 Getting ready to install a few of these so I thought I'd do a quick review of the nano beam AC gen 2 now I've used the nano beams for some of the projects including One of the projects we've heard to with the bridge bridge project where there's a bridge and we're using a wireless bridge Using the nano beams to beam it across. We did that a while back. It's been working wonderful. They haven't had any problems I think it's almost two years ago that I did that. These are the gen 2 nano beams, which are faster better next generation a couple of features They have a built-in management radio, which is kind of cool So you have the main broadcast radio and a management radio and these have an ability to be managed via an app Which is pretty cool. So you can do that I'm not going to cover the app today. That's going to be for another day But there's videos you can see that you control from the app I usually set these up manually So we're going to talk about the setup of this what comes in the box and do a speed test Of course because you want to know just how fast it will go What's really impressive is these are generally can be found for under a hundred dollars and Links below to the Amazon store where you can grab some of these but 450 megabit transfer rate 15 kilometers or about nine miles maximum range For a hundred dollar box That's amazing. I remember paying a lot more for a lot less not that long ago Or even if you go with some of the other brands these are amazing In terms of the how fast they are how good they work and what you get it I mean how easy they are to set up such use the app So unboxing it. There's not too much in it Just the essentials get your The device itself get a little click ring which goes on the bottom and we'll show how that works You have this little ball mount the white 24 PoE brick That I just flung the base off of it. It's got the mounting plate base. So you can just take mount this and Mount it to the wall bolt it on there and snap and then your brick stays there Does come with this clamp to help put it on there And there's holes right here for the clamp to go through so you can pull mount this if you want I get started book and A power cord that's about it. I already took took this part in Pulled the plastic off it comes with really nice packaging and plastic But didn't think that was overly relevant to it, but you know it does come with that So it does like keep pretty in there now It's really cool about the way this ball amount works, and I just love this design Just sits in there and Clicks spin click and it's set now put your finger on it get a little to take the tension off And you can slide this ball amount to any angle you want so you can just move it around Give it a click And it'll hold at that angle this makes pointing and aiming these really easy and of course it's aided by The fact that there's a level on this so you know whether or not it's level when you're pointing it at the other device so from an installation standpoint You just take and carry this up with you put that in your Pouch or whatever however you want to get up on a ladder Because you don't want to drop these and you mount this you get it bolted to if you want to bolt it straight There is an option for putting it right through the hole in the middle You can just get a really long screw and shoot this right to something and away you go Just don't forget put this on first before you shoot it there But yeah, we we've wanted a few of them like to the sides of buildings just buy one straight shot through here and done An anchor it so it doesn't come with the you know long screw that's something you have to get from the hardware store but Mounting wise very very easy to mount very easy to remove if you got to remove them That being said when you're mounting them something to consider put them high enough so people do not remove them So just a thought there that has happened places My wi-fi is up. I also want to remove it. This just snaps off on the bottom so you can get to the Ethernet jack in there. There's just one there's a reset a recess reset in there and Pretty straightforward. So I think it's going to be mounted under there This is actually going for a job and I already programmed this one and the other one will lose speed test for They have a pool house separate from their main house and We're bridging this to get wi-fi to their pool house and to bridge the cameras over there For their property. All right, so now that you're taking a look at it Let's talk about the fun stuff and actually set up and test all right So I ran through set up the devices. They're good to go. They're plugged in they're working Turns out microphone stands will hold pretty good for this So I've got one here in frame and the camera and the other one is just over there behind the camera So they're optimal and as you can see from the screen here, they're optimally connected So they're all set up and configured on run over the configuration real quick It's pretty straightforward. So out of the box. It's ubnt ubnt 192.168.1.20 And then I changed one of them to be 25. So this one is the That 20 And it's broadcasting the ssid of house. I set a password for it And it's in access point to point mode out of the box. He's come from a network standpoint in bridge mode So there's really not a lot of configuring you have to do you take one you set it to access point to point mode You take the other one settings station point to point mode Select or just type in the ssid house Not real creative one. I'll change it later And put the same password in and they'll bridge before you do that Though do make sure as I said out of the box. They're 192.168.1.20 I changed this one to be 25 if you've made them the same ip You'll immediately end up with an issue just throwing it out there basic networking but They will work on dhcp as well. So if you have something that will assign them addresses That's something you can do as well Ideally though whenever we're putting these in you want to set your point to points up to be static ip It makes it better for troubleshooting that way if there's any connectivity issues between them You know exactly which ip each one. It's part of your documentation Any client that we've done these for we've always done it that way set static ip Log in if there's ever a problem with either side We can just go right into the ip and try and figure out where the problem is from a troubleshooting standpoint Everything else is pretty much default The only other thing I did change in here down at the bottom Is I have automatic power control. I've turned those on these I I've done a little bit of testing with that on off. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference But uh, even the job that we're doing is relatively close. So why have it over pushing the power on it? I figure it's smart enough to be optimal. So other than that, these are all the out of the box settings By the way in case you're ever wondering it does support wireless network protection as in the d offing protection If you're using two unify ac units, uh, they both will set up the security protocols between them So no one can d off between them And if you're not familiar with uh that attack what that attack does is make them re-register each time And it's not as much a security problem in terms of them getting in between the signal It's a big annoyance because it'll link the signal drop. Uh, you can also lock it down if you want to a mac address That's one of the options in here. So this one's broadcasting his house And then you can hit uh when you go to select you can lock it to the mac address of this device And what that would allow you to do is keep it so No one could just impersonate it but in order to impersonate they would also need Not only the ssid but of course the password in order to impersonate this device to get its connect to it And that's not that easy to do unless they know your password But it isn't our layer you can add on there the downside is if you ever swap one of them You also have to make sure each device that you've locked to mac you update the mac address on it Just to get that all out of the way. These are a couple of those little questions that come up We are running the latest firmware on these as of april 21st that is 2018 that is going to be the xv 8.51. Uh, first thing I do whenever I get these devices I set them up with the latest firmware. So I know they're up to date So They're connected. They're up to date. There's two different ip addresses here. Uh, they Are working perfectly fine. So let's go ahead and go to the dashboard back on these Now the one that's doing a transmitting This called house because it's also the transmitter you get the air magic on this one Because this is the one that's going to set the network up for the other one So this is broadcasting the other one over there is receiving and this is dot 20 that we're on now Uh, and this is kind of cool because you can look and reset based on wireless interference If you didn't want it to handle it and you wanted to force it and be able to see the spectrum This is a cool tool to be able to do that. So you can look at the air magic and go All right, let's test different options on here if we're having any wireless can you know, uh interference that's coming in there So I like the fact that they build that in they also build a lot of other tools in so we're going to go back over here to dashboard For example, when you got to aim them, so we're going to go over here They have their air view which we'll get to that in a second. Uh, but they have some of the alignment tools And what this will do is allow you to point them. So right now they're pretty optimal But we can put something in front of it. I got some aluminum foil here And you can see that it'll have some changes very slight Aluminum foil actually doesn't block the signal quite as much as people think Uh, so it's really not that great for wrapping your head either. Uh, and yeah So you can see that there's a little bit there. This is going to be annoying, but It has a beep noise. Uh, and that way if you're pointing them in the other directions It will not beep and then start beeping so you can actually just have maybe your laptop Even if it's further away turn the volume up and point them and then go, okay now I can hear that it's aligned and it'll start making a noise for you. So that's definitely pretty cool Once you have these on here, we've got a discovery app for Finding the other devices which is pretty sweet that they built that in You can trace your outping constellation constellation is kind of cool, too This is kind of giving you a diagram of how it sees the other thing and then if we point it down You'll watch the constellations change. So it's going to start losing it So we're now not I got to probably put it even lower which I got a velcro down here just in case it falls But you can see this is changing. This is also just more fine tuning So you can try to fine tune making sure it's pointed exactly where it needs to point It'll figure out the distance which is what you're seeing right here in the middle. So it says the distance is 0.1 miles Probably a lot less than that, but it probably just doesn't go Lower than that, but we've tested that and it seems to be roughly accurate for how far away they are As long as you're using, you know, two unified devices to connect to each other there You can do a speed test as well, which is kind of cool So you can specify the device so we're on 20 so we're going to specify 25 The remote web port whether you want to duplex or receive your transmit You can put in the username and password of the other device which I had saved in the clipboard And it will gather data log into that device and they'll talk to each other and do a speed test between them Which is pretty neat. So you can see just how much data will push across them based on receive or send Actually, I probably should have done a transmit test Because we want to transmit from mine to that one because there's a when you're doing it the other way My laptop is actually going to cause a problem Because my laptop is connected directly through this There we go So now it's doing a speed test from this device transmitting over there And you can see we're getting even higher than what they specified In there. So they claim 450 but we're seeing into 500s here. That's pretty awesome Of course, we're super optimal being the fact that we're just going across my office But that's still pretty impressive for speed Now this is their speed test and we're going to do our own In a second here. So the last thing we can do is look at the air view And it'll take a second But now you can see different noise patterns on there at different areas So you can figure out maybe what signal you want to do So if you see a spike in a particular one You go, that's not where I want to set this and you can go through and fine tune Which channel it's on like I said, these are pretty amazing. This is a less than 100 device that comes with a waveform viewer in it This is an expensive like the waterfall views and waveform views These are expensive tools you can buy third party to do site surveys with or you can buy a device That's not only you know useful because it could actually bridge these it It's amazing that it has all this stuff built into it. So I've always been really impressed with these This is you know, I'm I was excited when it came out of the gen 2 because I'm like More features are making them better and they made the price actually a little bit lower than it used to be a few years ago So definitely really impressive and I like on a dashboard to tell you what the link is Now the last thing we'll do is an eye perf here Uh and do just a raw network speed test And we'll do this to get you another idea of just how much data is pushing across there And doing eye perf it looks like we're seeing about uh It's bouncing around 300 or 400 megabits a second So there's your total there. So you're you know averaging about 400 pretty impressive for the speed Like I said, this is a sub 100 dollar device. It's able to transmit at 400 megs and Really consistently obviously it peaks out even faster. We when we're doing just a single not a do not a duplex test You're able to get that full even more bandwidth out of there, but overall That's really great. Uh for the project that we're going to use this on I mean they make faster ones, but for the project we're going to use this on They just want Wi-Fi next to the pool and they would like some cameras to work next to the pool. So That is all it needs. That's a great solution for that And uh, like these are easy to set up you just set one up to receive one up to send and away you go Now they do have the phone app. Uh, chris did a video from cross talk on the phone app I'm not going to repeat the uh phone app. Um, but it's just a way to another way to set it up I don't set it up in the phone app, uh for convenience reasons and documentation reasons I like to set them up because once we still plays at clients we document all the settings We download the config files out of each of these that way if there's ever a problem one We can easily remote and we have all the password and everything handy in our documentation To if we need to replace one, we'll order it. It'll come to our office and we'll pre-program it before we send it on site So that's my preference for why I set them up that way But overall, uh, these like I said, this I'm excited with these gen twos We've actually done a couple other installs. I didn't the by time they come in We almost always deploy them really quick. So I don't always have time to even review them Even right now I'm here on a saturday evening. These are going in sunday morning. So we just got them in I set them up and they're going out. We've uh I gotta get more time to review more of them, but Overall, they're just a great product. I have nothing but good things to say about them And uh, you know, I may revisit maybe I'll take and fly my drone back over by some of the ones we've done And Re show you what they look like after running for a couple years and they no other issues with maybe I can go On site and see the speed test. But yeah, if you look at my project from a while ago I call the bridge bridge project. We use the Previous generation of these that is still in place and still working great for that client They have no problems with it. Uh, it is went through All kinds of wind rain and michigan weather Sub sub zero temperatures. Remember, I was worried if the temperature would have any effect so far it has none And of course we're michigan, so we have snow storms and it's on the water So there's just everything and they work great. They don't have any internet problems or anything with them So uh, the this is the next generation of them. I'm really excited about them And uh, so if you're interested, I'm like I said, I got amazon links below to our amazon store if you want to pick one up Thanks for watching if you liked this video, go ahead and click the thumbs up Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details Which you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback or if you just want to say thanks Leave a comment if you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out Go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets youtube know that you're interested in notifications. 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