Gadgetory

Wi-Fi you love it you need it you're probably using it to watch this video right here that said there are a lot of sort of subpar Wi-Fi scenarios out there that exist in houses Wi-Fi is always competing with obstructions and walls no up until this point I've been using off-the-shelf consumer-level networking equipment okay but I've had my eye on some of the more enterprise type stuff because I am a Wi-Fi enthusiast when the company ubiquity reached out to me found out that I'm actually moving studio spaces into one that's much bigger they said Lou let us sponsor a video let us send you our hot new networking equipment this is called amplifi HD and this baby claims to have solid coverage over 20,000 square feet and I said you know what let's do it you've got the router itself with a touchscreen I mean they've even got the speed test on the box they know who they're speaking to and then you've got these two mesh units now these are going to place in various locations and these three units will then speak together here is a diagram of just what I'm talking about you see the router unit is in the center of the house here and those mesh points are on the fringes creating a blanket like a warm blanket on a cold day so hot right now you're still a wire into this guy you can set it up I like this part via bluetooth and an iOS device or an Android device so whoa look at that unboxing experience Wow factory-fresh power USB number of Ethernet connection points these here are the mesh points log of that oh so it's got the the power built straight into it that's foolproof Jack could set this up Jack has a hard time tying his shoes I usually recommend velcro oh my that's Wow that's a magnet haha so a cable to go from your modem to the router there's also a power brick here so the first thing you're going to notice when you plug this in is this display lights up and the next step is to launch the application it finds the router so we're now connected little glowing light along bottom alright so now I have the router plugged into the modem and I've got the mesh points distributed as well so it is time of course for the critical testing let's let the testing do the talking you can see the reception of each of the mesh points now there is a built-in performance test as well you can see here now this is going to vary based on your location but that's the whole point of these mesh points whoo-hoo 150 point 2 megabit per second I saw it peak at there you can see there it averaged out to 113 by 20 with a 19 millisecond ping now if I go out to speed test here 120 megabit per second on the down now on the old network again just a standard high-end router in one spot and that's it I mean no glare I don't even need to say I mean to result the results speak for themselves right you're paying for a bigger pipe so you might as well invest in the networking equipment that supports it this is really something that I wish existed a long time ago every so often a company reaches out to me and says hey please check out our new thing and then every so often there's something you really wish had existed when you were a kid all right so you got to check these guys out that's the bottom line better Wi-Fi the proof is in the pudding I don't need to say it because you saw it