To anyone going to the trouble of running cables, consider using a higher rated cable than the cat 5e in the video, cat 6 is very common now and might save you replacing it in the future if you upgrade your network.
Thankyou @alex just got my first notification in around three years, I been following you since around day one, so nice to be able to see your new posts, thanks bud.
7:01 For anyone making their own Ethernet cables, ignore what Alex says here, don’t just cut off the excess rubbish. It is there for good reason. The string should be used to rip some of the outside jacket off so that you are using virgin cores to create your connection with. Not doing so leaves the cores with slight scars on them from when you cut into the jacket in the first place. This has 2 problems, firstly it leaves a weak point in your connection that will eventually fail with repeated movement. Secondly, it increases the likelihood of potential shorts in your network.
I've literally never ever used that cord to rip the jacket. Always used standard jacket trimmer with a quality blade. Proper, sharp tools will cut clean. Proper cable will not be flimsy. Not arguing with you, there is merit in what you say (for the less experienced) but most of us with over 2y experience should be able to do this perfectly, 99% of the time, even with sub par tools / cable.
Alex, I have been networking PCs, tills, printers ….. for many years and you explained this all really well. I never had to use PoE but wish I could have because how many times some switched the PSU brick off by mistake and refused to check, I had to drive many miles to just switch it on.
I'd love to do some scans from one of his clients connections & see what can be seen.... I suspect the isolation, security rules etc are not upto scratch.. Not hating on this guy, but high numbers of security breaches are due to bad config / almost zero change from factory config.
He did a video on his WISP, he claims they all have their own IP address and authenticate with PPPoE, so he's at least done some research and knows about that, so with any hope he's configured rules so each client is completely isolated and will only pass through that IP to the Internet through him, and not touch any of the other client networks.
@@supremeicecreme1658 "claims they all have their own IP address" yes every addressable device on a network has an IP address, but is each client given a globally addressable IP address? If he claims its secure I would love to see an external audit
07:00 - the boots are not optional, especially not for beginners.... The boot is there to protect the cable clip and to provide basic EMI. Novices will likely have the internal pairs showing, between the cable jacket and the transparent connector.
I'm getting 700Mbps on 5G at the moment. I'm seriously considering ditching my broadband and just using 5G for everything. Thank you Three for unlimited data (including tethering)!
The "pass through rj45" should only be used for practise & not in actual installations. When you can make 10x cables (20x terminations) back-to-back, and have the jacket go as far as it can into the termination jack, then you are ready to make them with standard rj45 Jack's.
switches are amazing. i have a Netgear GS308 (mananged one even though i dont touch the settings ahah) got my PC, Synology NAS, old gaming PC, and if i needed to i can wire my 2 consoles up if i ever wanted to play on console
Alex, PLEASE make a video making a Cat5e end with a RJ45 with your eyes closed!!! No practicing before making the video either lol If you fail on camera then no biggie lol. Please make that video
Title mentions how to get faster broadband/wifi with easy setup, but you never actually cover how you GET faster internet, you just tell how to set up a home network. Does using a switch give you a faster network or is there something else not covered to get those full/max speeds?
Thanks for the clear information. Which is better for creating a Wi-Fi mesh network, the access point you used or your router from previous video where you change the Router into an access point?
Hey Alex, I recently bought a UDM Pro. Its working very well. The internet coverage is amazing! I was wondering if you knew of any 4g routers with any IP passthrough? Currently, I have a Netgear 4G modem, I've enabled bridge mode but it doesn't give the public IP on Unifi and its double natted. Only with my M1 Mac, it doesn't let me go onto my Unifi Gateway but my pc and phone it does. If you could help me or anyone in the comments, that would be amazing
Hey man love the video, the server rack looks daunting as hell but I'd love to know more about how them, could you do a video on getting into it? Love how simplified you've made all of this!
Look up Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro on RU-vid. A great starting point is the Crosstalk Solutions channel, that guy sells and sets up corporate WiFi setups for a living.
Hi Alex, thanks for the video. Some really useful information in it. I’m in the process of adding more ethernet ports around my home. In your video you have three options for the switches, one is a powered switch which doesn’t provide PoE and is a dumb switch. The second, a PoE dumb switch which is powered from mains. The Third is a PoE self powered switch which is also slightly more expensive. If use a PoE switch, can I still plug into devices that don’t require power over ethernet or would it damage them?
Can you review the BT Premium Home Wifi Mesh system? And maybe compare that and various 2021 Mesh systems in a Comparison test across the home? (e.g. comparing 3-4 nodes of the BT Premium versus Orbi versus Asus versus TP Link etc)
cable guaranties top speed. If you put wifi in between 2 routers then your second router where you pull your cable out of wil be limited to the wifi strength it gets from the first one.
The switch to a switch "may" work but can also cause issues especially when daisy chained to a third switch unless they are smart switches so that spanning tree protocol (STP) can work properly to communicate with each other. Otherwise weird stuff can happen.
As I understand it, broadcast storms (solved by STP) are a feature of networks using redundant switches, not daisy chained switches like shown in the video, I can't even think why Alex is saying it's not recommended to connect a switch to a switch, I have 3 connected in line in my home though they're all managed.
@@futurecactus Aye, Switching Loops (also known as broadcast storms) occur when broadcasts are forwarded by a switch out of every port, if this switch has a secondary link out to the switch that sent the broadcast then the broadcast will just be repeated indefinitely. Layer-2 has no TTL header, so if it gets in a loop it'll just loop forever.
I would recommend using external cat6 foil shielded cable and terminate them on keystone modules in single back boxes, so you have a fixed cable, then just purchase some pre made cat6 patch cables for each end
Absolutely misleading title… how about: “how to get *stabile* or *good connection* to your WiFi everywhere” . Your not improving your speed. Your only getting the best out of what you have!! Stop misleading people if you wanna educate!
While this is what he is achieving, yes, people don't understand what their issues are or where their issues come from, which in turn means they don't know what to search for to get solutions which is where "creative" titling to get to the people who need it comes in. While we all know, not everybody knows what each piece of the puzzle is and just see the whole heap of things as "the internet" or "the WiFi", which is a whole other issue in itself that nobody is educated in technology nearly enough as they probably ought to be to understand what components they're using.
I live on a farm with several outbuildings and 2 circuit breakers between all the buildings and I’m struggling to find a way to get a signal to stretch far enough, I’ve tried a booster and a power line adapter but the range isn’t great! Any help would be much appreciated
@@futurecactus baso they are about 20 meters away from the house and about approximately 10meters away from each other . I just need to get WiFi coverage in each building
Get some acces points and get a Ethernet cable that can handle being outside, if you wanna do it properly, put the cables in the ground, boom, you have WiFi everywhere.
That is expensive for a Ethernet cable. 😮 I was thinking about running a cable to the house to the outside office but, what Ethernet cable should I get for a good price but will give me fast internet? Can someone help me and give some advice please that would help me so much.
I'm not an expert in the physical installation of ethernet. However, you will first need to determine how you're going run the cable. Will you bury it or run it aerially? Either way, you have to use cable that is meant to be used outside. A typical ethernet cable you buy from the store will work, but since it isn't designed for outside use, it will likely degrade with time. I suggest reading up some guides on how to run ethernet outside so you can get an idea of what the process is like. I can't post links since YT will delete my comment unfortunately, but a simple google search should let you find what you're looking for.
You can't get faster broadband off the bat without paying extra for it. You can get faster wifi and faster lan between your devices ie moving a folder one server to another etc etc I've a 10gb network throughout my house but I still only get 100mbps download and 20mpbs upload Internet speed which is as high as my ISP provider goes. Your title is seriously misleading
The thing is, both of you, that people *have* faster broadband speeds north of 100Mbps and they are still complaining. Does this tell you that the problem doesn't lie with the broadband but with the internal networks in their houses? It does me. As you're rightly saying, if you only get 100/20Mbps from your ISP, a 1Gbps or 10Gbps network in your house isn't going to magically make your bandwidth to the Internet go up. But, the same works the other way. Getting more and more bandwidth is going to do nothing to your internal network. If you're connected to a 56Mbps WiFi link from the opposite side of the house to the crap WAP your ISP provides, you're sharing with your whole house, you have a bunch of other things causing interference and blocking the signal, your connection is going to be crap and that is going to be the bottleneck, not your broadband link! Removing the bottlenecks from your network by whacking as much onto wired connections as you can and getting more, better quality WIRED WiFi Access Points you're going to be able to use your broadband link to far, far better potential.
When you remove the other isolation, inside the core of cable you have string(usually). You can pull the string to strip it up even more. Cut off the excess isolation and vóila, you have uncut pairs. Other way is to just not cut too deep into isolation and start twisting and pulling it.
270mbs im with a company here called wight fiber and i get 900mps and cost is £22 a month ? and i dont mean thats what they tell me i mean after doing my own internet speed tests
Thank you for the information. I'm hooked up to SpaceX Starlink Internet and it is fantastic. And for those people who have good speed and still complain, well, I prefer to live a more positive live. ;)
I don’t think people understand! That all this equipment won’t boost your internet speeds up to like 400-1000MBPS! Because you don’t actually pay for it! If your paying for 80MBPS from BT then your capped at that lol! Don’t expect super fast speeds lol! He’s literally misleading everyone on these videos.
He's only adding extra access points which will allow you to create a stronger signal throughout your home, but he's making it too complicated. All you need to do is connect your modem to a network switch and then connect your router/access points to the network switch. Now you can have multiple routers in your home connected directly to your modem.
I would not recommend this for the normal Joe bloggs with 80 meg FTTC. This is all overkill! This video is full of stuff you would only ever see in a SMB. You really only need to run mesh discs like complete Wi-Fi offered by BT or EE smart router and discs and then use the Ethernet on the back of the discs to hook up your computers and other devices. The discs use 5Ghz backhaul. You really do not do to this.
Actually, I think this is a strong misconception in the consumer world. He's not telling us all to replace our networks with a UDM Pro or a SonicWall firewall and get 2 managed PoE switches and several managed WAPs. I think this is fairly solid advice. Where do the vast, VAST majority of consumer broadband connections enter a house? Their phone master socket, usually located behind their TV. This is where they place their ISP-provided crap device which 1. converts the (analogue) signal to a usable signal, 2. has a router/firewall (necessary in this day and age), 3. has a network switch, 4. is the main and probably ONLY Wireless Access Point in the whole house. I can EASILY identify at least two flaws with this: the WAP is on the ground floor - WiFi is EM radiation and is affected by gravity and so will struggle to reach the upper floor(s) where people are likely to be on WiFi on mobile devices or smart TVs in bed and all that; the WAP is placed behind a HUGE EM wave blocking device - the TV - which is also going to degrade WiFi connection for people even in the same room as it. And not to mention, nobody will be able to access and effectively use the ethernet ports on it, aside from maybe connecting their TV and any consoles, so that desktop PC upstairs, that laptop that struggles? They'll continue to struggle as they can only use that poor WiFi signal coming from behind the living room TV. Mesh things aren't going to help because 5GHz doesn't penetrate through objects very well, and so if the connection to client devices isn't good enough, the backhaul link isn't going to be any better and you'll only be filling more rooms with more noise/interference for your house and possibly the nearby neighbours if they're close enough. If you were to place a WAP where most people in your house are going to be using WiFi (ideally upstairs) using a solid PHYSICAL cable, then you'll see better performance over WiFi, not to mention because it's not using the rubbish that whoever manufactures the ISP device can cram into the box. Well, didn't this turn into a bit of a ramble. I hope you see my point though, you can't fix crap with crap, fight fire with fire, right a wrong with another wrong. Using WiFi to boost WiFi in a place were WiFi isn't will simply not improve your experience.
You dont get GOOD wifi PERIOD! He just joking! You need biz stuff just to get good speeds! I even have fiber and I get IF I am lucky 300MB to my pc that has to be wireless due to me renting.
The ISPs loves you. You spread the same bull that they do - that the Mbit is the key to a fast internet. Its not. Its all about the reponse time. Doesnt matter if you have 100000 mbit or 50. You only need that speed if you donwload something. But again. Thats NOT related to how fast you feel your normal browsning are doing.
Comcast own part of sky but they use BT so wtf are you in about. Cat5e ? 1999 is it ? You really have no idea about anything networking at all. Trendnet better had payed you plenty because their products are dire.
Nice too see someone else in the uk doing this Ive just done a full run around my house Do you have a contact number so i can call you about something as i wanna do a network rack too clean up the look with some switches let me know mate please
