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BIG Shoutout to Unifi for lending us all of these AP’s, wouldn’t have been able to make this video with out them! If you have a large house, its common to add multiple Routers or internet devices to help cover the whole area. But can you have too many? Today we add over 50 Ubiquiti Access Points to see if you cellphones can get better or worse WiFi?
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:31 What is the Best WiFi?
3:07 6 Neighbors Messing up WiFi
4:05 Why is is so slow?
5:10 Hitches be Crazy!
6:13 WiFi = Traffic?
8:04 50 AP Montage!
8:30 How Bad is 50 Routers?
10:24 How to Make your WiFi Better!
14:33 Outro
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I clicked because Linus is on the left
I do, indeed, live inside an electromagnetic isolation cell.
I live in a steel boat
This video really makes you think about how many routers are too many 🤔! I guess if your wifi is stronger than your relationship, you might have a problem 😂. Also, do any of these routers have a charisma meter? 🌐
AP in every room is good. But you want to do it right: disable 2.4G radio in some of them (typically every other), adjust Tx power, don't use wide channels on 2.4 GHz, test a lot. Don't even think about mesh. Run wired Ethernet and disable radios wherever possible: TV, PC, game console, laptop dock, printers. I've lost count how many wireless problems I've solved by providing a wired alternative. It's my firm belief that wi-fi should be used for mobile devices only.
Forget about 2.4. Dixi.
That final segue^^
Saw this one coming a mile away … I have 9 neighbours within a 48 inches of my apartment. I even predicted that conflicts between wireless devices would replace the loud stereo as a primary cause of neighbour friction.
So I wired my apartment with RJ45 connectors right next to my old phone line connectors. Now I just plug in wherever I'm sitting…
I like wires. Nobody bothers me… and I don't bother anyone else.
Been doing this since I moved to a condominium, really like 80percent of the AP using 1 single channel
what happened to LTT being better at testing?
everyone already knows that the standard windows file transfer is horribly unstable, and is also totally dependant on the file(s) that are being transferred.
It would have been better to see multiple results averaged out, or different programs (like fastcopy for instance) to eliminate specific programs issues.
also just one antenna is not great for spectrum analysis.
Something like the ekahau sidekick (v1 or v2, either works for this example) would be vastly superior for wifi analytics.
also mentioning MLO is kind of pointless as it is a wifi 7 only feature, which 95% of the market does not have yet, not even in the enterprise space. it is also something that needs to be supported by the AP and by the client device, which also isn't going to happen any time soon.
The Shokz link is broken
Now LTT is giving me ads of products I just looked up, I legit looked up those ear pieces today on google and this is the first ad I've seen of them
i have a PCIe Adapters Archer TX3000E V2 Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 PCIe Adapter which should not have a 6ghz band but still in the device manager it shows intel(r) wifi 6e ax210 160mhz which supports 6ghz could you pls clarify
Note that my country has not adopted 6ghz and the pcie card is an Indian Version
I can't believe you'd have all your wifi devices on the same channel.
I'll save y'all a click. The answer is yes. More radios means more chances for interference. This doesn't require a whole video that could be solved with a fucking Google search.
This looks like a morning tv show how stuff works for kids.
Back in school, this was a problem for our dorm because every room had a wifi-enabled printer. The IT guys had to go around to every single room and ask people to disable the wifi so the bandwidth wouldn't be so crowded.
I'm not even able to change my WiFi's channel because Xfinity decided that some features should be fully automatic with no way to change them (with the app or the browser)
My Wi-Fi apparently uses 5 Ghz.
Having something from Ridge in every room seems a bit overkill, but you do you.
2 questions:
1: Is the Blue Controller hanging from Linus's belt a fidget or is it actually controlling something on the production side. I kept noticing Linus using it during the shoots.
2: Am I just noticing the Sock & Sandals Combo of Linus and am I the only one bothered by it, especially indoors, ESPECIALLY in a foam box?
Good luck in a condo building in the SF Bay Area
So Lets say, i have 4 floor building and i wanna set 1 AP for each floor. Should i put floor 1 in channel 1, floor 2 in channel 6, floor 3 in channel 11 and floor 4 back to channel 1 ?
To the heart of the video… learn wave propagation, and you can setup your rooms to only have signal within the area that you desire. This is something I had to do for a previous job with Uncle Sam, where all transmissions must be carefully controlled.
Saw networking. Unrelated topic aside, I would like to know how can we deal with ISP implementing transparent dns proxy.
3:30… This should be illegal, I work in Entertainment… and we have buildings that are basically useless because the contracted internet is absolute garbage. Like… yes we can give you gigabit down… but only 20mb up… I need to be able to send multiple 1080 streams while not interfering with normal workflow, data transfers, and video calls… why do massive companies like… in this case… Spectrum, only offer 20mb up????? And even though fiber is cheaply available for these locations, the owner has an exclusivity contract.
My home internet is super cheap, most basic fiber at only 50/50… but it feels blazing fast next to 1000/20.
great video !!!
Couple dozen he says – try 40 in regular UK suburb!
i'm just gonna say that channel interference/congestion is kinda one of the first things you should think about when you transform your home into a giant router
I got two 2.4 Hz Wi-Fi spots of my neighbors intruding my house problem (plus, a microwave also played a part in this). I've bought a new router with a stronger signal, 5 Hz and a spectrum analyzer tool.
Sure, my neighbors are assholes, but not tech-savvy assholes. Their router, which feels like it is located a mere 3 meters away from my access point, is configured to select a channel automatically. Once I configure my 2,4 Hz to access all rooms in my house, in a week or a month I'll get a bad signal. Checking the spectrum tool – they're on channel one, as I am. No problem, channels 7–11 look bare. I jump on that frequency and live a worry-free life for a couple of weeks (or months), and then I'll get a Wi-Fi dropping problem again.
Why do I know it's not them doing that on purpose? On my street, short (1-3 mins) power outages are common. It looks like, upon booting, their router just chooses a new random channel, WHILE MINE STAYS ON WITH 2000 VA worth of UPS power!
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Yall need to make a series explaining everything wifi and networking for us.
Try working in a market with lots of shops of a tower full of flats and you understand that there is such a thing as too much wifi
Damn and here was I thinking Linus built a TARDIS ☹️
Just recently, I was in a hotel where the rooms were quite small and densely packed into the building. A "business hotel" they call it here. EVERY room had its own wifi AP.
What's quite interesting, is that the transfer speeds were still quite admirable. 200Mbps up and down. Seems like it was only limited by the hotel's internet uplink.
I wonder how they did that then?… I mean clearly, interference wasn't a problem. At least not a huge one.
You could have one access point in every room, but for sure you’d have to turn the radio strength down so it won’t interfere with stuff in other rooms.
Or talk with the neighbors you trust and designate one technically inclined person to set up a really powerful network and share it while splitting the cost and saving some cash you'd normally give to the your ISP.
LMAO at Ridge for making the prize either a Wankpanzer or a Hennessey… Everyone except clueless tech bros hate the Wankpanzer AND it's a terrible piece of shit, and Hennessey? Well, let's just say, if you have your vehicle serviced by them there's a good chance they will steal parts off it to fit to other customers cars.
As someone who… has the authority to say: get rid of all your GHz+ radio (esp.digital) in your life, and it'll be longer and a lot healthier.
Our half-century long experience unambiguously tells so.
This has fixed my house!! Now my smart devices are working!!!
Wireless is such a pain to troubleshoot. Quite possibly next to Poweline networks. People don't approach it with a mindset of convenience and instead expect 100% reliability like a proper wired network using switches and whatnot. It really is a scenario of "If it works. It works."
The majority of the time, the clients I work with do not have full control over the network devices within the premise. Couple that with implementing APs on really bad location, like placed outside a hallway, where there's a kitchen with a microwave, in between the client and the AP.
If you can connect your stationary devices (TV, PC, Printer, Scanners, Security Camera, etc.) using a wired connection instead of WiFi, it will also help reduce the traffic per channel. Not everything must be connected through WiFi!
LTT needs to come help DDE out with mobile solutions and help them with their infrastructure at the DDE HQ !
This…..was a eye opener because for the past 2 months the house has been having a issue where latancy or packet loss spikes for about 10 seconds before going back to normal. Funny thing was this was just upload speeds affected meaning I could here my mates on discord and still see the other players moving as normal but my mic would fail to transfer and Id be stuck running in 1 direction until I get booted from the game for "connection problems"
You should bring up all the stupid "Smart" devices being put in everything that is causing problems too… they are adding WiFi in microwaves, stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers… anything, and its all making noise and causing problems.
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How do you solve this problem at for example the badminton centre? Does 5g have so much capacity that it doesnt matter that there are this many devices when there is a lan party?