okay so these are all programmed yes yeah okay so why don't we go ahead and these ones we'll deal with in the corner once practice is done with his wiring up there but why don't we go ahead and install these things you're like whoo all right let's do it I got this I got this got this bro but I might have to take off my pimp sunglasses cuz I can't see a damn thing it's magnificent every head up okay he's trying to get me to take off the Hat no don't do it no I'm not taking off the Hat taking off the Hat is the wrong thing to do for any pimp pimp always wears his hat oh I see okay alright your make sense yeah okay so we're just basically a two by four just a cup just a small cup keep going until it starts teeter-totter is pretty cool yeah right now I can take the 2x4 right here and we can slide it right on excellent excellent good good let's slow and easy boys now you now Freightliner to front of you another too late for my dicks in the back there and we're going to slide it on on the edges here yeah yeah could we have it might make our lives a little bit easier if once we've got it up this slides away John I'll awesome thank you okay guys hold on oh yeah pulled it up with it oh yeah I have let it down straight down all we did in case okay now we want to Center it yep your way you're we just right there yeah take the two by fours out we're good cut this guy right now so okay yep yep and then we'll lift this side and do the same because when this is when this sucker is spinning it vibrates quite a bit I like it okay so while those guys finish up the box for the C and C I'm going to go ahead and get started on rolling out all of the other gear that I have so I've got the zotac PCs all loaded up with fresh copies of Windows 10 wireless mouse brand-new laptop it's a UX 303 from a sous as well as aa yes from our friends over at Seagate and Synology we've got a new Nass that is going to have four terabytes of raid one storage so time to get cracking on that so I'm not sure a hundred percent exactly how it works but it looks like yeah it looks like it kind of clips in somehow and then just slides on so George and his guys have made about three metric but tons of progress on the enclosure over here check this out the monitor arm is installed the keyboard and mouse are on this gorgeous little tray that Georgia stress tested so to speak to make sure it's strong enough to hold a keyboard and mouse and we've got more progress over here in the corner Mike over here has terminated most of the ethernet jacks which means that we're almost ready to switch between the old network and the new one but first we have to do the before of our before and after test so in a nutshell we're going around to four different locations the workshop the upstairs audio room the dining room here where I saw John using his computer to have a VoIP call and the poolside and we're doing four tests in each location we're doing a file transfer test we're using insider to see what the actual signal strength is in decibels and we're using that same software to see how many overlapping wireless networks there are in each of those locations because the reality of it is even if it's performing fine right now in the middle of the day on a Wednesday when everyone gets home and they start streaming Netflix those 2.4 gigahertz networks that are nearby are going to cause interference and hurt John's networks performance that's one of the reasons we're switching over to 5 gigahertz so with all the before testing done all that's really left now is for Mike to finish up his Ethernet terminations and for me to mount the last access point up here in the corner of the garage slash workshop uh yeah we're ready I've done all my before tests okay so our server closet is up and running we can access either the unify cloud key configuration which we shouldn't need to do because Mike's gone ahead and set all that up or we can access the unify controller which is what is effectively running on that so we're going to go ahead and manage that and make sure that all of our ApS are showing up that that is going to be key here and there you have it three ApS closet garage and outdoor and the next step before we do our tests our performance test is actually this is a really cool feature you go into RF environment and you can pick either 2.4 gigahertz or 5 gigahertz and do a scan it takes about five minutes but this kind of thing is worth it if you're trying to avoid using the same channels as everybody around you and you want the best possible performance on your network at all times I recommend doing a scan like this during a time when your neighbors are likely to be actually using their internet so sometime around 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the evening so we're finally done we've actually been waiting a few weeks for some acoustic panels for the inside of the C&C enclosure but I am ready to present you guys with our wireless signal strength tests so by the poolside much much stronger you can actually browse the Internet at full speed from out there whereas I couldn't even get a connection to the old Wi-Fi access point from the dining room table we're looking at an improvement there as well same thing here in the warehouse so wireless signal strength has improved overall but that wasn't the only thing we were doing here we were improving the ergonomics of this workstation which as you can tell has definitely been dramatically improved and second of all we were improving the acoustics of this workstation so this enclosure is now pretty much done it still needs a little bit more acoustic foam but we are ready to do a before and after test and find out if John's productivity can improve thanks to being able to operate the CNC at night so we're going to head outside and do a before and after sound test with the panel open versus having the panel closed and see if we can hear the difference all right John fire it up for the before test I don't know if he's going to be able to hear me okay John close it down so I was saying close the lid so it's pretty loud not bad can the mic pick that up not bad at all awesome alright so mission accomplished thank you for checking out the second ever episode of pimp my wife I let me know what you guys would like to see if we were to do a third episode of this series see you guys later you know it is that they walk