Alex's New Minimal Home Network Tour: Gigabit Solar WiFi! 

would be interested to see what you would do different?

@@TheNewryRFC What Alex did is a cool idea and works nothing wrong with the setup Me personally would have put plywood backboard on and a network rack

@@MactelecomNetworksagree totally! as a company doing installs though, is there fire regs over POE equipment and fireproofing? I know now in the UK even fuse boxes now cant be plastic due to new regs. But again agree no dishing and im talking commercial not DIY

also big big fan, just never get to watch you lives due to time differences! keep up the great work

@@TheNewryRFC poe isn't as high current or voltage tbh also it's technically low voltage so not the same regs for it

As far as I can tell, the chita’s don’t have them built in (I’m using one as a bridge)

The Chitas dont have a sim card slot inside them, they use the USB port on the back of the hub that a sim card usb stick goes into.

I think it’s because in one of his previous videos reviewing the Alta he found them faster than the Ubiquiti APS

alta aps are kinda cool honestly. they had a feature where it'll broadcast one ssid and will assign the device to whatever vlan you choose depending on which password you enter.

Alta APs are better according to him

Don't get hot days in the UK lol...

​@@THEDADDY7770 what? Is that ignoring the mad heat wave we literally just had?

I agree. My loft gets hot enough to thermal throttle hardware so I settled for under the stairs where it's nice and cool.

OK OK one week a year lol... @@takeguard

​@@THEDADDY7770Here in the South it's been sunny for months. Even in October I dont need to wear a coat outside.

that's exactly what i've thought

And a root-er?

Openreach haha?

what's wrong with more AP's if he's doing only 5ghz. also most devices support 5ghz now a days

@@brenisdank7097a lot of IoT devices don’t support 5ghz. And more AP’s means more money. You have to have more lines for each AP, and just more unnecessary devices on your network. Less AP if you just simply broadcast both bands at the same time lol

@@ImTaranyep.. makes absolutely no sense

@@brenisdank7097no they don’t lol. A lot of IoT stuff only supports 2.4

@@brenisdank7097 most iot devices don't support 5ghz at all

Isn't it a drip loop?

you can still run cable. Just need a sim card router which will give you a couple of RJ45 ports, run the cable through the house into 10/100/1000 switches. I'm running 5G mobile internet in a ZTE MC801A router with an RJ45 cable running downstairs and one into my office, which are both plugged into switches for any wired connections.

+1@@TrevM0nkey

don't get a mesh system just get an access point put it on your room and then run a cable to it. Mesh systems split the available local bandwidth so you might get lower speeds than your paying

I have Netgear Orbi. Well worth it

@@giannisd961 depends on the mesh system some do a separate backhaul between them on another frequency which helps with speeds

The patch cables are from Ubiquiti

Virgin Media you get 10% more download speed than what you pay for. Pay for 350mbps get 385. Pay for 650mbps get 715 ect.

That is likely the speed to the AP not internet speed, when the test continued in that clip it shows 70-80mb thats the internet speed.

@@traininsanefitness14 huh, the first speed is download, the second speed is upload 🤦‍♂

@@EpicXProtocol It is called QOS/COS: they guarantee 650Mbps out of the 750. Assume you and your neighbour are connected to same network node and you both start a download, both will get 650Mbps. If your neighbour goes to sleep and you are the only one, the neighbour does not use his bandwidht, so you are allowed to use part of his

@@RealLordythats not how it works at all. And in the video he says he pays for a 650mbps connection. VM offer a 10% uplift on their broadband service depending on what package you choose.

Also a lot of smart home devices simply don't work with a 5GHz band Also the range of a 2.4ghz is longer (but slower) so sometimes for in a back garden it's a option because of the range (also cheaper than running a cable or buying a new access point)

It’s ridiculously expensive

@@StealthyDrake12 starlink?

Because he is sponsered

He was using them before then for better speeds he swapped them with Alta APs

⁠@@akshajhuialta aps are crap imo I’ve tested them in my house and there no good also in customers houses swapped back to UniFi never let me down once you can find stock 😂

Which AP's are you using from Unfi?@@MOTO_LEW

It’s supplied by Virgin Media as part of the data contract and is branded to Virgin.

That wasn't the question? I have virgin myself, planning to get a UDM Pro & am looking for good docsis 3.1 modems

@@OfficialyMax - misunderstood, apoloiges

It’s a Hitron modem, supplied by Virgin Media to business customers

@@OfficialyMaxif you have virgin then you cant use the coax to plug into a different docsis modem. It has to be plugged into the Virgin Media provided modem.

The VP700EILCD UPS has rated operating temp of 0-40'C which a UK loft might exceed during the summer

Isn't AX the only option for WiFi 6? I thought AC was WiFi 5.

@@jamescollins6085 they throw around so many wifi 6 terms without explaining the difference between 2.4ghz and 5ghz they are the bands on the wifi 6 routers AC is early wifi 6 and AX is more recent wifi 6, as far as i know early wifi 6 AC is slower than wifi 6 AX and they both have 2.4ghz as well as 5ghz bands but that could just be a usa thing and not a uk thing

You don’t need to

Must be Mikrotik 60Ghz Wireless Wire. He installed it in other video

@@annettehanshaw8005 Oh found it thank you so much

He did set ghetto setup so cable management is out of the question too ig

ive never had any problems with them. there will always be bad reviews. its not good dwell on them or let them change your mind completely

Thank you for the answer. Do you get the advertised speed? My friend currently has a 70 mb internet. But they offer 250mb one which would be good.@@Kaz

@@MOTO_LEWdont see how you could be getting 890mbps upload as Virgin Media dont do that kind of speed. Not even on a residential full fibre to the property network. Unless you’re paying for a leasedline?

Because he is watching Tim Cook all the time.

I do not know these APs do they mesh? I have 27 Ubi APs about half mesh and its hit and miss but its for a warehouse.

@@TheNewryRFC APs are best if you want to segregate your network I believe. APs and mesh nodes are both wired back to the router directly

@@joshieporrittsorry I meant this brand of AP, I have no first hand exp of it

@@TheNewryRFC Alex is using Alta Labs APs (a new player in the space). He did a separate video on them in June and yes they do mesh 😃

@@DallinKauffmanthanks, do you use them? just wondering advantages over Uni kit? Maybe the video covers this....

So basically your just hating on how us british pronounce certain words.. you Americans do the same so?

usually people who've no idea about technology.

That is utter bs. Racks are what they are for standardization on how to put as much as possible equipment in as little place as possible. You are confusing with the ROHS standard: that is to prevent racks emitting smoke and hazardeous stuff when being in a fire. But that is only applicable in datacenters. There do exist racks that prevent fire to sprread when HW catches fire. But in that case you talk about fully closed racks. This is even not common in the industry (Industry mostly uses racks with meshed doors to allow ambient cooling, which is more efficient than on the spot rack cooling). Your reply shows that you are not at all into real field engineering or datacenter building.

@@RealLordy You answered yourself "racks with meshed doors", now go and look for meshed stoves, and watch physics unfold, your reply shows that you are not at all into science, engineering and data-center building.

@@ZachariasEnislidis Guess you never were in a datacenter, right? And not that it matters, but I am an engineer (not self proclaimed, but with an actual degree in engineering) Meshed racks are used in (smaller) environments where ambient cooling is sufficient to keep all the equipment cool. Another application of racks with meshed doors is the use of those racks in cold corridors in the datacenter: equipment in the rack is installed such way that for all equipment the air intake is at the same side of the rack. That side is located in a cold corridor (litterally a corridor where temperature is kept at max. 16 to 17 degrees Celsius) to ensure consistent flow of cold air in the equipment. The side of the rack that has the exhaust side of the equipment is called the hot corridor. They do this this way to reduce the cooling cost as it is much more efficient from cooling perspective. This kind of setup is only possible with racks with meshed doors. In fact: you will seldom see datacenters with racks with fully closed doors as there is no way you can guarantee that the equipment is consistently cooled as you depend either on fans on the top of the rack to pull air coming from below the rack. Fans fail and your equipment is toast. Furthermore, what you say ( makes no sense as this would mean that the rack is air tight. No rack is ever air tight as how would you cool the equipment? Without proper cooling, a rack full of equipment would end up in almost an oven (60 to 70 degrees Celsius) in no time. The racks you talk about are the ones that have steel doors at the side and steel or glass doors in front and back. But you forget that the bottom of the rack is completely open and that such racks have one or two big fans at the top pulling cold air through the racks. In case of any fire in the rack, those fans would blast all toxic smoke through the air (toxic smoke is prevented only by ensuring that all equipment is compliant to the ROHS standard). Besides being inefficient, this is another reason why you wont find many racks with full doors in datacenters... I would advice to get some courses in datacenter and rack design before assuming people are not into sciences...

@@ZachariasEnislidis Google "When to use racks with meshed doors in a datacenter" and one of the first links you find states that when you have a rack filled to the top with equipment, it is strongly advised to use racks with meshed doors... When using fully closed racks, you have to make sure that the side of the rack containing the intake vents of the equipment only has cool air, and the side for exhaust is fully seperated from it. Meaning: put blanks in those rack units that are not used. Otherwise you mix hot and cold air and reduce the efficiency of the cooling. I am not sure to which kind of physics and engineering principles you refer to state that the only good racks are fully closed racks. But based on all of your statements and comparisons with a meshed stove, I am quite sure you are not a datacenter engineer. I am not a datacenter engineer either, but I am involved in the design of (small) datacenters for a living and colleagues of mine actually are datacenter engineers who know all the physics behind the design. So unless you give me some valid articles stating explicitly that for safety reasons only closed server racks are adviseable.... Just do your homework instead of pulling off into a rant. The choice of a rack is dependent on design requirements, environmental requirements, equipment specifications and requirements and most important: what kind of cooling capacity is already available. If you have a giant airco cooling the room, closed racks are useless. If your rack is sitting in an uncooled attick however, you definitively go for a design with a closed rack for which you foresee dedicated cooling straight into the rack. There is simply no one fits all solution to this. It requires analysis and engineering. By the way: one thing I need to thank you for... the comparison of a rack with meshed rack doors with a meshed stove... This is one I am going to use in the future as a prime example on how NOT to look at a rack with equipment. Hilarious 🤣😂🤣

if you live in the UK, you can get 5G home broadband from Three for £20 a month. If you have 5G in your area. I get 500mb down with it